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Fear Paralysis reflex

Fear Paralysis reflex

The human nervous system is complex, intricately designed to help us navigate both physical and emotional challenges. Among its many fascinating components, the fear paralysis reflex, polyvagal theory, and the cranial nerves of social engagement offer key insights into how our bodies react to stress, connect with others, and maintain our overall well-being. In this post, we’ll dive into the science behind these elements and explore their impact on emotional and physical health.
Unhealthy Ways to Manage Stress You Need to Drop

Unhealthy Ways to Manage Stress You Need to Drop

Stress is an unavoidable part of life. Whether it stems from work, relationships, family, friends, finances, or a fast-paced lifestyle, the pressure can feel overwhelming. Unfortunately, as many as 46% people report turn to unhealthy ways to manage stress without realizing the long-term damage they’re doing to their bodies and minds. 
How to Improve Mobility to Enhance Performance and Prevent Injury

How to Improve Mobility to Enhance Performance and Prevent Injury

When it comes to fitness and athletic performance, strength and endurance often steal the spotlight. However, there's another crucial component that sometimes gets overlooked: mobility. Improving your mobility can significantly enhance your physical performance and help prevent injuries. In this blog post, we'll dive into effective techniques to boost your mobility, why it matters, and how you can make it a regular part of your fitness routine.
Essential Correct Posture Exercises for Better Health

Essential Correct Posture Exercises for Better Health

Maintaining correct posture is vital for overall health, cognition, and well-being. Poor posture can lead to various health issues, including back and neck pain, reduced lung function, and decreased circulation. By incorporating correct posture exercises into your routine, you can enhance your physical health, reduce discomfort, and improve daily function. Let’s dive in and explore essential exercises to correct posture and answer common questions about posture improvement.
Woke Up with Upper Back Pain? Stretches to Alleviate the Pain

Woke Up with Upper Back Pain? Stretches to Alleviate the Pain

Waking up with upper back pain can be a frustrating and uncomfortable way to start your day. This common issue affects many people and can significantly impact daily activities and overall well-being. Let's dive in and explore why this happens and effective stretches designed to alleviate upper back pain experienced upon waking, helping you find relief and improve your daily comfort. We will also answer common questions related to upper back pain and provide practical tips for managing this condition.
The Complexly of Primitive Reflexes and Sensory Systems in Neurological Development

The Complexly of Primitive Reflexes and Sensory Systems in Neurological Development

Explore the crucial roles of the frontal lobe, cortex, and brainstem in inhibiting primitive reflexes and how sensory systems can enhance brain function, ensuring proper neurological development from the bottom up and the back forward.
Gut Health & Mental Health: A Holistic Approach to a Happier Gut and Mind

Gut Health & Mental Health: A Holistic Approach to a Happier Gut and Mind

Explore the "mind-gut connection" or "brain-gut axis," where the gut's microbiome impacts mental health through neural, hormonal, and immune pathways. Central is the vagus nerve, enhancing gut health via diet, exercise, and stress management boosts overall well-being.
Unlocking Development: Essential Exercises for Inhibiting Primitive Reflexes

Unlocking Development: Essential Exercises for Inhibiting Primitive Reflexes
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Unlock Your Body's Natural Healing Potential With Chiropractic

As a chiropractor committed to holistic health, I often encounter questions about what it means to practice chiropractic care with a holistic approach. This method is not just about addressing the immediate symptoms but understanding and treating the underlying causes of discomfort and imbalance in the body. In this post, we'll explore the essence of holistic chiropractic care, how it differentiates from traditional methods, and its benefits in promoting natural healing and well-being.
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Muscle Therapy and your Nervous System

The intricate dance between our nervous system and muscle therapy is both fascinating and vital for our overall health. With the nervous system playing a crucial role in every function of our body, understanding how muscle therapy influences this complex system is key to unlocking a wealth of health benefits.
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Chiropractic Care for Headaches

