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If You Suffer From Hip Pain, Your Corona Chiropractor Offers Chiropractic Treatment That Can Help You Get Out Of Pain Now!
May 14th
Your Corona Chiropractor offers a highly successful non-invasive, drug-free approach to decreasing hip pain and often eliminating it altogether. As most of us know, surgery should be a last resort whenever possible. Therefore, before you schedule a surgery to replace that hip, think about the following questions: Does hip pain keep you up in the night and make it impossible for you to get a good night’s sleep? When you get up in the morning, and/or when you step out of your car, are you stiff and do you find it difficult at first to get your legs moving properly? Do you feel pain in one or both hips when you cross your legs or rotate or twist your hips? If so, you may have imbalances and alignment problems in your lower extremities that, in addition to causing your hip pain, can lead to osteoarthritis in your hips in the future if not treated. The good news is that whether or not degenerative changes have already started, chiropractic treatment can help!
You may be getting older and it may be true that your hip joints aren’t what they used to be. But, are you aware that your hip pain and related problems, which are thought to be age-related degenerative conditions, may not actually be produced by osteoarthritis? That’s right. In fact, rather than being the original source of your condition, osteoarthritis of the hip joint is typically the result of a earlier injury (or injuries) to your hips.
More often than not, hip problems have to do with asymmetry or imbalance when you are in motion, as when you are walking. If you “pronate” when you walk, like a duck, with your toes pointing away from your body, sooner or later you will develop pain in your hips as a result of the asymmetrical pressure on your hip joints and your body’s efforts to compensate. Fortunately, you can make changes in your gait pattern at any age, and your chiropractor in Corona can help you to do it.
Furthermore, you may have undergone gait changes due to an ankle sprain or knee strain, and since “the knee bone’s connected to the hip bone,” these biomechanical alterations cause pain in the hip(s). Of course, if not corrected, your hip joints will suffer further consequences, i.e, wear and tear that creates degenerative changes.
Other circumstances that can occasionally injure the hip joints are starting a new job or beginning a new sport that requires you to move your body in uncommon ways. Also, carrying a child (or grandchild) on one hip can cause hip pain. Even your sitting position or driving for prolonged periods of time on a regular basis can cause hip injury and pain.
See? Not every pain is caused by “old age,” even though we may start to feel more pain as a consequence of the progressive nature of untreated injuries.
Your chiropractor in Corona will treat our hip problem directly, and as part of your chiropractic management will offer individualized rehabilitative exercises that include gentle muscle stretching and strengthening, and will also evaluate your gait and may recommend simple pattern changes.
Your hip pain won’t vanish on its own. Hip pain is a signal that something needs correcting. If neglected, more than likely that you will eventually require that hip replacement surgery. So, don’t put off until tomorrow, what truly needs to be done today. Your Corona Chiropractor can relieve your hip pain, get your body back into balance, and help you get to back to enjoying your life again!
Wichita Chiropractor Reveals How Chiropractic Treatment Can End The Pain of Sciatica
May 1st
I know from over twenty years experience as a Chiropractor in Wichita helping individuals suffering from the pain of sciatica that the condition can be extremely disabling. Those who suffer from sciatica are regrettably all too familiar with the type of deep pain that often radiates through the lower part of their body, persists during the day and interferes with almost all of their daily activities.
Could your low back pain be caused by sciatica? You are more than likely experiencing 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 your leg(s), and possibly shoots into your knee(s). Also, sitting, as well as activity, can be painful. Frequently lying down will reduce, or perhaps even temporarily eliminate the pain. But, you should be alerted to the fact that sciatica cannot be corrected without proper management.
Radiculopathy
A radiculopathy is a medical term that describes a condition where a disc has protruded from its natural position in the vertebral column and is creating pressure on the radicular nerve, or nerve root, that forms part of the sciatic nerve in the lower back. Such pressure can generate excruciating pain.
Prolonged sitting, particularly in an improper position, can create imbalances in the muscles encircling the spine and added pressure on the intervertebral discs. A particular event or injury isn’t usually the cause of sciatica, but rather sciatica is likely to progress over time as a consequence of everyday wear and tear on the structures of the lower spine. Over the course of time the lower spine can lose its normal functioning capabilities during common stresses.
Ultimately, the intervertebral disc undergoes small fissures or cracks, which then allow the soft nucleus to protrude the disc outward. Pain is generated as the disc pushes on sensitive tissues. This occurrence is frequently referred to as a ruptured, or slipped, disc. Sciatica is the result of the disc pressing on the spinal nerve. With chiropractic treatment and management, which frequently includes postural exercises, the majority of disc problems, including sciatica, can be completely relieved.
