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Sometimes, even for chiropractors, the success of chiropractic treatment and its ability to help people get rid of pain and get their life back again can seem, well, almost miraculous. When I hear from chiropractic patients who’ve not only gotten rid of their pain through chiropractic treatment, but also more life and energy, stress relief and relaxation, and a greater ability to get a good night’s sleep, I feel gratified.

Still, a research article I read recently in the scientific periodical, Journal of Pediatric, Maternal and Family Health, brought tears to my eyes (and I’m generally a pretty macho guy!). The research detailed the case of a severely disabled sixteen year old girl experiencing spasticity and sleep disturbances due to Cerebral Palsy. Her family was most distressed about her inability to sleep through the night. The girl, confined to a wheelchair, had metal rods surgically fused from her neck down to the base of her spine since the age of seven.

The mother of the girl hoped that chiropractic treatment could correct her daughter’s spinal subluxations and relieve her often abhorrent pain. As one can imagine, the examination was difficult. Fortunately the chiropractor was able to diagnose that there were several subluxations that could be safely adjusted. Care was initiated at a frequency of twice per week. By her sixth adjustment, the girl was sleeping normally through the night. By her ninth visit she showed an improvement in her muscle spasticity as measured by specific instruments.

Yet, even though full recovery was not expected, “the patient and her family were able to return to a normal sleep schedule as well as enjoy improved quality of life,” the research authors noted.

“Improved quality of life.” Can anyone ask for more from treatment Not likely!  But, let me tell you, more chiropractors hear those words from their patients than medical doctors do.

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Oxnard Chiropractor

Dr. Donald Bolt, your Chiropractor in Oxnard, knows that allergies can make your daily life  miserable. A walk in the park, a yarn ball toss with Fluffy, a seafood pasta, or merely something as tiny as a nut is able to produce such miserable complaints as itchy eyes, a runny nose, sneezing, or a skin rash.

But unfortunately, now and again an individual’s allergic reactions can go from just plain bothersome to acute and life-threatening as the air passageway begins to close and breathing becomes strained. Such development of symptoms can readily produce a state of acute anxiety and a trip to the ER.

Allergic reactions can, indeed, become an exceptionally troublesome disburbance and cause you to feel incapable of taking part in daily life. In fact, if you are one of the numerous men and women who have hypersensitivity, it may even seem to you that, every once in awhile, your surroundings are a pretty antagonistic place and that the planet around you is, virtually, out to get you!

Perhaps you question why it is that other people seem so unaffected by the exact same environmental challenges that send your body into overwhelm. Other people seem either unaware of or completely unresponsive to the would-be irritants that lurk at just about every turn, while your body reacts, or rather overreacts, to them. Why you? It’s a valid question. The fact is that quite a few individuals, like yourself, have a hyperactive immune system that literally “goes berserk” when you are exposed to common substances including pollen, dander, shellfish, or nuts.

Can your Chiropractor in Oxnard help you in gaining relief from your allergy symptoms? The answer is a resounding “Yes,” and the explanation may surprise you. Many chiropractic patients have realized that they enjoy freedom from their allergy symptoms following a chiropractic treatment, although chiropractic care doesn’t actually target allergies, per se. The real reason for the lessing of allergy symptoms is because chiropractic manipulation influences your whole nervous system, which includes the autoimmune system, which is the cause of your hypersensitive responses. In the event that there’s a hindrance in the nervous system, in conjunction with other problems, the autoimmune system, whose responsibility it is to enable you to adapt and react appropriately to your environment, can easily become under-active or overactive. When it comes to your allergies, the reaction is the latter (it becomes overactive).

In view of the fact that chiropractic adjustments are intended to diminish or even entirely do away with disturbances within the nervous system and recreate equilibrium and harmony to the entire body, along with a variety of corrections, the manipulations provide homeostasis to the autoimmune system as well. A vibrant immune system responds normal to so-called allergens within the natural environment.

So, as stated previously, your Chiropractor in Oxnard doesn’t really target allergies, but that doesn’t mean your allergies won’t get better or go away completely. On the other hand, you could say, instead, that relief from your allergies is solely the result of your well-adjusted nervous system. If you would like to get back into harmony with your surroundings as soon as you can, connect with Dr. Bolt, your Oxnard Chiropractor, today. He can help you to start living your life again!

