HOLISTIC HEALTH CENTER in Oxford provides new wellness approach for residents
By DAVIS COEN
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ECURVE Health Center in Oxford adopted its The type of chiropractic practice that I provide name from the age-old recurve bow used in is centered around the health and integrity of our archery. structure, or posture,” said RECURVE founder, Dr. The traditional bow has a shape resembling Annalea Wood. “This is a seriously overlooked part the number three, which allows it to harness and of healthcare. I can say with complete confidence, deliver energy with more efficiency than a straight that it is one of the main reasons we have so many bow. This curved bow is relative to the human people walking around in pain.” body in that when stress is added to it in its resting With regards to the ‘triad,’ Dr. Wood explained position – as it does also with a body resting in that her fitness department aims at encouraging an ideal position – it will evoke greater speed, and movement and physical challenge to the body, better results. and the nutrition and health departments – run The mission of RECURVE is to utilize chiropractic, by a board-certified, drugless health practitioner nutritional and exercise methods to reconfigure – educates on nutritional choices and how they the body, both inside and out – a holistic health might affect one’s physiology and overall health. model referred to as the ‘triad of care.’ It is also to “The reason these 3 departments needed to exist offer the Oxford community a new and alternative was because I was insistent on making sure we approach to healing, and catering to the body’s had the tools to heal people,” she said. “As a chiropractor, I know that I can’t do it alone. I can needs.
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