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Alignment Category

What is DNS?What is DNS?

In short, DNS is a treatment, exercise and rehabilitation method that reprograms the brain to restore posture, stability and movement throughout the body. The DNS approach is so groundbreaking and ...

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Lifestyle/Longevity Category

8 Natural Alternatives to Flu Shots8 Natural Alternatives to Flu Shots

Many people are looking for more effective, natural alternatives to flu shots. This comes in the wake of their questionable effectiveness and their potentially harmful side effects. Is the flu ...

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Lifestyle/Longevity Category

9 Steps To Living a Longer, Better Quality of Life9 Steps To Living a Longer, Better Quality of Life

An American writer and explorer named Dan Buettner published a book in 2008 entitled The Blue Zone: Lessons for Living Longer From the People Who’ve Lived the Longest. This book ...

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Exercise Category

Losing Fundamental Movements Causes Pain, Joint Wear and TearLosing Fundamental Movements Causes Pain, Joint Wear and Tear

Do you have neck or back pain? Or maybe a bad hip, knee or shoulder? If so, you probably have lost some key fundamental movements that are contributing to the ...

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Exercise Category

Exercise Variety May Slow AgingExercise Variety May Slow Aging

It turns out any amount and type of exercise may slow the aging process. However, a recent study has found mixing up your exercise routine may be the best approach to ...

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Lifestyle/Longevity Category

Inactivity Found To Be More Harmful To Your Health Than ObesityInactivity Found To Be More Harmful To Your Health Than Obesity

Here is another reason to keep moving if you want to be healthy and live longer. We already know how harmful being overweight and obese can be. Now, a study ...

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Adjustments Alignment Chiropractic Conditions Exercise Category

How To Preserve Your Joints For a Lifetime: 4 Steps to Prevent ArthritisHow To Preserve Your Joints For a Lifetime: 4 Steps to Prevent Arthritis

Do you have arthritis developing in your joints and not know it? Have you been diagnosed with arthritis and suffer with joint pain and stiffness that interferes with activities you ...

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Chiropractic Conditions Category

Who Else Wants To Live Without Hip Pain?Who Else Wants To Live Without Hip Pain?

What a nuisance a bad hip can be if you can’t stand or walk very far before you have to sit down. This is exactly what was happening to Louise, ...

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Exercise Category

Exercising Too Long Can Weaken Your Immune SystemExercising Too Long Can Weaken Your Immune System

Exercise is vital for good health and a strong immune system, but researchers recently found exercise sessions lasting too long can weaken your immune system. They followed four groups: 30 ...

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Exercise Lifestyle/Longevity Category

4 Strategies to Starting and Sticking With an Exercise Program4 Strategies to Starting and Sticking With an Exercise Program

Have you been wanting to start exercising and have made excuses of being too busy, not having enough time or having a physical limitation such as pain? Exercise is so ...

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Nutrition Category

The Best Supplements You Need For Peak Brain PowerThe Best Supplements You Need For Peak Brain Power

Is your brain power and memory excellent or do you think there is “room for improvement?” If you are not taking these supplements or getting these nutrients from your food ...

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Lifestyle/Longevity Category

Avoiding Too Much of This May Save Your LifeAvoiding Too Much of This May Save Your Life

There are many things you can do to live a longer, healthier life. Eating nutritious food and maintaining excellent posture are two important factors. The third is imperative if you ...

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Drugs/Medication Exercise Lifestyle/Longevity Category

This Prevents Heart Disease, Stroke and Diabetes as Effectively as MedicationThis Prevents Heart Disease, Stroke and Diabetes as Effectively as Medication

If you or someone you know is taking statins for cholesterol, beta blockers for heart disease, diuretics for heart failure or anticoagulants for stroke, this has been found to be ...

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Chiropractic Conditions Category

How to Get Rid of Foot Pain Once and For AllHow to Get Rid of Foot Pain Once and For All

Do you or someone you know have a painful foot that is slowing you down? Foot pain is a sign that your foot is breaking down. The compensations you make ...

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Adjustments Lifestyle/Longevity Category

6 Steps to Having a Youthful, Energetic and Healthy Lifestyle For The Rest of Your Life6 Steps to Having a Youthful, Energetic and Healthy Lifestyle For The Rest of Your Life

As you progress in age, would you like to avoid the crippling effects of arthritis, chronic searing joint and back pain, sluggish depleting energy and the fear of illness and ...

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Lifestyle/Longevity Category

Biggest Threats to Your Brain PowerBiggest Threats to Your Brain Power

Since your brain controls all of the functions of your body, doesn’t it make sense to take care of it so it can take care of you?  There are several ...

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Exercise Category

How to Get Fit in as Little as 12 Minutes a Week!How to Get Fit in as Little as 12 Minutes a Week!

Have you said to yourself, “I don’t have time to exercise?”  If you do not exercise, you do not feel as good as you could and every day you do ...

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Exercise Nutrition Category

The 3 Most Important Things You Can Do to Prevent OsteoporosisThe 3 Most Important Things You Can Do to Prevent Osteoporosis

Osteoporosis is a condition in which bone density decreases, resulting in brittle bones that are very susceptible to fracture. Approximately 300,000 people a year fracture a hip from falling.  As ...

