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Sep 19 2019

Chiropractic – Helping Athletes get Back on the Horse Faster

Over 15% of Americans (40 million) have sought chiropractic care before and are likely to do so again. One of the most prominent reasons why people seek chiropractic care is to treat their Sports injuries. When their injuries recover faster, they can return to their routine faster – get back on the horse. Here is a closer look at how it is helping athletes get back on the horse faster than ever.

Alleviating Sprains and Joint Pain

Professional athletes always want to ‘get back on the horse’ faster than they should. While this attitude is commendable, it is not advisable. To numb they pain, they seek painkillers. However, these only numb the pain rather than alleviate it. As such, they return to their routine, free of pain but not free of their injury. As such, they are now more prone than before to sports injuries.

This is, in fact, one of the primary reasons why an increasing number of athletes are choosing chiropractic treatment. Not only do they feel their pain subside, different chiropractic treatment help prevent such sports injuries from occurring again. Such treatments are highly effective for athletes prone to repetitive motion injury. Such sports include bowling, tennis, cricket, soccer and weightlifting.

Chiropractic helps prevent sports injuries by helping the body heal itself faster. Using advance techniques such as joint mobilization and Kinesio taping, athletes can return to training faster. More importantly, they can return to their routine with a reduced risk of injury rather than an increased.

Correcting Spinal Injuries

Possibly one of the most common sports injuries is that of spinal injuries, often incurred during strenuous athletic activity or a traumatic hit. Most athletic people push themselves harder every day. While this gets results, it also strains you back, making it more susceptible to spinal injuries. Pushed too hard, it may damage spinal alignment.

As such, chiropractors use a number of techniques, known as spinal manipulation, in order to bring the spine back into alignment, increase its range of motion, alleviate pain and help the spine heal itself.

As a field of alternative medicine, and the third-largest primary healthcare industry, after doctor and dentistry, chiropractic has become not only widely accepted but sought out. With over 40 million Americans seeking, it’s no wonder why athletes are using it. For athletes who want to get ‘back on the horse,’ chiropractic treatment comes highly recommended.

Sports by Lisa Runnels

Sep 19 2019

Chiropractor Greenville shares shoulder exercises for beginners.

Here is a simple exercise that you can do at home with no equipment.
It works the areas related to the shoulder such as deltoid – anterior, deltoid – lateral, pec major – clavical head, and coracobrachialis muscles.
The purpose of this exercise is to Increase shoulder strength and muscular endurance. By doing this exercise you can have the benefits of Improved stability, functional strength and injury p
Begin on floor on hands and knees.
Hips should be above knees and shoulders above hands. Attain a straight spine position.
Activate core muscles. While maintaining a straight spine, reach forward until arm is at shoulder level. Slowly return to start position.
Repeat for prescribed repetitions and sets.

Sep 19 2019

Relationships and Bad Habits

You know, having a fully supportive relationship is the dream of many people. Finding that one person who just “gets” you no matter what! And yet, statistics don’t lie. For every one couple who is in a healthy, happy, and long-lasting relationship, two to three others are not. How, exactly, do you prevent that from happening to you?
There is no magic wand that can be waved and save any relationship. No checklist that will prevent problems in the future. But there are a couple of habits that can prevent you from living that ‘happy ever after’ life that you may have dreamed about. Check them out and see if you might be guilty of one or more of them:
No conflict, no arguments, no confrontation. On the surface, this sounds idyllic! I love the idea of never disagreeing with someone. No fights. No disagreements. No bad days. But guess what . . . That’s the type of thing you might find on the fiction rack at Walgreens. You aren’t going to find it in a real relationship. There is no way in the world you are going to put two healthy human beings into a single relationship and not have some kind of conflict.
My first conflict with my husband was over how to cook scrambled eggs. Apparently he had enough time to sit over the stove and “worry” those darn eggs to death. By the time they were plated, they were the size of couscous and cold. My experience with scrambled eggs came from the fact that I lived in a very large family, and if the 15 eggs in the pan got turned more than two or three times meant they weren’t going to get burned. I was used to huge chunks of very hot eggs on my plate. See where I’m going here? Neither way was right or wrong. It’s what we got used to. I finally realized that to keep the peace, I could finesse my husband’s eggs the way he wanted, and keep mine whole and we both enjoyed our Sunday mornings quite nicely.
But other things simply must be discussed and talked out. Yes, this is confrontation, but it does not have to be hostile.
The second biggest problem is something I worked very hard with during our early years. My father helped me with it because my husband and I lived quite a distance from my family. He said, “If you and your husband are fighting, please don’t involve us. Because we will want to protect you. You may make up five miles down the road, but because we don’t know, we’re still mad at your husband, and for you, everything is fine.”
My father gave me many pieces of phenomenal advice, and that was one of the best. I did have to train my husband, however, to stop calling his sister or his mother any time we had a conflict. It didn’t solve the conflict and only served to drive a wedge between me and his family. After a couple of years of being away from family, we learned to turn to each other when trouble hit. But it didn’t happen without concerted effort on the part of both of us.
And the last thing I learned was to make sure that life didn’t get so serious we forgot why we got together in the first place. Most people are attracted to their life-long mates because there was an element of fun and zest when the two of you got together. After starting a life together, it’s altogether too easy to forget to make time for fun and romance. Life can be hard work, but it doesn’t have to be hard all the time.
Just the other day, my husband of many, many years was upset about a review at work. We were going to go to the hardware store for a chore the next day. But sizing up the situation, I suggest a drive to a town an hour and a half away from us. There the weather was cooler, rainy (which we both love) and had a brew pub we both enjoyed. What started as a ho-hum day turned into an adventure where we both remembered once again why we were together.