Periformis Syndrome
Another condition that creates sciatic pain is periformis syndrome. Periformis syndrome develops when the periformis muscle, which is superficial to the sciatic nerve, goes into spasm and irritates the nerve. In addition to chiropractic adjustments, this particular sciatica can be significantly relieved by sciatica stretches that your chiropractor will advise you on.
If you are experiencing sciatic pain, it is crucial for you to see your chiropractor for treatment. If you are in the Wichita area, as your Chiropractor in Wichita, I look forward to helping you to get out of pain and get your life back!
Cincinnati Chiropractor Advises: Get Your Balance Checked to Avoid Work Injuries
Apr 22nd
At my Cincinnati Chiropractic Clinic I treat a lot of elders who are challenged by balance problems. In fact, nine percent of adults, aged 65 and older, are affected by dizziness, “wooziness,” and other balance-related problems. Good balance is crucial, of course, in aiding older adults to stay independent and to avoid falling down and incurring injuries that are commonly very 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. In fact, those who work in “high places” like construction workers, roofers, oil platform employees, windows cleaners, or any other place where a ladder is required are in danger of serious injury if their balance is “off.”
The essential action 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 aids us in walking without faltering, arising from a sitting position without swaying, and in climbing stairs without missing a step. To sum it up, then, good balance is vital to our health and well-being.
What come as a surprise to you is that you could have a balance dysfunction without realizing how significant it may be. On occasion an individual may be able to “shake off” a dizzy sensation and the feeling may not reoccur for a while. However when unexpected dizziness occurs at a critical time, it is too late to shake it off and a fall is most likely unpreventable.
The sensation by some individuals that they, themselves, are spinning or that objects around them are moving is called “vertigo.” Nearly forty percent of individuals in the U.S. will have at least one experience of dizziness that is serious enough to seek out help from a health professional, like your Chiropractor at Cincinnati Chiropractic. But, if you work at any of the jobs listed above, having a chiropractor check your balance before an episode of dizziness, make adjustments if needed, and then aid you in maintaining good balance, may save you from serious injury or worse.
Balance disorders are dangerous at any age. It is crucial for you to be examined and treated without delay if you think that you may have a possible balance disorder. Often guidelines are helpful. Therefore, if you can answer “yes” to any of the following questions, even if the experience is seldom or infrequent, you should 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 confined to a particular age group. From the time we learn to walk until we take our final step, our falling down is possible. 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 Cincinnati area, give Cincinnati Chiropractic a call today!
San Diego Chiropractor Advises: Don’t Let Just a Few Extra Pounds Put Your Joints on Overload
Mar 13th
As a San Diego Chiropractor, 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. What’s the harm in being just a few pounds overweight? As we age, those pounds can add up to a large number of health issues from heart and pulmonary diseases and diabetes to back challenges and joint degeneration. Even a few additional pounds put undue stress on organs, like the heart, as well as on joints in the low back, hips, and knees. Sadly,more than half (62%) of American adults are overweight or obese, according to recent studies. That is a very significant number and an enormous dilemma (no pun intended).
Though we try to pretend otherwise, most of us know that the human body has not evolved to transport a surfeit of weight in the form of body fat. A mere excess of 20 or 30 pounds can veritably overload and encumber the joints and muscles of the body. Added weight in the belly, for instance, requires that the body compensate (counterbalance the weight) by tilting the pelvis forward. The tilt puts pressure on the joints of the low back. Painful inflammation results as this joint compression hinders nerve activity. A larger percentage of individuals that have a “spare tire”experience low back pain caused by a pinched sciatic nerve or spinal misalignments that impinge nerves as a consequence of weight-bearing stresses. If left untreated, misaligned vertebra generally create new arthritic changes in the spine over time, as well as continue to irritate the degenerative changes that have already taken place.
You’ll be happy to hear that chiropractic treatment can help. To begin with the obvious, a healthy body weight is essential in order for the musculoskeletal system to function in the way it is built to. That said, in addition, chiropractic adjustments relieve nerve compression in the spinal column and assist in getting movement back into the joints of the musculoskeletal system, such as in the low back, hips, and knees. And, of course exercise and physical activity are a lot easier, and more beneficial for the body, when the the joints have good mobility and the spine is aligned. The added benefit of exercise the, in addition to helping with weight reduction, it can actually slow the pace of degenerative changes as we age.
Healthcare professionals, like your chiropractor, can talk to you about your diet and exercise choices. In addition to treating people suffering from back pain and joint inflammation, chiropractors can provide expert guidance regarding the kinds of lifestyle changes that can help you to stay healthier, more energetic, and more active through the years. It isn’t a foregone conclusion that arthritis and immobility are just a part of the aging process. The human body was created for a lifetime of pain-free movement.
So, if you’ve been thinking that a few extra pounds won’t hurt, think again! As your chiropractor in San Diego, and someone who cares deeply about your overall health, I’d like to help you to make healthier choices. Make an appointment today!