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BalancedLifeChiropractic-EP235 - Back To School · Back To The Basics In Healthcare

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  Speaker 1: Time now for back to the basics and healthcare with
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  Speaker 1: Balance Life Chiropractic. We have doctor Harley. We've been chatting
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  Speaker 1: about back to school and we're getting close.
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  Speaker 2: I know that thought might make some of you shutter,
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  Speaker 2: You're like, oh please no, or maybe some of you're like, finally,
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  Speaker 2: schools back.
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  Speaker 1: I remember when I was a kid, and I don't
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  Speaker 1: know why this is the one that I remember, because
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  Speaker 1: like I had I don't know, probably a dozen backpacks
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  Speaker 1: from the time I was a kindergartener all the way through.
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  Speaker 1: But I remember I had a green backpack with Gizmo
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  Speaker 1: from the Gremlins.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know if I've actually seen that.
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  Speaker 1: So and then my brother had a red backpack with
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  Speaker 1: stripe like the Gremlin, the mean one. So I don't
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  Speaker 1: know why we had those, but those were That was
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  Speaker 1: like my favorite backpack. But when you have a backpack
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  Speaker 1: filled with stuff that could be bad on the back,
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  Speaker 1: can't I right?
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  Speaker 2: You know, all the things we'll be talking about over
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  Speaker 2: the next couple of weeks. You know, backpack placement is
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  Speaker 2: a very important one. You would think with all this technology.
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  Speaker 2: You know, kids have chromebooks or iPads or whatever, you know,
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  Speaker 2: screen that they're using in.
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  Speaker 1: School, even smartphones.
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  Speaker 2: They wouldn't even need book bags or you know, need
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  Speaker 2: to carry all these books, but it still seems like
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  Speaker 2: they carry each and every one of their books with them.
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  Speaker 1: Well, there's companies who want to sell the books there.
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  Speaker 1: That's what's going on ebooks right now. They want to
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  Speaker 1: sell you a book book because they get more money for.
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  Speaker 2: That, right. So a very important thing to look at
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  Speaker 2: is how much is your kid's backpack weighing? And how
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  Speaker 2: much does your kid weigh. If you have, you know,
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  Speaker 2: the smallest little kid in your class and they're carrying
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  Speaker 2: the biggest, heaviest backpack, that might not be great for
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  Speaker 2: their growing spines and their bodies. They say a kid's
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  Speaker 2: backpack should weigh less than ten percent of their body
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  Speaker 2: weage very nice.
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  Speaker 1: So if you're like a sixty pound kid, it should
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  Speaker 1: be six pounds.
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  Speaker 2: Or less, right, which you know, if you think of
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  Speaker 2: all this stuff you're putting in it, that's probably you're
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  Speaker 2: probably way over that.
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  Speaker 1: So what are some things that you can do, because like,
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  Speaker 1: at the end of the day, it's not up to
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  Speaker 1: the parents what they you know, because if they have
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  Speaker 1: homework and all these classes, it's not really up to
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  Speaker 1: the parents on that. Are there better backpacks that they
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  Speaker 1: can have? Maybe?
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  Speaker 2: Right, Yeah, you can. Don't really avoid the weight because
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  Speaker 2: you have to take your whole you know, locker with
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  Speaker 2: you to every single room. I'm we're doing that in
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  Speaker 2: high school. It's like you didn't have time to get
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  Speaker 2: for class class, you took the whole thing with you.
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  Speaker 2: So making sure you're wearing your backpack properly is the
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  Speaker 2: number one most important thing. I know, it's cool to
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  Speaker 2: wear it one's shoulders look it off one side, but
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  Speaker 2: you're going to be leaning more to that one side
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  Speaker 2: versus you know, having both straps on, having it tightened
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  Speaker 2: to where that backpack is sitting pretty tight to your body,
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  Speaker 2: not you know, not feeling like it's almost down to
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  Speaker 2: your butt and you're like leaning backwards because that backpack
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  Speaker 2: is so heavy. So making sure that those backpacks are
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  Speaker 2: tightened to a good level that it's comfortable, it's sitting
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  Speaker 2: up a little bit higher on their back to support
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  Speaker 2: all of that weight.