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Finding a San Jose chiropractor is genuinely one of the very best things that you can do to assist your arthritis and lumbar pain. Chiropractors are doctors who concentrate entirely on working on the musculoskeletal system, and arthritis is a joint malady. Chiropractic treatment has aided many people in delaying the process of arthritis by getting their joints in motion. Motion is necessary for joint health. A good chiropractor is very competent in caring for low back pain, even when it is brought on by arthritis

If you have never gone to a chiropractor in the past, you could be a bit concerned about what is going to take place once you are in the chiropractic office. It might help to supply a quick picture of what you can look for. You’ll be asked about your medical background, which will oftentimes include a family background of arthritis. The chiropractor would likely inquire about your day-to-day lifestyle and may offer explicit changes that will be very useful in lessening the inflammation attributable to arthritis. And, finally, you will receive a scrupulous examination. After the assessment is completed, the chiropractor will let you know if chiropractic assistance can assist your back pain, and also decrease your painful arthritic difficulties. Then you’ll learn about the precise treatment you will should have.

A chiropractic adjustment reduces pain gently and organically, and it is a painless process. And, the most terrific aspect of going to a chiropractor for your low back pain and arthritis is that you can feel assured that the root cause of your pain is being dealt with effectively, and that the comfort you experience doesn’t involve masking the warning sign of pain, but actually eradicating the source of your malady.

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Corona Chiropractor

Your Corona Chiropractor offers a highly successful non-invasive, drug-free approach to easing hip pain and frequently getting rid of it altogether. Whenever possible, surgery should be seen as a final option. Therefore, before you schedule a surgery to replace that hip, think about the following questions: Does hip pain keep you up at night and make it impossible for you to get a good night’s sleep? When you arise in the morning, and/or when you step out of your car, are you stiff and do you find it hard at first to move your legs? Do you feel pain whenever you rotate or twist them or when you cross your legs? If these symptoms sound familiar, it is likely that you have asymmetries and misalignments in your lower extremities that are not only causing your hip pain, but can eventually lead to degenerative joint disease in your hips if not treated. The good news is that chiropractic treatment can help whether or not degenerative changes have already begun!

It may be true that you’re getting older and your hip joints just aren’t what they used to be. But, did you know that your hip pain and related problems, which normally signal age-related degenerative conditions, may not actually be generated by osteoarthritis? That’s right. In many cases, instead of being the original source of your problem, osteoarthritis of the hip joint is often the outcome of a prior injury (or injuries) to your hips.

Hip problems frequently have to do with asymmetry or imbalance when you are in motion, as in the case of walking. If you tend to walk “pronated” like a duck, with your toes pointing away from your body, sooner or later you will experience pain in your hips due to the asymmetrical pressure on your hip joints and your body’s efforts to compensate. Fortunately, you can make changes in your gait pattern at any age, and your chiropractor in Corona can show you how to do it.

Moreover, you may have developed gait changes due to an ankle sprain or knee strain, and since “the knee bone’s connected to the hip bone,” these biomechanical alterations cause hip pain. There is no doubt that, if not remedied, your hip joints will suffer further consequences, namely, the wear and tear that leads to degenerative changes.

Other activities that can frequently injure the hip joints are starting a new job or beginning a new sport that makes it necessary for you to move your body in uncommon ways. Also, transporting a child (or grandchild) on one hip can cause hip pain. Even the way you sit or driving for prolonged periods of time on a regular basis can cause hip injury and pain.

So you can see that not every pain is caused by “old age,” although we may start to feel more pain as the result of the progressive activity of untreated injuries.

In addition to your adjustments, as an integral part of your chiropractic management, your Corona Chiropractor will suggest appropriate rehabilitative exercises that include gentle muscle stretching and strengthening, and will also evaluate your gait and may recommend simple pattern changes.

Your hip pain won’t vanish on its own. Hip pain is a symptom telling you that there’s a problem that needs to be remedied. If ignored, it is very likely that you will eventually require that hip replacement surgery. Remember the old adage, “an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.” Your chiropractor in Corona can eliminate your hip pain, get your body back into balance, and help you get to back to enjoying your life again!

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Santa Barbara Chiropractor

You’ve probably heard the old saying, When you consider the alternative, getting old isn’t so bad.” However, it’s nothing to joke about if the aging process is causing you pain! As a chiropractor in Santa Barbara, when it comes to musculoskeletal challenges, I see too many age-related conditions that probably would not have taken place if the exacerbating cause had been treated earlier. Poor posture, improper gait, and repetitive overuse often create undue stress in the back, neck, hip, knees, and even the feet that can produce painful conditions over time. If we only knew then how our aging body would feel today, eh? But, as they say, “hindsight is 20-20.”

