We are so blessed to have had a wonderful 2011.  In 2012, we want to help more people get well and out of pain. 

Thank you for putting your faith in us and all your referrals.  

See you Tuesday, January 3rd.

I am so blessed to have so many wonderful and giving people in my world.  Your hearts, closets and wallets have opened when I asked for help to the Northern New Mexico Youth Shelter.  They now have cash, warm clothes, toiletries and much more.  They have beautiful holiday cards made by the little ones in our community.  So many blessings.  Thank You.  

May all your Lights burn brightly all year long

^{Latke recipe is from Jewish Cookery by Leah W. Leonard (Crown Publishers, 1949). It always works.}

^{Serves 4-6.}

^{6 medium potatoes}

^{1 onion}

^{2 eggs}

^{½ cup flour}

^{1 teaspoon salt}

^{Vegetable shortening or oil for deep frying (I use peanut oil, but any kind of vegetable oil will do)}

^{Pare and grate potatoes into a mixing bowl. Squeeze out liquid. Peel and grate onion into potatoes. (I grate both together in the food processor). Add eggs, flour and salt and stir to make a smooth batter that will drop heavily from the spoon. Heap the shortening in a heavy frying pan (use a heavy, cast-iron skillet for the best results), using enough to cover the pancakes amply — about a 1/2-inch deep. Drop the batter from a spoon into the hot shortening, making pancakes about 3 inches in diameter. Fry over moderate heat until brown on the underside, turn to brown other side. Lift out and drain off excess fat on paper towel. Serve plain, with sour cream or applesauce.}

PLEASE!!!!  IMMEDIATELY!!!!

We are taking  donations for the Youth Shelter and Family Services.   Needed Items......

Cash

NonPerishable Foods

Toiletries

Warm Gloves and Hats.

 Lets show our kids that we care. Drop off at our office.  Cash via dropoff..Paypal.. or mail.

Please help these kids NOW!!! 

Northern New Mexico Sweeties & Silverman Spine Center

Holiday Charity Drive

We are officially taking on the following effort for the 2011 Holiday:

Youth Shelter and Family Services of Northern New Mexico

Youth Shelters is the primary agency in the Santa Fe/northern New Mexico area serving homeless, runaway, and street youth and their families, as well as young people who are at risk of being homeless.

The mission of Youth Shelters is to support young people and families in meeting the critical challenges of family life within a safe and stable environment. YS partners with families to find positive, non-institutional solutions and builds on existing strengths within a framework of dignity, mutual respect, and personal responsibility. The agency’s goals are to:

§ Prevent runaway behavior, out-of-home placement, and involvement by at-risk young people in the social services, juvenile justice, or correctional systems, and enable homeless young people who cannot live with their families to develop the necessary skills and resources to live independently.

§ Provide education, counseling, crisis intervention, and case management services to children, youth and their families who are in crisis or at risk.

§ Strengthen and preserve the family unit and enhance the ability of families to solve problems and to build on their strengths.

Their biggest needs are:

1) Toiletries of all kinds- shampoos, toothpaste, soaps, tooth brushes, hair brushes, deodorant,  etc.

2) Warm gloves and socks for older kids, young men and in thicker/warmer varieties

3) Non perishable foods- we are short of food for all our clients right now. Granola bars, peanut butter and jelly, other snacks like pudding, crackers and cheese, beef jerky etc.

All of their clients will benefit from any of the above as those are the items they are really in need of now. I want more specific needs please see attached link:

https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=gmail&attid=0.1&thid=133b37f98926a92a&mt=application/msword&url=https://mail.google.com/mail/?ui%3D2%26ik%3D13ffe56024%26view%3Datt%26th%3D133b37f98926a92a%26attid%3D0.1%26disp%3Dsafe%26zw&sig=AHIEtbT9Ox_rzzoIqUARn2vjYqe2A0rjDg&pli=1

How to Donate Money (which is always needed).

There are a few ways you can contribute to the Northern New Mexico Holiday Charity Drive:

· Make a cash donation via PayPal (http://www.paypal.com):

Make a payment to the account: rsilverdc@comcast.net

· Mail a check to me at:

Robin Silverman DC

Silverman Spine Center

2801 Rodeo Road C-15

Santa Fe, NM 87507

· Purchase one or more of the items listed above and mail it or drop it off at Silverman Spine Center in Rodeo Plaza.

