This week Dr. Rob discusses the importance of maintenance. It is better to be proactive as opposed to reactive. Be proactive about your health!
Maintain your spine for 100% nerve flow to all the organs, muscles, cells, and tissues of your body!
Maintain your health in order to live long and strong.

Hi this is Dr. Rob with your weekly health blog. This week we’re going to talk about causes of subluxations. There are 3 main causes which in reality are just one cause: stress. The inability of your body to adapt to stress causes subluxations. It could be a physical stress, a mental type stress, even a chemical stress.

Let’s discuss one of the causes, Physical Stress, the most obvious one. If you want to see a way one can subluxate himself, tune into Wipeout on ABC on Thursday Dec 8th at 8 p.m. You’ll be able to see my daughter as one of the contestants on Wipeout subluxating herself!
Take a look at the way people can subluxate themselves then we can discuss the biomechanics of it later!

This is a friendly reminder to always get your kids checked out, ’cause it seems like with kids every day is a wipeout!

Have questions? Call me at Bates Chiropractic at (310)710-4787 or contact me on the web at www.chiropractormanhattanbeach.com

Don’t forget check out Autumn Bates this Thursday on Wipeout, channel 7 at 8:00 pm!

Hi, this is Dr.Rob with your weekly health blog. This week we’re going to talk about the business of being born. I want to thank Stephanie for bringing in the movie called The Business of Being Born; if you get a chance, watch it! The movie discusses midwives and our birthing system today.

The United States has one of the highest infant mortality rates of industrialized countries. Many countries in Europe, as well as Japan, have lower mortality rates. Coincidentally, 70% of all babies in the aforementioned countries are delivered by midwives whereas only 8% of babies in the U.S. are delivered by midwives.

A little history on births in the U.S: In the 1900s, 95% of all births were home births. By 1955, less than 1% of births were home births. C-section rates increased from 5% in 1970 to 45% in 1995. It’s amazing how we’ve turned a natural procedure into a major medical operation. In fact, one of the most common operations done on women in the United States are c-sections.

If you get a chance, take a look at that movie; it’s amazing. You should at least get the facts so you can make intelligent decisions about your health.

If you have any questions about this, call me at Bates Chiropractic (310) 545-4188 or visit me online at www.chiropractormanhattanbeach.com

Keep Spreading The Word. Look forward to seeing you at your next visit.

Hello this is Dr. Rob with your weekly health blog. Did you know that if you eliminate glutamate and aspartame from your diet for 4 months it can eliminate chronic pain? That’s coming from the Annals of Pharmacology in 2002.
If you really want to challenge yourself, go a step further by eliminating the chemicals and processed foods from your diet for 4 months and see how that is able to handle chronic pain and your over-all well being.
The Average American consumes about 150 pounds of food additives a year. Taking that in consideration, our bodies are having a hard time trying to process all these chemicals.
Let me know how it goes. If you have any questions, don’t hesitate in contacting me at Bates Chiropractic 310-545-4188 or online at www.chiropractormanhattanbeach.com
Also, tomorrow evening Wednesday November 16th from 6-9 is the Holiday Open House. All the businesses and restaurants are opening their doors with sample food, give-aways, and wine!
We will be having The World Famous Spot in Hermosa Beach catering the event here! Bring your friends and come see Santa, Christmas carolers, and the tree lighting at the pier!

Hi this is Dr. Rob with your health blog for the week. This week is Vaccine Awareness Week, October 30th through November 5th.
People have been asking me about vaccines lately, whether or not they should get their kids vaccinated. I really don’t think my opinion is important. What’s important is that you get the facts. Don’t take my opinion, nor your medical doctor’s opinion, get the facts. There’s a book I recommend my patients to read which is Make An Informed Vaccine Decision by Dr. Mayer Eisenstein. He reviews a lot of great facts.
That’s one great source you can go through, but also you can go to www.mercola.com where they will hold a free screening of the documentary The Greater Good. It’s a very rational, scientific discussion of both sides. You’ll get both sides of the coin, pro and con on vaccines. It will give you a better idea on how to make those decisions instead of relying on emotions to guide your decisions.
Get the facts, go to www.greatergoodmovie.org and that will redirect you to www.mercola.com to view this documentary. If you have any questions, don’t hesitate in calling me at Bates Chiropractic at (310)545-4188 or online at www.chiropractormanhattanbeach.com

We want to have our own health freedom, and this is part of it. Make your own choice!

