Better Life Chiropractic & Wellness

Better Life Chiropractic & Wellness Better Life is an intergrated facility providing natural healthcare for acute and chronic diseases.

Hours: Monday: 8:00-12:00 2:00-7:00
Tuesday: 8:00-12:00 2:00-6:00
Wednesday: 8:00-12:00
Thursday: 8:00-12:00 2:00-6:00
Friday: 8:00-12:00

Chronic disease presents one of the greatest threats to our society, with an increasing number of people facing these di...
12/11/2025

Chronic disease presents one of the greatest threats to our society, with an increasing number of people facing these diseases.

The question is, how can we expect that to change when we aren't raising healthy kids.

It is hard to take a broken structure and make it usable again. It is much easier to start from the ground up - build great structure and then maintain that health.

This is a shift that we need to make in healthcare, yet many of the things that we use in everyday life - toxic foods, toxic chemicals, medications, and much more - greatly hinder the health of those that many people say are the most important to protect.

Health isn't just eating right or moving.

If we truly want to shift our current predicament we're going to have to start viewing the problem from a more holistic framework.

Patients with low back pain are more often recommended expensive, less effective care (imaging, drugs, surgery) instead ...
12/11/2025

Patients with low back pain are more often recommended expensive, less effective care (imaging, drugs, surgery) instead of lower-cost, highly effective solutions like chiropractic. - Gevers-Montoro et al., 2024

Read that again, because it says everything about why so many people stay in pain far longer than they should.

Most people don’t have a “low back pain” problem they have a care-path problem.

Here’s what typically happens:

1️⃣ You hurt your back
2️⃣ You get sent for imaging you may not need
3️⃣ You’re given drugs that mask symptoms
4️⃣ That doesn’t fix the actual issue
5️⃣ You get referred for more expensive interventions
6️⃣ You’re still in pain
7️⃣ Months pass and nothing has improved

Meanwhile, the research is screaming something else:

*Hands-on, movement-based, nervous-system-centered care works better
*It’s cheaper
*It corrects the cause instead of chasing the symptoms

Yet it’s the least recommended path.

If you’re tired of spending money on bigger bills when all you really want is better outcomes, there is a better way and it doesn't involve medications, injections or surgeries.

“Sedentary behavior can decrease muscle metabolism and increase the risk of metabolic disease by up to 39%.” - Zhou et ...
12/11/2025

“Sedentary behavior can decrease muscle metabolism and increase the risk of metabolic disease by up to 39%.” - Zhou et al., 2024

Most people read that and think, “Yeah, I should probably move more.”
But here’s the truth:

👉 It’s not just about movement.
👉 It’s about what your body can do when you try to move.

If your joints are stiff, your nervous system is sluggish, your posture is collapsing, or your muscles are firing out of sequence…

then even when you do move, your body isn’t actually using energy the way it’s supposed to.

That’s when people start noticing:

*more fatigue

*recurring injuries

*slower recovery

*stubborn weight gain

*metabolic markers trending the wrong way

*losing a step in the activities they used to dominate

And most of them think it’s “just aging.”

It’s not. It’s dysfunction.

💡 The good news: function is fixable.

When you restore alignment, optimize the nervous system, and get the body firing correctly again, metabolism improves, movement becomes efficient, and energy skyrockets.

If you’re 30–50 and feeling that slow slide into stiffness, fatigue, or weight gain you don’t need another workout program.

You need a body that’s actually capable of performing again.

📩 Comment “RESET” below and I’ll send you a free copy of our Metabolic Performance Checklist so you can see where you currently are.

"I workout hard so I can eat whatever I want".When I worked in a gym, this was a common saying.You know what we trainers...
12/10/2025

"I workout hard so I can eat whatever I want".

When I worked in a gym, this was a common saying.

You know what we trainers told people, though? Diet is 80% of looking how you want to look.

That holds true. You can't out-exercise a bad diet.

Your metabolism drives a lot of results, and the way we have been trained to eat often doesn't match up with what is truly healthy (i.e. granola bars aren't a healthy snack in most cases).

