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Trust the chiropractor with curing neck pain

Posted on August 30, 2013 by owner

Most people resort to consuming pain killers on suffering moderate or acute pain. In fact, there are no such side effects of pain killer when they are taken once or twice in a long while. However, such people who have chronic pain neck pain should consult the medical practitioner instead of popping self prescribed medicines. The doctor prescribes medicines and this is often for a very long period. These sleep inducing pain killers inflict harm when continued for a greater period and are not without side effects. In most cases they cause addiction and often tolerance. Moreover, these medicines only mask the problems.

More number of research and studies are being taken out to study the effect of chiropractic treatment and it has been found out that chiropractor provides greater relief to pains. A study had been carried out for 12 weeks in 2012 which showed that 55% of people who regularly received chiropractic treatment had their pains reduced by 75%, whereas only 33% of those upon medication found relief. Regular exercises when combined with chiropractic adjustments can offer a faster and better relief than the harmful analgesics.

The research further showed that those who continued going to the chiropractor even after that experienced greater relief whereas those continuing with medication had their dosages increased to obtain the same outcome as before. This indicates a greater harm to the entire body. The chiropractic care consists in reaching to the root-cause of the problem and attempting to fix it instead of masking it like the usual drug therapies.

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Things coming in one’s way of weight reduction

Posted on June 26, 2013 by owner

The weight loss efforts can be put into some serious risk, if they fail in staying faithful to themselves regarding their food decisions and motivations.

People always try to “inject” themselves with the fact that they are fully aware of the quantity of food they are taking in. People think they are having food only when nature calls, but the truth is that the excess eating is a result of maintaining social obligation or emotional fulfilment.

Weight loss efforts can be put into serious jeopardy by binge drinking. A number of heavy drinkers try to suggest the fact that they know their drinking limit. They should adopt the prcatise of moderate drinking regularly, instead of overflowing themselves in one singlular “session”.

Many believe that a proper balanced diet is being maintained by them, when the actual picture suggests heavy consumption of junk foods.

Another picture drawn by a number of people is that of consuming small meals in large numbers every day. But the truth is one ends up eating several numbers of large meals instead. To help themselves with this, one can maintain a food booklet where they can keep a note of their meals and the number of times they had consumed them on a given day. This will reflect the reasons that are restricting one in achieving their desired results.

The process also goes same for the exercise freaks, who considers themselves to be at the liberty of eating anything and in any quantity.

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Good Chiropractors provide nutritional counseling

Posted on May 29, 2013 by owner

The work of a chiropractor is generally summarized as performing certain adjustments in body so that pain is relieved while also making the body more comfortable. Though this is what a chiropractor does, it does not entirely define his work. The work of a responsible chiropractor would lie in taking care of the complete body. This implies that the chiropractors should also concern themselves with providing,

There is more usefulness of chiropractic treatment which is not limited to just making a shapely body. It keeps the body in good posture and reduces pain. However, it cannot completely take care of your body, especially when the nutritional intake is not proper. It is thus that when treating a person, a responsible chiropractor provides nutritional counseling because fulfilling the nutritional needs is the key to leading a healthy life.

The chiropractor looks into the nutritional needs of the individual and makes for the latter a nutritional plan taking into account the health status. Nutritional imbalance can cause such major diseases as cancer, heart diseases, diabetes, etc. In fact, the chiropractic treatments are often considered less powerful in keeping body fit and are often ranked below the traditional medicine. But, it is the wrong evaluation of the advantages of the treatment and when done properly would not require dependency on the more traditional medicine, that again, is not without side effects. Chiropractic treatment is capable in improving the overall condition of health when coupled with perfect nutritional counseling.

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Benefits of Chiropractic Care for Back Pain

Posted on March 5, 2013 by owner

Back pain is the most common reason for missed work, causing half of all working Americans to suffer from symptoms each year. The back is a complicated part of the body; it involves bones, joints, ligaments and muscles. Sometimes the simplest movements can cause the worst back pain.

Back pain can be relieved with the help of a chiropractor. After ruling out any serious injuries that might require surgery, a chiropractor can create a chiropractic treatment plan that will benefit you and treat your condition accordingly.

Spinal manipulation is an effective and safe treatment for back pain. It is the most popular form of chiropractic treatment, involving adjustments to the spine and surrounding ligaments and muscles to improve the alignment of the body. This improvement relieves the back pain and creates a balance in your body, promoting a healthy immune system. Spinal manipulation also increases flexibility and mobility, lowering the risk of injuring your back again.

A chiropractor is able to examine you and ask questions to get an understanding of what the pain is caused by. Sometimes a chiropractor might require many visits to realign your spine and eliminate your back pain, whereas they might also suggest only a few sessions of spinal manipulation. All treatments are based on an accurate diagnosis of your pain that will determine the level of chiropractic care needed.

