Atlas Animal + Family Chiropractic, LLC

08/26/2024

Happy National Dog Day to our four legged besties 🐾

08/05/2024

Since animals can’t talk to us, you might be wondering how to tell if your animal is in pain. Here is a list of some of the signs; however, there are many more signs that aren’t listed!

❗️Personality + Behavior Changes:
Signs could include becoming more clingy, detaching, or more irritated. They may start crying or making other noises that aren’t their normal.

❕Increased Licking + Grooming:
Animals will take care of themselves by licking the injury or sore spot, so watching what spots your animal is trying to tend to will be important to note.

❗️Gait + Posture Changes:
Just like if your leg was in pain, you would want to use it less. Animals will limp or shift their weight. You can observe this during movement or you could see more of their body on the left/right vs the other side.

❕Respiratory + Heart Rate are High:
When vitals are higher than normal, they can be experiencing a variety of things, including pain. We want their body to be using their parasympathetic nervous system (rest + digest) over their sympathetic nervous system (running from a bear). If vitals are off, it’s always important to discuss it with your veterinarian first to rule out any further complications.

❗️Shaking, Nervous, Uneasy:
When people are nervous or stressed, they’re most likely unable to sit still and try to move to stay calm. Animals do the same thing to help relieve their stress or get themselves into a more comfortable position.

If you’re noticing that your animal is experiencing any of these stresses or changes, these are reasons to get your animal checked to see if they could benefit from a chiropractic adjustment!

06/16/2024

Happy Father’s Day to all of the dads out there! May your day be filled with bad puns and good times. 😆

06/07/2024

Chiropractors focus on the animal’s nervous system, which consists of the brain and spinal cord. We want to make sure that there is not an interference in the nervous system; otherwise, the animal’s body will not be able to function at its best. The nervous system controls how the body + organs function and respond to stress.

To remove stress in the body, animal chiropractors are able to provide specific and gentle adjustments and remove subulaxtions (misalignments) in the body. Our goal is to remove the stress (chemical, emotional, or physical) that can cause hyperactivity or hypoactivty and help the body achieve balance.

There is no way to avoid all of life stressors, but we want our animal’s body to be able to respond and adapt to their environment in an appropriate manner.

06/06/2024

The power of an adjustment 💥

06/01/2024

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Alright, I’ve got a few things to say….

I just spent my morning at the Ogden farmers market, and saw some things that make me cringe 🥴

First of all - if you plan on walking your dog in the middle of the day on pavement or asphalt, please put summer boots on your dog’s feet! The temperatures are getting way too high. If you can’t walk around barefoot, then your dog shouldn’t be either.

Second, please DO NOT use these dog baby carriers. A dog is a biped for a reason - their spine & pelvis was designed to interact with gravity differently than ours. These carriers force all of the dog’s weight onto their pelvis - their structure just simply isn’t designed to take on that much load. Over time this can cause massive strain on the lumbar spine and increase the risk of disc injury. Not to mention these carriers don’t have the best ventilation and can also be a risk of overheating.

If you’re needing another option for your dog with health issues or difficulty walking, a stroller is a much better option.

That is all. Thanks for coming to my TED talk 🤣

05/30/2024

I spent this weekend teaching aspiring animal chiropractors how to appropriately adjust animals. These students are spending $8000-$10,000 to become certified in animal chiropractic. This is ON TOP of the $150-350,000 they are spending on chiropractic or vet school.
I have many people ask me if their kids can shadow me as they would like to do what I do. This career is no easy task. To LEGALLY adjust animals you must first attend either vet or chiropractic school (4 years) then you are eligible to take the chiropractic course. The course is an intense 6 months of focusing on anatomy, neurology, palpation, appropriate adjusting technique, and recognizing when a problem is not chiropractic. You must pass multiple tests, including an extremely intimidating AVCA exam. .
Anyone can pretend they know what they are doing, but make sure you research who you are paying to adjust your horses. AVCA certified doctors have spent hundreds of thousands of dollars and countless hours ensuring we are truly helping your animal.