If you are looking to take your health to the next level in 2026, let's get together for a consultation on what changes are going to help you achieve your goals.

12/10/2025

Your Lower Back Pain Is Likely A Mechanical Glitch (Lower Cross Syndrome Explained)

Are you suffering from chronic lower back pain?

Do you feel like you're just "getting old"?

Dr. Jeff Cumro explains why lower back pain often isn't a result of age, but a result of a mechanical glitch known as Lower Cross Syndrome.

In this video, we dive deep into the mechanics of the spine, explaining why your "tight" hamstrings are actually weak, why your pelvis is tilting forward, and the specific exercises you need to do to fix the root cause of the pain.

In this video, we cover:

0:00 - It’s not just age: The mechanical glitch stealing your energy.
1:20 - The problem with modern posture (Anterior Pelvic Tilt).
2:24 - Lower Cross Syndrome: Why your quads are tight and abs are weak. 4:16 - The Hamstring Paradox: Why you shouldn't stretch your hamstrings. 5:00 - The Anatomy of Pain: Vertebrae compression and fractures.
8:02 - Exercises to avoid (Why leg lifts might hurt you).
9:06 - The Solution: Exercises to strengthen the posterior chain (RDLs, Leg Curls).
10:24 - Stretches that actually help (Child’s Pose, Quad Stretches).
11:00 - The long-term benefits: Athleticism and balance.

Movement has more power than many people realize.Everyone knows the muscular strength and cardiovascular benefits that c...
12/10/2025

Movement has more power than many people realize.

Everyone knows the muscular strength and cardiovascular benefits that come with movement, but many people don't realize that there is so much more.

Mobility work (including chiropractic care, stretching, pilates and more) can help to improve our body's sense of where we are in space, leading to balance gains, lowered inflammation and lowered risk of injury.

Movement increases oxygenation, as those muscles ask the body to supply more energy, blood flow improves. That blood flow and oxygenation not only keep those muscles strong, but also help them resist injury. This also makes the lungs work harder, forcing them to keep their flexibility and functionality.

One of the strangest aspects is how it improves gut function. Yes, the gut has muscles inside of the intestines that help move food along, but our movement also squishes things around too, leading to improvements in digestion, nutrient handling and more.

With that, movement is a foundational piece of overall health, including helping us decrease our risk of some gut-related chronic illnesses.

Why is the term "sitting is the new smoking" going around?Because spending more time sitting is associated with a great ...
12/10/2025

Why is the term "sitting is the new smoking" going around?

Because spending more time sitting is associated with a great increase in chronic diseases.

While many of us are in positions that require sitting (work, school, etc...), there are workarounds to these situations.

Chiropractic care works to optimize joint function, which is often diminished by these activities. By restoring these dysfunctions, exercise becomes easier and less painful, while sitting takes less energy (due to being less painful).

Taking mobility breaks (going to the bathroom, getting a drink, etc...) every hour can help us get out of the static positioning, but also re-energize and focus us.

Taking the time in the mornings and evenings (and really even over lunch) can help us minimize metabolic challenges, decrease inflammation and help boost mental health.

Having a plan is the place to start. When we have a plan of how to attack our day, it minimizes the thought required to keep us on track.

Brain fog isn't a normal state.It isn't due to genetics or ageing.It is most frequently due to stress and/or inflammatio...
12/09/2025

Brain fog isn't a normal state.

It isn't due to genetics or ageing.

It is most frequently due to stress and/or inflammation.

Working to figure out which scenario is causing 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘣𝘳𝘢𝘪𝘯 𝘧𝘰𝘨 is the first path forward.

Once, we know the cause, finding the right answers to move forward - like brain function - often becomes more clear.

Antibiotics are responsible for saving, and destroying many lives.While they have helped us avoid death from serious inf...
12/09/2025

Antibiotics are responsible for saving, and destroying many lives.

While they have helped us avoid death from serious infections, they have also contributed to our chronic disease epidemic (multiple studies show these links, including diseases like autoimmunity, asthma and more).

