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Natural Relief for Chondromalacia Patella: San Leandro Chiropractic Care, Amrex Ultrasound, and Chondroitin Sulfate

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chnadromalacia patella

Chondromalacia patella, often called “runner’s knee,” involves the softening and breakdown of the cartilage on the underside of the kneecap (patella). This condition causes anterior knee pain, especially during activities like climbing stairs, squatting, or prolonged sitting. It commonly affects athletes, active young adults, and those with biomechanical imbalances such as poor hip or knee alignment. While cartilage damage is challenging to reverse fully, conservative treatments can significantly reduce pain, improve function, and slow progression.

Chiropractic Care:

Addressing the Root Causes. Chiropractic care offers a non invasive, holistic approach ideal for chondromalacia patella. Chiropractors focus on correcting misalignments in the pelvis, hips, spine, and knee that contribute to uneven pressure on the patella. Adjustments improve joint biomechanics, reduce muscle imbalances (particularly in the quadriceps and vastus medialis obliquus), and enhance overall lower extremity alignment. Patients often experience reduced pain and better knee tracking after regular sessions. Chiropractic also incorporates soft tissue work, stretching, and rehabilitative exercises to strengthen supporting muscles and prevent recurrence. Many clinics combine this with postural corrections and gait analysis for long term relief. Studies and clinical reports support chiropractic management for patellofemoral pain syndrome, showing improvements in pain and function without surgery. Also misaligned Sacroilliac Joint in females can increase Valgus or (Q- angle) and can cause biomechanical problems with long term stress during physical exercises and just normal ADL ( activities of daily living)

A normal structural knee angle (known as the Q-angle) in females ranges from roughly 10° to 15°. Angles exceeding 15° to 20° often indicate structural genu valgum (“knock-knees”). During dynamic movements like landing or pivoting, females frequently demonstrate greater inward knee collapse than males, heavily elevating ACL injury risks

Amrex Ultrasound Therapy:

Deep Healing Power.

At San Leandro Chiropractor office settings, therapeutic ultrasound is a popular modality for knee conditions. Amrex ultrasound units (such as the Synchro Sonic U/50 or combo models) are reliable, portable devices widely used in clinics. They deliver high-frequency sound waves that penetrate deep into tissues, promoting:

  • Increased blood circulation
  • Reduced inflammation and swelling
  • Enhanced tissue repair and flexibility
  • Pain relief through thermal and non-thermal effects

For chondromalacia patella, ultrasound helps soothe irritated tissues around the patellofemoral joint and supports cartilage health indirectly by improving the environment for healing. Treatments are comfortable, often combined with electrical stimulation for better results, and sessions typically last 10–15 minutes. Many patients report noticeable pain reduction and improved mobility after a course of therapy.

Chondroitin Sulfate: Nutritional Support for Cartilage

Chondroitin sulfate, a natural component of cartilage, is a popular supplement for joint health. Taken orally (often 800–1200 mg daily, sometimes paired with glucosamine), it may help by:

  • Slowing cartilage breakdown
  • Reducing inflammation
  • Supporting the synthesis of new cartilage matrix
  • Improving joint lubrication and shock absorption

Research, including MRI studies on knee osteoarthritis (closely related to chondromalacia), shows chondroitin can reduce cartilage volume loss and bone marrow lesions over months. While results vary, many individuals with knee pain experience less stiffness and better function. It’s generally safe with few side effects, making it a valuable addition to conservative care. Always consult a healthcare provider before starting supplements.

Integrating These Approaches for Best Results

A comprehensive plan might include chiropractic adjustments 1–2 times weekly, Amrex ultrasound sessions, targeted physical therapy exercises (like closed-chain quad strengthening and hip abductor work), activity modification, and daily chondroitin supplementation. Ice, rest from aggravating activities, and weight management further support recovery. Most people see improvement within weeks to months with consistent conservative care. If you’re struggling with kneecap pain, consult a qualified chiropractor or sports medicine specialist for personalized evaluation. Early intervention can help you return to pain-free movement and avoid long term issues like arthritis.