05/27/2024

Land of the free because of the brave! 🙌🏽
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Let us never forget that freedom isn’t free. 🇺🇸

05/22/2024

Pain and behavior go hand in hand. This is one of the many reasons why it’s important to get your animals (and yourself) checked and adjusted by a chiropractor.

05/12/2024

Moms, you’re the best! 💞

05/11/2024

To all the PAW-some + amazing dog moms out there, Happy National Dog Mom’s Day! 🐾 Whether you’re cuddling with your pup, missing your furry friend, or adventuring with them, they’re forever grateful for you being their mom! Our dogs will forever be our best friends full of unforgettable memories and tail wags! 🐶

05/10/2024

Atlas is currently accepting new ANIMAL patients! 🙌🏽

We want to make the process as easy as possible for you + your veterinarian + your furry friend(s)! 🐶🐈🐴🐄🐖🐓

We’ve put together a list of steps, so you can get your animal living its best life! 💕 Please go to www.atlasanimalfamilychiro.com to find all of the paperwork under the ‘Animal Chiropractic’ tab!

1️⃣ Step 1: Talk to your vet about signing a veterinary referral form! They will be able to approve the request and sign the online form! OR better yet, contact our practice with your veterinarian’s name and contact information, and we will send the referral over to them for you! 👩‍⚕️ 👨‍⚕️

2️⃣ Step 2: Complete the intake paperwork for your animal that can also be found on the website! This will allow me to see where your animal is at and how our practice can best serve your animal! 📝

3️⃣ Step 3: Once the vet referral form and intake paperwork is turned in, Atlas will be able to review all the forms! ✔️

4️⃣ Step 4: Atlas will set up a time to get your animal seen for an exam and their first adjustment with the practice! ⏰

If you have any further questions, please call or text us at 715-500-4248! 📞 There is also a list of frequently asked questions on the website (www.atlasanimalfamilychiro.com)!

We look forward to meeting you and your animal(s)! ☺️

05/08/2024

Atlas has a lot of updates to share! 👍🏼

We finally have our business phone, email, website, Instagram, and Facebook set up 🙌🏽

📞 Phone: You can call or text us at 715-500-4248! This is the best way to contact us! (If you want to download the free Spruce app, you can get the link from our website to get free HIPPA secured messaging!)

📧 Email: You can email us at [email protected]!

💻 Website: Check out our website www.atlasanimalfamilychiro.com! You’ll be able to get the veterinarian referral form, intake paperwork, learn more about the practice, and so much more!

📱 Facebook + Instagram: Check out our social media to stay updated on the practice and learn about how you and your furry friends can benefit from chiropractic care! The handle is the same for both Facebook and Instagram, !

Look forward to hearing from you! 👋🏼

04/18/2024

It can result from strain, injury, or overuse!
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Our goal is to have animals bodies be balanced. We don’t want the muscles of our animals to have a decreased muscle tone (hypotonic) or have abnormally increased muscle tone (hypertonic). We want the muscles to be able to work together and do their job (contract and relax) when needed; otherwise, their body won’t be able to function properly.
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Hypertonic muscles can be caused by -
❌ Saddles, tack, or harnesses not fitting properly
❌ Poor dental wear
❌ Long toes or toe nails
❌ Unbalanced hooves
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This is why it’s important to take care of our animals and provide them with groomer appointments to get their nails trimmed, farrier appointments for hooves, making sure your tack fits properly or having a professional check it for you, and so much more! Muscles provide stability and movement to the body and if the muscles aren’t able to function properly, our animal will not be able to respond to its environment or to their performance needs!
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Making sure your animal is adjusted will help to make sure that the spine has appropriate motion. It’s important to remember that everything is connected in the body! Muscles have attachments on the spine, so if there are subluxations/misalignments in the spine, it will affect the muscles too!

