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Since I’d been a guitarist for many years, I was not amazed to findlearn that my technical skills were delicately honed by the time I became a Glendate Chiropractor. Needless to say, my hand coordination was well-developed!  I also became aware of the hand conditions that many musicians experience, like carpal tunnel syndrome. In fact, I was not only known as a Glendale Chiropractor, but I became known as “the music doctor” by many musicians who’d heard from other musicians that the chiropractic care I offered could “fix” their hand problems. So many needless and ineffective carpal tunnel surgeries were avoided through chiropractic treatment that at holiday time, I not only got numerous “fruit baskets” from my happy patients, but plenty of “fruitcakes” from overjoyed insurance companies who spent far less each year in compensating for chiropractic treatment than they did for surgical procedures!

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You can trust me on this: I know from experience the debilitating effects of back pain! I am an auto appraiser, which is to say that when someone wants to know how much their own vehicle is worth, or the value of a car they would like to buy, I’m the person who crawls, slides, or in some other way makes his way under a vehicle that is generally parked on hard concrete, steaming blacktop, or scratchy, abrasive gravel, and the person who spends most of an amazing amount of time bent at ninety degrees which allows me to look under the hood. And, rather than waiting until I experience sudden mechanical difficulties (like not being able to walk upright), if I book monthly maintenance appointments with her, I’m ready to hit the road pain-free every day!

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Literally or metaphorically, life can be a pain in the neck, as all chiropractors know from years of offering neck pain relief. In fact, for over eleven years a chiropractor in Grand Rapids has been treating cervical disc injuries using his patented two-way traction devices!  In addition, chiropractors know neck pain caused by physical stress or injury can linger on much longer than a “metaphysical pain in the neck,” and if not taken care of can, unfortunately, get much worse. Pain, tingling, numbness, and weakness down the arm and into the fingers, as well as pain in the immediate neck area, are common symptoms of neck injury. Neck conditions can contribute to both tension headaches and head pain. Because chiropractic treatment has been found to be the most effective, non-invasive treatment for relieving neck pain, it would be advantageous for you to seek a thorough examination and evaluation by your chiropractor to find the reason for your particular neck pain.

Neck pain and its associated symptoms are generated by a variety of different neck conditions. The neck might sustain trauma from an accident producing strained muscles, sprained ligaments, and spinal joint injuries. Sitting at a computer and/or performing repetitive tasks can create postural stress as well. Muscular tension and inflammation in the neck and upper back often result from such stress. Postural stress can also be caused by poor spinal mechanics and weak or underdeveloped muscles. In addition, chronic neck pain due to inflammation of the soft tissues can occur due to the degeneration of the spinal joints caused by the aging process, as well a “slipped,” herniated, or ruptured cervical discs.

Using his own patented two-way traction devices, Grand Rapids chiropractor,  specializes in the treatment of cervical disc injury.  Who could ask for more than a natural and unique mechanical approach by a chiropractor who’s an expert when it comes to neck pain? In his Grand Rapids chiropractic office, his treatments result in pain relief, decrease in tension, increase in motion, and an overall sense of well-being.

Chiropractors, like this Grand Rapids chiropractor, are experts when it comes to knowledge of the spine and musculoskeletal system. If you are looking for neck pain relief, you need look no further than your chiropractor. See a chiropractor in your area today. And, call the office of Dr. Douglas McKenzie if you’re in the Grand Rapids area. He’ll find out the reason for your neck pain and treat it at its point of origin.

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Corona Chiropractor

Your Corona Chiropractor offers a potent non-invasive, drug-free approach to decreasing hip pain and frequently eliminating it altogether. As most of us know, surgery should be a last resort whenever possible. So, before you decide on hip surgery, think about the following questions: Is it impossible for you to get a good night’s sleep because your hip pain wakes you up in the night? When you get out of bed in the morning, and/or when you step out of your car, are you stiff and do you find it initially difficult to move your legs? Do you feel pain whenever you rotate or twist them or when you cross your legs? If so, you may have imbalances and alignment problems in your lower extremities that are not only causing your hip pain, but can over time lead to osteoarthritis in your hips if not treated. The good news is that chiropractic treatment can help whether or not degenerative changes have already started!

You may be getting older and it may be true that your hip joints aren’t what they used to be. Even so, are you aware that your hip pain (and related problems), which generally signal age-related degenerative conditions, may not actually be created by osteoarthritis? That’s right. In many cases, instead of being the root cause of your condition, osteoarthritis of the hip joint is often the outgrowth of a previous injury (or injuries) to your hips.