Chia Seeds Superfood and Health Benefits for a Human Body

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Chia Seeds Superfood and Health Benefits for a Human BodyChia Seeds Superfood and Health Benefits for a Human Body

Chia seeds are tiny black seeds from the plant Salvia Hispanica, which is related to mint. This plant grows natively in South America. Chia seeds were an important food for the Aztecs and Mayans back in the day. They prized them for their ability to provide sustainable energy … in fact, “chia” is the ancient Mayan word for “strength.”

Despite their ancient history as a dietary staple, only recently did chia seeds become recognized as a modern day superfood. In the past few years, they have exploded in popularity and are now consumed by health conscious people all over the world.

Chia Seeds were largely unknown in North America until researcher Wayne Coates began studying chia as an alternative crop for farmers in northern Argentina about 29 years ago.

Coates started his work on chia in 1991, and since then has become an advocate of the tiny seed’s health benefits. The human trials are limited —as is often the case with food research— but the anecdotal evidence of chia’s positive health effects include boosting energy, stabilizing blood sugar, aiding digestion, and lowering cholesterol.

Chia seeds are among the healthiest foods on the planet. They are loaded with nutrients that can have important benefits for your body and brain.  Chia Seeds are rich in fiber, omega-3 fats, protein, vitamins and minerals such as:

Dietary fiber (11g – 42% recommended daily value)

Protein (4.4g – 9% RDV)

Omega-3 fatty acids (4915 mg)

Omega-6 fatty acids (1620 mg)

Calcium (77 mg – 18% RDV)

Copper (0.1 mg – 3% RDV)

Phosphorus (265 mg – 27% RDV)

Potassium (44.8 mg – 1% RDV)

Zinc (1.0 mg – 7% RDV)

Chia also contains essential fatty acids alpha-linolenic and linoleic acid, mucin, strontium, Vitamins A, B, E, and D, and minerals including sulphur, iron, iodine,  magnesium, manganese, niacin, thiamine, and they are a rich source of antioxidants.

This is particularly impressive when you consider that this is just a single ounce, which supplies only 137 calories and one gram of digestible carbohydrate! Just so that we’re all on the same page, 1 ounce equals 28 grams, or about 2 tablespoons.

Interestingly … if you subtract the fiber, which may not end up as usable calories for the body, chia seeds only contain 101 calories per ounce. This makes them one of the world’s best sources of several important nutrients, calorie for calorie.

Buying Tips
You can find chia at any Whole Foods Market, health food stores, and well-stocked supermarkets like Kroger. Some of the more widely available chia seed brands include The Chia Co., Nutiva, and Bob’s Red Mill. All chia seeds are naturally vegan and gluten-free, but check the packaging if you want to buy seeds that are certified organic and non-GMO. Look for seeds that are either a speckled black or white, but not uniformly brown. The Chia Co. founder John Foss explains brown chia seeds are immature seeds that haven’t had a chance to mature properly, and this can result in fewer nutritional benefits and give the seeds a bitter taste.

How to Store
Chia seeds have a long shelf life, and will keep for several years when stored in a cool, dry place. Easy!

Healthy Eating Habit Tips

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Healthy Eating Habit Tips

Healthy Eating Habit Tips

This is a guest post By Beth Ellyn Rosenthal about Healthy Eating Habit Tips

“The doctor of the future will give no medicine but will interest his patients in the care of the human frame, in diet, and in the cause and prevention of disease.”

Thomas Edison    

Want to eat yourself healthy? You can, thanks to the immutable laws of endocrinology.

Science has proven how smoking can cause lung cancer and excess drinking can hurt your liver.  And just one touch of a leaf of a poison ivy plant can lead to irrational itching.

The same principle applies to becoming healthy. You can literally eat yourself back into bio balance if  you know what to eat. The theory is: if you understand how your body functions, you can use that knowledge to heal naturally. In fact, you have to return to biochemical equilibrium before you can fix any health problem without the intervention of drugs.