Are you tired of living with persistent headaches that just won't seem to go away? Chiropractic care offers a natural and effective approach to managing various types of headaches and addressing their underlying causes.
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The Chiropractic Adjustment and Pregnancy Labor

Are you considering chiropractic care during your pregnancy journey? Expectant mothers often seek ways to alleviate discomfort and prepare for childbirth. Among the questions that arise are concerns about chiropractic adjustments and their potential impact on labor.
Chiropractic Care and Heart Health

Chiropractic Care and Heart Health

Have you ever considered the relationship between chiropractic care and heart health? While chiropractors are commonly associated with treating back pain and spinal issues, emerging research suggests that chiropractic adjustments may have broader implications for overall well-being, including heart health. In this article, we'll delve into some common questions surrounding chiropractic care and its potential impact on heart health.
What Is Adrenal Fatigue and How Can You Cure It Naturally

What Is Adrenal Fatigue and How Can You Cure It Naturally

Adrenal Fatigue is typically the tip of the iceberg of what the patient is experiencing. If youre experiencing adrenal fatigue then you most likely are experiencing other issues like brain fog, poor mental endurance, digestive issues, mood swings, irregular menses cycle, and many other symptoms that are ultimately a link to a underlying general health support issue that is inhibiting you to be well.
Top 10 Reasons To See A Chiropractor Near You

Top 10 Reasons To See A Chiropractor Near You

chiropractors are trained to diagnose and treat a range of conditions related to the musculoskeletal system, which includes the bones, muscles, ligaments, and joints. Some of the conditions that people may seek chiropractic care for include: Back pain Neck pain Headaches and migraines Sciatica Whiplash Carpal tunnel syndrome Sports injuries Arthritis Fibromyalgia Scoliosis Pregnancy Chiropractic
26 Grams of Sugar Can Ruin Your Life

26 Grams of Sugar Can Ruin Your Life

This post is about why added sugars are ruining your life and how to take control of your immune system naturally and effectively. At Archetype in Birmingham AL, we strive to be your go to resource for Natural Medicine, Natural Health and Natural Remedies. If you're interested in becoming a student to improve your health we would love to teach you. Your first visit will be an evaluation if we can help you and then we can determine how to help you from there. Call Today to make an appointment.
Chiropractic During Pregnancy

Chiropractic During Pregnancy

Chiropractic care during pregnancy can offer numerous benefits for the expecting mother and her baby. Chiropractic adjustments help align the spine and pelvis, which can alleviate discomfort and pain, improve posture, and reduce stress on the nervous system. This can also improve the function of the uterus and pelvic muscles, making it easier for the baby to get into the best possible position for birth.
Archetype Disclaimer Update

Archetype Disclaimer Update

Archetype Disclaimer Update: Website, Professional, Testimonial Disclaimer. Jan. 29th 2023.
Optimal Hormone Health Can Be Achieved Naturally

Optimal Hormone Health Can Be Achieved Naturally

Hormones in modern human healthcare are mostly misunderstood and extremely dysfunctional in our healthcare space. Mostly medication is given to treat or support the dysfunction in the hormone pathways of the patient. Where this is dangerous is that medication use, natural health support, or any other attempt to "fix" hormone pathways in the body first must be accompanied/simultaneously evolved by eating a natural foods diet and exercise/move daily. This allows for your best chance of
Archetype Policy Update : No Surprise Act 2022

Archetype Policy Update : No Surprise Act 2022

No Surprise Act 2021 part of the "Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2021"
Privacy Policy / HIPAA 2023

Privacy Policy / HIPAA 2023

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Archetype Non-Discrimination Policy 2023

Archetype Non-Discrimination Policy 2023

Archetype Non-Discrimination Policy 2023 #nondiscrimination
Top 10 Benefits of Dry Needling

Top 10 Benefits of Dry Needling

Find out why dry needling is an important therapy for chiropractic patients and athletes. The full list of benefits can be found below!