Good morning this is Dr. Rob with your weekly health blog. This week is DARE week: Drug Awareness/Drug Prevention. It’s a great program, that allows the kids to become more aware and help prevent the unnecessary deaths from drugs. According to The Journal of American Medical Association, street drugs kill approximately 10,000 people per year.  10, 000 preventable deaths. It’s great to have this program.

Since it is Drug Week, I was reading another article in Newsweek (April 27th, 1998) that stated that properly prescribed legal drugs from a Medical Doctor kill approximately 106,000 – 190,000 people per year. That’s huge! They calculated it as being the 4th leading cause of death in the United States.

So, drugs are a huge problem: we have a drug culture! We have to really look to see what’s happening at home and what we’re really teaching our kids, what we’re teaching ourselves, and what we truly believe. One way to look at it is to see when we you use drugs. Is it for a First Aid situation, when you should use them? Or is it in every day use when you get the first pain that comes up?

Investigate it, take a look at how many drugs you have in your cupboard, do you really need all of them? And what are you actually showing your kids?

If you have any questions about this, give me at Bates Chiropractic at 310-545-4188 or www.chiropractormanhattanbeach.com

This is Dr. Rob with your weekly health blog. I was just reading a study in The American Journal of Gynecology and Obstetrics regarding pain relievers for expecting mothers. It discussed pain relievers such as the over the counter drugs, the non steroidal anti-inflammatories, like Motrin and Advil. Basically they say not to use pain relievers because they create birth defects, especially in the first trimester. They also talked about Tylenol, don’t take it any time during your pregnancy because not only does it increase birth defects in the child it increases the possibility of your child having asthma.
That is why we have so many expecting mothers come in. 1, because getting adjustments is a drug free approach; 2, it is very healthy for the mother and very safe for the expected baby; and 3, it allows for a good nerve supply and increases the chance for an easier delivery, by keeping the pelvis in alignment.
Also, you can use ice, because its only side effect is it’s cold. If you have any questions regarding this topic, don’t hesitate in contacting me at Bates Chiropractic (310)545-4188 or www.chiropractormanhattanbeach.com
Have a great day. Keep spreading the word. We’ll see you in here for your regular adjustments. Take Care!

This is Dr. Rob with your weekly health blog! I just read some information on exercise and how important it is for your overall health to just get the motion in. We always talk about it in the office. There was a study done in The Journal of Applied Physiology in 2002 that stated that people who do not exercise have a 50 – 72% higher incidences of deadly melanoma, or skin cancer, than people who exercise 5 to 7 times a week. You may be thinking, “what the heck does exercising have to do with skin cancer? I thought it was from the sun.”

Well it shows you they don’t know exactly what causes melanoma. There are other factors involved like the immune response. The fact is that when you are ih better shape you’re going to have a better immune response. It’s not just all the sun, you have to take care of your body from the inside out as well. That’s why people come in anf get regular adjustments to keep their nerve system working at 100%.
If you have any questions about this, feel free to call us at Bates Chiropractic at (310) 545-4188 or on the web at www.chiropractormanhattanbeach.com

Keep spreading the word and have a great day. We appreciate you.

Hi this is Dr. Rob with your weekly health blog, I have a question for you: When thinking about supplements, what do you think your body has an easier time to recognize, 500 mg of man-made Vitamin C or extracting Vitamin C by eating an orange?
Scientists know that there is more to an orange than Vitamin C; a lot of what is in the orange is going to augment that Vitamin C that is needed for our total health. It works in the web of health of the body that we don’t understand yet. For that reason, when you take Vitamin C or other nutrients that are extracted like that, it can create imbalances that we just can’t foresee.
Your best bet is to have whole food type of supplements. Whole food supplements are condensed supplements that are condensed type of foods that are high in nutrients. If you do want to take 500 mg of Vitamin C that is something you want to do under the care of a naturopath or nutritionist that is trying to treat a condition.
If you want to build health, maintenance, and repair of the body, you want to look for whole food supplements that you can take for the rest of your life.
That’s some food for thought! If you have any questions contact me at Bates Chiropractic at (310)545-4188 or www.chiropractormanhattanbeach.com