Olson Chiropractic Wellness Center

08/28/2025

Importance of Movement

Movement is a fundamental aspect of life. Whether it’s walking, stretching, exercising, or even fidgeting, movement plays a crucial role in physical, mental, and emotional well-being. Here's a breakdown of why movement is so important:

1. Physical Health

Improves Cardiovascular Health: Regular movement strengthens the heart and improves circulation.

Supports Muscles and Joints: Movement helps maintain muscle strength, flexibility, and joint mobility.

Boosts Immune Function: Physical activity can enhance the body’s ability to fight off illness.

Aids in Weight Management: Movement helps burn calories and maintain a healthy weight.

Reduces Risk of Chronic Diseases: Including heart disease, diabetes, and certain cancers.

2. Mental Health

Reduces Stress and Anxiety: Physical activity releases endorphins that improve mood.

Improves Sleep: Regular movement helps regulate sleep patterns and improves sleep quality.

Boosts Brain Function: Increases blood flow to the brain, which can improve memory, focus, and learning.

Decreases Symptoms of Depression: Movement is a proven method to alleviate mild to moderate depression.

3. Emotional and Social Benefits

Enhances Mood: Moving the body can lead to a more positive and stable mood.

Builds Confidence: Achieving movement goals (like a walk or workout) builds self-esteem.

Encourages Social Interaction: Group activities or sports promote connection and communication.

4. Development and Learning (Especially in Children)

Supports Motor Skills: Critical for growth and coordination.

Enhances Cognitive Development: Movement improves concentration and academic performance.

Fosters Independence and Exploration: Movement helps children learn about their environment and capabilities.

5. Longevity and Quality of Life

Prevents Mobility Loss with Age: Regular activity maintains independence.

Improves Balance and Reduces Falls: Especially important for older adults.

Enhances Overall Life Satisfaction: People who move more tend to report higher quality of life.

Simple Ways to Incorporate Movement:

*Take regular walks or bike rides

*Stretch during breaks

*Choose stairs over elevators

*Dance to your favorite music

*Join a fitness or sports group

08/26/2025

08/26/2025

08/25/2025

The Power of Routine: How Daily Habits May Influence Well-Being
When life gets busy, it's often the basics - like rest, movement, and regular meals - that get pushed aside. But those small daily actions can have a big impact on how your body feels and functions.

Why Consistency Counts

Your body responds well to rhythm. Going to bed and waking up around the same time each day may support better energy and focus. Adding regular movement, whether it's a morning walk, light stretching, or a few minutes of gentle exercise, can help support circulation and reduce tension. These habits don't need to be perfect to be powerful. What matters is showing up for yourself in simple, steady ways.

Start With What's Doable

Instead of aiming for a total life overhaul (not sustainable!), focus on one area you'd like to improve. Maybe it's drinking more water, stepping away from your desk for lunch, or limiting screen time in the evening. Linking a new habit to something you already do - like brushing your teeth or enjoying your morning coffee - can make it easier to stick with.

Build a Foundation That Supports You

Healthy routines aren't about rigid schedules. They're about creating structure that helps your body feel more supported on a day-to-day basis. Over time, these small efforts can shape how you manage stress, sleep, posture, and energy.

Routines Ease Mental Load

Consistent habits can also reduce decision fatigue. When daily tasks are built into your rhythm, you spend less time planning and more time simply moving through your day.

Need help building habits that support your health? Our team is here to offer guidance without pressure, just practical support tailored to you.

08/20/2025

Have you or anyone you know had an automobile accident? Here at Olson Chiropractic, we can help! Give us a call 480-314-2262 today and let's get you back on the "road" to recovery!

08/18/2025

Support Your Child’s School Success With These Spinal Health Tips
Girl holding back to school sign

The start of a new school year brings excitement, fresh opportunities, and a return to daily routines. However, it’s also an ideal time to consider how our children’s school habits might affect their physical wellbeing, particularly their posture and spinal health.

Heavy Backpacks and Growing Bodies
Many students carry backpacks weighing more than the recommended 10% of their body weight. Whilst children are resilient, consistently carrying excessive loads may contribute to postural changes and discomfort. Consider helping your child organi[z]e their bag to carry only essential items and ensure the backpack fits properly with padded shoulder straps worn on both shoulders.

