The Basler Blog

Oct 29
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Feeling vs Function

By | Benefits of Chiropractic

Feeling vs Function

Feeling good vs functioning good!  What is the concept we are going for here?  Excellent Q!  When going to a chiropractor one of the biggest mistakes is that you start to feel good and you stop going.  Well some people say it is addicting to go to a chiropractor or once you go you will always have to go!  You are right!  Because, it is addicting to function at your optimal health!  You do not go to your orthodontist and have braces put on your teeth for two weeks and expect those chompers to be in place do you?  Simply stated, feeling good is just not good enough.  Just because you are feeling good does not mean your body is functioning at its true potential.  As chiropractors we address your causative signs and symptoms.  It is not normal to have irregular menses, high blood pressure, persistent tingling sensations, constipation, headaches, and etc etc.  If your body is functioning and showing signs and symptoms of dysfunction then there is an underlying problem.  Sure you might feel good later or the next day, but it does not mean the problem was taken care of.  If your body is functioning in a way that it shows you signs and symptoms, then that is not normal and regardless of how you look and feel there is dysfunction present.

Chiropractors are concerned with how your body functions as an entire unit.  Let us explain.  You recently go in for a medical check up and yep….you have have high blood pressure.  So, what is the solution?  Put you on anti-hypertensives and focus solely on that “bad” heart of yours.  It just so happens to get worse and you then have to see a cardiologist, who “specializes” in “bad” hearts.  This entire time you could be feeling just fine though, you look good, dress good, and yep you feel great!  However, your function as a unit (body) is not correct.  Chiropractors address your cause of your high blood pressure.  Chiropractors are not going to focus on the heart solely and specifically.  Chiropractors will address the cause of what is controlling your heart to malfunction.  Guess what that happens to be…..your nerves!  High blood pressure just like all signs and symptoms are that….signs and symptoms that dysfunction is apparent in your body.  You could be coming into the office and feeling just dandy.  However, if you have dysfunction in your nerves then you are performing at a lower level then you should be.  For us as a chiropractors feeling good is just not good enough for us to hear.  WE want your body to be functioning at 100%.  Have your nerves checked!

Oct 28
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Ticking Bomb – Low Back Pain

By | Benefits of Chiropractic

Ticking Bomb – Low Back Pain

The ticking time bomb of low back pain.  If you are experiencing low back pain you are not alone.  So many people at one time or another in their life experience low back pain.  Why is low back pain a ticking time bomb?  About 75% of all low back pain cases could have been prevented if proper actions were put in motion.  What about the other 25%?  The other 25% are cases that occur in accidents, traumas, or injuries that are severely acute.  The reason low back pain is a ticking time bomb is because your body allows you to see signs and symptoms way before the sensation of pain even occurs.  Signs and symptoms of actual low back pain that counts as a “tick” of that bomb each time include, irregular menses, cramps, constipation, diarrhea, bloating, digestive issues, infertility, etc etc!  Most people say well those are just “normal” things in my life.  Wrong.  Those signs and symptoms are not normal and their is an underlying issue at hand.  The underlying issue is nerve dysfunction, a subluxation, your body performing lower than it should be.

Why does low back pain not show up first before the signs and symptoms do?  The signs and symptoms that you experience are your first warning signs of pain.  Low back pain and any kind of pain is a sensation that we FEEL.  Low back pain is a ticking time bomb due simply because we neglect the warning signs!  If you neglect the warning signs of low back pain then inevitably you will have the sensation of low back pain.  Where does the chiropractor come into this?  If you are exhibiting signs and symptoms such as some of the ones listed above that means your nerve system is dys-functioning and specifically specific nerves that control those tissues, organs, cells, glands and all their functions.  A chiropractor locates the cause of your signs and symptoms and performs a specific chiropractic adjustment.  The adjustment allows your nerves to  resume connection and establish proper communication to what they control.  No pill, no surgery, no anything can establish proper communication besides the adjustment.  Powerful!  Have your nerves checked to make sure proper communication from your nerves to your body is at optimal function.