Chiropractic care is very beneficial for back pain. It also benefits other types of chronic pain such as neck pain, headaches, leg and arm pain, arthritis, fibromyalgia and many other ailments. Chiropractic care is a growing trend in the way people are treating their pain.

About the Author:

Denver chiropractor, Dr Trent Artichoker, offers specialized treatment for back pain, neck pain, auto injuries, and more. For those seeking a chiropractor in Denver Colorado, visit his website today.

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Benefits of Chiropractic Care During Pregnancy

Posted on February 14, 2013 by owner

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During pregnancy, women undergo endocrinological and physiological changes that generally occur for the preparation of the environment for a developing baby. Among some of the changes, the most prominent are back curve, protruding abdomen, postural adaptations and pelvic changes. To establish alignment and pelvic balance chiropractic care is adopted by most women during their pregnancy period. Misalignment of pelvis reduces the amount of space required for a baby to develop. In medical language this problem is known by the name intrauterine constraint. Misaligned pelvis leads to difficulties where it gets hard for a baby to find the exact position at delivery time.

Posterior and breech positions interferes with natural labor giving rise to interventions like c-sections. There are several benefits offered by chiropractic treatment like healthy pregnancy maintenance, controlling nausea symptoms, reduction is delivery and labor time, relief from joint, neck and back pain. The care offered by the professionals promotes increasing daily menstrual cycles, uterine function and hormone. It has been noticed that pregnant women taking help from professional chiropractors are more active during their pregnancies than women who do not seek such help. If the pelvis is balanced in a proper way then chances of a baby moving to the correct position during delivery increases significantly. More and more number of pregnant women is getting referred to professional chiropractors by their doctors. Chiropractors are well aware of how to keep the body perfectly balanced and well maintained during pregnancy which help in avoiding complications.

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Chiropractic Therapy and its Effect on Heart

Posted on January 26, 2013 by owner

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Cardiac ailments, perhaps, would be the last kind of ailments that people would ever think of ass treatable through chiropractic therapy. Such therapies are for pain, aches, nervous and muscular relaxation. Chiropractors can be referred to for every musculoskeletal disorder but nothing more. This is the general notion.

However, chiropractic therapies can even prevent or cease certain cardiovascular issues too. This may seem a shock to some while a joke to others but Palmer Chiropractic College has quite confidently claimed that this is fact. Heartbeat-rate, cardiac arrests, blood-pressure, etc. are some of the issues that can be controlled by chiropractic therapies.

PSNS and SNS, the two divisions of autonomic nervous system, are found to get impacted by chiropractic therapies. More importantly, cardiac arrest can be stopped by this therapy. Thus, during instances when a person is quickly reachable for a chiropractor, he can be rushed to the chiropractor’s chamber, who can then stop the cardiac arrest by the adjustment of cervical vertebra. In addition to it, anxiety and other such feelings can be reduced through chiropractic therapies, which ultimately improve nervous and cardiovascular conditions.

Chiropractic manipulation can be especially beneficial for women as they tend to avoid medical intervention and opt for chiropractors’ expertise. Besides, in their case, cardiac issues may seem to be ache in the back or in the neck. Thus, chiropractors cannot only prevent it but also recognise symptoms of serious complications, which is a benefit that must be appreciated.

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Chiropractic Treatment May Relieve Shoulder Pain

Posted on July 29, 2012 by owner

If you suffer from pain in your shoulder on a regular basis or have noticed a new twinge developing, you’re likely on the lookout for a new treatment that will eliminate your pain and help you regain your range of motion.

Even if you only have minor pain, the use of this new treatment could really make a difference. It’s called the Trigger Wheel and the Intracell and it is a real innovation from chiropractor care. Both of these devices are used for a wide variety of pain conditions on many muscles, but they can be used specifically on the shoulders for excellent results.

The Trigger Wheel consists of a metal wheel that spins on a plastic grip. The Intracell is made from several plastic rings that hang on a flexible rod with grips on both sides. The use of these devices significantly reduced the pain experienced by patients in initial trials and regain significant shoulder flexibility. Better yet, following regular treatments from a chiropractor, the patients noticed their symptoms didn’t come back.

Initially, the Trigger Wheel is used by being rolled across the shoulder blade area. This helps determine if there is an issue with the underlying muscles. Then the patient is instructed to stand against a well at which point the Intracell is rolled across the shoulder blade. Often, this creates more pain but after a few runs across the muscles, the pain will go away. Several treatment sessions are required before lasting results can be realized.

Chiropractor Can Improve Your Running

Posted on June 24, 2012 by owner

Chiropractic If you like to run, it can be a real blow to your lifestyle if you suffer an injury. You may have to take time away from hitting the pavement, and no dedicated runner wants to do that. If you think about it, running puts your body under a lot of stress. Just the impact of your foot on the ground when running is equal to a force that of two to three times your body weight. It’s a repetitive injury waiting to happen.

Injuries can happen because you’re wearing bad shoes, have trained improperly, or place your foot on the ground wrong. Common runner’s injuries include strained and sprained ankles, plantar fascitis, shin splints, Achilles tendonitis, runner’s knee, Illiotibial Band Friction Syndrome, and stress fractures.