Back pain is at the top of the list as the most prevalent musculoskeletal condition to evolve as we age. Age-related back pain is generally the result of spine osteoarthritis, or Spondylosis, a degenerative disorder.

Spondylosis is caused by prolonged deterioration and weight-bearing stress on the spine that, over the years, does harm to the discs, joints, and surrounding ligaments. The area of the body and rate of the degenerative process of spondylosis is individual, varying from person to person. The regions likely to be affected are the cervical (neck), thoriacic (mid-back), or lumbar (low back). Depending on the severity of degeneration, Spondylosis symptoms vary from person-to-person as well, and can extend from low-amplitude pain and numbness to extensive sensory loss and muscular atrophy.

Repetitive stresses antagonistically affect the cartilage around the joints and can encourage calcium to deposit in the tissues surrounding the vertebrae. Adjacent nerves, blood vessels, and soft tissue can be constricted by these calcific deposits, also called bone spurs. This particular of compression is at the root of Spondylosis.

Regular chiropractic care and overall chiropractic management has been shown to significantly slow age-related degeneration of the spine whether or not you are suffering from spondylosis. No, “you can’t un-ring a bell” or “turn back the hands of time,” but it isn’t too late to give your spine the consideration it deserves. When it comes to treating the spine, chiropractors are experts! See your Santa Barbara Chiropractor today, for the health of your spine.

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Cincinnati Chiropractor

As a Cincinnati Chiropractor I treat a lot of seniors who are affected by balance problems. In fact, dizziness, “wooziness,” and other balance-related challenges affect at least 9% of adults, aged 65 and over. Good balance is crucial, of course, in assisting seniors to continue to be independent and to avoid falling down and encounter injuries that are commonly very serious or even fatal. But, I wonder if you are aware that falls contribute to a large portion of work injuries for individuals under 65 years of age, including workers in their twenties and thirties? That’s right! No one is immune to balance problems, no matter what their age may be. It is for this reason that those who work in “high places” like construction workers, roofers, oil platform employees, windows cleaners, or anywhere else where a ladder is required are in danger of serious injury if their balance is “off.”

The primary action of good balance is to aid us in managing and maintaining our body position, whether standing still or moving, and whether on the ground or high up on a platform. Good balance helps us to walk without stumbling, arise from a sitting position without tottering, and to climb stairs without tripping. In other words, good balance is crucial to our health and well-being.

What you may not have realized, however, could have a balance dysfunction without realizing how significant it may be. On occasion a person is able to “shake off” a dizzy feeling and the sensation may not reoccur for a while. However when sudden dizziness comes about at a decisive moment, it is too late to shake it off and a fall is usually certain.

The sensation by some people that they, personally, are spinning or that things around them are moving is termed “vertigo.” About 40 percent of people in the U.S. will have at least one experience of dizziness that is distressing enough to seek out help from a health professional, such as your Chiropractor at Cincinnati Chiropractic. However, if you are involved in any of the activities listed above, having a chiropractor check your balance before an episode of dizziness, make adjustments if needed, and then aid you in maintaining good balance, may save you from serious injury or worse.

Balance disorders at any age are serious. It is crucial for you to be examined and treated quickly if you think that you may have a possible balance disorder. In fact, if you can answer “yes” to any of the following questions, even if the experience is seldom or infrequent, it is highly recommended that you discuss the symptom(s) with a chiropractor as soon as possible:

• Have you experienced a feeling of being “unsteady?”

• Has the room seemed to spin around you?

• Has there ever a time when you felt as if you were moving when you knew you were standing still?

• Have you lost your balance and/or fallen down?

• Have you ever felt as if you were falling?

• Has your vision ever become “blurred?”

• Have you ever felt disoriented, or lost a sense of time, place or identity?

Remember: Balance problems are not isolated to a particular age group. From the time we learn to walk until we take our final step, our falling down is possible. If you work in a job that makes your falling down a “critical” event, you need to have your balance checked. Don’t wait until it’s too late! If you’re in the area, give your Cincinnati Chiropractor a call today. I can help!

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San Diego Chiropractor

As a Chiropractor in San Diego, I counsel many individuals who come to my clinic who want to lose weight. I know how hard it can be, and I also know how important it is to lose those extra pounds. Have you been trying to persuade yourself that just a few extra pounds don’t matter? Over the years, extra weight can add up to a large number of health issues from heart and pulmonary diseases and diabetes to back pain and joint degeneration. Extra pounds put undue stress on organs, like the heart, as well as on joints in the low back, hips, and knees. Regrettably,more than half (62%) of men and women in America are overweight or obese, according to recent studies. That is a very significant number and an enormous problem (no pun intended).