Survey Check List by Circe Denyer

Sep 19 2019

Best chiropractic care techniques for neck pain

Chiropractic care is a kind of treatment that is non-surgical and is commonly used in relieving neck pain and other related problems. It is common for people to experience stiff necks at one point in their daily operations. If you slept with your head tilted in the wrong direction, it could be the first thing you experience in the morning.

However, it is important to learn that there is a difference between a stiff neck and one that hurts badly. Whether yours is the former or the latter, there is where you should draw the line and decide to seek consultation from a qualified chiropractor.

Some of the gentle chiropractic techniques include:

· Cervical mobilization

In this technique, the patient will lie with their back. While in this position, the chiropractor will gently move the neck vertebra from left side to right. This is accompanied by alternating side to side while the head is moved forward and backward. The best part of this technique is its mild nature and its main goal is to increase motion in areas between the cervical bones. It helps to reduce fixations in these parts hence making your neck flexible again.

· Cervical manual traction

In this method, the patient lays with their face up. In other cases, they could be sitting or less common, lying on their stomach. While the patient lies in this position, the chiropractor will slowly pull the neck which in turn stretches the cervical spine. There are various angles of doing this while moving the neck back and forth. The chiropractor seeks for the most comfortable point where they can reduce the tightness.

· Cervical “drop” technique

This is a technique where the patient either lies on their stomach or performed on a uniquely customized table where the head is lifted into a locked position. Once set, the doctor will then place their hand over the spinal muscle that required adjustment. The doctor then uses low amplitude thrust ranging from low to high velocity. The ultimate aim is to minimize the restricted movement of the vertebra. Twisting or rotation of the head is not common for this type of chiropractic technique.

Reasons for chiropractor’s technique choice

1. Patient’s preference

There are those patients who will not feel comfortable with the high velocity thrust manipulation. In fact, many patients have always preferred the mild approach which doesn’t involve all the thrusting.

2. Experience of the provider

There are times when a chiropractor will favor a particular technique due to their vast experience in its application. In many instances, these doctors will adapt and modify their techniques in order to suit the preferences and needs of their patient.

3. Contraindications

Due to their past experience, there are patients who might be able to stomach the old techniques. Also, if there was a previous injury, cervical manipulation may not be the best approach for a case like this one.

Woman And Hat By George Hodan

Sep 19 2019

Feeling Anxious? Try This

The first time I experienced a feeling of anxiety or panic so profound that I wondered at my own sanity was during a holiday season. My husband and I were shopping at a mall where there was a store that specialized in holiday decorating and holiday themed merchandise.

I figured this would be a perfect place to not only get some decorations for our home, but perhaps to do a little shopping for other people. At first I didn’t notice how many people were there, but after a time of being in the store I began to pant. I felt that I couldn’t catch my breath. I began to remove my coat, my sweater, anything I could because I felt so hot.

The feeling of pressure on my chest was almost excruciating.

Suddenly I felt my husband’s presence next to me. “Are you OK?” he asked.

“Of course, I’m fine.” It was my standard answer. Mainly because I didn’t recognize that I was having a bit of a panic attack.

I knew that I had trouble with elevators, but it had never expanded to the point where I felt panicked while I was in a larger crowd of people.

Fortunately for me, my husband’s father suffered from claustrophobia. I would never have given myself that label. But his gentle words and touch got me out of the store without the things I held in my hands. I didn’t event regret leaving them behind.

My only goal was to get out of that store.

“Are you claustrophobic?” he asked me.

His question brought me up short. I had never considered myself to be claustrophobic. Sure, I don’t like elevators, and if I’m waiting for one and it appears full when it opens, I smile, wave them along saying cheerfully, “I’ll just wait for the next one!”

To me, I was just being polite.

But after that event, I began to notice that I do have trouble with anxiety when too many people are around me. If I were to attend a church ceremony, I need to be within two people of the aisle or I would begin to feel sick. I just thought I was truly ill.

Not so.

It turns out that I suffered from a level of anxiety related to claustrophobia. I do remember my brothers packing me into a cardboard box when I was about four. They put me into a closet and I couldn’t get out. It was only my screams that brought adult intervention to release me. I had forgotten about that episode.

Now that I know I have an anxiety problem, I set about trying to figure out how to manage it.

The first step is to simply recognize it for what it is. I would acknowledge that I felt uncomfortable, and that often allowed me to hold it together long enough say to check out of a store.

Then I began to practice breathing techniques. When we are anxious, we tend to breathe very shallowly. I learned to practice deep breathing techniques, and by focusing on my breath, I was able to hold off increasing feelings of panic and anxiety.

Other times, when I knew what I was feeling, but I couldn’t seem to breathe through it, I would just leave the environment and either walk or if it was possible, run for a few minutes to stop the cycle of panic that I felt.

Sometimes, I could also focus on other people, what they wanted, what they needed to get my mind out of my own panic. It didn’t often work, but I really worked at it, and the more I developed empathy for others, the less I experienced feelings of anxiety.

And nature is my salvation. If I can escape to a park, to a beach where I can regulate my breathing to the lap of the water against the sand, I feel an immediate sense of calm. As a result, I use a recording of waves against a beach as my “go to sleep” sound. Since I have started using that sound of nature to sleep, I have found myself better able to manage my feelings of anxiety in public.

Headache by Petr Kratochvil

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