Back to School Success & Planning a Successful School Year

There is more to planning for a successful school year than making sure your child has all their school supplies and the right outfit for the first day of school. Just like adults, children are constantly bombarded with physical, mental, and biochemical stress. Planning ahead with your child to address some of these stresses that are a part of the school experience will help your child have a successful year. One of the most important things you can do is make sure your child is getting enough sleep. If their sleep schedule changes during the summer, start to reestablish the school routine two weeks early. This will give your child’s body rhythms time to adjust to the new routine.

If you haven’t done so already start talking to your child about the upcoming school year. Are they anxious, nervous, excited, or indifferent? Try to address any concerns your child has before the school year starts. Also keep a look out for any unusual behaviors that might clue you in that something is going on that they are not willing to share with you upfront. Don’t be afraid to let the teachers in on any of your concerns, they often know things about your child that you may not be aware of. A great exercise is to sit down and do some goal setting for the upcoming year. What new activities do they want to try, or what kind of grades are they going to strive for? Have them focus on the things that are most important to them and will help them get the most out of the experience.

Finally, have a game plan for how your child is going to keep energized through the school year with proper nutrition. Look at the hot lunch program to see if it is going to provide your child with the nutrition they need. While many schools are getting better at addressing this subject, many would still get a failing grade in my book. Involve your child in the process to help choose foods that they are going to like while nurturing their minds and bodies. It makes no sense to spend good money on items that your child is just going to turn around and throw in the trash.

Remember, living a healthy lifestyle takes effort and consistency. Teaching your child healthy habits when they are young will pay huge dividends throughout their lives.

Remember for a smooth transition:

o Bedtime / Wakeup time: Adjust your child’s bedtime and wakeup time by 10 to 20 minutes per week to avoid a “rude awakening” on the first day of school. Between 7 and 9 hours of sleep per night minimum. Sleep well, think well, be well.

o Breakfast: Plan a well-balanced breakfast—nothing complicated. Smoothies are great and they’re easy to make.

o Communicate expectations: Ask your children what they are planning for their new year, help them set goals, and continue to support them on the way to achieving their goals throughout the year.

o Friends: Encourage your children to see how many people they can meet each day and/or new things they can learn about those people they already know at school. Encourage your children to celebrate their similarities and differences.

o Activities: Encourage your child to discover multiple different activities and help them experience a wide range of possible interests early. Remember, our children are the best gauge of what fits their skills and interests, not us.

o Physical Health: Set the tone of the morning with light exercise, mind and/or body, make sure to choose a proper back pack, instruct your children on proper stretching, and recommend physical activity after school before homework.

o Wellness Development: Have their spinal system, posture, and nervous system evaluated for pattern of stress or imbalance to ensure your child has the opportunity to create a successful year and a proper foundation of health for life.

These are the years where the patterns of life begin. We want to work with you to make sure we help today’s children become the leaders of tomorrow. If you need help with children’s health tips and more information to support the health of your family, contact Synergea Chiropractic at 541-207-1087 for a FREE consultations with Dr. Jenn and Have a great school year!

As chiropractors, we often encounter people who don’t understand what we do. Unfortunately, there is a lot of misinformation about chiropractic that can make it challenging for people to understand its basic principles. I know that the public sees chiropractors as back and neck pain doctors. However, I have witnessed patients in my office return to health from a wide variety of health problems. How is this possible? It comes down to five basic principles.

First, each of us is born with an innate intelligence that keeps us functioning every minute of our lives. It’s that animating force that separates us from a corpse. We don’t have to know how a liver works for it to work. It just does what it was designed to do. This innate intelligence is far more superior than our educated minds will ever be.

Second, the nervous system is the master system of the body. It controls and coordinates everything including the body’s ability to adapt and heal.

Third, misalignments of the spine can interfere with the nervous system and compromise the body’s ability to adapt to stress. In chiropractic, we call this condition a vertebral subluxation complex, often shortened to subluxation.

Fourth, the job of the chiropractor is to remove these subluxations with an adjustment to the spine. This removes the stress to the nervous system and allows the body to function better.

Finally, a thorough evaluation and identification of the major stresses in one’s life that are causing subluxations will get you on the road to caring for yourself. As a chiropractor I can only help as much as you are willing to help yourself.

When this happens, we see miracles occur. We have had patients that were told they were infertile who were able to conceive after correcting the subluxations in their spine. Children with chronic ear infections are able to get off all their antibiotics. Headache and migraine sufferers are able to get off their pain medications. We have also helped people with digestion problems, asthma, psoriasis, allergies, and depression. Weight loss and behavioral changes and improved fitness are some of the many benefits of the Creating Wellness system we incorporate into care. We don’t treat these conditions. We simply remove the stress from the nervous system which allows the body to function better and we watch as the body heals itself.

