Friday, January 29, 2010

There's No Excuse For Not Living A Healthy Lifestyle Says Orange County Chiropractor Dr. Rafa

In order to be well you must be a proactive agent in keeping your body healthy. Many people change their lifestyle only after they become diseased or begin to experience pain. The time to begin living a healthy lifestyle is before you're sick and before you're experiencing any pain. There are a number of things as well that you must consider and prepare for prior to changing your lifestyle. These include diet, exercise, and even your desire to not only live a new lifestyle but that maintain that lifestyle as well. Individuals who aren't serious about living a healthier lifestyle often do more damage to their body than they do good and are less apt to try again.

Gateway Rehab & Wellness Center is devoted to helping you stay healthy.

It's important to remember that being healthy isn't simply the absence of sickness, pain, or disease because even sick people may feel fine and not notice any symptoms until it's too late. An example of this would be somebody living with heart disease. Heart disease often goes unnoticed for many years before it strikes though individuals with heart disease are often confronted with heart attack or death as their first symptoms of the disease. So even if you feel fine, if you don't exercise and you don't eat a healthy diet you may be at risk or made have already contracted a silent disease. People who wait until it's too late to begin living a healthy lifestyle often face a myriad of problems which are detrimental to their lives. These things can include the inability to work and even the inability to be independent. Those who wait too long to begin living healthy often require the assistance of family members friends or professionals for even the simplest of daily tasks.

We can help you design the appropriate diet and exercise plan to fit your body type and needs.

There is little excuse to not live a healthy lifestyle. The Orange County chiropractor's at the Gateway Rehab Wellness And Center have seen and heard every excuse you can possibly imagine. The most common excuses for not living a healthy lifestyle are lack of time and money but in truth those things should not stop you from living a healthy lifestyle. Those that don't may face financial and even physical bankruptcy at some point in the future. Dr. Rafa an Orange County chiropractor states "if you don't have time and money to improve your health while you feel good, what makes you think that you will have time and money to improve your health once you've lost it?" He also adds that you can make time for wellness now or make time for sickness later but hopes that people will choose the first option.

Gateway Rehab & Wellness Center offer free classes so you can learn to live a healthy life. Click Here to Read More about our classes.

If you or someone you know like to begin living a healthy lifestyle but isn't sure where to start or is struggling in doing so please don't hesitate to contact the Gateway Rehab And Wellness Center and their Orange County Chiropractors for assistance.


Sunday, January 3, 2010

Orange County Chiropractor Offer The Healing Power Of Acupuncture

When an individual lives with pain it affects every aspect of their lives. Individuals living with small nagging pains may be moody, fatigued, and miss out on the physical activities they once enjoyed. Others whom live with great pain often suffer greatly as a result of their persistent pain as they are sometimes unable to attend work, school, or tend to children and family needs. Pain can quickly become a nightmare for those who live it and individuals often seek professional medical help in an effort to alleviate the symptoms of their pain.

Gateway Rehab & Wellness Center Offers Multiple Ways to Manage Your Pain and Live a Better Life.

Orange County Chiropractors have become popular health practitioners with those who live with pain as of late due in large part to the many alternative and unintrusive treatments they offer their patients. The last thing someone living with pain needs is a treatment or medication that takes them further out of their daily routines and as such many people have turned to Orange County Chiropractors for help. Chiropractors specialize in treating the causes of pain as opposed to just masking symptoms and aim to rid their patients of pain through treatments that omit expensive and heavy medications as well as debilitating surgeries.

We believe in alternative ways to manage your pain instead of just medicating you. Gateway Rehad & Wellness Center strives to helping you live a healthy and painfree life without harming your body.


In the search for unobtrusive pain reliving treatments many Orange County Chiropractors have adopted Acupuncture as part of their standard services. Acupuncture can be a very effective way to treat many different physical, mental and psychological health issues. Orange County Acupuncture is also great for treating stress and anxiety as well as depression and problems with mood swings. In addition to that Acupuncture works wonders for those who suffer from energy issues, chronic fatigue, and even those individuals who have trouble sleeping. What really makes Acupuncture so unique is that it can be used to treat virtually any type of pain regardless of how strong it might be or where it might be originating from. Furthermore Acupuncture has been show to effectively treat colds, allergies, and other respiratory infections.

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Orange County Chiropractors are also quick to point out that Acupuncture helps with overall wellness both in mind and body as the experience itself is extremely relaxing and provides patients with an opportunity to let go of daily stress and relax themselves for an invaluable period of time. Whether they are patients who suffer through pain or not, individuals who receive regular Orange County Acupuncture treatments find that they have more energy, are more positive, and feel better overall on a daily basis.

Acupuncture is also one of the most painless treatments an individual can receive as well as the needles cause relaxation rather than discomfort and is an all-natural, drug free therapy which yields no side effects other than feelings of relaxation.


Gateway Rehab & Wellness Center specializes in Orange County Chiropractic care including weight loss, acupuncture, physical therapy, massage therapy and more.