Oct 27
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What Is Chiropractic

By | Benefits of Chiropractic

What Is Chiropractic

What is Chiropractic?  Great question!  Chiropractic is the science, art, and philosophy of getting the sick well and keeping the healthy well.  What is chiropractic?  Well, unfortunately in our profession many have mixed thoughts about what is chiropractic.  Important and interesting to remember that the first chiropractic adjustment was not for lower back pain and just consisted of using hands as an instrument.  The reason why many people have mixed up feelings about chiropractic is because chiropractors are not the same!  So, what is chiropractic?  Chiropractic is addressing the causative factors of your distress and dysfunction.  Where does the distress or dysfunction stem from?  It comes from your nerve system.  Your nerve system controls all organs, cell’s, tissues, glands, cycles, and ALL functions of your body!  If you have a bad experience in life and it affects how you function, you have to blame your nerve system.  All diseases processes begin in your inability to adapt from your nerve system.  So, you still kind of didn’t answer the question about what is chiropractic!  Chiropractic focuses on your nerve system and specifically your spinal column.  Chiropractors are nerve system specialists that apply specific chiropractic adjustments to restore your bodies function!  Chiropractic allows your body to work above, down, and inside and out, not outside in (drugs).

What is chiropractic can be a very challenging question to tell people.  Nope, not really!  In our office and many like ours we utilize the Gonstead system which allows us to thoroughly access your nerve system and deliver specific chiropractic adjustments.  Not every chiropractic office utilizes the Gonstead system, which doesn’t mean they don’t perform specific chiropractic adjustments!  What is chiropractic?  Chiropractic is not walking into an office and having nutritional supplements, thera-bands, and hot-packs pushed upon you.  Now, we are not saying there is not a time and place for those extra things, but it is not chiropractic.  Chiropractic is specifically “Done By Hand.”  Once you have a specific chiropractic adjustment those nerves have no other option but to do one thing.  That option is to TURN ON AND HEAL!  What do you mean by heal?  If you have a bone that is causing dysfunction on your nerves, a chiropractic adjustment removes the interference so your nerve heals, which means your body heals!   The healing process is profound and will continue to strengthen your body so you do not have to rely on a crutch! Granted our short blog is just a tip of the iceberg when it comes to answering the question what is chiropractic, but its a start!  Get your nerves checked by a chiropractor!

Oct 21
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Chiropractors In Kalispell

By | Benefits of Chiropractic

Chiropractors In Kalispell

A little possible break in between some informative blogs and actually why Carlson Chiropractic Offices is in Kalispell, Montana.  Dr. Carlson was originally born in Nebraska and then his family moved to Washington.  Dr. Carlson was drew to the area of Kalispell and the opportunities the area provided during his travels.  Dr. Carlson originally upon graduating from Palmer College of Chiropractic opened an office in Washington.  After some years of serving the peeps of Washington, Dr. Carlson decided it was time to move to Kalispell.  At the time chiropractors in Kalispell were very few.  Dr. Carlson’s first office was located in the KM Building and he moved the office to the current location at 410 1st Ave West in the early 2000’s.

Chiropractors in Kalispell are exceeding our expectations now…which is awesome!  Others tend to think that other chiropractors in Kalispell are our competitors.  This is very very very far from the truth.  Chiropractors in Kalispell and in our profession our a collective team.  Who is our competitor?  Western medicine is our competitor.  There are two huge different paradigms when it comes to someones health.  There is Western medicine which has made some huge strides in their care, especially trauma care, crisis care, and emergency care (other than that…).  Then on the other side of the paradigm is chiropractic.  Chiropractic is the study of what causes someone to live naturally and how their body adapts.  Chiropractic has stood the test of time and will continue to grow in our community.  Our body will continue to flourish and continue to get stronger as we continue to accept that our body is self regulating and self healing.  Chiropractors in Kalispell realize that it is our job to get the sick well and keep the healthy strong!

Dr. Basler’s first opportunity to see the mountains was when he was in undergraduate studies and flew to Boise for a football game.  Mountains plus fresh water = awesomeness.  Dr. Basler and his wife Alisha took a huge road-trip out West and found Kalispell snuggled neatly in Northwest Montana.  Dr. Basler graduated from Palmer College of Chiropractic and was on his way to open up his own practice in Kalispell.  It just so happened that Dr. Carlson and Dr. Basler had a chance meeting!  Chiropractors in Kalispell are far from in between.  Having two chiropractors from the same school, utilize the same Gonstead technique, philosophical background, and common principles about chiropractic is very uncommon.  Fate intervened, and we are chiropractors in Kalispell striving to serve our community and get the sick well and keep the healthy well.

