Pain and Pain management can be a difficult subject and the information volume is immense. In this section we try to add information that is pertinent to pain and pain management as it applies to chiropractic care and your life. Chiropractic care is a drug free surgical free alternative to pain management and overall spinal hygiene.
Eighty percent of individuals suffer from some form of back pain in their lifetimes, and back pain is the second most common cause for people visiting the doctor. Back pain, particularly lumbar pain, is outnumbered only by upper-respiratory infections. Seventy five million Americans will have back pain every year, and 80 percent of the adult… Read More What is lower back pain and how to treat low back pain?
Golf is a sport that is prone to injury. No mater how long you have been involved in the sport the more likely it is that you will injure yourself. It is most likely reason for injuring your self is inappropriately swing the golf club. Professional golfers commonly injure the wrist, followed by the back, hand, shoulder,… Read More Understanding Golf Injuries and How to Prevent Them
Other Posts: Golf; Shoulder Streching; Swimming; Exercises Chiropractic plays a larger role in the health and performance of many athletes. Today, coaches and colleges as well as a number of Olympians include chiropractic care as part of their training regiment. Chiropractors are considered part of the team. Chiropractic care is over 100 years and plays… Read More Injuries and Sports
Avoiding a rotator cuff injury Front of the Shoulder Stretch: Pector Elongator Maintaining open, fluid movement in the front of the shoulder during swimming will decrease compression in the joint. With biking and running, the shoulder tends to rotate inward and lift up toward the ear. This same movement in swimming will add to tension… Read More Shoulder Stretching Routine
(Also see Chiropractic Care and MVA’s or The Rights of An Auto Accident Victim) An car accident occurs every 2-3 seconds and people who have been involved in a collision will suffer some degree of trauma. An 8 mile per hour collision enough to damage a steel bumper, so imagine the damage it can do… Read More Treating Car Accident Injuries
PHASE ONE: RELIEF CARE / ACUTE PHASE INITIAL TREATMENT: Many people seek out chiropractic care because they are in pain. During the first phase of care, the main goal is to reduce your symptoms, including the pain. Sometimes this will require daily visits, or two to three visits per week for a time. During this… Read More Phases of Care
What is chronic Pain? It is pain that has persisted for more than six months although in some definitions it is considered chronic if it is over three months. To confuse maters more you could have acute exacerbation’s of a chronic pain condition that seem short lived but the chronic condition is an underling-factor in… Read More Treating chronic pain, what is it and what can I do?
What is inflammation? according to the American heritage dictionary the scientific definition is “The reaction of a part of the body to injury or infection, characterized by swelling, heat, redness, and pain. The process includes increased blood flow with an influx of white blood cells and other chemical substances that facilitate healing”.This means that inflammation… Read More Treating Inflammation
Common postural abnormalities include rotations distortions and anterior or posterior distortions. Examples of these are anterior head tilt, tilting of the pelvis, thorax and head and rotational distortions of the pelvis thorax and neck. Posture distortions fatigue and abnormal loading on the joints, discs, muscles and other connective tissues. Posture problems aren’t self-correcting and unfortunately… Read More POSTURE PROBLEMS
The physiology of pain can often be complicated. The bottom line is that pain is all in your head and is also based on your life experiences. Pain is also the bodies last warning system that something is wrong and often comes after months or even years of dysfunction. So what is pain? Pain… Read More The Physiology of Pain
In this post you will find a description of tendinitis (informally also tendonitis) its causes and contributing factors. Simply put tendinitis is an inflammation of a tendon. It occurs when there is an injury, a tear, of the tendon or over use which involves micro tearing of the tendon. The healing time of these… Read More The anatomy of Tendinitis
By Dr. Paul Mahler http://www.mahler-chiropractic.com Is chiropractic care appropriate for my child? This s a question asked by many parents I the US. And often the short answer is yes. Chiropractic care for children has been found to be both safe and affective when administered by a trained doctor of chiropractic. Lets tackle the first… Read More Children and Chiropractic
I have been involved with swimming for over 30 years as both a swimmer and coach. It has been my experience over the years that the repetitive injures common to swimming respond very favourably to traditional chiropractic care and I only wish I had known of the benefits of chiropractic care 30 years ago. According… Read More Swimming and Chiropractic
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