The FINAL final!!!

Can you believe it?! Three years and I have finished my last final in Chiropractic school FOREVER! What a great experience this has all been. Now all I get to do is go to clinic and work on patients all day! So great to get to focus only on practice and no more homework and such.

Thank you for all your support and encouragement throughout the years all you out there. You are great people and appreciate you all. Now on to BIGGER and better and more EXCITING things!

STAY TUNED~~~

Health newsletters I suggest

Here are some websites I encourage you all to go to and sign up for their weekly newsletter. Some are for health and American health information, some are for pediatrics and their health. If you don't like signing up for long term you can always unsubscribe after a few trial runs of information.

These two sites are phenomenal and enlighten our minds of information we might not have heard otherwise.

So sign up and enjoy! IT'S FREE, Why not?!


Your caring Chiropractic intern,
~Allison

Sleepy, rubby eyes

Have you ever experienced the pleasure of rubbing your eyes when you are sleepy and feeling more relaxed after?

Have you ever rubbed your eyes so long and hard that you had to stop breathing for a while and then stop rubbing your eyes to breath and then hold your breath and start rubbing your eyes again (very intense like)?

Have you ever wondered why?

Well, I was going through this routine a few nights ago and thought, "I should tell people why your body (innate) does this very act for a reason." So here goes......

Once upon a time, in a far away dream there were 5 sheep............ okay not really! That was just to get your attention so you don't get bored already and leave my site.

Let's wake you up a bit with a brighter color, NOW let's begin.

You have this response called the "Oculocardiac Reflex"
With pressure on the eyes, the pulse rate should normally slow down from 5 to 13 beats per minuet.

Stimulation of the trigeminal nerve is thought to set off a reflex arc inducing a cardiac depressor response via vagal stimulation.

Cranial nerve V (5) "trigeminal" is for the muscles used in chewing/ moving the jaw, and also sensation of the face.
Cranial nerve X (10) "vagus" (meaning great wanderer) does all of your parasympathetic modes (rest/digest modes). It is the great wanderer because it goes everywhere, esp. the heart.
This reflex connects the CN V from the eyes, to CNX to the heart to slow down your heart rate and get you ready for bed. :)

So next time you rub your eyes from being tired and the like, just remember the beautiful way the body works without you ever even knowing how and why, till now. : )