Oct 17
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Sciatica The Chiropractic Story

By | Benefits of Chiropractic

Sciatica The Chiropractic Story

The infamous sciatica word.  Let us tell the chiropractor story of sciatica.  It all started a long, long, long, time ago in a place called your nerve system! OK, for real here we go.  Sciatica originates in the spinal column and just so happens to travel / radiate down into your buttock, both buttocks, left leg, right leg, and so on depending on the individual.  The term sciatica is thrown around and can be misunderstood, it is often a catch all phrase for any radiating pain / discomfort for people.  In the chiropractor story, sciatica is actually a set of signs and symptoms that people experience and not a diagnosis.  The sciatic nerve is actually a HUGE nerve that controls your lower body and for some can be about the size of your pinky finger.  If the sciatic nerve becomes irritated then dysfunction occurs in the nerve and you start to experience your signs and symptoms, numbness, tingling, dull aches that can travel down your leg or legs, depending on the dysfunction of the nerve.  Just like everything else with our body, pain is the last thing to show up (unless you are in a major accident or trauma).

Why is pain the last thing to show up in sciatica and everything else?  Your sciatic nerve is designed to keep you functioning and at your optimal level, it is not designed for pain.  Your body will give you warning signs that something is array, however most people neglect those signs until the sciatica shows up with monumental force!  What can a chiropractor do for sciatica?  If you have dysfunction in your nerves than proper function needs to be established.  A spinal subluxation can put pressure and cause dysfunction on your sciatic nerve.  Chiropractors allow your body to heal by performing specific chiropractic adjustments to the area inflamed.  In our office we utilize x-rays to establish the cause of your sciatica and do not chase around your symptoms.  Specific chiropractic adjustments allows your body to heal.  If your structure (spinal column) is off / misaligned then your function (nerve system) is going to be off!

Millions suffer from sciatica, and unfortunately they are misled that their options are dope (drugs) and some form of stretching.  Sure, those might take the edge off and let you feel good for the time being, but the root cause of your signs and symptoms has not been addressed yet.  Properly aligned vertabrea  means that you will have proper communication and actually address the cause of you sciatica.  Chiropractic has been proven over and over again as a safe and non-invasive.  Chiropractor’s don’t have to do any cutting, snipping, medication, or use high tech lasers.  WE address the cause of your sciatica and you become stronger as a direct result.

Oct 15
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Chronic Fatigue

By | Benefits of Chiropractic

Chronic Fatigue

Chronic fatigue is often overlooked by many people.  Signs and symptoms of lethargy, physical and emotional exhaustion, aching joints and muscles are often overlooked.  Just to name a few.  Mid way through the afternoon you start to look at the clock thinking the day is almost over but really isn’t!  Drinking copious amounts of caffeine or some sort of other stimulant can be very negative!  Always remember that your nerve system controls everything you do!  Spinal subluxations can cause chronic fatigue!?  If your nerves are not sending proper communication from your brain through your nerves to all points of your body, you become more susceptible to living a life lesser than you should be.  If a subluxation is present in your body, it can inhibit the flow of impulses (nerve to nerve, nerve to structure communication).  Signs and symptoms of chronic fatigue usually have to be apparent for six months.  If you are waiting for six months to finally establish your diagnosis, you are wasting valuable time.

There has been no proven medical treatment for chronic fatigue.  Granted, you can be prescribed medicine to mask and cover up your symptoms that you experience (hence the words cover up).  To address something first and foremost you need to address the spine first.  Chiropractors are nerve system specialists.  At our office and with our chiropractic technique we address the underlying cause of chronic fatigue.  By carefully examining your spine and nerves we perform specific chiropractic adjustments that reopen your nerve pathways to address chronic fatigue.  If you have tried and tried and tried with the medical profession and have not seen results, our office is a place were your stress can be put at ease.  Chronic fatigue is something that people think is normal for them.  It does not have to be so!

Let us look at a different little snip-it about chronic fatigue.  One of the main problems that our society is dealing with on a day to day basis is dysfunctional thyroids.  Our thyroids are HUGE on energy production and controlling other systems to make sure their production is efficient.  If your thyroid is dysfunctional and under-producing then other systems in your body will be under-producing as well.  Chronic fatigue and thyroid dysfunction are interrelated.  It is just finding the missing link via your nerves to establish proper communication.

