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Oct 02 2022

School Backpack Concerns

Now that the school year has begun, many students complain about neck and back pain, headaches and shoulder pain. There are many causes including: poor posture, texting on their phones, playing computer games, studying while laying on their bed or poorly supporting chairs and desks. One of the most important causes of pain are backpack concerns.

Did you know that over 5,000 children a year are seen in the emergency room because of their backpacks being too heavy? Over 14,000 children are treated for backpack related injuries by medical professionals every

Backpack concerns can be helped with these safety tips — These safety tips can help with backpack concerns

year. It’s important that you do not ignore these symptoms that signify something is wrong.

Today we discuss the negative effects of backpacks being too heavy and ways we can fix the problem. Spread the word to every parent and teacher……let’s save the backs of all students.

I recommend scheduling your children, of all ages, to be evaluated as a proactive step to avoid future spinal issues. My 6 nephews and nieces all are under chiropractic care and their health and wellness is a result. All cycles of life have days of spinal pressure and not dependent on age. Why do you think I called my office Hometown Family Wellness Center.

More Great Articles on School Backpack Health Concerns:

https://www.cnn.com/2015/10/21/health/backpack-s afety/index.html

https://www.bryanhealth.com/about-bryan-health/news/2018/is-your-childs-backpack-a-health-risk/

How To Tell If The Backpack Weighs too Much:

https://www.healthline.com/health-news/how-much-should-your-childs-school-backpack-weigh

Take a Few Minutes To Watch These Backpack Safety Videos:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkMjd54LeBY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEFz4-ilzXQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7EN_5_yKF2g

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_GiXOrbsmU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8Fs6rKGnmE

How To Ease New School Year Anxiety:

https://www.verywellfamily.com/tips-to-ease-back-to-school-anxiety-620832

https://healthcare.utah.edu/healthfeed/postings/2021/08/back-to-school-anxiety.php

Dr. Russell Brokstein of Hometown Family Wellness Center, has been helping patients of all ages for over 24 years. The exam helps find the cause of symptoms, then using gentle, safe chiropractic techniques along with home stretching and core stabilization exercises to balance the spine and help prevent and maintain.

Many of our home stretching and exercises can be found on our site: Stretching and Core Stabilization

Apr 17 2022

Your Amazing Body – Are You Taking Care of It?

Your amazing body is a complex of cells, tissues and systems. Many people neglect their bodies but it’s so

You Have To Make the Path Choice To Your Amazing Body

important to take care of it. Are you taking steps to optimize your body and health?

One of my favorite sources for health information is a program called The 100 Year Lifestyle. I get a weekly email from them educating on how to improve health, wellness and longevity. This weeks email had some great messages. If you would like to improve your children’s and your health, optimize wellness and enjoy life as we age, read each by clicking the link.
1) Your Amazing Body—An Inventory | The 100 Year Lifestyle
2) Children: How to Take Care of Their Amazing Body | The 100 Year Lifestyle
3) Posture, Growth, and Healthy Emotions | The 100 Year Lifestyle

There are many essential benefits of vitamins and minerals:

Most of you are deficient and then run to take man made, toxic vitamins from the stores like centrum, one a day, gnc brands or others from grocery stores or vitamin shops. Many times these are causing further health issues.
Eg… most Vitamin C are synthetic ascorbic acid by mixing high fructose corn syrup with HCL (hydrochloric acid) which is extremely toxic.

