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Located in Nashville, IL & St. Louis, MO - Dr. Steve VandenHoek is dedicated to helping you achieve your wellness objectives -- combining skill and expertise that spans the entire acupuncture and chiropractic wellness spectrum. Dr. Steve is committed to bringing you better health and a better way of life by teaching and practicing the true principles of natural health and wellness care.
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It's Your Life... Live it in Health!
Dr. Steven L. Vanden Hoek, DC, FASA
St. Louis, MO | 314.667.8864
Nashville, IL | 618.327.8717
Fax: 618.327.8717
Featured Articles
Spring Fever Spring is near. In New York City, yellow, white, and purple crocuses have raised their cup-shaped flowers above the ground for all to see. In California, western buttercups, ground pink, and bush lupi...
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Health Care Breakthroughs - Hope or Hype? Health care breakthroughs are big business. Possible benefits to patients are a secondary concern compared to the amount of money involved.
And yet, there may be real breakthroughs on the horizon. ...
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Your Brain and You You are the lucky owner of a magnificent piece of biological machinery - the human brain. Your brain is always on, performs lightning-fast calculations, and is a whiz at making connections between see...
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Five To Stay Alive In the 1950s and 1960s a well-known health-related slogan was "an apple a day makes the doctor away". This advice represented ancient folk wisdom. Today, decades of research has shown that apples - an...
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When Parents Get Older The average age of Americans is increasing year-by-year. Approximately 77 million babies were born in the United States during the boom years of 1946 to 1964. In 2011, the oldest will turn 65, and on ...
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21st Century Stress This is turning out to be a pretty tough century. Or at least so far. The recent earthquake-like shocks in the economy have impacted everyone, and most people's stress levels are sky-high. Stress is m...
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