If you have a health problem and want to know if we can help, call Dr. Jenn of Synergea Chiropractic: a Creating Wellness Center at 541-201-1087.

I’m certain all of you are aware that we’re all in a war. Yet, this war is a different that those fought in the past. There are no wounded and bleeding prisoners, no POW camps, no ration stamps, no air craft bombing raids. This war is fought on the plains of marketing, perception management, credibility, public awareness, and money. The weapons used are devastation – the media, political lynch-mobs, regulator bored witch hunts, blitzkriegs, drugs campaigns scare tactics, and a host of others.

Although no actual blood is shed, there are plenty of victims and families in ruins. You see these people every day in your offices. They’ve been taught to believe that health is an outside-in process, that drugs will do the work the body is somehow incapable of doing, the somehow people have been given too many organs and their excess needs to be removed. And no one ever questions why.
No one ever asks: “why is my body not doing what it’s designed and programmed to do?”

The result is that parents willingly subject their children to medical rituals, most of which have not been adequately tested but have nevertheless passed by the FDA and various health departments.

Ray Moynihan and Alan Cassels, in their new book entitled “Selling Sickness,” took a blood step in disclosing big pharma’s plan: world drug domination. For the health of the population? Think again.
Thirty years ago, Henry Gadsden, the head of Merck, one of the worlds largest during companies, told Fortune magazine that he wanted Merck to be more like chewing gum make Wrigley’s. it had long been his dream, he said, to make drugs for healthy people so that Merck could “sell to everyone.” Gadsden’s dream now drives the marketing machinery of the most profitable industry on the planet.
We know that using their domination influence in the world of science and politics, during companies are systematically working to widen the very boundaries that defined illness. Old conditions and health problems are expanded, new ones are created, and the markets for medication grow ever larger. Mild problems are redefined as serious illnesses, and common, run-of-the-mill complaint are labeled as serious medical conditions required drug treatmentsWriting a tips article. Write a short article about any one of the countless health-related topics out there today, such as golf-specific injuries, getting a good night’s sleep, backpack misuse, ect. Many publications are interested in topics that have wide appeal among their readers. Write a press release. You can often generate media coverage by sending a well-written press release to local print and broadcast media in your area. Nearly anything you do that’s relative to your community is considered newsworthy, consider the following: Establishing yourself as an expert. Write a letter to the person who wrote the article or perhaps to the editor of the department that produced the article. In it, explain that you have specialize training or extensive experience with the topic they wrote about. Writing a letter to the editor. When you see
a health-related article in the newspaper and you want to comment, write a letter to the editor. While an occasional letter to the editor is not going to instantly get you well known, it will help give you some name recognition.there are many ways to achieve media coverage, but the four easiest include:In a 2002 survey published in the Journal of Manipulative and Physiological Therapeutics, 77 Percent of national Football League trainers reported that they refer their injured players to doctors of chiropractic. Football is only one of many sports in which chiropractic plays a role in getting players back into the game. For example, there has been an official chiropractic presence on the U.S. Olympic Sports Medicine Team since the 1980 Winter Games in Lake Placid, N.Y., and baseball players have depended on chiropractic care to speed their return to the field since the days of Joe DiMaggio, Lou Gehrig and Babe Ruth.

According to a study published in the March 11, 2009 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association, misdiagnoses accounts for an estimated 40,000 to 80,000 hospital deaths per year and tort claims for diagnoses that are missed, wrong, or delayed are nearly twice as common as claims for medication errors.
In the study, David Newman-Toker, MD, PHD, and Peter Pronovost, MD, PHD, attempted to throw the blame for most of there errors on “System Failures” rather than on individual medical doctors who lack the training
or skill to make correct diagnoses.

“Moving away for a model that chastises individual physicians to one that focuses on improving the medical system as a whole could offer big payoffs for improving diagnostic accuracy as well as the cost effectiveness of care,” said Newman-Toker, assistant professor of neurology at the John Hopkins University School of Medicine and the John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

Because diagnostic errors can be tricky to track to their roots, Pronovost, an expert on breaking down complex medical problems, says more research is needed to understand and find patterns in the origins of such errors.
In the meantime, however, the death toll from diagnostic errors will be added to the already staggering numbers of injuries and deaths caused be medication errors, estimated at 1.5 million.