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Fibromyalgia and Chiropractic Care

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FIBROMYALGIAFibromyalgia is a disabling and epidemic myofascial condition. The patient afflicted with this normally complains about feeling pain all over his/her body, feels tired all the time, depressed and sleeps poorly.  People suffering from this condition often find it difficult to achiev a lasting cure from medical doctors and have tried different kinds of therapy with a few success stories.

Researches have shown that Fibromyalgia affects the central nervous system causing abnormalities in the chemical compounds of people that are needed to transmit nerve impulses. FM wasn’t recognized by the American Medical Association until they started to diagnose it officially in 1987, although healers have been reporting it and treating its symptoms as early as 16th century. Today, because there are not specific treatment procedures and tests to determine if an individual has contracted fibromyalgia, conventional medical doctors are still denying its existence and are merely attributing its symptoms as a result of psychological and emotional causes.

However, Chiropractic care has been proven the past few years to have played a significant role in treating people with this condition. Fibromyalgia patients respond better to chiropractic therapy via spinal adjustments and nutritional support. Fibromyalgia and chiropractic care has gone hand in hand in the treatment of individuals for more than a decade now.

Chiropractic, since its main purpose is to prove the theory of how the central nervous system balances and controls the over-all health of an individual serves as an ideal treatment method for those suffering from this debilitating condition.

Fibromyalgia often goes unnoticed and undiagnosed by medical doctors and sometimes it takes as long as five years before an individual suffering from it becomes aware of the fact of the existence of this condition. A good chiropractic will diagnose this condition through good communication with the patient. The holistic approach of a chiropractic helps greatly in easing the way for the diagnosis this painful disease.

After diagnosis, the chiropractor will then make the necessary adjustments to the entire spine. Spinal manipulations are also done using the hands, which consists of sharp, short thrusts that always produces a popping sound, which is caused by nitrogen gas release from a vertebral joint capsule. The aim for these adjustments to the spine is to correct a subluxation that has occurred in the spine. Once the patient’s spine is properly aligned, the pain and other symptoms of fibromyalgia will be greatly reduced together with the other difficulties such as fatigue, weakness and difficulty in sleeping.

Herbal and homeopathic treatments are also encouraged by the chiropractors to their patients, coupled with a change in lifestyle, sleep habits and engaging in a healthy diet. Individuals afflicted with fibromyalgia will feel better in no time.

In reality, there is still no definite cure for those suffering from this painful condition, but with the help of chiropractics, patients suffering from it have reported a sharp decrease in symptoms and have improved their quality of life. Chiropractic is definitely helping people with fibromyalgia enjoy life to the fullest by almost eradicating its numerous symptoms.

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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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Wellness Chiropractic Care or Symptom Based Care

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Wellness or PainThis month I have seen my three old patients who have not received chiropractic care for a very long time. The treatment gap varies for each of them. For one patient it was a year and a half, for another nine months, and for the third one it was six months gap. All three patients made an appointment to see me because their pain symptoms got so bad that none of them could function properly on day to day bases. Their quality of life has gone down to the point that it was basically a painful existence.

I have asked all of these patients the same question.  “Why would you wait for so long that your pain level has gone to the point that you can not enjoy your activities of daily living?” The first patient told me that He felt good for a long time since he saw me last time and gradually his symptoms reappeared and got worse. This gentleman has to seat in his office chair for 10 hours a day six days a week. When he walked in to my office his posture looked like a question mark.  Pretty scare stuff. He was crying like a baby when my massage therapist was working on his soft tissue. The second person was a patient who had a sport injury while skiing. Her neck and mid back were in pretty bad shape. The worse symptom was her eye site. She was loosing it very rapidly. Prescription glasses had to be replaced every other month. About twelve sessions of therapy brought her eye site back to normal, to the point where she did not need to wear any glasses. Neck and mid back pain has disappeared. Good results in a relatively short period of time. Third person had a bad case of TMJ. After several sessions utilizing SOT technique and some other tools his problem was resolved and he was very pleased with the results.

My advice to all of these three patients was to come back once a month for maintenance cares. I like to compare our bodies to a vehicle.  Everyone changes oil in their vehicle every 3000-5000 miles depending on the oil they use. After certain mileage we change tires, rotate them and balance the wheels. Tune up is a must for every car and changing brake pads is an inevitable process. Human body needs the same thing.

Every day stress creates micro injuries in our bodies. These micro injuries turn into more serious problem over time. For some it takes longer for some it takes much faster. Maintenance or Wellness care is the same thing as the tune up for your vehicle, oil change, and brake pad replacement. Without these basic things the vehicle will not run properly, and eventually will brake down. The same thing will happen to our bodies in a form of pain and eventually disease. My question is:  “Is it better to have a healthy quality of life or to live in a miserable existence.” Choice is always yours.

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.

Question:  Did this article help you to understand what is the goal of chiropractic care?