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Chiropractic Conditions Shoes Category

Here is What You Can Do to Help Bunions and Hammer ToesHere is What You Can Do to Help Bunions and Hammer Toes

Bunions and hammertoes are abnormal, unsightly, and can even be painful. Are they due to genetics, bad shoes or bad luck?  We will discuss these as well as prevention and ...

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Drugs/Medication Category

Flu Shot Facts: Should You Get The Shot or Not?Flu Shot Facts: Should You Get The Shot or Not?

Have you noticed the public messages by the Center for Disease Control and pharmacy retailers to “get your flu shot” every year?  Is the flu shot worth the risk and ...

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Lifestyle/Longevity Category

These 4 Healthy Habits Can Prevent These 4 Common KillersThese 4 Healthy Habits Can Prevent These 4 Common Killers

A study published in the Archives of Internal Medicine has found people adhering to 4 simple lifestyle behaviors can prevent diabetes, heart attacks, strokes and even cancer!  The 4 lifestyle behaviors are: ...

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Drugs/Medication Category

Statins Block the Benefits of ExerciseStatins Block the Benefits of Exercise

After we posted two articles (Part 1 and Part 2) on cholesterol and statin drugs, we came across a new study in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology ...

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Exercise Category

Fifteen Minutes a Day of This Can Increase Life Expectancy by Three YearsFifteen Minutes a Day of This Can Increase Life Expectancy by Three Years

We have reported how consistent exercise has been shown to reduce cancer, heart disease and diabetes risk, improve brain power and keep your disease-susceptible genes “silent.”  Now, Germany’s Society of ...

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This Healthy Habit Can Improve Your Brain PowerThis Healthy Habit Can Improve Your Brain Power

You have heard us talk about things you can feed your brain to keep it healthy, including omega-3 fats, vitamin D, magnesium, green tea, red wine and curcumin (tumeric).  It ...

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Exercise Category

How Exercise Triggers Your Immune System to Fight CancerHow Exercise Triggers Your Immune System to Fight Cancer

We all know regular exercise can improve overall health and help protect us from disease. Many previous studies have shown exercise can reduce the risk of cancer, but a new ...

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Here is a Fun and Different Exercise with Numerous Health BenefitsHere is a Fun and Different Exercise with Numerous Health Benefits

Dancing is a great way to have fun and receive numerous health benefits at the same time. While some types of exercise are good mental stimulators and others are effective ...

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Drugs/Medication Lifestyle/Longevity Category

How to Live a Life Free of Prescription DrugsHow to Live a Life Free of Prescription Drugs

We are an overmedicated nation. According to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the CDC, the most commonly used drugs by Americans are asthma medicines for children, ...

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Exercise Category

Two Reasons Why “Brisk” Walking is ImportantTwo Reasons Why “Brisk” Walking is Important

If you walk for exercise, your walking pace can have a big impact on your brain and longevity according to several recent studies.  If you do not exercise, start walking ...

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How Exercise Affects Your Genetics to Prevent DiseaseHow Exercise Affects Your Genetics to Prevent Disease

Last month we discussed how your lifestyle habits can determine whether your genes are “expressed” to keep you healthy or whether they trigger you to develop disease.  The field of ...

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Alignment Category

4 Key Strategies to Prevent and Slow Arthritis4 Key Strategies to Prevent and Slow Arthritis

Arthritis is a degenerative joint condition that involves thinning of cartilage, narrowing of joint spaces, stiffness, loss of mobility and pain.  Arthritis is not an inevitable part of aging as ...

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Where You Exercise Can Make a DifferenceWhere You Exercise Can Make a Difference

New research has shown if you exercise in nature, it can improve your mental state compared to exercising in a gym. Researchers from Glasgow University looked at natural and non-natural ...

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Adjustments Alignment Chiropractic Conditions Category

Chiropractic Better Than Home Exercises and Drugs for Neck PainChiropractic Better Than Home Exercises and Drugs for Neck Pain

A recent study published in the prestigious Annals of Internal Medicine has found spinal adjustments are more effective than home exercises and far more effective than pain medication for the ...

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How is Your Balance? The Development, Deterioration, and Exercises to Improve Balance and Prevent Injury: Part 2How is Your Balance? The Development, Deterioration, and Exercises to Improve Balance and Prevent Injury: Part 2

In Part 1, we discussed the development and deterioration of balance and the risk of injury associated with poor balance.  In this article, we will discuss how to test your ...

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How is Your Balance? The Development, Deterioration, and Exercises to Improve Balance and Prevent Injury: Part 1How is Your Balance? The Development, Deterioration, and Exercises to Improve Balance and Prevent Injury: Part 1

Balance is a state of equilibrium or equal distribution of body weight.  Some people, such as gymnasts or performers in Cirque du Soleil, have impeccable balance.  In other people, balance ...

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Recent Posts

  • What is CBP?
  • 5 Exercises You Should Avoid and The Best Exercises to Replace Them With
  • 10 Benefits of Chiropractic During Pregnancy
  • What is DNS?
  • Dynamic Stabilization of the Hip and Low Back Workshop

Hours

Tuesday         3-7
Wednesday   9-12 
Thursday       3-7
Friday            9-1
Saturday       9-12

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Dr. Ryan D. Hamm
Ultimate Body Fix
415 W Golf Road Suite 29
Arlington Heights, IL 60005
Phone: 224.875.7320

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DNS Exercise Class
Tuesdays 10:00-11:00AM

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