"Be Healthy" 60-Day Challenge

The "Be Healthy" 60-day challenge is not another fad diet or gym program. We are changing lives and creating long term healthy habits that will be in place long after the 60 days end. Archetype is here to provide a structure that is conducive to results. Learn about how we have implemented this program in the past and how we can help you turn your health dreams into a reality.
When Primitive Reflexes Persist?

When Primitive Reflexes Persist?

When primitive reflexes persist, a physical program to be optimally effective should be aimed at the earliest developmental and postural level of reflex abnormality. Kids or adults with retained/returned primitive reflexes tend to have poor posture, balance, and coordination.
Specific Natural Healthcare

Specific Natural Healthcare

Natural methods of healing and health produce more good in your life than bad. The inverse is just as true, the more unnatural items in your body leads to unnatural results that harm. Quality of Life is an accumulation of every right and wrong decision of a lifetime, that result is our health.
Primitive & Postural Reflexes

Primitive & Postural Reflexes

Assessing maturity and integrity in how the CNS is functioning through the examination. Primitive reflexes and postural reflexes appear and "disappear" at different stages of development. By assessing when and if these reflexes are present or not we can tell if or if not the central nervous system developing like it should.
Left Brain Stimulation for Dyslexia Help

Left Brain Stimulation for Dyslexia Help

Dyslexia - a learning disorder that involves difficulty reading due to problems identifying speech sounds and learning how they relate to letters and words (decoding). Also called reading disability, dyslexia affects areas of the brain that process language (LEFT Brain).
Five Ways to Repair Your Body

Five Ways to Repair Your Body

I’ve followed these principles of health for the past 14 years. If you’re consistent with them you will be rewarded with a level of health others want and will consistently ask you what you’re doing. You have your health once, once lost, it’s extremely difficult to regain it back.
Every Workout is Not Game Day!

Every Workout is Not Game Day!

It’s crucial to be strong and perform well in your day-to-day, but it can also take a toll on you if you don't get the right balance between rest days. It's even more important for those people who are not repairing when they sleep at night because their next workout shouldn't involve heavy lifting or try crushing themselves with another intense workout.
Dyselexia, ADHD, DCD, Autism

Dyselexia, ADHD, DCD, Autism

A number of the symptoms these share in common are a direct result of immaturity in the functioning of the CNS. An Immature CNS comes with many symptoms. Often times these symptoms are similar to symptoms present with retained primitive reflexes.
Chlorine Rinsed Chicken or Organic Free Range Chicken?

Chlorine Rinsed Chicken or Organic Free Range Chicken?

Everything the human consumes has to benefit the health and lifespan of the human. If you consume “raised meat” in your body make sure it’s organic and/or pasture raised.
Archetype Muscle Therapy Vs. Massage

Archetype Muscle Therapy Vs. Massage

Want a full movement assessment? Do you have any lingering injuries? During your new patient exam, we determine your weaknesses and the source of your pain, then we build you a custom plan to get rid of your symptoms and restore your movement patterns.
Brushing Your Teeth ... for Your Joints

Brushing Your Teeth ... for Your Joints

You swim, bike, run, squat, press, pull, and all the other fitness things you have been trained to do. You train your muscles to keep you strong for a long and happy life, but what happens when the deeper stuff on which those muscles rely breaks down?
Your Posture is Linked to Brain Function

Your Posture is Linked to Brain Function

Upright posture is complex and maintained mainly by postural reflexes in the midbrain that utilize sensory input from the visual, proprioceptive, and vestibular systems.
How Could a Move Program Improve Educational Performance?

How Could a Move Program Improve Educational Performance?

Physical movement is a child's first language, and it is through movement that they first start to explore the world and to gain control over their body. It is the foundation in which learning is built upon. If this foundation is rocky or not maintained, it will play a role in their abilities to learn and retain information well.
Heart Attack or Rib Pain?

Heart Attack or Rib Pain?

