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Health Benefits of Chiropractic Adjustment

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Chiropractic AdjustmentDemand for Chiropractic care has been increasing. Studies from American Journal of Public Health continue to demonstrate the rising numbers and increase of people utilizing chiropractic care. There has been more than 100% increase of visits to Chiropractors in the past two decades. Many people choose this method of treatment because it is none-invasive approach and helps the body to heal and be healthier, stronger and more resilient.

Chiropractic Care and Healing Benefits

Everyday stress creates micro injuries in our bodies. If these micro injuries are not treated the person will eventually get sick from a dysfunction in a musculoskeletal system. People who have physically demanded jobs, sport activities, and activities of daily living can not function with these micro injuries. The traumatized parts of the body will cause extra pain and stress and possibly will get injured even more. Chiropractic care helps to prevent this from happening plus a person gets additional benefits such as: improved immune function, better athletic performance, pain relief, and overall great quality of life.

Regular Chiropractic care provides the following benefits:

• Person can be more relaxed

• Future injury prevention and improved immune function

• Muscle spasm reduction

• Improved circulation and movement

• Decreased levels of lactic acid

• Increased oxygenation and better nutrient delivery to cells

• Enhanced flexibility

• Pain reduction or complete elimination

• Faster recovery time

The Overall Approach

Combination of your general health and overall wellbeing go along with chiropractic care. When we are talking about health, we are not talking about the absence of pain and symptoms. Do you remember a trip to a dentist when you have that terrible toothache? Deep down you already know that damage to your tooth is already there and the only thing you can hope that your dentist will do a good job fixing it. So, why do the same thing with your health. Why see your doctor with a variety of symptoms? It is important to stay healthy and chiropractic care will be able to help you to stay healthy and happy. Remember, nervous system controls everything in your body! Minimise dis-ease and maximize your health potential att all times.

Here is a list of tips that will help you to maximize your health potential

  • Drink plenty of water during the day
  • Eat lost of organic foods and leafy greens, it will help you to keep your enzyme level up.
  • Stretch and Exercise on regular bases
  • Maximize your Oxygen intake via aerobic exercises

Additional Benefits of Chiropractic Care

  • Women gain great comfort during pregnancy and easier labor
  • Improved Postural development in newborns and decrease of scoliosis
  • Stronger immune system function
  • Prevention of Asthma, Ear Infection, Bedwetting and many other things
  • Senior citizens gain a better balance and improved sleeping

Research continues as we look at the cause of health and the benefits of chiropractic care!

Chiropractic adjustment improves movement and alignment of the spine and surrounding spinal structures. Often time patients will experience relief of symptoms and improve of function soon after chiropractic care. Chiropractic care helps to restore your health from inside out and does not require recovery period. Surgery and medical procedures often require long recovery periods. It is very important that a patient has a lifestyle change in order to maximize the health and wellbeing.

Treasure your health like the most important asset you have ever owned. Eat right, sleep right and don’t be afraid to make positive changes in your life.

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Infant Chiropractic Adjustment

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Infant Chiropractic AdjustmentLast week I was visiting my family in New York City. My sister had her third child, beautiful and healthy baby boy – Gabriel. As soon as I saw my nephew my professional eye has noticed that his head was bent to the left at all times. Either he was laying down in his bed or held in hands the position of his head would not change. I could not help myself but perform a digital palpation of this one month old baby and figure out what was happening.

A little bit about the birth history. The first two children were born normally without any complications. However, the third child was born via C section. It is kind of strange because statistically the second and the third child should be relatively an easy birth. Unfortunately for my sister the last addition to the family was positioned wrong and normal delivery via birth canal would not be possible at all. This prolonged abnormal positioning in a mother’s womb was the cause of the left lateral neck tilt.

During digital palpation I have noticed that the paraspinal musculature on a right side of Gabriel’s neck was very tight. He also had very limited ROM when I tried to bend his neck to the right side. After I have finished my examination I figured out that his C6 vertebral level was out of alignment. The newborn’s vertebrae are not ossified and are very small. The best way to adjust and palpate this tiny spine is by using small fingers of both hands.

I guess one video will replace thousand words. Below is a video of an Infant Chiropractic Adjustment.

Right after Chiropractic adjustment I have rechecked Gabriel’s cervical spine and noticed that he had improved range of motion in his cervical spine. You can see at the end of this video a happy smile on his face. I guess it is a sign of my nephew saying: “Thank you uncle.”

This is an article from Parents magazine about Chiropractic Care and Children written by Holly Pevzner who is a mother of two boys.