However, you do have to be patient. Natural cures take months, sometimes a year. But then  you fix the problem forever, as long as you control what you put into your mouth.

Here are some examples:

Weight loss

 If you need to lose weight, you must recalibrate your metabolism. The only way to do this is get your body back into biobalance.

You have to get six trace elements that need to be balanced in order for your body to behave appropriately. Otherwise, they will create a biochemical road block that will keep you heavier than you’d like forever.

These six elements are:

People having trouble losing weight are typically toxic with calcium and copper and deficient in the other four elements. So, eat cherries (to increase iron), stop eating chocolate (it’s high in copper, and that will be the hardest one), shake black pepper on everything (increases chromium), eat more bananas (potassium) and seafood (magnesium), and keep the salmon to a minimum (calcium).

PMS, Hot Flashes, Night Sweats and Menopause Symptoms:

 All are caused by a copper/zinc imbalance, which leads to too much estrogen and not enough progesterone in the body.

Most Western women are toxic with copper and don’t have enough zinc. The fix is easy: cut out the foods high in copper, especially during PMS week, and eat more of the foods loaded with zinc.

Female infertility

(If all the parts are working) is caused by a copper/zinc imbalance, too.

Female hair loss

Caused  by a copper/zinc, sodium/potassium and/or a calcium/magnesium imbalance. Sorry, educated eating won’t stop male hair loss but it will slow the process!

Osteoporosis

Is caused by over 30 difficult biochemical imbalances. Not enough calcium is one. So is too much calcium. But the big cause is too much copper. (Swim in the ocean because most pools use copper algaecide. And grapes are for the birds, literally. They are loaded with copper.)

It only takes 21 days to change a habit. Changing what you put in your mouth can change your life.

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Obesity and Google Plus Thread