Majority of Americans are on medications that deplete vitamins and minerals:
Did you know?
1. Adderall depletes:
Vitamin B12, vitamin C, and potassium.
2. Prozac depletes:
Vitamin B1, vitamin B2, vitamin B3, vitamin B6, vitamin B12, folic acid, vitamin C, vitamin D, coenzyme Q10, calcium, magnesium, manganese, selenium, sodium, zinc, and glutathione.
3. Paxil depletes:
Vitamin B1, vitamin B2, vitamin B3, vitamin B6, vitamin B12, folic acid, vitamin C, vitamin D, coenzyme Q10, calcium, magnesium, manganese, selenium, sodium, zinc, and glutathione.
4. Zoloft depletes:
Vitamin B1, vitamin B2, vitamin B3, vitamin B6, vitamin B12, folic acid, vitamin C, vitamin D, coenzyme Q10, calcium, magnesium, manganese, selenium, sodium, zinc, and glutathione.
5. Celexa depletes:
Vitamin B1, vitamin B2, vitamin B3, vitamin B6, vitamin B12, folic acid, vitamin C, vitamin D, coenzyme Q10, calcium, magnesium, manganese, selenium, sodium, zinc, and glutathione.
6. Wellbutrin/Zyban depletes:
Vitamin B6, vitamin C, vitamin D, coenzyme Q10, and sodium.
7. Remeron depletes:
Vitamin B6, vitamin C, vitamin D, coenzyme Q10, and sodium.
8. Effexor depletes:
Vitamin B1, vitamin B2, vitamin B3, vitamin B6, vitamin B12, folic acid, vitamin C, vitamin D, coenzyme Q10, calcium, magnesium, manganese, selenium, sodium, zinc, and glutathione.
9. Risperdal depletes:
Vitamin A, vitamin B1, vitamin B12, biotin, folic acid, carnitine, inositol, vitamin C, vitamin D, vitamin K, and calcium.
10. Zyprexa depletes:
Vitamin A, vitamin B1, vitamin B12, biotin, folic acid, carnitine, inositol, vitamin C, vitamin D, vitamin K, and calcium.
11. Seroquel depletes:
Vitamin A, vitamin B1, vitamin B12, biotin, folic acid, carnitine, inositol, vitamin C, vitamin D, vitamin K, and calcium.
12. Depakote depletes:
Vitamin A, vitamin B1, vitamin B2, vitamin B12, biotin, folic acid, carnitine, inositol, vitamin C, vitamin D, vitamin K, calcium, magnesium, and Essential Fatty Acids.
From the book; Antidepressants, Antipsychotics and Stimulants by Dr. David W. Tanton, Ph.D

Some people think they eat healthy and get enough from the foods you eat. This is furthest thing from the truth as the foods are nutrient deficient and many times your guts are unhealthy, therefore not breaking down the foods to the elements it needs to absorb. One study I read says you would have to eat around 25,000 calories a day of natural, raw foods to get all the vitamins and minerals your body needs.

It’s important to take a whole food plant based multivitamin so the body first of all can recognize the Vitamin then actually break down and get the benefits. In my book, The Next Health Revolution – A Natural Path to Revive Your Health and Maximize Wellness, I discuss how important it is to supplement with natural formulas to provide your body with what it needs. If you would like to learn more about taking back your health naturally, get a copy of my book in our office or get it on Amazon – Click Here.

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If you like this content, make sure you are sharing it with all your friends and family. People need to be more educated and take action to improve their health. We are the most medicated country just masking symptoms and leading to more symptoms and health issues. It’s time to make health a priority. If you are ready to make a change, lets discuss action steps at your next visit.

Have a great day!
To Your Health and Wellness
Dr. Russell Brokstein
Hometown Family Wellness Center Where Health is a Lifestyle

You Choose what you put in your amazing body

Mar 05 2022

Best Chiropractor in Freehold NJ 2022 By Freehold Award Program

For the second year in a row, The Freehold Award Program has chose Dr. Russell Brokstein of Hometown Family Wellness Center as the Best Chiropractor in Freehold NJ. With this year’s selection, Dr. Brokstein has achieved the distinction of the Freehold Business Hall of Fame.

Dr. Brokstein shares his gratitude of being chosen Best Chiropractor in Freehold NJ 2022

Dr. Brokstein grew up in Freehold, NJ and after completing his degrees at The Pennsylvania State University and Life Chiropractic College in Marietta, Ga, he returned back to his hometown to give back to the community. He

Best Freehold Chiropractor 2022 — Freehold Award Program Best Chiropractor in Freehold for 2022

opened Hometown Family Wellness Center in 2005. He holds an annual holiday food and coat drive called, “Baby It’s Cold Outside”. This past year, he published his first book, “The Next Health Revolution – A Natural Path to Revive Your Health and Maximize Wellness”.

Dr. Brokstein has also been honored to be chosen as the Asbury Park Press’s Best Monmouth County Chiropractor and the National Consumer Advisory Board’s “America’s Best Chiropractors” directory.

If you would like to find out more about Dr. Brokstein and Hometown Family Wellness Center, visit www.ChiropractorFreehold.com and make sure you follow the practice’s facebook page: Chiropractor Freehold NJ – Russell Brokstein | Facebook and Youtube Channel: Dr. Russell Brokstein – YouTube to keep up to date on valuable health tips.