Oct 14
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A Chiropractor’s View On Carpel Tunnel

By | Benefits of Chiropractic

A Chiropractor’s View On Carpel Tunnel

Many chiropractor’s see practice members everyday who are suffering from carpel tunnel like symptoms.  What can a chiropractor do for me and my carpel tunnel?  Well, first off, a chiropractor will not use any cutting devices, medication, or any blood letting……joke…but for real!  A chiropractor will access the nerves and the function of those particular nerves that are causing your signs and symptoms.  Let us explain.  To help solve this “issue” you need to trace the nerves back to the starting point.  Which just so happens to be at the base of your neck.  A chiropractor will look and access the particular wrist with inflammation, however you have to look to the spine first.  Subluxations of the spine can cause signs and symptoms of carpel tunnel.  Specific chiropractic adjustments to the cervical region, elbow, and wrist are based on assessment of each individual practice member.  Remember, the median nerve that is being entrapped originates and is traced all the way back into your spinal column.

Repetitive motion and improper movements at your wrist can cause signs and symptoms to appear at that specific area.  What and how is your neck even involved and a chiropractor?  Chiropractic deals with your nerve system, the master controller of your entire body.  What is carpel tunnel?  Carpel tunnel is a nerve dysfunction issue.  While other doctors might prescribe steroids and injections to alleviate the symptoms and “treat” your signs, you will be neglecting the actual cause of the carpel tunnel.    Most surgeries when performed will only cause ligament / scar tissue build up which will then require another cutting and cause your symptoms to re-appear.  Most people don’t think about a chiropractor for carpel tunnel.  Why not?  Chiropractic is not designed to make you instantly feel better, it is designed to make you heal!  A Chiropractic will use x-rays to determine the specific cause of your signs and symptoms and use his hands to adjust the cause.

Are there other factors that need to be taken into consideration when addressing someone with carpel tunnel?  Such as changing positions, monitoring your posture and repetitive motions and work…yes!  Just think, when we often hear of someone with carpel tunnel they often say they type a ton and are at a desk job.  So, if they are sitting at a desk for prolonged periods of time and their neck causes them pain / discomfort from looking down, then looking up at the monitor, and then back down, and then back up…..repetitive motions in your neck region as well. Wait, didn’t you say something about the median nerve originating from the base of your neck?  Yeppers!  A chiropractor visualizes the whole body approach.  See as a chiropractor we get to play Sherlock Holmes and investigate your nerves and their function so we can trace it back to the actual scene of the crime!  Always look to the spine first!

Oct 13
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Thyroid’s Running Rampant

By | Benefits of Chiropractic

Thyroid’s Running Rampant

I have an overactive thyroid and chiropractic care can help me?  I have an under-active thyroid and chiropractic care can help me?  I have one of those weird names regarding my thyroid….chiropractic care can help me? Yes, Yes, and Yes.  Thyroid issues are running rampant in our society.  It has been estimated that between 1 percent and 4 percent of adults have moderate to severe hypothyroidism, and 10 percent to 12 percent have mild or sub-clinical hypothyroidism.  Mind you those numbers are “Estimated.”  If you are having  your levels checked and your T3 and T4 and all sorts of other levels are fluctuating what do you do?  You can try herbal remedies for your thyroid and that could work, you could try other natural ways of helpingand those could work as well.  What can chiropractic offer you?  The function of the nerve system is to coordinate all other behaviors  that you experience in life.  Your nerve system integrates everything to make sure you are functioning correctly.

Subluxations arise and do not allow proper communication between your brain and your organs, cell’s, tissue’s and glands.  Evidence supports that certain cases of thyroid disorders may result from the malfunction of nerves in the brain and spinal cord that control the thyroid’s production of thyroid hormone.  There are numerous signs and symptoms for an overactive or under-active gland and people express different symptoms.  Chiropractic does not focus on chasing all of those symptoms around and around.  Chiropractic looks at and addresses the cause of the symptoms resulting from a dysfunctional thyroid.  Low thyroid function not only drags down function of every system in the body, but it also frequently signals chronic inflammation and immune dysregulation.  Just imagine what a high thyroid function does to every system in your body!

You might say why do I still exhibit signs and symptoms when my thyroid levels are normal?  Unfortunately our medical model does not adequately manage thyroid dysfunction.  Chiropractic is not designed to cure anything or to take someone off their thyroid hormone replacement therapy.  Chiropractic is designed to make you heal.  Our role in thyroid dysfunction is to allow your body to establish communication and function at the level you are designed.  Better quality of life while maintaining your thyroid dysfunction is key!  Have your nerves checked by a chiropractor!