04/11/2024

The power of chiropractic adjustments 💥

04/08/2024

Official Logo of Atlas Animal + Family Chiropractic ☀️

04/03/2024

Our body wants to heal itself to be full of health + life ☀️

03/15/2024

There are SO many benefits of babies getting adjusted! Many people associate chiropractic with pain, but babies go through so much - growing, falling as they learn to walk, adapting to the environment, learning new skills, bouncing back from illnesses, learning how to eat - that they need to have a strong nervous system that is able to adapt and change!
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Starting care early in life leads to a life more full of ease 👍🏼 vs distress 👎🏼!!!
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Did you get adjusted as a baby?? Do your animals babies or your human babies get adjusted??

02/27/2024

Taking care of your animals and yourself now will save you so much stress, money, and tears later on! 💪🏼
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In America, we aren’t properly taught how to prevent us from getting sick. It’s more like, “If you’re sick, go to the doctor,” BUT what are we supposed to do between the time frame of when we feel great + healthy to feeling sad + sick? At what point, what caused us to get sick?
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There are so many things that factor into our health: thoughts 💭, traumas ❌, and toxins ☣️! With that being said, we can’t expect ourselves to get rid of ALL of them right now! It’s a work in progress and something to work on everyday though, so we can live our best lives! 🙌🏽
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Here are some of the things you can consider to help you and your animals 🔆

~Air Purifiers (clean air for everyone that picks up dirt, dust, and so much more)
~Eating a Whole Food Diet (limiting processed foods, dyes, etc.)
~Journaling + Meditation (strengthening our mind)
~Yoga + Walk + Run + Lift (movement + help clear out toxins)
~Proper hormone or food testing (understanding why your body is not feeling right or why your animal doesn’t have an appetite)
~Stepping away from dramatic conversations
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Stand out from the way we’ve been taught about living in a reactive health world and be proactive about you + your fur besties’ lives! Do your research and search out quality things that you want to implement in your life! There are pricy things that you can change, but there are also so many free things, like talking your dog + family for a walk that will benefit everyone! ☺️
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Everyone has their own health scale, and our health will fluctuate through life (whether you have cancer, break an arm, have an autoimmune condition, or whatever else life throws at us); however, it is important to be functioning at your highest level of health today, whatever that may be! You + your fur friends deserve the BEST life possible!
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What are some other things you do to reduce your thoughts, traumas, and toxins?! ⬇️

02/24/2024

ALIGNMENT
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When our life values + missions are lived out based on our choices + thoughts⚡️
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Compassionate + honest with ourselves
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Even when we don’t know what’s happening in the world, how we live and handle what life throws at us, just makes sense 💫
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Self-care
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Our animals being able to live their life with energy and so much caring from their awesome owners (you!!) 🌻
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Purpose + Fulfillment
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There are so many wonderful things about being in alignment + it will be different for every person and every animal!
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How do you feel when you’re in alignment? How can you tell when your animal’s life is in alignment?

02/22/2024

Chiropractic is known to help relieve back or neck pain, but did you know that there is so much more going on behind that location, specific pain?‼️
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If you or your animal has ever had this pain, you know how much it can affect your animal’s and your mood and personality overall. So, many times we’ll hear people say it’ll get better on it’s own without any help; however, when they do the same thing over and over and over and over and over again (you get the point 😉) without reducing their stress + getting to the root cause, nothing in the body is able to change and adapt. The pain can surely “go away” on its own, but what about when that pain comes back a year later, then a month later, then weekly, and the pain just keeps getting more consistent?‼️
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With chiropractic care, not only are we trying to reduce the pain, but we are also addressing the nervous system! 👍🏼 We’re able to adjust the spine, and the body is able to do its work and start changing! 🙌🏽 Just like if you’re working everyday, but throw in a vacation day! Your body is able to take that day off rest and reset with a new positive shift in life!
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Our nervous system is what keeps us ALIVE! 🔆 Without taking proper care of it and getting it checked regularly, our body gets stuck in its ways! 👎🏼 If someone told you to never get your car’s engine checked no matter if it seemed like it was working great or was making strange noises, you’d probably think they were crazy! ❌ We get our vehicle’s engine checked to be proactive that we’re safe on a long roadtrip or if our engine is smoking that we get it looked at! Just like you have a specialist for your vehicle (a mechanic), it’s important to have a specialist for your spine and nervous system! ✔️