Feb 20 2022

Epidural Steroid Injection Risks You Should Know Before Ever Getting One

Over 80% of the population experiences back pain at one time or another and many others suffer with neck pain. Sadly, most people run to their primary medical doctor that has little experience with pain relief or specialists that just prescribe one drug or invasive treatment after another. Opioids, muscle relaxers, anti-inflammatories, steroid epidural injections and even surgery are some of the prescribed treatments.

Epidural steroid injections are dangerous — There are many epidural steroid injection risks

Recently more are pushing epidural steroid injections but there is something everybody needs to know before ever getting one of these treatments.

I did a short video that needs to be seen and shared with everybody you know and on social media (oh come on, I know you are all on there… and sharing info like this is important to save people.

Isn’t that scary that most MD’s do not know this information and are pushing these dangerous epidural steroid injections more and more?

If anything, these treatments should be used as a last resort. There are many non-invasive and natural forms of therapy that are more successful and less expensive. You should want to avoid epidural steroid injection risks.

Studies show that spinal decompression which I perform on our table is one of the safest forms of treatment to relieve pain and disc problems. It is gentle and helps to get the pressure off the disc, joint and nerve. Along with spinal adjustments, therapeutic stretching and home stretching I show each patient, we get results helping patients get back to enjoying normal daily activities again.
Make sure to share this info so we can help more people.

It’s time to make health and wellness a priority and I have all the systems and protocols to reach your health goals.

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To Your Health and Wellness
Dr. Russell
Hometown Family Wellness Center Where Health is a Lifestyle

Jan 02 2022

Chiropractic Christmas 2021

Every year, a colleague of mine sends a Chiropractic Christmas poem to me that I love to share with my own little twists:
He also borrowed this tried and true poem but not sure who initially wrote it. Our hats are off to them. I decided to use about one third and add my own two cents to make it covid relevant.

Enjoy .. oh Merry Christmas and Belated Happy Hanukkah.

Chiropractic Christmas 2021

T’was the day before Christmas,

And still not covid clear.

No jingle bells jingled, no sound of reindeer.

Santa hurt his back this Christmas — A Chiropractic Christmas

Word got out that Santa’s back was hurting.

Throughout the North Pole it was most concerning

People were sad; no gaiety sounded.

For Christmas had come,

and Santa may be grounded.

Santa was angry for all he tried

He still felt weak and so very tired

How would he carry all those bags filled with hopes and dreams

Even Rudolph’s nose was red from sneezing

Throughout the world every child thought what was most apparent

Was Santa coming or would it be a new variant

Even their parents felt the wrath of this pandemic

For the supply chain from the North Pole became epidemic

But Santa would not take this lying down

He had his shots and even a booster

Searching on Google he found something most profound

Chiropractic might be an answer pound per pound

So, he thought what the heck

With masking, Zinc and all that Vitamin C and D

he walked down the street,

and what should he see

On a small sign was printed, Dr. Russell Brokstein, DC

Now Santa was not one to like a new tactic,

But all else had failed, so now it’s time to try Chiropractic.

He entered the office and saw at a glance

In a place like this covid had no chance.

For all were smiling; the music was snappy.

With all the patients content and so very happy.

In a very short time, to judge by the clock.

Santa was in the adjusting room, talking to Doc.

“It must be the hurry, the tension and all.

I simply can’t seem to get on the ball.

Life used to be easy, just toys and whistles.

Now I have to dodge corona, covid, delta and more.”

“And Doc, take a look at the size of this pack!”

“Have you any idea what it does to my back?”

Poor Santa was miserable, just barely able

With the help of Dr. Russell to get to the table.

Doctor Russell was gentle. Without fuss or tussle

He examined the vertebrae and relaxed the muscle.

He spotted the trouble, and then with a click,

Started aligning the ailing St. Nick.

Santa felt aches and pains slipping away.

In no time at all his back and hips began to sway.

The air was a tingle with a new fallen snow,

And a healthy Kris Kringle was rarin’ to go.

As he went out the door, he threw all a kiss

Why, it has been centuries since he’d felt as good as this!

Hey doc, you deserve a Google Five Star review

When I get back to the North Pole I’ll be sure to do

Go Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, Vixen, Comet, Cupid,

Donner, Blitzen and, of course, Rudolph .. Ho Ho Ho

From Dr. Russell

MERRY CHRISTMAS TO YOU AND TO ALL A HAPPY AND

HEALTHY COVID FREE NEW YEAR!!

Wishing you all a Happy and Healthy New Year!
Dr. Russell Brokstein, DC
Hometown Family Wellness Center Where Health is a Lifestyle

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