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OBESE MAN
Mitzi Vines  –  Nov 4, 2011  – Somebody needs to offer this guy some help!
James King – I look at this picture and wonder why anybody would allow themselves to become like this.
Shannon Fortenberry  –  I think he’s a hottie! 😉
Eduard Burt  –  Does he really need to eat more? He looks pretty bloated already.
David DeVore  –  There are lots of factors for why people get fat, most of the time they don’t “allow” themselves to get that way. Thin people don’t get it Nov 5, 2011    +2
Mitzi Vines  –  I know why I have stretch marks (not from kids, 180 in 7th grade) & it’s from donuts, little debbie cakes & southern eating. That reminds me everyday why I eat healthy & workout. YOU make the choice what goes in your body. I have too many obese people in my family & it’s by their choice!!!!! You don’t go to an all you can eat buffet & get 5 plates of food……Duh, your gonna look like the guy in the picture. Nov 5, 2011
Mark Young  –  Obesity is a disease of psychology not physiology. As soon as people get that we’ll on our way to a solution rather than telling them to eat less and move more. I’m pretty sure they’ve heard that before. Nov 5, 2011
Mitzi Vines  –  I totally disagree. Your not born with nore can get obesity. You get a disease. You don’t get obese! YOU make yourself obese!
Same as I said above. 2 aunts of mine, obese most of their life (by eating too much) were told by dr that if they didn’t do someting they would die. So what happened. They changed their eating habits, started walking & Bam they lost weight! It’s been proved too many times that it works!
Nov 5, 2011
Mark Young  –  I agree that obesity is caused by an intake that is greater than output. But the real solution can only be reached when we figure out WHY people are eating more and exercising less and addressing those issues.Truth be told, telling people to eat less and exercise more rarely solves the problem. Obese people do know this. They aren’t necessarily stupid and/or lazy. Obesity can be protection from a history of abuse, it can be cause by treating loneliness with food, it can be caused by non-walkable communities. There are so many factors.But ultimately, I think we need to stop criticizing obese as though this form of discrimination were any different than insulting gays or people of any other race or religion. Rarely does tearing anyone down build them up.And I’m happy for your aunts that have lost weight. But it is important to remember that 95% of people who lose weight will regain some or all of that weight within a year. The solution is not simple…and it certainly doesn’t come from insulting those who are in the most need of help. Nov 5, 2011   +3
Dave Ward  –  Good points. I also think people simply do not understand what happens when they eat certain foods, most particularly simple carbs and sugar. In my experience, when people understand the metabolic process associated with food intake and what happens after they swallow, they start to change. The care and feeding of the human body isn’t that hard. People just don’t know how to do it. We shouldn’t be surprised. We teach kids simple arithmetic, but not how to balance a budget. We drill them in PE, but don’t teach basic nutritional theory (not that the Food Pyramid would help much). Therefore, it shouldn’t be a big shock that our Government can’t balance their budget and our people can’t figure out how to eat. Obesity is far more complex than education, but in my experience working with people that are very overweight, few of them understand these issues. They focus on calories in and calories out, but are unaware that calories are simply not created equal. In any event, isolating people and making them feel less than “normal” doesn’t help. It’s part of the problem and we need to be part of the solution.  Nov 5, 2011    +3
David DeVore  –  Eating is addictive, for some more so than drugs. Our culture promotes recreational eating, because people will buy more if they enjoy it. On top of the marketing agenda, most of the processed foods we eat today have chemicals in them that make them addictive. When people have low self-esteem (because they don’t look like a magazine model), people can become depressed. Eating is a favorite way for people to cope with depression, because it releases endorphin’s for a little bit, which will make the person think they feel better when they eat. Another factor that causes people to eat chronically is stress, and we are the most stressed out now than we have ever been, as a nation. People often resort to stress-eating because of the same endorphin high, but also because of the dopamine, which temporarily calms people down. The other reason people overeat is because the processed foods most people eat, because of whatever reason, is calorie rich, and nutrient poor. So the body is going to keep sending hunger signals because people are mal-nourished, even while being over-fed. I agree, people must be accountable for their lives, but it is shallow to look at them and think they are dumb for being flawed.  Nov 5, 2011    +3
Dave Ward  –  Very true +David DeVore. When I explain this fact to people they are absolutely surprised. The food companies label their food in such deceptive ways. They use buzz words like “Fat Free”, “No Sugar Added” and “Gluten Free” on foods that shouldn’t have any of that in them anyway. The label has a big “FAT FREE” sign on it, but the food is loaded with sugar. People pick that up and think they are putting something good in their body. It’s a massive misinformation campaign designed to keep people eating more and more food that they think is healthy for them, but is not. Tony Horton told me once “eat more things with one ingredient in them, like a strawberry. You know what that is, because it’s a strawberry. You don’t need to google that.”Nov 5, 2011    +3
Mitzi Vines  –  So very true +David DeVore & +Dave Ward Very good info & points. I totally agree. I had a lady that told me that she literally thought Micky D’s was trying to make her fat. I laughed (to myself) but then tried to explain how much money she could save & better choices she could make by cooking at home. It’s all about trying to educate & help people!  Nov 5, 2011
Eduard Burt  –  Excellent points everyone. Individuals must understand what they eat and make educated choices of what goes inside of their bodies. After all we are what we eat. I think I might use this thread for a new blog post and include everyone’s profile in it. If anyone objects please let me know. Nov 5, 2011  +1
Dave Ward  –  Cool with me. Off to roast some calories with some sprints and my kettlebell on the beach.  Nov 5, 2011    +2
Eduard Burt  –  Awesome +Dave Ward. Going to ride my single Speed MTB before 6 hours flight to NYC   Nov 5, 2011  +1
Andre Deveaux  –  Until you dig deep into the psyche of why a person overeats, it is difficult to have them adopt a healthy lifestyle. It is not as simple as cutting calories and increasing activity. There are so many different factors in play that often such a simplistic solution just will not address the true problem. Overeating for the most part is not the problem, but a symptom of a more serious problem.  Nov 5, 2011    +2
Mitzi Vines  –  Ok with me too +Eduard Burt Today is my rest day but may have to go jump on the Treadmill!!!!!  Nov 5, 2011
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