Ventura Spinal Care Center

Your Ventura Chiropractor, Dr. Steven Alff, offers a variety of chiropractic treatment plans that are effective when working with your musculoskeletal system, from dealing with basic health issues to treating specific disabilities. After thoroughly examining you, Dr. Alff will recommend to you which approach would be most beneficial for you personally. As your Chiropractor in [...]

Did you know that chiropractic care has been growing in popularity for a long time and that it is continuing to increase yearly as the selected healthcare alternative for many folks? As the primary chiropractor in Ventura, I can confidently state that people are selecting chiropractic care due to the many added advantages that such [...]

What does the word, “vertigo, ” mean? Vertigo is a name for the dizzy disturbance that a person suffers within a stationary location. The perception is that the external world is tilting or spinning. Vertigo might be abrupt and short- lived or persistent. But nevertheless, in either case, the specific reason for vertigo should be [...]

It probably goes without saying that as we age our body doesn’t feel or respond the same way as it did when we were younger. It hardly seems right that as our mind appears to improve and become more “inventive,”  our body seems to become less “cooperative.” We’re stiff in the morning; many of the [...]

People over 65 years of age who’ve been diagnosed with knee osteoarthritis (OA), that practice Tai Chi, increase their physical capability and encounter less pain, according to a new Tufts University School of Medicine study. Osteoarthritis is a general form of arthritis that causes a breakdown of joint cartilage. Chiropractors treat quite a few individuals [...]

Do you feel pain in one or both hips whenever you rotate them or when you cross your legs?  Does the pain wake you up in the night and make it difficult to get a good night’s rest? When you get out of bed in the morning, or when you get out of your car, [...]

Attempting to keep up with an active five-year-old can be draining from time to time. If you have an active child of this age, or if you’ve ever been around one for any length of time, you may have found yourself wishing that the kid would just sit still for a minute or two. But, [...]

Just the other day I found an article on sciencedaily.com how caffeine improved memory loss in aged mice induced to develop symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease. The article lead with the angle that “Coffee drinkers may have another reason to pour that extra cup.”  It went on to discuss a sequence of studies published online July [...]

We all know that movement is good for the whole body, right? From our head to our toes, our good health is determined by how much physical activity we get on a regular basis. So, why do so many people suffer from aches and pains in their feet? After all, aren’t our feet made for [...]

A greater number of Americans than ever before say they are disabled by asthma. It is one of this country’s most widespread and costly diseases. In fact, according to the Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America, each day 40,000 people are absent from school or work due to asthma; 30,000 people have an asthma attack; [...]