What is POTS?

Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome (POTS) is the most common form of dysautonomia; this is a disorder of the autonomic nervous system which involves failure of the sympathetic or parasympathetic control. It is defined by an increase in heart rate of over 30bpm...

Health and Disease – A Chiropractic point of view

Health and Disease Humans have always experienced states of illness and disease since the beginning of our existence. It has often been wondered by philosophers and scientists what causes one person to get sick whilst another remains in good health. This is the...

Measures of Adaptability – Heart Rate Variability

How do we measure adaptability? Measuring heart function has long been used as an assessment of autonomic activity in the body. Heart rate is the simplest and most widely used measure of cardiac function, in many medical situations it is the first part of assessing a...