Creating an Ergonomic Study Space
Whether completing homework or engaging in online learning, children often spend significant time at desks or workstations. A supportive study environment includes:

A chair that allows their feet to rest flat on the floor with knees at approximately 90 degrees
A desk height that enables relaxed shoulders and elbows positioned at roughly 90 degrees
Adequate lighting to prevent neck strain from leaning forward
Regular movement breaks to help maintain energy and focus
The Importance of Active Play
Physical activity is crucial for growing bodies. Encouraging regular movement through organi[z]ed sports, playground activities, or family walks can help support healthy development and balance the sedentary nature of classroom learning.

Sleep and Recovery
Quality sleep is essential for growth, learning, and physical recovery. Establishing consistent bedtime routines and ensuring your child has a supportive mattress and pillow can contribute to better rest and overall wellbeing.

When to Seek Professional Advice
Regular spinal health checks help children thrive at school, just like dental visits and vision tests. Proactive assessments can identify potential concerns before they affect your child’s comfort and participation in school activities. Our experienced practitioners offer gentle, age-appropriate care, assessing posture, movement, backpack use, and study ergonomics to support healthy development. We make visits engaging and educational for children of all ages.

Take Action for Your Child’s Health
As we embrace the new school year, let’s prioritize habits that support our children’s physical well-being. We welcome families seeking advice on creating healthy routines and environments for their school-aged children.

Please book a consultation today to discuss your child’s specific needs and receive personali[z]ed recommendations for supporting their health throughout the school year. Contact our friendly team at Olson Chiropractic to learn more about how we can help your family thrive this school term.

08/14/2025

Just a reminder... Immunity is important to staying healthy, not only during cold and flu season but all year round! Did you know chiropractic adjustments are beneficial and not just for your spine but immunity too?

We are open this week with limited hours and would love to give you that BOOST your body needs. Our hours are as follows: Monday-Thursday, 10am- 5pm with lunch from 1pm-3pm.

You can reach us by calling or texting 480-314-2262 with any questions or to schedule an appointment.
We look forward to helping facilitate better health for you and your family.



Olson Chiropractic

08/07/2025

We're excited to share that chiropractic care is a wonderful tool that assists your body keeping it's nervous system and endocrine system (which help maintain homeostasis within the body) functioning at it's best, not to mention many other other benefits! From immunity and brain health to spine support, our team of experienced chiropractors can help you get back on track and feeling your best.

Chiropractic care is a natural and safe way to improve your overall health. Our treatments are designed to help restore balance to your body and eliminate pain. We use a combination of techniques, including spinal adjustments, soft tissue therapy, and lifestyle counseling, to help you achieve optimal health.

Our team is committed to helping you find relief from a variety of conditions, including headaches, neck pain, and back pain. We also offer a range of wellness services, such as nutritional counseling, stress management, and exercise programs, to help you live your best life.

We invite you to come back to chiropractic care and experience the benefits for yourself! Our office is open and we are ready to help you on your journey to health and wellness. 💪

08/07/2025

When it comes to mental health, a lot of us are suffering. When you see those you care most about struggling, it can often feel like there’s nothing you can do. The good news is that there’s actually a lot you can do.

It’s something we’ve heard many times from friends, colleagues, in the media, and often from family members. Hearing this always breaks our hearts.
More and more often, kids are hurting- so much so, they are hurting themselves with knives and razors, and we need to know how to respond in a loving, understanding, but effective way.

There can be legitimate physiological reasons for depression.

WHAT’S GOING ON?
The CDC reports that between 2016 and 2019, 2.7 million kids between the ages of 3 and 17 shared that they had been depressed at some point in their lives. Of those 2.7 million kids, about 3 in 4 had anxiety, and nearly 1 in 2 had behavior problems. There’s no denying that kids today are feeling pressure beyond that of previous generations. They have been ill-equipped to deal with emotions: they either feel too strongly or not strongly enough.

What is mainstream medicine’s solution to this problem? They try to identify the causes and then teach the teen how to cope, not heal. Coping is what society has done with many illnesses, and you should never settle for it. We tend to cope with pain rather than finding the causes and addressing them.

Sadly, the typical way the medical system helps teens cope is to put them on a prescription drug. Prescription drugs will alter their chemistry further and, at best, only address the symptoms – they will not tackle the actual problem.

