ChiroThin

Lose 20-30 Pounds in about a Month Without Exercise, Shakes or Pre-Packaged Food! The ChiroThin Weight Loss Program is designed by doctors. At Combs Chiropractic, as a ChiroThin Weight Loss patient you will experience rapid, healthy weight loss without hunger or cravings.  Our typical female client will lose between 20 and 30 pounds in 42 days and the typical male client will lose 25-35 pounds in 42 days.  THESE RESULTS ARE TYPICAL! The ChiroHCG Homeopathic formula has been specially blended to include homeopathic HCG and 3 other homeopathic compounds that aid in boosting your metabolism, suppressing cravings and to help detoxify your body. How does it work? ChiroHCG works to boost your metabolism while preventing the body from going into starvation mode when consuming less calories than your need.  This causes the body to burn fat for its energy instead of protein (muscle).  Get Started Today! If you would like to get started today, please call 217-345-1010.  If you have questions regarding our program, please feel free to call us to schedule a time to come in and talk with Dr Combs about this Program for absolutely free, no charge or obligation... just an opportunity to learn more about this amazing program that can deliver the results you have always dreamed of.

Nerve Irritation

If you have back stiffness or pain, neck pain or maybe leg or hip discomfort, the issue could be originating from nerve irritation. Often times, people mistakingly blame muscles for discomfort or numbness in a limb when in fact the issues results from a nerve. Unless the nerve is treated by someone, like a chiropractor, the symptoms will persist as treating only the muscle is treating a spinoff of the nerve irritation in relation to a misalignment or injury of the spine. Medicine will not help the nerve impairment, it can mask it temporarily but cannot fix it. The main signs of nerve irritation are discomfort, insensibility, tingling and numbness.

Please call our office today and let Dr. Combs relieve any nerve impairment and irritation so that you can get back to living your life to the fullest!

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stress

Stress is listed by the American Medical Association as the leading basic cause of more than 60% of all illness and disease.  It is known to be the cause of many illnesses and symptoms ranging from high blood pressure, stroke, diabetes, anxiety, ADD or ADHD, digestive problems like Chron’s, Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) and acid reflux, immune deficiency, allergies, headaches, musculoskeletal disorders, fibromyalgia, weight gain, sexual dysfunction, insomnia, breathing problems and much more.

Stress can also lead to many addictions like smoking and alcohol and even lead to suicide.

Many people reach for different medications to fight many of these conditions and symptoms that result from stress.  Unfortunately most don’t realize the drugs are just covering up the symptoms and resulting in other symptoms due to side effects.  This is a vicious cycle currently used by most medical doctors in treating their patients.

Chiropractor takes a natural approach to treating the physical symptoms of stress.

Call our office today at 217-345-1010

Consumer Reports Finds Chiropractic Top Notch

A fairly recent study (2011) in Consumer Reports shows that Chiropractors had the highest level of satisfaction form patients compared to any other type of health care provider.  Yes, you heard me right.. Chiropractic had the best results!!!

In this study, Consumer Reports Health Ratings Center conducted a survey of over 14, 000 people who had received different types of treatment for their back pain. 59% of these back pain sufferers  said the were “highly satisfied” with their chiropractors, while only 34% said they were highly satisfied with their primary care physician. 

Consumer Reports also conducted a separate survey of back pain patients that underwent spinal surgery. The results were quite mixed.  More than 50% of the patients surveyed  reported complications with their recovery. These ranged from more severe pain too a much longer than expected healing process. Twenty percent of these patients said they had no relief or even became worse. These are staggeringly high results of people that were not satisfied with their back surgery. Now, unless I am mistaken, there is no way to undo a botched spinal surgery, is there!?  Why not try Chiropractic first?! Its safer, has better results and is WAYYYYYY less expensive, I assure you. 

Consumer Reports suggested that whenever a person is advised to have back surgery, they should have a second or even third opinion by a physician that is not a surgeon. One of these should be by a Doctor of Chiropractic.

A Doctor of Chiropractic will exam a patient and review all their previous medical records and diagnostic testing and make treatment recommendations. 

Chiropractic Adjustments

There is nothing at all dangerous about getting an adjustment! 

Getting adjusted is one of the safest and most natural ways to improve the overall health of your body. Your spine is meant to remain in place, so when it falls out of alignment it will have a negative impact. You may not have as much energy, have trouble sleeping or have persistent pain, and the more out of alignment you are, the worse your body gets over time. 

People often rely on medication to dull the pain, but taking chemicals into your body is WAY more dangerous than a natural adjustment, and it does nothing to solve   the problem. 

When your spine is properly adjusted, you will feel better, sleep better be morealert and have an overall quality of life 
that is much higher.

So if you aren't feeling like you are perfuming at your best, then please stop turning to over the counter pain meds, prescription pain meds, or other medications to hide pain temporarily. Pain can be good, its an indicator that something isn't right. Instead of trying to hide it, wouldn't it be better to FIX it??!!?? 

Call our office today at 217-345-1010 and make an appointment to see how Dr. Combs can help you and/or a loved one improve their quality of LIFE! 