Instead of looking for newer, more powerful antibiotics, we would likely be ahead by:

A. Using the ones we have more responsibly (the irresponsible usage has led to many of the resistant strains and other problems we are currently fighting).

B. Promoting a healthy lifestyle. A lifestyle that is going to help boost immune function and hopefully keep us from being in the position of needing these types of drugs in the first place.

We have wrongly villified fats for decades.When we eat the 𝘤𝘰𝘳𝘳𝘦𝘤𝘵 𝘵𝘺𝘱𝘦𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘧𝘢𝘵𝘴, it actually helps promote better healt...
12/09/2025

We have wrongly villified fats for decades.

When we eat the 𝘤𝘰𝘳𝘳𝘦𝘤𝘵 𝘵𝘺𝘱𝘦𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘧𝘢𝘵𝘴, it actually helps promote better health.

This is even more true for the younger generations, as their brain and body grows and develops.

Imagine working in a factory and trying to make something functional out of a bunch of rejected pieces and scraps. It probably isn't going to turn out how you originally designed it, right?

The same thing happens in the brain/body. When we don't have the building blocks that we need, we use substitutes that often aren't a perfect fit for those functions. While they work, they aren't as flexible or as functional, leaving us in a vulnerable position.

The coolest part?

If you are curious how you are doing, there is a blood test that can assess your balance of these types of fats that can help us determine if you are in an inflammatory state (destroying health) or a healthy state (promoting function).

Comment below for more details.

We've all seen the elderly people that are bent forward and every motion looks difficult for them, right?I want you to d...
12/08/2025

We've all seen the elderly people that are bent forward and every motion looks difficult for them, right?

I want you to do a quick experiment and slouch forward as far as you can.

How easy is it to take a breath?

As you hold that position longer and longer, how comfortable is it?

How do you feel? Confident and poised? Stressed and depressed?

Our posture has a strong correlation to a lot of other areas of health.

It affects our breathing, gut function, balance, stress levels, mental health and more.

We aren't stuck with the posture that we have, though. Yes, the longer a position has been held, the more work it takes to reverse, but as we put in that work our health generally starts to improve.

Does your posture reflect who you want to be?

Our time on Earth is very limited and unfortunately, many today are living those years with at least one chronic illness...
12/08/2025

Our time on Earth is very limited and unfortunately, many today are living those years with at least one chronic illness (many with more than one).

Most of those health challenges are linked to our lifestyle.

How much, and how efficiently, we move (chiropractic care directly addresses this with the chiropractic adjustment).

How much quality sleep we get (chiropractic care help improve the quality of sleep in many studies).

The nutrition we take in (chiropractors have significant training in nutrition versus minimal (and more frequently none) in other healthcare professions).

How our body handles stress (chiropractic again addresses this, as the adjustment has been shown to improve our stress handling capabilities).

You are not stuck with your current level of health, and the sooner you make the move in the direction of better health, the more of that limited time we have on this Earth you'll be able to enjoy.

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Get to Know Dr. Jeffrey Cumro, DC

Have you ever been asked a question so profound that it totally changed your life?

There haven’t been a lot of these occasions through my life, but there have been a couple. Four years ago was the most recent one, and the effects on my life have been overwhelming. The effects that question will have on the community is also something that I find exciting.

Before I tell you what the question was, I want to give you a little background on myself. Fifteen years ago, I got really sick. I was always in great shape, but after not being able to sleep for about a month, losing 20 pounds in that time period and not being able to complete 1 lap around an indoor track without stopping I knew it was past time to get to a doctor. I had delayed because I was scared what I would find out.

I was diagnosed with Hashimoto’s thyroiditis. This thyroid issue is an autoimmune disease (the body attacks itself) and I was told that I would have to deal with it for the rest of my life. Today, I help others who live in the Omaha, Lincoln, and Nebraska City areas and are fighting against thyroid diseases like Hashimoto’s thyroiditis, hypothyroidism, or Grave’s disease, as well as, diabetes and migraines.