POTENTIAL CONTRIBUTORS TO DEPRESSION
To understand how to treat anxiety and depression, we must uncover the causes of both. There are internal and external causes, and we can boil the underlying factors down to a few contributors.

1. THE GUT
We all have beneficial bacteria in the gut that aid digestion and absorption processes. The whole body is affected when there is a problem in the gut because of it's intricate connection with the central nervous system.

Leaky gut, or intestinal hyper-permeability, has been getting lots of exposure lately because it’s a problem that is getting bigger and bigger. To put it simply, food passes through your intestines as a teenager’s body surfs over the crowd at a concert. When the crowd stops passing, the teenager slips between people and crashes to the ground. This is like food breaking through the one-cell thick barrier into the bloodstream. We don’t want either of these situations. When undigested food passes into the bloodstream, it creates an immune system response.

Mainstream doctors don’t make the connection between the gut and the brain, even though the Vagus nerve is an information super-highway between the two. The gut tells the brain how to respond to inflammation, and that can negatively affect neurotransmitter levels.

2. HORMONES
Hormones play a crucial role in every aspect of our lives, physically, mentally, and emotionally. Endocrine disruptors, like phthalates and parabens, mimic or interfere with these hormones. Exposure to endocrine disruptors is more common than you’d think. cleaning products, office products, kitchen products, personal care products, drinking water, and even thermal receipts can expose you to disruptors. When disruption occurs, it will affect most of the pathways and organs in your body. For this reason, it is vital to have your hormone levels checked.

3. HEAVY METALS
Heavy metals are a problem because they change the body’s chemistry, resulting in chronic health issues. They will disrupt the immune feature known as the Blood Brain Barrier, responsible for keeping foreign substances out of the brain. Heavy metals will also stay in the body unless you support your body in removing them while avoiding future exposures.

You can absorb heavy metals in many ways; antiperspirants, deodorants, and other conventional personal care and beauty supplies have them in abundance. Mercury and aluminum are still key components in many day-to day skincare as well as many other items. If you think about it, we are consistently exposing ourselves whether directly or indirectly to these toxins.

4. SUBLUXATIONS
A subluxation is a misalignment of the vertebrae. That doesn’t sound like much, but a misaligned spine can have many downstream effects. Spinal subluxations alter the function of spinal nerve roots, leading to symptoms in the organs served by those roots. It can cause neurotransmitter problems, affecting your mood and emotions.

These misalignments can be caused by a variety of things: poor posture, sleep positions, furniture, un-healthy diets, coughs, and sneezes, as well as traumas — both large and small. One lousy step could harm you as much as an automobile accident.

5. THOUGHTS
As a society, we are more stressed than ever. Every day the internet opens a window to the world’s suffering. Bullying is taking place, both in cyberspace and in person. Fashion, social pressure, gender confusion, and academic stress only add to the anxiety faced by today’s youth. We are immersed in a negative and polarizing environment, and it can be challenging to stay above it.

For these reasons, controlling your thoughts may seem like the hardest item to address on this list. But it is possible. As Henry Ford said, “Whether you think you can or think you can’t, you’re right.”

6. SUGAR
Our society takes in more sugar than we ever have in history. Sugary drinks—even ones that claim to be healthy or beneficial after a workout—may be the most significant factor, but that’s not the only place we get it. Check the labels of your bread, soups, and condiments. Chances are, you’ll find sugar on the list of ingredients. Much research has been done connecting sugar intake to poor mental health—especially depression.

7. DEFICIENCIES
The body is a complicated instrument to keep working correctly, so testing is crucial to finding the right way to help support it. When feeling the effects of dis-ease, remember that it’s the body communicating that something is off and needs to be addressed. Being deficient in a necessary nutrient, such as Vitamin D or magnesium, can lead to depression as one of those signals.

OLSON CHIROPRACTIC WELLNESS CENTER CAN HELP!
At Olson Chiropractic Wellness Center we understand there is a reason the body behaves the way it does. Proper testing helps to reveal the sources of dysfunction, including factors that lead to depression.

The medical community typically focuses on and bases a course of treatment (usually a pharmaceutical) on preconceived ideas rather than actual testing. They treat symptoms rather than finding causes. While the medication may temporarily make a person feel better, they never get to the root of the problem, and one condition can lead to another. Depression is complicated, but there is hope.

Call us today, we are here for you and look forward to assisting your feeling better from the inside out!

480-314-2262