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Chiropractic practice in Costa Rica is growing and the chiropractors there are asking for your assistance. On a recent mission to Costa Rica, members of the C.R.E.W. had the opportunity to meet several great chiropractors practicing in the country of Costa Rica. Reports from chiropractors in Costa Rica stated that some DCs had seen more…

By Rodney Sparks, D.C. Recently I was invited on the local news to do a 5-minute health segment. I considered how and what I could talk about in that short of a time period, and I realized that all I needed to do was just tell the story! The first thing I told the news…

An ugly two-inch long and quarter-inch wide dark pink scar is slashed across my right shoulder. This is the remnant of what will most likely be the last office job I will ever have. It is, however, not the only remnant. I also have the misfortune of being one of over 50 million people in the United States who suffer from chronic pain. Although I have yet to find anything that completely cures my pain, I have found only one thing that helps it. I receive chiropractor care. Without it, my body falls into a dismal state of agony and numbness. I am 38 years old and in great physical shape. I am otherwise perfectly healthy. So how did I come to this? It’s quite simple, really. The human body was not designed to do the things we ask of it in the workplace. Who hasn’t heard of repetitive stress injuries, carpal tunnel syndrome, and ergonomics? There’s a reason for this. Statistics say approximately one third of the workforce regularly works in pain.

Dr. Fred Barge, 70, died at his home Wednesday, July 2, 2003. He was born in La Crosse to Dr. Henry and Pauline (Ruprecht) Barge. He was married in 1957 to Audrey (Thomp-son) Barge, and together they had three daughters, Amy, Sally and Patty.

Around October 23rd I received an e-mail from someone representing the network operations department that hosts web servers for Planet Chiropractic. It was one of those e-mails that would likely not be welcomed by many as it results in us investing a significant amount of money towards greater resources for the web site and related hosting servers.

The 2007 September Labor Day holiday is officially over and children across the United States are heading back to school. In the spirit of the school yard, we took a review of some school related articles posted to Planet Chiropractic during the past several years, and organized them here.