Though we try to pretend otherwise, most of us know that the human body has not evolved to transport excess weight in the form of body fat. Just 20 or 30 extra pounds can, in point of fact, overload and overburden the musculoskeletal system. Excess weight in the belly, for instance, makes it necessary for the body to compensate (counterbalance the weight) by tilting the pelvis forward. The tilt puts pressure on the joints of the low back. Painful inflammation results as this joint compression restricts nerve activity. Most people that have a heavy midsectionsuffer from low back pain caused by  an impingement of the sciatic nerve or spinal misalignments that impinge nerves as a consequence of weight-bearing stresses. If left untreated, misaligned vertebra in most cases create new arthritic changes in the spine over time, as well as persist in irritating the degenerative changes that have already taken place.

Fortunately chiropractic treatment can help. Perhaps, it should go without saying that a healthy body weight is essential in order for the musculoskeletal system to perform in the way it is designed to. That said, in addition, chiropractic adjustments relieve nerve compression in the spine and help to get motion back into the joints of the musculoskeletal system, especially in the low back, hips, and knees. And, naturally exercise and physical activity is a lot easier, and more beneficial for the body, when the spine is in alignment and the joints have good motion. The added benefit of exercise the, in addition to helping with weight reduction, it can actually reduce degenerative changes as over the years.

Healthcare professionals, like your chiropractor, can advise you regarding your diet and exercise options. In addition to caring for individuals suffering from back pain and joint inflammation, chiropractors offer proficient guidance regarding the kinds of lifestyle changes that can help an individual to stay healthier, more vigorous, and more active through the years. Arthritis and immobility due to aging don’t have to be inevitable. The human body was designed for a lifetime of pain-free movement.

So, if those extra few pounds have started to add up to a lot of pain, as your chiropractor in San Diego and someone who cares deeply about your overall health, I can help. Make an appointment today!

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Wichita Chiropractor

As a Wichita Chiropractor for over twenty years, I have helped many patients suffering from sciatic pain, so I know from experience just how incapacitating sciatic pain can be. Those who suffer from sciatica are sadly all too familiar with the deep radiating pain that accompanies their waking hours each day and interferes with almost all of their daily activities.

Are you wondering if your low back pain could be generated by sciatica? You are more than likely experiencing sciatica if your pain travels from your low back, through your buttock(s), down the large sciatic nerve in the back of your leg(s), and possibly penetrates into one or both knees. In addition, sitting, as well as motion, can be painful. Frequently lying down will lessen, or sometimes even temporarily eliminate the pain. Even so, it’s important for you to be aware that sciatica cannot be corrected without proper management.

Radiculopathy

One of the clinical diagnoses of sciatica is referred to as a “radiculopathy”, a medical term that means simply that a disc has protruded from its normal position in the spine and is pressing on the radicular nerve, or nerve root, in the lower back, which forms part of the sciatic nerve. This kind of pressure can produce excruciating pain.

Increased pressure on the intervertebral discs, as well as imbalances in the muscles surrounding the spine, can take place during and after extended sitting, particularly in an improper position. A particular event or injury isn’t usually the cause of sciatica, more often sciatica is likely to evolve over time as a consequence of general wear and tear on the vertebrae of the lower spine. Over the course of time the lower spine can lose its normal functioning capabilities during ordinary stresses.

Ultimately, the intervertebral disc undergoes small fissures or cracks that then let the soft nucleus to protrude the disc outward. Pain is produced as the disc pushes on sensitive tissues. This condition is commonly known as a ruptured, or slipped, disc. If the disc presses on the spinal nerve, a person can develop sciatica. Fortunately, most disc challenges, including sciatica, can be totally alleviated with chiropractic manipulation and management that frequently includes postural exercises.

Periformis Syndrome

Periformis syndrome is another cause of sciatic pain. Periformis syndrome happens when the periformis muscle, for whatever reason, goes into spasm and irritates the sciatic nerve, is superficial to the nerve Along with chiropractic manipulation, this kind of sciatica can be significantly relieved by sciatica stretches that your chiropractor can recommend.

If you are experiencing sciatic pain, it is essential for you to see your chiropractor for treatment. If you are in the Wichita area, as your Wichita Chiropractor, I invite you to come in to see if I can get you out of pain and help you to get your life back!

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