As a general rule, hip problems have to do with asymmetry or imbalance when you are in motion, like walking for instance. If you “pronate” when you walk, like a duck, with your toes pointing away from your body, eventually you will experience pain in your hips due to the asymmetrical pressure on your hip joints as your body attempts to compensate. Fortunately, you can learn to correct your gait pattern at any age, and your chiropractor in Corona can show you how to do it.

In addition, you may have undergone gait changes as the result of an ankle sprain or knee strain, and since “the knee bone’s connected to the hip bone,” these biomechanical alterations create hip pain. Naturally, if not corrected, your hip joints will suffer further consequences, like wear and tear that produces degenerative changes.

Other activities that can frequently impact the hip joints are starting a new job or beginning a new sport that requires you to move your body in atypical ways. Also, transporting a child (or grandchild) on one hip can generate hip pain. Even your sitting position or driving for prolonged periods of time on a regular basis can cause hip injury and pain.

Isn’t it good to know that not every pain is caused by “old age,” although we may suffer from more pain as the result of the progressive activity of untreated injuries.

As part of the chiropractic management of your hip problem, along with your adjustments, your Corona Chiropractor will suggest appropriate rehabilitative exercises that include gentle muscle stretching and strengthening, and will also analyze your gait and may offer simple pattern changes.

Your hip pain won’t vanish by itself. Hip pain is a sign that something needs correcting. If put off, more than likely that at some point you will require that hip replacement surgery. So, don’t put off until tomorrow, what truly needs to be done today. Your Corona Chiropractor 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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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. Before you let the seams out in those slacks or skirt, there’s something you may want to know regarding those few seemingly benign extra pounds you may have gained. Over the years, extra weight can add up to a surprising number of health issues from heart and pulmonary diseases and diabetes to back problems and joint degeneration. Even a few additional pounds put undue stress on organs, like the heart, not to mention on joints in the low back, hips, and knees. Over half (62%) of U.S. adults are overweight or obese, according to recent studies. That is a very significant figure and a sizable dilemma (no pun intended).

It is likely no surprise to you to learn that the human body has not evolved to carry around additional poundage in the form of body fat. Just 20 or 30 extra pounds can veritably overload and encumber the musculoskeletal system. Excess weight in the tummy, for example, requires that the body compensate (counterbalance the weight) by tilting the pelvis forward. This angle creates compression in the joints of the low back. Joint compression inhibits nerve activity and causes painful inflammation. Nearly all people that have a heavy midsectionsuffer from low back pain generated by  a pinched sciatic nerve or misalignments of the spinal column that restrict nerves as a result of weight-bearing stresses. If not addresses, misaligned vertebra generally create new arthritic changes in the spine over time, as well as persist in irritating the degenerative changes that have already taken place.

Are you wondering how chiropractic can help? To begin with the obvious, a healthy body weight is necessary in order for the musculoskeletal system to act and respond in the way it is meant to. Chiropractic treatment can not only relieve pain created by excess weight compensation, but it can aid in weight reduction. Here’s how. Chiropractic adjustments relieve nerve compression in the vertebral column and assist in getting motion back into the joints of the musculoskeletal system, such as in the low back, hips, and knees. And, naturally exercise and physical activity is a lot easier, and healthier for the body, when the the joints have good movement and the spine is aligned. Not only will exercise help with weight reduction, but it can actually delay degenerative changes as over the years.

It is always a good idea to review your diet and exercise options with a healthcare professional, like your chiropractor. In addition to caring for men and women suffering from back pain and joint inflammation, chiropractors offer proficient guidance regarding the kinds of lifestyle modifications that can help you to stay healthier, more vital, and more active through the years. It isn’t a foregone conclusion that arthritis and immobility are an unavoidable part of the aging process. The structure of the human body is designed for an entire 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

I understand from over twenty years experience as a Chiropractor in Wichita assisting individuals suffering from sciatic pain that the affliction can be extremely incapacitating. Sciatica sufferers are regrettably all too familiar with the kind of deep pain that frequently radiates through the lower part of their body, accompanies their waking hours each day and restricts almost all of their daily activities.

Here’s how you can determine if your low back pain is caused by sciatica. If your pain radiates from your low back, through one or both sides of your buttocks, down the large sciatic nerve in the back of one or both legs, and possibly penetrates into your knee(s), it is likely that you have sciatica. In addition, sitting, as well as movement, can be painful. Often lying down will reduce, or perhaps even temporarily get rid of the pain. Even so, it’s important for you to be aware that sciatica cannot be corrected without appropriate 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 natural position in the spine and is putting pressure on the radicular nerve (nerve root) in the lower back, which forms part of the sciatic nerve. Such pressure is extremely painful.