By getting adjusted, we’re able to reduce our body’s stress + change how the nervous system adapts to life! ✨ Animals have the same spine as us, so it is as equally important to take care of their spine, so they get as much benefit out of life! 🌻

02/22/2024

Chiropractic is a growing profession + more people continue to seek out chiropractors to add to their own health team & to their animals’ team! ⚡️However, others feel that they need to “believe in” chiropractic for it to work!

Do you have to “believe in” whether going to the gym or walking will give you mental or physical benefits? Does going on one walk help you reach ALL your health goals.. or do you go to the gym / walk everyday to keep striving towards your goals? Do you notice more progress after just one walk or do you notice more progress after a month of walking? 🚶‍♀️

Just like getting our heart, teeth, lungs, etc. checked out, it’s important to get your animal’s & your own nervous system checked out! 🧠 Every person + animal is at a different point in life. Some receive immediate benefits, and others notice changes over time, whether they have more balance, better digestion, or improved mood, just to name a few!

We, humans, love to use our brain to critically think and stress over things which can make us question things in our everyday life. “Did it work? Did it not?” However, with pediatrics & animals, they don’t have those same thoughts. Things that they experience in life either worked or it didn’t! Animals + babies respond so well to chiropractic adjustments! It’s not a placebo effect for them!

When you receive chiropractic care, EMBRACE the healing process, observe the changes, ask your chiropractor when you should come back in to reach YOUR health goals, and if something isn’t making sense, simply ASK questions! ✔️

Chiropractic care helps to remove any interference in the body, for you & your animal! This allows you to live the life you want to live while being the best version of yourself & your fur bestie to be able to accompany you through life happy + healthy! 💯

How has chiropractic changed your perspective? ⬇️

02/21/2024

Did you know animals are similar to people??
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Animals have a brain, a spine, nerves, muscles, and joints, just like us!
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Some people are surprised to hear that animals can also be adjusted by a certified animal chiropractor! However, many of the living creatures, that have a spine, can benefit from an adjustment!

02/20/2024

HAPPY NATIONAL LOVE YOUR PET DAY!!!
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We could argue that this may be one of the BEST days of February, right?!
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Our furry besties are our biggest fans! They get so excited to see us, always want to play, and are brightening up our day! 🤩
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Getting your pets adjusted is a great way to show them all the love, so they’re able to function, move, and feel their best!
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What do you plan on doing with your pet today?! ⬇️

02/19/2024

Health is what makes our world + our animal’s world go round! 🌎 When our animals are happy + energetic, they’re playful, wanting to move, and socializing. When our animals are sick + have low energy, they’re quiet, hiding, and ignore the fun opportunities. It can make a huge difference in their personality, but it can also play a role in our stress, as we’re concerned with our animals!
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➡️It’s important to remember that health is EASIER to maintain than it is to bring back health {read that again!} ‼️
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Would you rather pay for prevention or disease? 🤔 Investing in chiropractic care, investing in a higher quality food for our animal, getting their nails/hooves trimmed regularly, exercising our animals everyday, and daily/weekly maintenance are all amazing things to do to keep our animals healthy, strong, and functioning to their best! 🤍 Doing these things now saves us the stress 😩 + costs less money 💰now than paying for drugs, surgeries (ACL, hip replacements, etc), cancer treatments, and other treatments later in life.
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Chiropractic has so many wonderful benefits to help you + me, your family, your friends, your horses + dogs + cats + farm animals! ✨Not only does chiropractic make us feel good in the moment, but it is a lifetime investment for helping us live to our fullest potential! 🫶🏼
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What does health mean to you? I want to know 😃 ⬇️