Oct 09
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Asthma Epidemic In Kalispell…In The U.S.

By | Asthma, Benefits of Chiropractic

Asthma Epidemic In Kalispell…In The U.S.

Asthma is just running rampant in our society.  Not only in Kalispell and the Flathead community but in our society as a nation.  3/30 kids have asthma in our society currently.  Children 0-4 have the greatest prevalence of asthma and have required the most medical use.   With the total of medical care cost far exceeding $56 billion dollars.  Think about the missed days of school that our children are suffering from due to this.  In the United States asthma cases have increased by 60% since the 1980’s.  What are some of the factors that are causing this increase in asthma?  Food plays a huge part, our air quality plays a huge part.  What about stress and asthma?  Stress plays a HUGE part on how we express our asthma symptoms.  It is important to remember that asthma cannot be cured, however it can be controlled and maintained with a proper approach.

What brings people into a chiropractic office?  Physical stress, emotional stress, and chemical stressor’s on our body!  By decreasing a patients stress levels with specific chiropractic adjustments you are removing subluxations.  This establishes proper nerve communication your body is allowed to maintain and control your asthma.  When we STRESS-OUT, our body is not adapting to our environment.  If you are not adapting to your environment and your nerves enter protection mode, your muscles will begin to act, thus resulting in a flare up.   A multi-site clinical trial on chiropractic management of asthma is underway in Australia. “The preliminary data are very encouraging. Chiropractic patients are showing decreases in physical asthma symptoms and cortisol levels,” says Dr. Anthony Rosner, former director of education and research for the Foundation of Chiropractic Education and Research.  People who are suffering from asthma can benefit from specific chiropractic care by effecting their quality of life.

It is always important to remember that the first chiropractic adjustment was not for low back pain.  Chiropractic and asthma?  With chronic bronchial problems that many asthma people suffer from, you can control your flare-ups.  Chronic bronchial flare-ups is stress affecting your respiratory system, which in turn is responding from your nerve system!  Quality of life and asthma responses severely lowered is significant.  Have your nerves checked!

Oct 07
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Bed Wetting defeated through chiropractic care

By | Benefits of Chiropractic

Bed Wetting defeated through chiropractic care

Bed wetting can be a very trying part of our lives for both parents and more importantly our children.  You might just think that chiropractic is just for adults.  Well, that is not the case.  Chiropractic has a message and purpose for all.  A common word that is used daily in our office, in our blog, and in many chiropractic offices is subluxation.  A subluxation is a misaligned spinal bone that inhibits proper nerve communication to have an optimal life.  Guess what?  There happens to be nerves that control your urinary system.  In fact nerves control every organ, every cell, and tissue in your body.  If your child has a subluxation, this causes stress on those specific nerves which will inhibit the communication process to their urinary system.  If there is a subluxation present in your child, you can pursue alternative methods, maybe even diapers, or setting ten different alarms, or just waiting for them to hopefully grow out of it.  However, they do not grow out of subluxations.  So, the problem that was there and you let slip away is still present, your child just exhibits signs and symptoms in other forms.

When your child is sleeping the master control “head honcho”…..your brain should be working and sending communications all over.  If a subluxation is present, the communication that the brain should be sending will not make it to the urinary system, thus resulting in something we don’t like!  How would you know to even think of chiropractic care for bed wetting?  My child doesn’t  have back pain, doesn’t have a headache!  That is why we are writing this blog and spreading the word!  To many think that chiropractic is just pain related.  Always remember, the first chiropractic adjustment was not for low back pain!  Chiropractic is designed to allow your body to have optimal function, even as a child!

The Journal of Manipulative and Physiological Therapeutics found that one-quarter of the 171 children in the study adjusted with chiropractic had a 50 percent reduction of wet nights.  Significant!  Bye bye bed wetting.

Let us talk real quick about malformations in the spinal bones.  Also known as congenital anomalies.   One of the most malformed bones in the human body is the sacrum.  Early detection is needed to establish for proper correction at a young age.  Your sacrum has numerous nerves that control your function.  Establishing proper motion with chiropractic adjustments helps set a standard of optimal function! Have your child checked for subluxations so bed wetting is eliminated from the equation.