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  Speaker 1: And this is when people are buying those for the
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  Speaker 1: back to school ten That's why I wanted to talk
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  Speaker 1: about it early. Is there a certain kind we should
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  Speaker 1: be looking for?
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  Speaker 2: I don't necessarily think there's a specific brand or anything
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  Speaker 2: like that that makes a difference. It's really about, you know,
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  Speaker 2: does it have you know, some good shoulder padding, does
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  Speaker 2: it have two straps? You know, I think of even
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  Speaker 2: hiking backpacks that might seem a bit extreme, but does
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  Speaker 2: have like a belt that goes across the body, because
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  Speaker 2: there's some hiking backpacks like that, but that might be
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  Speaker 2: a little overkill for a school bag.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's like I get a lot of homework, so
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  Speaker 1: I also have a ten ten here so I can
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  Speaker 1: stop on the way home and take a nap, right,
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  Speaker 1: So yeah, that.
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  Speaker 2: Would be the biggest thing is when you're backpack shopping,
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  Speaker 2: how does it fit your child? Is it seem like
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  Speaker 2: it's massive and way bigger than them? Or when you
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  Speaker 2: put it on them and you strap it properly, where
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  Speaker 2: does it hit them? When you know, sitting against their back,
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  Speaker 2: you want a little bit higher up in the back.
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  Speaker 2: You don't want it sitting down towards their butt.
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  Speaker 1: And maybe have a discussion with your kiddos as well,
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  Speaker 1: just saying hey, if you don't need to have it
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  Speaker 1: in there, don't have it in there. Because I remember
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  Speaker 1: my brother used to carry all kinds of stuff in
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  Speaker 1: his backpack that he didn't even need.
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  Speaker 2: In there, right, I think you're going on a ten
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  Speaker 2: day trip with all the things you start throwing in
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  Speaker 2: your bag.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, so again some things there. We'll chat about more
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  Speaker 1: back to school stuff as we get closer. And I
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  Speaker 1: know there's some people that are super excited about back
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  Speaker 1: to school and there's some that dread it. And were
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  Speaker 1: you a school person? Were you excited for school when
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  Speaker 1: it came back?
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I'm a doctor, so I guess I did
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  Speaker 2: kind of like So I did like school. It was
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  Speaker 2: always I enjoyed the classes and learning. I was not.
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  Speaker 1: I couldn't wait to get I graduated early and got
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  Speaker 1: the heck out of there. So, but whether you are
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  Speaker 1: excited for school or if you're not excited for school,
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  Speaker 1: if you've got kiddos going, it's going to be here
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  Speaker 1: before you know it. If they would like to check
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  Speaker 1: in with you guys ahead of time and maybe get
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  Speaker 1: a little a little health check up with you here
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  Speaker 1: at Balanced Life Chiropractic, what is the best way for
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  Speaker 1: them to connect.
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  Speaker 2: John, that's a great idea of getting your nervous system assessed,
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  Speaker 2: get your spine checked, make sure that your body is
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  Speaker 2: ready for back to school, be it the parents' body
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  Speaker 2: or the kid's body for both. Right, I'm just going
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  Speaker 2: to make sure that everyone's having a more enjoyable time
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  Speaker 2: with this transition from summer to school. We have plenty
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  Speaker 2: of time available in our schedule leading up to when
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  Speaker 2: school gets started, so it's as simple as giving us
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  Speaker 2: a phone call. Our phone number is six year O
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  Speaker 2: five two one five one seven eight five, or reach
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  Speaker 2: out to us on Facebook. Our Facebook page is Balanced
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  Speaker 2: Life Chiropractic and we even have a book online button
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  Speaker 2: on our website.
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  Speaker 1: Very nice that website balanced Life sd dot com