Health Talks

As a service to Charleston and surrounding communities, I give informative and helpful health lectures on a variety of topics ranging from posture at work, to specific health conditions such as fibromyalgia and sciatica & also overall health and wellness.

This is a FREE service, and I am happy to come over the lunch hour if its best. I would be delighted to come speak to your office employees or private groups of any kind. Please call my office at 217-345-1010 to schedule a time for a Health Talk.

More on Chiropractic

More than 80% of the total population suffers from at least one of a wide range of vertebrogenic disorders. These disorders are generally caused by faults or misalignments in the spinal column. It not only causes extreme discomfort, but also causes tension headaches, migraines, chest pains, hip pains, knee pain as well as menstrual cycle pains, this is just to name a few. Nerve blockage due to spinal misalignment can cause pain in too many areas and varieties to even mention. 

As a Chiropractor, I want to address the underlying problems that are causing pain, not let my patients get sucked into that vicious cycle of pain pills and muscle relaxers. Pain pills and muscle relaxers are a temporary fix, they do not HEAL. Instead they cover up pain... Pain that is there because your body is telling you something is wrong. As a Chiropractor, I do not treat 'pain,' I treat the body, and most times, the subsequent pain goes away. Pain relief is a positive side effect of getting rid of the bigger problem.

Chiropractic betters lives each and every day. If you would like to be one of those.. please call 217-345-1010 today. 

A "Green" Generation...

(saw this post on another blog and thought it was worth sharing!) 

Checking out at the supermarket recently, the young cashier suggested I should bring my own bags because plastic bags weren’t good for the environment. I apologized and explained, “We didn’t have this green thing back in my earlier days“.

The clerk responded, “That’s our problem today. Your generation did not care enough to save our environment for future generations“.

She was right about one thing–our generation didn’t have the green thing in “Our” day. So what did we have back then? After some reflection and soul-searching on “Our” day, here’s what I remembered we did have….

Back then, we returned milk bottles, pop bottles and beer bottles to the store. The store sent them back to the plant to be washed and sterilized and refilled, so it could use the same bottles repeatedly. So they really were recycled. But we didn’t have the green thing back in our day.

We walked up stairs, because we didn’t have an escalator in every store and office building. We walked to the grocery store and didn’t climb into a 300-horsepower machine every time we had to go two blocks. But she was right. We didn’t have the green thing in our day.

Back then, we washed the baby’s nappies because we didn’t have the throw-away kind. We dried clothes on a line, not in an energy gobbling machine burning up 240 volts — wind and solar power really did dry our clothes back in our early days. Kids got hand-me-down clothes from their brothers or sisters, not always brand-new clothing. But that young lady is right. We didn’t have the green thing back in our day.

Back then, we had one TV, or radio, in the house — not a TV in every room. And the TV had a small screen the size of a handkerchief (remember them?), not a screen the size of Wales. In the kitchen, we blended & stirred by hand because we didn’t have electric machines to do everything for us. When we packaged a fragile item to send in the mail, we used wadded up old newspapers to cushion it, not Styrofoam or plastic bubble wrap.

Back then, we didn’t fire up an engine and burn petrol just to cut the lawn. We used a push mower that ran on human power. We exercised by working so we didn’t need to go to a health club to run on treadmills that operate on electricity. But she’s right. We didn’t have the green thing back then.

We drank from a water fountain when we were thirsty instead of using a cup or a plastic bottle every time we had a drink of water. We refilled writing pens with ink instead of buying a new pen, and we replaced the razor blades in a razor instead of throwing away the whole razor just because the blade got dull. But we didn’t have the green thing back then.

Back then, people took the bus, and kids rode their bikes to school or walked instead of turning their mums into a 24-hour taxi service. We had one electrical outlet in a room, not an entire bank of sockets to power a dozen appliances. And we didn’t need a computerized gadget to receive a signal beamed from satellites 2,000 miles out in space in order to find the nearest pizza joint.

But isn’t it sad the current generation laments how wasteful we old folks were just because we didn’t have the green thing back then?

Please post this on your Facebook profile so another selfish old person who needs a lesson in conservation from a smarty-pants young person can add to thi

Jan 12, 2012

Chiropractic changes lives!!! 


If you are already visiting a chiropractor, that’s great! You have no doubt already experienced tons of health benefits.


 If you have, why not tell an associate, a friend, or a family member about chiropractic? Please don’t let someone you care about become a victim to the type of misinformation relating to chiropractic care that can keep them from living their daily life more actively. 


Tell someone in pain about Dr. Combs, and call our office @ 217-345-1010.


If you haven't, then you owe it to yourself to do the same and call to make an appointment to talk to Dr. Combs.


The greatest wealth is health.  ~Virgil

January 2012

Did you know that when your spine is aligned properly, your body is able to function better AND heal itself? 

Dr. Combs uses specific spinal adjustments and/or joint mobilization of extremities to:

• restore alignment
• improve mobility
• relieve your pain
• reduce stiffness and enhance performance 

Correct spinal and/or joint alignment enables the nervous system to function more efficiently and helps improve muscle balance.

Call 217-345-1010 and schedule an appointment to talk to Dr Combs about your health!