A Word of Advice: Before you decide to get your breasts enhanced, you need to know this about your posture. If your head is set forward, and you have a hunchback type curve in your upper back, you could be at risk for more headaches, neck pain, upper back pain, carpel tunnel syndrome, and degeneration! The average enhancement weighs approximately 350cc. When the weight of the enhancement is combined with the weight of your head, you are more prone to trigger points for pain and degeneration in your spine. Ultimately, you should consult a chiropractor before you consider a breast enhancement to ensure that you have proper posture. Correcting your posture before receiving your enhancement will increase your chances for a more beautiful enhancement and less problems in the future.
Chiropractics is a Proactive Approach to Healthcare
A nurse practitioner came into our office and talked to me about the differences between chiropractics and our present healthcare system with medicine. He said that their approach was more of a reactive type of approach to healthcare as opposed to a proactive type of approach to healthcare. The reactive type is when your body’s breaking down, you’re starting to get symptoms, and you need a first-aid situation, like medication or surgery. This course of healthcare is the most expensive and the least effective, because it doesn’t really get to the cause. This was pointed out by the nurse practitioner, which I believe is an accurate portrayal of our present form of healthcare with medicine.
What we do here at Bates Chiropractic is more proactive, because we practice corrective care. Corrective care is designed to correct the cause so that the body can self correct and heal on its own.
More on that later, but for now, just a friendly reminder that our Nutrition Talk will be held @ the Manhattan Beach Library on Tuesday, April 20th @ 6:45pm. Call us @ (310) 545-4188 to reserve a seat for you and your loved ones.
Cervical Herniated Disc – Disc Injuries and Chiropractic Care
Individuals, engaged in strenuous everyday tasks of lifting and shifting heavy loads, and operating machines and computers for long hours on end, run a high risk of experiencing spinal disc injuries. Injuries in the spine or neck region tend to cause extreme pain and hindrance in the movement of the back or neck. Cervical herniated disc is a medical condition in which the patient feels excruciating pain in the neck, due to a slipped disc. Chiropractors provide invasive treatment methods for relieving the pain in the neck and spinal areas of the body.
What Is A Cervical Herniated Disc?
It is a medical condition, in which the individual suffers from extreme pain in the neck, and sometimes shoulder region, due to a slipped disc or pressure on a nerve. Cervical herniated disc injuries are less common than a lumbar herniated disc, which affects the lower region of the body. A cervical herniated disc condition is in the neck region of the body.
The 7 applicable vertebra of the spine are termed as C1 to C7, in a descending manner, for medical convenience. Between every two vertebra, a disc is located which serves as shock absorbers for the spine. The exertion and pressure on the neck and spine of the body causes swelling or bulging of the disc which might in extreme cases, even cause the disc to rupture, resulting in severe disc injuries.
The swelling and bulging of the disc exerts pressure on the nerves, which results in extreme pain in the neck and back region, hampering movement of the affected individual. A slipped disc or cervical herniated disc in the vertebra segment of C4 to C5 causes nerve root impingement, which results in pain in the upper shoulder or arm, hindering movement. Any swelling in the cervical segment of C5 to C6 results in weakening the front arm muscles, also called biceps, and causes a numbing and tingling pain in the wrist. It is the most common area in which a cervical herniated disc condition occurs.
The herniation of the discs in the C6 to C7 vertebra results in creating painful sensations in the back muscles of the arm, also called triceps, which extends all over the hand, causing pain up to the fingers. Any disc herniation in the C7 to T1 region, results in affecting the control and grip of the hand, with a tingling pain and numb sensation throughout.
Chiropractic Care
Chiropractic care and treatment methods are highly effective for different musculoskeletal disorders and spinal disc injuries, experienced by individuals because of over exertion and engagement in strenuous activities. Chiropractors provide services for joint and muscle adjustment and pain relief.
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Backaches Can Save Your Life!
Last time we talked about the study in the Journal of Human Hypertension that showed how a chiropractic adjustment can lower blood pressure. A bone can be out of alignment in the neck, called a subluxation, and it could actually cause the body to have high blood pressure. But it can also cause a lot of other things.
When we talked to people that have come in with backaches, they had subluxations that may have created other problems, such as high blood pressure, stomach problems, heart problems, lung problems, digestion problems, reproductive problems, even immunological problems. That could all be from a subluxation!
How can that be? Let me show you the science behind that:
When you have a subluxation, a bone goes out of alignment that can interfere with the messages going down the nerve. We need these messages to go from the brain down through the spinal chord out the nerves to allow proper function to happen.
The way the neurological pathway works is you have the upper cervical mechanical receptors, when the spine is out of alignment, you adjust that area and it actually affects the mechanical receptors, which will affect the nucleus intermedius, which affects the nucleus tractus solitarius, it goes down the line to the dorsal nucleus of the vagus nerve, and that’s key because that’s going to affect the parasympathetic efferents, which affects the heart, the lungs, the intestines, the immune system, even the reproductive system. So, a subluxation can affect those pathways through the autonomic nervous system.
Some people, such as those in the study regarding high blood pressure, have no pain at all, yet have health problems; however, most people who go into a chiropractor’s office usually have some pain. They are lucky enough to have pain, because they have subluxations that may be creating other problems with the particular organs mentioned, and getting adjusted helps those areas too. It’s a secondary effect that they didn’t know they were going to get. There’s a lot of medical research that backs that up!
If you notice the chart in the video, it shows how subluxations in the thoracic spine can affect the lungs, the stomach, the gallbladder, the heart, and the kidneys. There is a lot of research that shows how what one would think to be a medical condition can actually have been created by a subluxation.
I’m not saying that correcting the subluxations is a panacea, but when you have that nerve interference, like what we talked about, no drug is going to correct the cause; you have to go to a chiropractor to find out.
So, it’s really important to get checked, regardless if you’re experiencing symptoms or not. That’s why some people can have a backache that can actually save their life. Think of a backache as a blessing in disguise.
Chiropractic Can Reduce Blood Pressure!
Web MD Health States:
Chiropractic Reduces Blood Pressure!
Web MD Health has stated that chiropractic adjustments lowered blood pressure!
According to a study in the Journal of Human Hypertension, test subjects had specific chiropractic adjustments applied to their upper neck area. They had absolutely no neck pain, but suffered from high blood pressure. 88% of the people who received the specific adjustment saw an average of 8-14 mm Hg (Mercury) drop in their blood pressure. This drop would take the equivalent of two prescription drugs to get the same results as this one adjustment.
A follow up study done 8 weeks down the line showed that blood pressure levels were still lowered. The equivalent to that would be approximately 112 pills taken over the course of 8 weeks to get the same results. Incredible!
Also, they found that the study had a zero placebo effect, meaning the test subjects who received the sham adjustment did not see a drop in their blood pressure.
In other words, you could have some areas that are out of alignment in your spine that are creating central nerve system pressure – called a subluxation – and have no neck pain or no pain that one may associate to the spine, which could actually create malfunction to the body, like hyper-tension. That’s what they’re finding; that’s what is so powerful about this study.
If you want to hear more contact us at www.chiropractormanhattanbeach.com or call us at (310) 545 – 4188.