Path of Life Chiropractic Health Center

12/09/2025

Hello Path of Life peeps! I was alerted yesterday to the fact that my business line no longer has voice mail. Gee, thanks, Comcast! Somehow they (without my knowledge or permission?) Comcast converted my business to a "mobile" number that I need to "activate" in order to get voice mail. Since the business is soon switching to Fios ASAFP, I have no desire to jump through Comcast's hoops in order to activate and set up VM (or accidentally trigger another contract?....) SOOOOOO.....

Path of Life will have no voice mail until this is resolved. (Although, believe me, we are still paying for it.)

**Current patients, you can reach me via text on the same number you get your appt reminders on - that's a 2-way business texting line (bet ya didn't realize that!) - or via email.

**Peeps we don't know yet: Please email me at path.of.life.chiropractic@gmail.com with questions, and a number to call if you need to speak to me directly.

So sorry for the inconvenience, thank you for understanding!

DrA

11/26/2025

An excellent read on the WHY behind Chiropractic care.

If you DON'T care for vertebral subluxations and the resultant bodywide (maladaptive) distortion patterns they create.....

THIS is what can happen.

How Vertebral Subluxation Contributes to Morbidity and Mortality, and Why Chiropractic Care Offers Lifesaving Benefits

11/24/2025

I've had conversations with several of you about my concern with the contrast agent used in "MRI with contrast."

Now, I have little problem with MRI. it's a brilliant technique. I've had a lot of them. When I was a graduate student, a few of my colleagues actually used to use my brain as a test subject, apparently my brain is photogenic. (haha at least part of me is!) so I've spent many an hour in that MRI tube. And I'm fine, right? (😜)

But those MRIs were not done with contrast agent.

The contrast agent, gadolinium, is something that is known to actually show up on x-rays years later. Why do I know that? Because we were trained on knowing what it is, when we were learning how to interpret x-rays for Chiropractic school.

If enough gadolinium is present years later to show up on x-ray, how much of it is stored in other tissues in the body?......... and for how long?

Whether to get an MRI with contrast, this is what's called a decision point. There is a value to it in certain circumstances, but MRI with contrast is not something to be deployed without a clear indication, particularly if alternatives are available.

Cough, cough ultrasound ..........

With any intervention or test, a patient (healthcare consumer) must ask the following questions :

what are the risks intrinsic? Known, and are there unknown risks?

what are the benefits to be realized if this intervention is used?

are there other means by which I could achieve this benefit (alternatives)?

Is there a risk to not having intervention or test done?

These questions are the basis for a little tiny thing called informed consent.

And legally, this is a conversation that is supposed to happen with every patient, regarding every intervention.

Informed consent/informed choice cannot happen without ***information.

You know when you just sign that little box at the front desk on check into your medical appointment, without any conversation ?......

"I hereby consent to whatever treatments the doctor recommends."

That's kind of like signing a blank check. Doesn't your health and well-being, the care of your body,  deserve more than that?

it's far beyond time for us as healthcare consumers to question what is offered, because that act makes us participants and partners in the healthcare process rather than an object to be treated. 

and for the time being, I won't even get into the distinction between informed consent and informed choice.......... but there certainly is one.





11/19/2025

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11/19/2025

A read worth thinking about 🎯

10/23/2025

I thought this was a super interesting reel with some good truths in it!

I've seen getting adjusted help with four out of the five listed here.... as for the fifth, I can always encourage people to take less sugar, but that's up to you 😉

Yes, MRI shows decreased blood supply from abnormal posture... sitting is literally killing your brain, it's true. 

Also  important and relevant, but not discussed in this reel: MRA (magnetic resonance angiography) shows restoration of proper blood supply with correction of abnormal spinal structure and biomechanics via Chiropractic care 🤓

As for the other points, one of my favorite benefits of chiropractic care is restoration of normal sleep. I love it so much, I actually wrote a paper on it 🤓

And yes, as many of you have experienced, getting adjusted can help you emotionally regulate yourself. (I'm super glad I get adjusted weekly!)

Want some of those benefits for yourself? Get adjusted!

10/03/2025

Click the link at the bottom to view a pretty interesting video clip demonstrating what happens when the normal cervical lordotic structure is reduced or reversed.

Research has shown a 10% increase in nerve conductance velocity (NCV) with CORRECTION of an abnormal cervical kyphosis (reverse curve) to a normal structure. See https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8319301/ and https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37176657/

Logically, what would that mean for the information transfer between your brain and your body?

What would happen if you reduced your brain’s awareness of your body by 10%, over ten years? Your body can only adapt to what it perceives. What does **diminished adaptation look like? Often, it looks like disease, dysfunction, and eventually, lack of adaptation looks a lot like another D word - death.

