by Erika Putnam, DC | Mar 3, 2020 | Health & Wellness, Nutrition For Health
My mother texted me. “ FYI. I was rankled by your Facebook photo. The one with all of those pills, or supplements, you are taking for the cleanse. In my mind it goes against all you stand for. Eating healthy does not pair with the photo and promotes an...
by Erika Putnam, DC | Feb 26, 2020 | Chiropractic Care
I had a call a few weeks ago from a patient I treated in my Idaho practice for over 15 years. I saw her through 2 pregnancies, 3 car accidents, 2 marriages, 4 children and several career changes. I knew her physical injuries, her physical body, her stresses, her...
by Erika Putnam, DC | Feb 19, 2020 | Chiropractic Care
Making a spoon might not be the biggest deal in the world, but it is when you have had thumb pain for 9 months. All of that digging against the grain and gripping is no easy task when your squeeze is reduced to a squish. Those of you with thumb and hand pain can...
by Erika Putnam, DC | Oct 13, 2019 | Chiropractic Care, Chiropractic Yoga
One of my best friends, and road biking buddies was hit by a car on her bike. I got the daunting news of the accident from her 17 year old son. When asked, I was afraid to hear the sentence that would follow the question, “Is she okay?” I was home to Boise for the...
by Erika Putnam, DC | Apr 8, 2019 | Health & Wellness
Wellness strikes a chord in us that is beyond routine blood tests and the outward appearance of looking like we are okay and saying we are doing just fine. Wellness implies “feeling.” It implies feeling well…, alive…, happy…, and vital… in totality, as opposed to...