My dad sees a chiropractor. Some of my runner friends do, to. But babies? And  for crying? It’s true.  “Today about twenty percent of my pediatric patients come in because if colic or digestive issues,” says Elise G. Hewitt, a board- certified pediatric chiropractor in Portland, OR. Baby chiro care is not as scary as it may sound. The adjustments involve short, quick impulses delivered to the spine with hands, as well as using very light touch on the bones of the skull. It’s quite comfortable for the child and can be done while he lies on parent’s lap or chest. “babies often fall asleep during treatment,” notes Hewitt.

Why it may work for you: Soon-to-be published research found that parents were eight times as likely to report a significant reduction in crying when the baby was treated with chiropractic care three or four times over a ten day-day period than if the baby wasn’t, says lead researcher Joyce Miller, associate professor in clinical sciences at the Anglo-European College of Chiropractic, in Bournemouth, England. The theory behind it: The practice helps alleviate tightness and joint issues that were caused by cramped position in utero or during birth. To find a chiropractor experienced with infants, talk to you pediatrician or go to  the website of the American Chiropractic Association

Understanding Chiropractic Care

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Chiropractic profession promotes holistic care with main focus on maintaining proper physical vertebral alignment in order to maintain a good health. It is a scientific fact that structural imbalances could lead to nervous system dysfunction and lead to a variety of symptoms such as pain, aches, discomforts and other conditions. The goal of care is to restore the body to its maximum potential without drugs or surgery. Doctors of Chiropractic check the physiological function of neuromusculoskeletal system by utilizing orthopedic and neurological exams. Besides specific chiropractic adjustment, therapies such as massage, moist heat, electric stimulation, ultrasound, and Erchonia PL 5000 Laser can be utilized in order to restore a balance to the system.   Diet and exercise advise can be given to a patient by a Doctor of Chiropractic.

CHIROPRACTIC ADJUSTMENT:

Chiropractic use controlled forces, called adjustments, when there are restrictions around joints that the body is unable to overcome itself. Such barriers include scar tissue and pain, swelling (edema), and muscle spasm.

Chiropractic examination helps to discover joints with limited range of motion weather they are painful or not. Specific chiropractic adjustment applied to a subluxated (restricted) joint can restore range of motion when the body’s own musculature cannot.

Adjustments help to relieve pain, as well as, restore and maintain normal movement, biomechanics and function.

The controlled force of chiropractic adjustments safely generates the energy required to overcome such limitations or restrictions and bring the joint back to its normal and full range of motion.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         CHIROPRACTIC PROMOTES HEALTH NATURALLY:

The goal of chiropractic care is to bring back and retain the health of the whole person and not just treat separate symptoms or diseases.

Chiropractic care is not focusing on illness, instead it personalizes the care and helps to achieve maximum potential for a patient’s well being and improves the quality of human life.

 Chiropractic care is focused at restoring and maintaining normal structure, nervous system function, joint and muscle.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        RESTORING FUNCTION AND CHIROPRACTIC CARE:

Function means the ability to perform everyday activities of daily living as well as work activities. It includes range of motion, coordination, strength and flexibility.

Improving function is the key to long term pain relief. When function is not restored completely, any pain relief is temporary and accelerates the risk factor of chronic pain return. Good functioning joints do not have any pain, perform better and are not likely to get injured or degenerate. Bottom line – Chiropractic helps to minimize the pain and maximize the function.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         BENEFITS AND GOALS OF CARE:

The benefits of Chiropractic care include good function, tissue healing and pain relief.

Each patient will require different frequency and different amount of time to achieve each of these goal

When pain is gone it does not mean that soft tissue  has healed completely nor that the function has been restored.

It takes much longer time for soft tissue restoration vs. pain relief. It takes much longer time to restore the function vs. for tissue to heal.

Chiropractors carefully monitor pain, tissue healing and function using specific outcome measures to know when a patient has achieved maximum benefit and it is time to end care or shift to a prevention/wellness program. 

CHIROPRACTIC, MOTION AND NUTRITION OF DISCS AND JOINTS: 

Maintaining good motion is critical to the survival of discs and joints. A vertebral joint that can not move is not able to nourish itself. A healthy exchange of nutrients and wastes only occurs by physically pumping fluids into and out of the disc via spinal motion because discs and cartilage have no blood supply – process called imbibition. Movement stirs fluid through joints, washing nutrients in and waste products  out. Lack of motion may lead to poor nutrition and disc degeneration.

The discs in the spine live because of the movement. Doctor of Chiropractic locates joints that have restricted range of motion, whether they are painful or not, and specific adjustments and exercises help restore and maintain normal motion and nutrition.

This post was based on Dr. Malik Slosbergs’s research.

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