Prolonged sitting, especially in an awkward position, can produce imbalances in the muscles enclosing the spine and additional pressure on the intervertebral discs. A particular event or injury isn’t generally the cause of sciatica, but rather sciatica is likely to develop over time as a result of ordinary wear and tear on the vertebrae of the lower spine. After a while the lower spine can lose its normal functioning capabilities during everyday stresses.

If this occurs, the intervertebral disc undergoes small fissures or cracks, which then let the soft nucleus to protrude the disc outward. If the disc pushes on sensitive tissues, it produces the pain that is commonly known as a ruptured, or slipped, disc. Sciatica is the result of the disc pressing on the spinal nerve. With chiropractic adjustments and management, which frequently includes postural exercises, almost all disc problems, including sciatica, can be completely relieved.

Periformis Syndrome

Another condition that creates sciatic pain is periformis syndrome. Periformis syndrome happens when the periformis muscle, which is superficial to the sciatic nerve, goes into spasm and irritates 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 seek chiropractic attention. 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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Cincinnati Chiropractor

In my  Cincinnati Chiropractic clinic I treat a lot of older adults who are challenged by balance problems. In fact, dizziness, “wooziness,” and other balance-related conditions affect at least 9% of adults, aged 65 and older. Good balance is crucial, of course, in aiding seniors in remaining independent and to avoid falling down and sustaining injuries that are frequently extremely serious or even fatal. But, would you be surprised to hear that falls are the cause of a large portion of work injuries for individuals under 65 years of age, including individuals in their twenties and thirties? That’s right! Balance challenges can occur at any age. It is for this reason that those who work in”precarious locations” like construction workers, roofers, oil platform employees, windows cleaners, or anywhere else where a ladder is involved are in danger of serious injury if their balance is “off.”

The principal activity 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 staggering, arise from a sitting position without teetering, and to climb stairs without missing a step. It is obvious, then, that good balance is crucial to our health and well-being.

What come as a surprise to you is that you could have a balance dysfunction without any idea of how serious it is. Often times a person may be able to “shake off” a dizzy sensation and the sensation may not come back for a while. However when sudden dizziness happens at a critical time, it is too late to shake it off and a fall is often certain.

Vertigo is the medical name for the feeling that you, or things around you, are spinning. Nearly 40 percent of individuals in the U.S. will have at least one episode of dizziness that is acute enough to seek out a health professional, such as your Chiropractor at Cincinnati Chiropractic. That said, if you are involved in any of the activities listed above, having a chiropractor check your balance before an episode of dizziness, make corrections if needed, and then assist you in maintaining good balance, may save you from serious injury or worse.

Balance disorders are serious at any age. It is essential for you to be diagnosed and treated without delay if you think that you may have a possible balance disorder. To help to make your decision easier 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?

As discussed above, balance problems are not isolated to a particular age group. Our falling down is an ever-present possibility from the time we learn to walk until we take our final step 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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There is a variety of treatment options from which you can choose when it comes to your back pain and pain in other parts of your body due to arthritic changes, including going to see a San Jose chiropractor. However, quite a few men and women who are suffering from painful arthritis and back pain still think that they should go to a medical doctor as the best way to find a cure for their affliction. But, you might be surprised to learn that only a small number medical doctors are adept in helping individuals eliminate, or naturally decrease the difficulties of back pain due to arthritis. Medical doctors are trained to treat symptoms through medication, as opposed to finding and treating the origin of the pain you are undergoing. And, even though particular medications may ease the symptoms of arthritis, there is a lot that you can do not only for pain relief, but to genuinely slow down arthritic changes in your body.

Seeing a San Jose chiropractor is truly one of the most beneficial things that you can do to gain relief from your arthritis and back pain. Chiropractors are doctors who specialize in treating the muscular and skeletal system, and arthritis is a joint problem. Chiropractic care has aided many people in slowing the process of arthritis by getting their joints moving. Movement is crucial for joint health. A good chiropractor is an expert at treating back pain, even when it is caused by arthritis

If you have never gone to a chiropractor before, you might be a bit concerned about what is going to occur once you are in the office. Here’s what you can expect. You will be asked about your medical history, which will conceivably include a family history of arthritis. The chiropractor will ask about your current lifestyle and may offer specific changes that will be very helpful in decreasing the inflammation due to arthritis. And, finally, you will receive a complete examination. After the examination is complete, the chiropractor will let you know if chiropractic care can help your back pain, as well as relieve your painful arthritic symptoms. After that you will be told about the exact treatment you will require.

A chiropractic adjustment relieves pain gently and naturally, and it is a painless process. And, the best aspect of going to a chiropractor for your back pain and arthritis is that you can feel certain that the reason for your pain is being addressed, and that the ease you experience is not masking the symptom of pain, but actually eliminating the origin of your affliction.

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