Robin Silverman DC

Silverman Spine Center

2801 Rodeo Road C-15

Santa Fe, NM 87507

If you have any questions, feel free to call me at 505-474-5701 Monday – Friday 8am – 6pm

Dr Silverman,  Dr Williams, Yessica and Denise wish you and your family all a happy and healthy Thanksgiving.

As the holiday holiday season begins...Breathe   &   Relax!!!!!!!!  

There is so much preparation...getting ready to travel? gifts to buy, food to prepare, family and friends.

Fun right!..Right! But also stressful.  Especially when you are not feeling well.

How many of you say....oh after the holiday I will take care of myself.  January 1st...right.

Wrong...If you have neck and /or low back pain, leg or arm pain,  it is likely you can get better NOW.. 

and with our 15% off the cost of our DRS Protocol for the month of November, we want to give you that opportunity to be pain free by the holidays.  It beats the alternatives.  Give us a call to find out if we can help you.

505-474-5701 

Blessings and Thank You to all the Veterans Out There!  

I am a veteran too, so I know how hard you have worked to protect our country.

As a gift to you and for those that want to see your pain improved by the New Year, we are offering 15% off our DRS Protocol utilizing our Non Surgical Spinal Decompression therapy. It expires November 30th, 2011.  

Just give us a call at 505-474-5701 to see if you are a candidate for the DRS Protocol.

Non Surgical

No Drugs 

No Injections

Just want to wish you all a Happy Friday!  TGIF!  Have a safe and fun weekend.  

Do something for yourself that makes you smile and happy!  That's the best way for the body to heal! 

According to a new  U.S. government report indicates the number of overdose deaths from powerful painkillers have more than tripled over a decade.  

Prescription painkillers such as OxyContin, Vicodin and methadone contributed to the deaths of nearly 15,000 people in 2008. That's more than three times the 4,000 deaths in 1999.  According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, nearly 5 percent of

Americans ages 12 and older say they've abused prescription painkillers. Hydrocordone is the second most abused medicine.  Fatal overdoses were more likely in men and middle-aged adults.

Associated Press 11/01/2011 

Prozac Nation, indeed — 11% of Americans aged 12 and up now take an antidepressant medication, though less than one third of them have seen a mental-health professional in the past year.

So say stats from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that paint a portrait of who used the medications in 2005-08. The report covers nearly 13,000 participants in the ongoing National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES).

The rate of antidepressant use has been climbing, rising by almost 400% since 1988-94, the CDC says. Women are significantly more likely to take antidepressants in every age group except the youngest tracked in this report — ages 12 to 17. The high-water mark for antidepressant use is 23%, seen in women aged 40 to 59.

Nearly 14% of whites take antidepressants, far more than the 4% of blacks and 3% of Mexican-Americans who report taking the medications. But income level is not a determinant of use, the report finds.

Despite the widespread use of antidepressants, the majority of people with severe depressive symptoms — about 66% — are not taking the drugs. Only 20% of men with the most severe symptoms are taking a drug.  About 8% of people reporting no depressive symptoms are taking the drugs, which could be because they’re being successfully treated by the drugs, or because they’re taking the drugs for other conditions.

And the data indicate that a significant number of people who are taking antidepressants — even more than one — haven’t seen a mental-health professional in the past year. Just 29% of those taking one drug and 48% taking two or more report seeing a psychologist, psychiatrist, psychiatric nurse or clinical social worker in that time period.

Research published in August found that nearly 75% of antidepressants were prescribed by non-psychiatrists in 2007. And 6.4% of patients were prescribed the drugs without a diagnosis of mental illness.

A study published earlier this year found that newly depressed people should start off with just one drug, instead of the combinations sometimes prescribed.

Come join us at our booth:  Silverman Spine Center 

We will be providing information and answering questions regarding our Non Surgical, Pain Free DRS Protocol utilizing Spinal Decompression, Class IV Laser therapy, etc for Low back and/or Neck Pain, Degenerative joint pain, Arm or Leg Pain, Sciatica, Herniated or Bulging Discs, Facet Syndrome.

I am honored to give a talk to the Santa Fe Pain And Spine Center on our DRS Spinal Decompression Protocol tomorrow.  I have been invited by the Medical Doctors of the clinic to inform them and their staff how we have been successful in treating Cervical and Lumbar disc and joint disease.  I am happy to inform them of the non surgical and non invasive treatment of chronic Low Back and Neck pain with the use of gentle modalities such as the spinal decompression. Yes...we are moving forward.