This video shows you how to get a custom map and add it to your chiropractic website:

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Almost 3 million Americans each year end up suffering from whiplash due to being involved in an automotive accident. Many will end up with chronic pain as a result of their injury. Whiplash is an injury resulting from the sudden distortion of the neck. The most common cause of whiplash is a car accident.

While our cars feature safety belts to restrain us in the case of an accident, these belts do not guard our necks. Some manufacturers such as Mercedes, Saab and Volvo have designed and begun implementing active head restraints to guard and protect against whiplash. The force of an impact tends to throw our heads forward and then back again, particularly during a rear end collision. This sudden, forceful movement is what can cause whiplash.

In order to better protect yourself against whiplash, there are some precautions you can take. Consider buying a safer vehicle. While this is not something everyone can run out and do, it is something to think about the next time you are in the market for a car. Check out the size of the car, its overall design, all of the restraints including whether or not a head restraint is offered. Review the safety records for the vehicle to find out how it performed in crash test ratings.

Brace yourself for impact

If you realize you are going to be in a car accident and have time to react, put your head and neck all the way back flat against your seat and the head rest or head restraint. Get a tight grip on your steering wheel with both hands. Press your foot on your brake as hard as you can if you are already at a stop. Raise your shoulders by shrugging them upward toward your ears and brace yourself tightly for impact.

If you are hit and think you may have suffered whiplash, seek chiropractic treatment as soon as possible. The earlier you are seen, the greater the likelihood the whiplash will be treatable and not lead to a chronic condition.  You should be seen within 2 weeks of the accident. Once you see the doctor, be sure you heed all advice given following any prescribed treatment plan including exercise, diet, wearing a collar, deep tissue massage work and so on.

If you are suffering from whiplash and need to get back to your daily routine, you may need to make some modifications first. Look for more ergonomic equipment such as an office chair with armrests to reduce neck strain from arm movements which pull on the upper back, shoulders and thus can strain the neck. Adjust your work station so your repetitive movements are minimized and so everything is positioned to provide the best support.

It has been said a chiropractor is the best cure or help for anyone suffering from whiplash. If you do ever find yourself in this situation, contact your chiropractor right away, without delay. He or she will best know how to treat you to minimize the pain and help you in a way that reduces the possibility of chronic pain ongoing.

About the Author

Dr. Ryoo’s Central Chiropractic Center is located in San Jose, CA. She uses a “whole person approach” when taking care of her patients. By combining the very best hands-on-technique, state of the art physiotherapy procedures, and providing the newest and best natural vitamins and mineral supplements on the market today, Dr. Ryoo is able to help you to accelerate and/or maintain your journey to good health.

• The ability to browse and install Themes from the Admin UI (instead of using FTP)
• Faster loading of admin pages
• Improved Widget management user interface

Some WordPress Theme Problems

The 2.8 release of WordPress also caused me some problems with the Chiropractor2Web theme. They changed the database format – specifically in the WP_POSTS table – and removed the post_category field.

This caused a problem with new installations of Chiropractor2Web theme – when you “activate” the theme it is supposed to automatically create the Contact, Find Us and Blog pages for you, but this was not happening due to the change.

Missing pages!

And Some Fixes

I’ve updated the theme and everything is working fine now – so be sure to grab the latest version if you are installing it on WordPress 2.8! To get the updated theme, just go back to the link in the email you received from me, and re-download it.

This is what it should look like!

Let me know in the comments or in the forums if you have any questions!

Note: You will not have any problems upgrading to WordPress 2.8 with the Chiropractor2Web theme. You only need this update if you are doing a new install on top of WordPress 2.8.

Dropdown Menus Screenshot

Here are some of the new features:

• Added the hCard microformat for business information (SEO benefit: Google Rich Snippets support)
• Ability to have Sub-menus using the Wordpress native Child-Parent function
• Formatting and layout issues caused by long business names is solved
• Continue Reading function using the tag for blog posts is now enabled
• Link to Help and Tutorials can now be found in the Theme Options Panel
• Option to exclude your email address from the page header
• Long home-page business descriptions will wrap-around the left
  image, eliminating white space.

To get the theme, just go to the WordPress Theme download page and sign up.

Upgrading from previous versions

If you already have a version of the Chiropractor2Web theme installed, I’ve posted upgrade instructions and the upgrade files in the forums here:

Chiropractor2Web v1.2 Upgrade Instructions

I’ve embedded the video below, and you can click here to read the whole tutorial on Expand2Web – How to Add a WordPress Widget to Your Website.

The Chiropractor2Web WordPress Theme has a default sidebar widget – the “Call Us Today” widget with the picture of the smiling receptionist. This default widget will show unless you go into your WordPress Admin panel and add a widget of your own.

Then this one will go away and be replaced by the widget(s) that you add. This video shows you how to do this.

Note: I’m using the excellent AWeber email newsletter service in this video.

With WordPress it is easy to upload any type of media, photos, audio, video, and documents and include them in your posts or pages.

In this short tutorial, I’ll show you how to create a new page called “First Visit”, add it to the navigation menu, and upload a PDF patient form to the page.

Even though WordPress is a blogging platform, you can use to create a small business website that does not necessarily look like a blog, and has the added benefit of easy content publishing.

Note: This tutorial has been moved – you can find it here: What You Need

Note: This tutorial has been moved. You can find it here: Installing the Chiropractor2Web WordPress Theme

Note: This tutorial has been moved – you can find it here: WordPress Installation Basics