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BalancedLifeChiropractic-EP164 - Pillows · Back To The Basics In Healthcare

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  Time out for back to the basics and healthcare with Balanced Life Chiropractic, and
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  we have doctor Harley. How you doing, Hey, John, I'm doing
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  great. I mean hoping all the snow is gone soon winter is back.
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  We had the shortest spring and summer ever. Oh spring, Yeah, no,
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  this is you know what, this is kind of par for the course.
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  We're used to this around here. It seems like this is really weird,
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  but it's March like this happens all the time winter. The weird thing
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  was the seventy degrees a couple of weeks ago. This is true. Yeah,
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  So last week we talked the last couple of weeks've been talking about getting
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  better sleep and fatigue and those things. And today we're going to talk more
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  about pillows because pillows matter, don't they They do, and not all pillows
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  are the same. We talked about beds last week, talking about some things
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  that you should look for with looking for a mattress. We're gonna talk about
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  pillows this week because I get a lot of people like, oh I slept
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  wrong or my neck hurt. Well, then my first question is how old
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  your pillow? Do you like it? Do you not like? I get
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  someone I've tried so many different pillows, I don't know what to do.
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  Yeah, it's not so much what pillow you're using, it's how you're using
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  it, you know, making sure that you have one that is firm enough
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  to support your head but not so rock hard that you know it's not supporting
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  or over supporting or just not comfortable. So like sleeping on a cinder block,
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  yeah, I wouldn't recom on that one. I might not be comfortable.
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  But you also don't want the really cheapy thin like no pillow either,
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  because you want something that's gonna support your neck curve. So when you're laying
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  on your back, you should be nice and neutral. You shouldn't have your
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  head propped up or your chin's almost tucked, or it shouldn't be backwards too
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  far either where you feel like your head's you know, going backwards. And
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  if you're sleeping on your side, the same kind of applies. We want
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  our head and our neck in a nice neutral position. So if you're say
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  we're sleeping on our left shoulder, we don't want our head to feel like
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  it's going towards that left shoulder. But we also don't want to feel like
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  it's going up towards the right shoulder either. So we want something that's gonna
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  keep us in a nice neutral posture, keep your spine in line exactly.
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  So same with like the bed, we want the curves and the bed to
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  support our spine. Same with that pillow. I sleep with a lot of
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  dangerous curves. I sleep with Heidis, so she's standing behind me. Does
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  she just roll her eyes sleep with one eye open? I have to now,
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  no, no one, You're always so tired. So the thing that's
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  that's nice though, when we're talking about having the right pillow, there are
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  so many options. When I was a kid, I don't remember ever hearing
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  anybody talk about pillows. I know they were available somewhere because we had them.
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  But whatever your parents bought, yeah, whatever they had, I don't
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  know. It was a bag filled with feathers or something I don't even know
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  was in there, but it was something. I do like the pillows that
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  you can have more fill put in or pill taken out. You know.
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  I know that my pillow is a big one for that. I don't care
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  about his politics, but I like his like quality of pillow. The idea
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  there absolutely, So there's some other ones that the Omni pillow by Bedspy Design.
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  They're over on Louise, similar kind of concepts. I like that aspect
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  of it that if it's not feeling like it's filled enough, then you can
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  always go to the store and have more put in exact, or if you
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  need a thinner pillow because it's two filled, then you can have it taken
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  out. So I like the customizable ass Back to some of those when somebody
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  is trying to figure out what pillow is the right pillow for them, we've
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  kind of talked about some of the things that matter. Is there anything that
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  they should look at? Okay, avoid this kind of pillow? Is there
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  some that you like? There are some that are just solid foam? Do
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  you avoid the solid foam pillow? Is that okay as well? It's all
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  personal preference. I don't personally like the temper pedic wedges. I never have.
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  They just they feel too hard for my liking. But a lot of
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  it is just like you have to try it out. You know, there's
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  usually a thirty sixty day money back guarantee for a lot of companies because you
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  do have to try it out to see if you like it before you know
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  it's going to be comfortable. Sometimes I need a little bit of a break
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  in period. How about the feather pillows When I was a kid, I
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  know at least one of the pillows is a kid I had feathers in it.
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  I remember where there were like feathers poking out of it. Yeah,
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  I have I think don't have ever used a feather pillow. Was at hotels
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  and I usually bring a pillow with me. I do that now too.
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  The hotel pillows always just go Yeah, I'm like, I don't love that
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  wellne for me, I'm like, how many other people's heads have been laying
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  on this thing? So I just bring my own. You usually have sheets
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  on So yeah, maybe I don't know enough about the goose or feather pillows.
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  I mean, I'm sure if there's enough fill in it then it would
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  be great. Other than that, yeah, I'm not a bag full of
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  leaves. They that's another thing, very roughly and louds if you're moving around.
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  I don't think I would love that all right. Well, if somebody
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  would like to maybe incorporate better pillows but also incorporate some chiropractic in their health
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  regimen, I suggest hey reach out to you. What's the best way to
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  get hold of you guys? If you've tried a million different types of pillows
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  and still haven't found something that works, maybe it's not the pillow. Maybe
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  there's something going on in your neck that needs to be adjusted to help you
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  get better sleep. So you can give us a call at six zero five
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  two one five one seven eight five, or reach out to us on our
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  Facebook page at Balanced Life Chiropractic. But love to chat you know how we
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  can help you have better sleep. Very nice and we talked about beds last
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  week, and we've talked about fatigue. If you want to hear any of
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  the programs that we've done, you can hear these on the radio every Wednesday,
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  but you can also catch the programs online in perpetuity. That's a big
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  word right there, so you can you can listen to them when you have
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  time at Sioux Falls Podcasts dot com. And if you'd like to get the
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  info to reach out to our friends here at Balance Life Chiropractic, their website
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  which has their phone number and their Facebook page link. You can find all
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  of that at balanced Life sd dot com.