About 2 times a month we have patients come in the clinic with extremely specific excruciating pain around their rib cage. They mistake this pain for a heart attack which eventually leads them to visit the E.R. . After all the tests come back negative they end up in our practice still in pain needing help. The patient identifies the pain by taking a deep breath or upon inhalation, it persists until the tissue around the rib is mobile again.
Breathe is Crucial

Breathe is Crucial

Ever wonder why your neck muscles and traps are so tight? Why your low back hurts when you lift? The very thing you do without thinking about might be the problem. Breathing is so important, without it you can’t live and chances are you are doing it all wrong. We are born and conditioned to breathe using our diaphragm, better known as the muscle of breathe.
Proper Warm Up

Proper Warm Up

We have all been conditioned that proper warm-up is to just go for a run, do something to warm up the "core temp" before any activity. Even as a younger individual before baseball or soccer it was always "understood" we either had to throw at a 30-50 percent effort to warm up the arm or run laps to get the legs warmed up.
Psychomotor development

Psychomotor development

Psychomotor learning is the development of organized patterns of muscular activities guided by signals from the environment. Psychomotor skills are movement tasks that require both cognitive and motor processes.‍
Consistency is Key

Consistency is Key

Most professionals in the workforce that are highly successful or even professional athletes when asked how did you get to where you are now answered with a simple explanation, being consistent. It's also important to find what works specifically for you, but consistency is key. There is not one answer, one workout, one diet, one anything that works "for everyone." But we can take a little bit of a lot of different things, apply them to our situation, be consistent with it and get the outcome
Basic before Advanced movement

Basic before Advanced movement

One of the most powerful healing methods is movement. Health begins at pelvic floor and core stabilization. Moving to advanced movements to quickly can lead to a lifetime of injury and dysfunction and ultimately compromised quality of health.
What is Brain Fog?

What is Brain Fog?

Our ancestors had their own health issues. Brain fog absolutely was not one of them. This is a problem of the modern human. It’s mainly dietary-related. This is a massive topic though, changing what you eat is only part of solving this problem.
Reset Your Sleep Cycle

Reset Your Sleep Cycle

If you don’t sleep, you don’t repair, and if don’t repair you begin to break down. Everyone needs sleep and time to rebuild. The modern world we live in constantly breaks us down and the one reprieve from this is quality sleep. Here are some resources to help you sleep better and live your best life.
Duck Walk for Retained Moro

Duck Walk for Retained Moro

The duck walk:To be honest, I didn't think much of this exercise until I saw it in action, and then I was very impressed. You want the child to walk with their feet turned out, and their hands turned in with thumbs pointing in. That sounds simple, right? They should be able to do this smoothly, walking back and forth.‍
You Do Not Need Arch Supports

You Do Not Need Arch Supports

We get this question on a regular basis. Modern feet have been shoved in shoes and become almost inept. We wonder why plantar fasciitis shows up, why foot pain shows up, and many other dysfunctions in the foot and posterior chain. We as a modern society need to understand shoes serve a minimal purpose of fashion and aesthetics. Most shoes are not functional and literally prep you to fall as you age by crowding your toes and dumbing down the neurology of sensation.
Why Coffee Is Killing You…Slowly

Why Coffee Is Killing You…Slowly
Discomfort & Development

Discomfort & Development

Each day I got to witness growth in each of these individuals. It was different for me to be on the other side as a mentor with completely different obstacles to overcome. I knew I needed to push enough for growth but not defeat.  #drjohn #chiropractic #birminghamal #homewoodalabama
My Story of Healing

My Story of Healing

When a mother starts having contractions 3 months early, it is natural for her to face the heartbreaking reality that her baby will not live. It would be pretty easy for her to lose all hope.

"Sick Care" vs. Health Care

In the U.S., we tend to think that if we’re not sick it must mean we are healthy. The modern health care system is all about reducing or eliminating symptoms. This is what we call "sick care" in our clinic because the goal of this system is to keep us notsick instead of well