Prevention is the neglected part of the Hippocratic Oath

Hygieia is the goddess of preventative medicine. She is the personification of good health, and she uses nutrition and hygiene to prevent sickness. She is mentioned in the traditional Hippocratic Oath, and oath that all medical doctors take when they graduate from medical school.

Unfortunately idea of the Goddess Hygieia and the philosophy of health through nutrition is largely ignored by the medical community. The philosophy of wellness should be balanced out by complimentary ideas, including emergency care, recuperation, beauty, hygiene and nutrition.

These days, if you are enthusiastic about nutrition, or if you are a doctor prescribing nutrition, you are seen as being on the fringe of society. This is unfortunate because good nutrition is essential for your health throughout your years of growth, maturity and old age. Good nutrition is good medicine. Every cell in the body is influenced by the foods that you eat.

In our office, we emphasize fresh, natural foods to maintain your good health. Don't take our word for it, though. Read some of these books to educate yourself on the philosophy of eating good food.


 I found Deep Nutrition to be a really interesting book so far. It's talking about the way our foods interact with our gene expression. It links the foods that we eat today to the health of the kids we have in the future. Very interesting ideas.



The Paleo Solution diet tells a story of the author going from using the fad of vegetarianism to discovering that high-inflammatory foods such as grains were making him sick. This is a great overview of the paleo diet.


Wheat Belly is my favorite book in the subject so far. Wheat Belly talks bout how the wheat that we eat today is far different than the wheat we ate 75 years ago. Wheat has been hybridized to the point that it is unrecognizeable from the wheat that our grandmothers cooked with in their day. Get this book.

Todd Lloyd, DC
Chiropractic physician in Salt Lake City. 

Are you doing your short foot exercises correctly?

Are you doing your short foot exercises correctly?

Are you doing them at all?

Short foot exercises help support the posture of your feet while facilitating better flexibility and control.

Short foot exercises help line up the biomechanics of your lower extremities and can improve the way your whole body works. I have a textbook dedicated to disorders of the neck in our office that recommends you do short foot exercises on a wobble board to help with neck rehab.

Here's a video I created that shows how this is done:

 Before that, though, in the office we recommend that you receive a biomechanics adjustment to the feet and ankle. Here's why:

Got it? Let's take care of our feet!

Dr. Lloyd
chiropractor in Salt Lake City

Salt Lake City Chiropractic for low back pain.

If you live in Salt Lake City, and you suffer from low back pain, you have a few choices to make for your to take care of that low back pain.

The first thing that you can do is nothing. Doing nothing might allow a little pain relief due to the natural history of the way your back can heal, but you will likely heal with dysfunction. This leaves you with the other unfortunate option:

The second option is the most common option, but doesn't solve much. You can take drugs for your low back pain. But the drug problem in America is out of control. I'm not just talking about hard drugs like Oxycontin, but your every-day anti-inflammatory drug like Ibuprofen. Ibuprofen is great for short term emergency relief, but you shouldn't have to be in a position to take it for more than a week or two.

Surgery isn't really an option, but I'll throw it in here for option number three.

The fourth option should really be your first: Chiropractic care. Chiropractic care has been shown over and over to be an excellent choice for acute and chronic back pain relief. Chiropractic care restores function to the spine in the form of improved range of motion, better muscle control of the spine, and better neurological feedback.

Chiropractic care works by restoring normal motion to the spine. This motion helps bring more nutrients to the discs and soft tissue between the bones in the spine, and it flushes out irritating inflammatory chemicals that build up. The motion also facilitates reflexes that reduce muscle spasm and reflexes that provide pain relief.

There tends to be a lasting benefit to chiropractic care too. This is because you are making spine function better with care.

If you are in the Salt Lake City area, drop by our clinic for excellence in chiropractic care. Your back will thank you.

Dr. Lloyd
Chiropractic physician.

Taking a closer look at chiropractic care and low back pain.

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I see firsthand on a daily basis how chiropractic care helps with your low back pain. It works very well even as a stand-alone treatment modality. It’s always good to examine the evidence, though, to see if what we are doing in our clinic is the best approach for our patients. Without evidence, we are making a guess that what we are doing is the best therapy for our patients. And we need to always be collecting new evidence. 

Researchers are always scrutinizing chiropractic adjustments and other forms of spinal manipulation as a therapeutic approach to take care of your low back pain. In the September 28^th edition of Spine, researchers at an orthopedic clinic in Bremen compared patients with acute low back pain with three types of therapies. This was a randomized double blinded control trial with 101 patients.

Group 1: Spinal manipulation and a placebo pill.

Group 2: Sham manipulation and Diclofenac, a powerful anti-inflammatory pill.

Group 3: Sham manipulation and a placebo pill. The control group.

They measured the following outcomes in their patients:

• Satisfaction with care.
•  Function of the patient.
•  Off-work time.
• Rescue medication.

What they found is that the spinal manipulation (chiropractic adjustment) group “was significantly better than the Diclofenac group.” The placebo group did so poorly that they had a high dropout rate; so much so that they had to close that group prematurely. This study illustrates the value of chiropractic care for acute and severe low back pain.

Dr. Todd Lloyd

Chiropractic physician in Salt Lake City

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23026869