You may not “FEEL” an abnormal cervical structure (kyphosis) but it will often begin to present as difficulty looking up, restriction when turning your head in traffic, and maybe just general “stiff knotted muscles.” The only way to identify this problem is by X-ray comparison of your spine to what is known to be normal. And unfortunately, this problem is showing up in folks of all ages. Why? Well, right now, are you looking down at your phone? That’s why. The body will adopt its position according to its habits.

10% may not seem like "a lot" on a single-day basis, but a loss of 10% over weeks, months, years would sure add up, wouldn't it? So that “achy neck” you feel may in fact be way more important to your health than you’re aware of, yet. It’s time to get that checked into, just like you’d track your teeth, your eyes, your heart, your blood pressure.

You only have one spine, and a large part of your nervous system lives in it. Take care of it.

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08/19/2025

One of the bits of feedback that I get regularly from people after their first adjustment is that their body just feels *easier.* Easier to walk, easier to breathe, easier to stand up straight... and then later, as the body continues to achieve better states of ease, folks report that it's easier to sleep, think, walk, run, play - to do all of the things that folks need to do, have to do, and want to do.

Going about one's business while the spine suffers from vertebral subluxation is a bit like walking around with a heavy backpack. Sure, you can do it.... but would life be better if you didn't have to?

But don't just take my word for it. Experiencing is believing (it certainly was for me, with my own first adjustment!)

You may truly have no idea what you're missing, walking around the world wearing a dirty pair of glasses or driving with a dirty windshield. 

Ready to find out? Call us to schedule a spinal assessment, and let's begin to explore the question of whether your spine is moving well, or is compromised (structurally or functionally) and would benefit from getting adjusted. 


08/18/2025

💕

🥳 huge announcement crossroads family!! Drs. John & Brooke have welcomed their first baby earth side this weekend!

Updated Bedford hours for the week:
CLOSED Monday (8/18) & Wednesday (8/20)
NORMAL HOURS Tuesday (2:30- 6pm) & Thursday (7:30am-10:30am & 2:30-6pm)

Thank you for all the love and well wishes, we are overjoyed to have a new crossroads baby!!

08/11/2025

What does Chiropractic "wellness" care look like for a dog?

Same as for a human: it absolutely depends on the dog and their condition!

Young dogs (less than six years old), I will generally check and adjust for vertebral / extremity subluxationevery month, six weeks, or two months. Depends on what they do for a "job..." some dogs are harder on their bodies than others 😜 (for instance, Cosmos has run into the plate glass window in my French door three times so far, and flipped upside down and landed on his shoulder once... such a typical lab!)

Middle-age dogs (six till about nine) will benefit from getting checked and adjusted about every month, sometimes more frequently.  Sometimes that will depend on whether their younger sibling is beating them up on a regular basis (COSMOS!!!!)

Our senior dogs benefit from getting checked and adjusted more often, as wear and tear creeps in the form of arthritis. I often see senior dogs every two weeks, more often if they are seeing great benefit from care, but not quite holding their adjustments as well. 

My goal at the end of any of these adjustments is to restore a dog to moving, trotting, running comfortably with freedom and ease - so they can do what they want to do, need to do, and have to do without hesitation!

Some common signs that your dog may suffer from vertebral / extremity subluxation include low energy, inability to "settle," not wanting to be petted in certain areas.

How important can this be for our dogs? We only have a limited time with these creatures, as our responsibility to make that time good for them. 

Keeping my dogs healthy and happy is super high on my own priority list 💕 Roxy and Cosmos (and their predecessors: Moose, Izzy, and Sagan) are a huge reason why I undertook this 210 course hour training.

Want my training and expertise to benefit your pup, to help keep them, young, happy, springy, and full of life?

No time like the present to get started.

Call me at 603-886-8300 and I'll give you a ring back asap to get you a spot on my schedule.

I will look forward to hearing from you and your pup!

08/04/2025

well, this is somewhat horrifying.

We buy our supplements that we carry (and consume) either directly from the manufacturer or from Emerson Ecologics.

I've always wondered this about buying supplements on Amazon.....

Anybody else remember the Tylenol thing back in the late 70s or early 80s with cyanide? I believe that was the beginning of safety caps / sealed bottles.

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07/31/2025

“Postural correction is not cosmetic—it’s neurologically restorative.”

Remember, correction takes both you and me. Chiropractic care mitigates vertebral subluxation, and restores the relationship between the vertebral segments - then *your exercises* synergize with that adaptability and freedom to correct the problem. That's our recipe, and we stick to it. 

This is one of the reasons we take periodic follow-up x-rays, to make sure that we are making progress on correction - and if we're not, we change course to get back on track towards that correction 🤓

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