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Active Life Health and Wellness Welcomes Our Newest Team Member!

I have been working with Active Life Health and Wellness in beautiful North Las Vegas for 3 months now. In that time I have been able to see vast improvement in my own health. I have been able to be a fully functioning adult for the first time in 10 years with no back pain. What is even more exciting is being able to see the incredible results that our patients are having on a daily basis.

As Case Manager, I’m involved with those who choose to become healthy from the very beginning. At Active Life Health and Wellness, I have the great opportunity to be a part of their progress. It is a wonderful opportunity to see their faces, once sad and filled with pain, turn into bright and pain free faces filled with joy as they work toward achieving all of their goals, have better all around health, and begin living again.

There are few words to express how wonderful it is to work in this phenomenal world of health care.

Adam Murray
Case Manager

Suffering with Carpel Tunnel

My name is Kymberly; I am the front desk manager here at Active Life Health and Wellness. I was 18 years old when I first started seeing symptoms of my carpel tunnel. When all of this began to happen, I was just about to graduate from cosmetology school. I knew that this was going to affect my plans for the future. If I can’t use my arms and hands, how can I function properly on the job? I went to my medical doctor who told me I have the option of surgery, or to wear a wrist guard to help ease the pain. I did not want to go with surgery because there was a 50% chance of the symptoms returning.

I didn’t want to give up on my schooling. I worked in a salon for almost a year until I could no longer perform adequately due to the pain.

It’s been about three years since then, and I’ve found myself working here at Active Life Health and Wellness in beautiful North Las Vegas. When I first began working at Active Life Health and Wellness, I’d never been to a Chiropractor. Dr. Joshua Purcell and Dr. Barry Stanley required that I go through our new patient examination so that I could begin care here as well. I explained my situation to the doctors. They told me that the pain I was having would not have been corrected with surgery because the source of the problem is the fact that I have no curve in my neck. Dr. Stanley and Dr. Purcell explained to me that because I don’t have a curve in my neck, the nerves in my neck are being cut off and causing pain where those nerves end; in my hands. They told me that if I began Chiropractic care and restored the curve in my neck, my carpel tunnel symptoms would more than likely subside. I have since been going through treatment in the office and I am having major success! I have noticed that I am able to have my hands above my head for longer periods of time, unlike before. Also, my palms no longer have an ‘achy’ feeling. Even though I am not doing a full course of treatment in the office, I am still seeing results. I know that this could eventually affect my entire lifestyle and allow me to do what I love doing once again.

Seeing Miracles Every Day

My name is Candice. I have been working for Active Life Health and Wellness in beautiful North Las Vegas for three years. There is something so amazing about walking in to work and seeing the miracles that happen here. Every day, we see the walkers hanging from the ceiling. Those walkers used to belong to our patients, before beginning care. They couldn’t walk, or walk without pain. We have helped them get their life back. It’s a wonderful trophy for us to have knowing they no longer need to rely on that walker to walk. They can walk without any support!

Our patients always tell us how great it is coming here. Not only for the reason that they are improving their lives, suffering less, reaching optimal health, and getting their lives back, but because of the attitude and energy of our staff. We believe that each person is an individual and needs their own individual time and techniques to get them back to optimal health.

Each staff member is dedicated to the success of our patients. We hope that if you are suffering, and you want your life back, we can help you too!

Candice Abbott
Office Manager/Billing Manager

How I Became A Chiropractor

My name is Dr. Joshua K. Purcell. I am a chiropractor in Las Vegas, NV. I work at Active Life Health & Wellness. I would like to share my own personal experience with chiropractic. Several years ago I was deciding what I want to do with my life. I looked into many different health care fields. I ended up choosing chiropractic. I really loved the idea of being able to help people with neck pain, back pain, sciatica, disc problems, arm and leg pain, headaches, etc. without having to use drugs and surgery. So I decided that was what I was going to do. My wife was pregnant with our first child at the time. We moved to St. Louis, MO, where I was going to attend Logan College of Chiropractic. It was Christmas time and school was starting in January. My daughter was a couple of months old at this time. I was sitting on the floor wrapping a gift. I leaned over to grab the scissors and it felt like someone stabbed me in the lower back. It was a sharp, stabbing, shooting pain in my back that took my breath away. I could hardly move. I had to use the entertainment center to pull myself up. I didn’t know what just happened to me. I has always thought that I was healthy and didn’t have any problems. I had been doing lots of activities such as playing racquetball and riding my bike. I couldn’t stand straight, I was in severe pain. I started seeing the chiropractors at my school. They started adjusting my spine and it would feel better for awhile, but just come back. This process went on for several months and was progressively getting worse and worse. Finally the school doctors said that I needed to get a MRI and see a Neurosurgeon, that I may need surgery. I started going into deep depression and was feeling like chiropractic was failing me. I just dedicated my life to this type of health care and it wasn’t working for me!

Finally, I met another student that had been watching me hobble around for months and he told me that I should check out his chiropractor. He felt that this new approach that he used was something that could really help me. I was willing to try anything at this point, I knew that surgery wasn’t going to be an option. This new doctor took some x-rays of my neck. I didn’t understand why, my neck wasn’t hurting, it was my low back. He looked at the x-rays of my neck and pointed to my top two bones and said that’s where my problem was. He started to fix my neck and my health began to return. It was absolutely amazing. I started to get better and start to get my life back. What I learned through this process has truly helped me with taking care of my patients. I learned that just because someone hurts in one place, doesn’t mean that is where the problem is. In fact we have been able to help many people where other chiropractic systems have failed. The best part of this entire experience was I was able to pick up and hold my beautiful little girl again. I was able to have my faith restored that chiropractic really works!

I have had the opportunity to have helped people all over the Las Vegas area get their health back. We have implemented the latest, state of the art therapy in our clinic. We are often able to help people return to optimum health in a relatively short period of time, with the least amount of expense. We have helped people with disc problems, headaches, numbness and tingling in their arms and legs, sciatica, neck pain, back pain, digestive problems, sleep problems, fibromyalgia, asthma and wheezing, etc.

Chiropractor Las Vegas shares shoulder exercises for beginners.

Body: Here is a simple exercise that you can do at home with no equipment.

It works the areas related to the shoulder such as deltoid – anterior, deltoid – lateral, pec major – clavical head, and coracobrachialis muscles.

The purpose of this exercise is to Increase shoulder strength and muscular endurance. By doing this exercise you can have the benefits of Improved stability, functional strength and injury p

Begin on floor on hands and knees.

Hips should be above knees and shoulders above hands. Attain a straight spine position.

Activate core muscles. While maintaining a straight spine, reach forward until arm is at shoulder level. Slowly return to start position.

Repeat for prescribed repetitions and sets.

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