Health Care or Sick Care?

We don’t have to listen to the news for long before we will hear about the ongoing economic burden that our healthcare system put’s on our society.  Here in Ontario, healthcare spending rises about 7% per year, and consumes about 50% of our budget.  Some economists predict that healthcare spending alone, if not revamped significantly, will bankrupt our province by as early as 2030. ...
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Toys For Tots 2011 – Another Great Success

  Happy New Year from everyone at Martin Chiropractic and we wish all of you a blessed and healthy year in 2012.  Like it has for the last fifteen years, the Christmas Season at Martin Chiropractic was highlighted by our annual Toys For Tots toy drive and we want to thank all of you who made this years event another huge success.  Our patient family, sponsors, colleagues and the community...
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Toys For Tots

A number of years ago, we decided to do a small Christmas toy drive to help support our local community.  It was such a success and so much fun, we decided to repeat it the next year – and here we are 15 years later preparing to have another Toys for Tots Community Appreciation Day.  It is a highlight of our year, and we are so blessed to have a family of patients who donate generously year...
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Life On An Iceberg!

Trapped on an iceberg! Probably not something you have spent a lot of time thinking about, much less having had experienced.  However, just for a few minutes, let’s imagine that you have found yourself in this regrettable circumstance because the responses your body will go through as you live stranded on the ice flow is remarkably similar to what happens to your body as you continue to engage...
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New Web Page

Welcome to the updated Martin Chiropractic Webpage! Back in 1996 we were one of the first chiropractic offices in Canada to have our own domain and web site.  However, keeping up with the busyness of life allowed technology quickly to surpass our ability to stay current, and the web site, although useful, was not very current.  One of our colleagues suggested the site looked like it was...
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B.J. Palmer

B.J. Palmer was the son of Chiropractic Founder D.D. Palmer.  B.J. was a gregarious and flamboyant promoter of Chiropractic as well as a brilliant scientist and philosopher, who’s contribution to the scientific validation of chiropractic and the developing of its philosophic underpinnings was second to none. B.J.’s sprawling summer home is located in Sarasota Florida on the shores of...
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