A good way to prevent injury and to maximize your capacity as a runner is to see a sport medicine chiropractor. He or she can adjust your body so that you no longer perform the movements that result in injury.

The History of Chiropractor Medicine

Posted on October 29, 2011 by owner

The history of chiropractic care goes back to 1895 but has developed since then as the knowledge of the human body has increased.

D.D Palmer of Iowa is credited with being the first chiropractor and it was in 1895 that he completed his first treatment and the adjustment helped restore the hearing of a deaf janitor. Prior to this Palmer was a magnetic healer but it was when he came across the Janitor Harvey Lillard that he heard from him the story of how he had felt a pop in his back and found himself deaf: Palmer correctly surmised that there might be a misalignment in the spine and this was what was causing the deafness. Many questioned how this alignment could affect a change in the brain such as hearing but Palmer was convinced of the value of chiropractic adjustment and later declared that it could ‘cure all diseases for the human race’.

D.D Palmer opened the first school of chiropractic in 1896 and soon started training chiropractors so that the technique spread to the extent that he opened a second school by 1903. Palmer was now calling himself a doctor that a few years previously he would have had every right to do; at the time when Chiropractic was first becoming popular though the licensing of doctors was changing. The change could have stopped chiropractic dead in its tracks and many chiropractors ended up in jail for practicing medicine without a license. Palmer continued to claim that his college needed no license as Chiropractic wasn’t medicine as it was a drugless cure.

Chiropractic would perhaps have been wiped out had it not been for Dr Solon Langworthy who changed the curriculum for chiropractic courses and narrowed the field of chiropractic to ensure that chiropractuers could practice without issues. While Palmer was arrested in 1906 Langworthy continued on the development of Chiropractic.

While Langworthy was taking Chiropractic to be more scientific B.J Palmer took over his father DD Palmer’s chiropractic schools and continued to bring in new students, with 1,000 students in total in the 1920s. B.J Palmer also made chiropractic more professional and bought in the use of X-Rays and other medical techniques that helped to make it more acceptable to doctors; convictions of practicing medicine without a license though continued on into the 1920s.

In the 1920s Chiropractic eventually became accepted and laws to control it were passed in most US states. Chiropractic at this time started to spread outside of the United States but meanwhile back in the US chiropractors were splitting along two lines. There were those straight chiropractors who believed in using chiropractic alone to cure illnesses and those that followed the mixed chain of thought who believed chiropractors should use other types of medicine alongside chiropractic to help cure people.

It was in the 1960s that the rise of chiropractic was again interrupted with the American Medical Association deciding that chiropractic was unscientific and should be banned, wrangling between the two sides continued and led to a legal action in the 1970s that was eventually defeated in 1987. Since 1987 chiropractic has become increasingly accepted as a treatment that works and has real value for many if not all ailments.

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How Chiropractors can help remove the causes of muscle aches and pains

Posted on October 1, 2011 by owner

You may not realize this but chiropractors have to study at university for several years to qualify, they are therefore more than masseurs with a fancy name. Chiropractors understand the skeletal and muscular system of a human as well as a doctor, what they do during a session then is far from a stab in the dark and is based on a great understanding of problems with the muscular system. This understanding is why if you go to a chiropractor they will focus on muscles that may well not be those that ache and hurt. A masseur by contrast will relax and ease muscles but though this may bring temporary relief will often not deal with the root cause of a problem. A chiropractor will work with you to identify where pains are coming from. Many problems come back to problems around the spine but the spine is affected by the muscles around it. Where muscles are tight and pull on the spine it can lead to a curvature that affects your overall posture. A poor posture can lead to pain in other muscles that are either stretched or being overworked, for example tightness in the lower right hand side of the back may lead to more work being done by the left leg.

The cause of a curvature in the spine though could be something different again. It is often in fact tight muscles in the buttocks and the back of the thighs or even calves that pull on the back and in turn the spine. A chiropractor will go through your history of injuries with you; it may be that a previous knee injury, though no longer painful, is causing problems in the back by being tight and pulling on all the muscles around it and through your back. The chiropractor then may start off by working on the knee to relax it and then relax the other muscles leading up to the spine.

A chiropractor cannot be expected to solve long term problems in one go, they will therefore want you to attend on a regular basis for some time, each time the muscles can be relaxed and stretched more and the curvature of the spine can be monitored and so progress monitored. Chiropractors can also identify causes of problems that may come from elements in your life and lifestyle. They will talk through things with you such as the exercise you do, the work you do and how you go about lifting things. It is often how you sit at work that causes problems or if you have a physical job you may be lifting incorrectly or need to lift differently to look after a muscle that is weak or tight. To get the best results from a chiropractor you will often need to change how you do these kind of things and regular stretches and other quick exercises every day between appointments will help to maintain a good posture and help to solve problems.

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