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Nov 02
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3 Reasons Tight Muscles Deplete Your Energy

By | ADHD, Benefits of Chiropractic, Ear Infections

3 Reasons Tight Muscles Deplete Your Energy

#1 Tight Tight Tight

The first and most obvious reason that tight muscles deplete your energy is because you just got done working out.  This is stating the obvious, yet sometimes is often misunderstood.  Any form of physical fitness is great for the body.  When performing exercise your muscles require energy; it’s give and take.  Just like fueling your car for a long road-trip.  This cause and effect of exercising is to be expected.  With this being said, let’s explore the unknown reasons of tight muscles.

# 2 Spinal Misalignment = Tight Muscles

Spinal misalignments, also called subluxations, exist unknowingly.  This is the same notion as a cavity in your mouth going unnoticed for years.  Subluxations place undue stress on the spinal nerves.  Stress…Who likes to have to stress in their lives?  Just about nobody.  So, imagine a nerve that is supposed to supply your cells with abundance of life happens to be stressed.  This will result in your body working unnecessarily harder and faster in the organs, glands, tissues, and muscles that it supplies.  Working harder uses fuel faster than it should.  Subluxations will deplete energy stores without notice.

# 3 Fighting Gravity Requires Energy

Gravity exists whether you believe it or not.  Newton’s law of universal gravitation acts on our bodies every single day.  The spine is designed primarily to protect the central nervous system (Brain & Spinal Cord) and secondly to keep us upright.  The spine is supposed to be completely straight when visualizing it from face to face with somebody. When a subluxation is present in the spine it places constant stress on the nerves. A healthy spine, free of subluxations, alleviates the stress on the nervous system, which in turn limits your total energy expenditure.  By maintaining your spinal hygiene you are maintaining your overall health and energy at the same time.

 

 

 

Aug 31
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Gut Problems – How Your Health Begins From The Inside

By | ADHD, Benefits of Chiropractic

Gut Problems – How Your Health Begins From The Inside

Gut problems?  Understanding the gut is crucial in how are bodies are functioning.  Often we take for granted the imporance of the gut and how it reveals our bodies overall health and well-being.  What specifically are we talking about when referring to gut problems? The particular organs associated with the “gut” are the stomach, small intestine, and large intestine.  These organs are broken down into three distinct parts of maintaining a healthy body.  The importance of maintaining the function of the gut is crucial to everything else in the body.  Why?  Because the central nerve system (CNS) controls, regultes, and coordinates every gut FUNCTION.  And most people do not associate gut problems with overall health.

Gut Problems Tell The Story Often Neglected

Healthy spine = healthy gut = healthy body.  The reason to use the gut as a picture of overall health is to understand the CNS first.  The brain sends messages down via the spinal cord and the nerves exit the spinal column and regulates the stomach, small intestine, and large intestine.  When gut problems occur people think directly that the gut is faulty, not the area controlling it.  When the spine is misaligned it will lead to altered digestive function.  Simple.  Now, if you decide to eat week old scrambled eggs and have some gut problems, don’t blame the CNS.  Cause and effect will surely do.

The Gut/Core – Your Measuring Stick

A hot topic in our society is the brain-gut connection or leaky gut or anything associated with the gut.  Now, to be witty we have always understood that the brain controls the gut.  It is not some new scientific exploration.  The light-bulbs being turned on for people is the significance of the gut and how it is used as a measuring stick for our overall health.  Misalignments in the spine do not take days off.  Which means your health does not rest.  Being healthy is hard work, it all begins and ends with the central nerve system.  If your unsure about your current health status consider your gut and how it functions.  It will lead you back to the beginning.

 

 

Nov 17
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Being Pregnant And Comfortable

By | Benefits of Chiropractic, Ear Infections

Being Pregnant And Comfortable

Being pregnant and comfortable might sound like an odd phrase for those who have a stereotypical mindset of what pregnancy is.  The Hollywood persona that pregnancy has to be this awful and grueling experience is not the case.  It is totally okay to have an amazing experience with your pregnancy and be happy about the season of your life!

Get Comfortable & Stay Comfortable

The amount of changes pregnancy brings with your body is substantial.  Increased in appetite, frequent urination, pelvic changes, constipation, heartburn, and the list goes on and on.  Any sign or symptom that your body gives you is letting you know that something is amiss.  This is directly related to your nerve system.  Show a chiropractor a sign or symptom and we will show you a specific nerve.  Your nerve system is working in overdrive when going through pregnancy and developing a new life.  Calm the nerve system down and gain being comfortable during this experience.

Invest In Being Pregnant

The time you have during your pregnancy can either be a blessing in the future or set you up for problems down the road.  Eating food with proper substance and still allowing physical activity to be a part of your pregnancy is so crucial.  These habits will form into long lasting habitual consistencies later in life.  Regular chiropractic check-ups is fundamental while you are pregnant to establish proper function.  Not just for the typical aches and pains with pregnancy but for weathering the storm.

Paying It Forward

Motion is critical to ones life.  Proper motion within the spine is fundamental in allowing your body to heal and to adapt.  After the pregnancy is through your body begins to heal.  Your recovery time is paramount to how your nerve system was and will be post pregnancy.  We understand that pregnancy is stressful on the females body.  Stress in any part of the nervous system may result in a variety of health problems throughout the body.

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Mar 30
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Day One Adjustments

By | ADHD, Benefits of Chiropractic

Day One Adjustments

Do you remember the very first time you were adjusted by a chiropractor?  Do you remember your very first experience in this world, birth?  The birth process is an amazing event and something that is cherished by all parents.  Having your child start life off with a BANG, with a specific chiropractic adjustment is not only ideal, it makes sense!  People often don’t think of the birth process as a traumatic event.  Imagine knowing what you know now if you had to do it all over again and pass through a very small canal, probably would not be the top thing on your list to do.  Just think about the entire 9 months leading up to the birth, the body is constantly changing and growing.  The development of the nerve system is the first “thing” to begin to develop in a fetus.  The nerve system is the master controller of the entire body.  Chiropractic care focuses specifically and solely on the nerve system with specific adjustments.

Adjustments

A long healthy life begins with day one, having your child checked for possible nerve dysfunction right away and having a chiropractic adjustment if necessary is optimal.  Even the tiniest of the tiniest can benefit from adjustments, chiropractic is safe and effective in allowing the body to restore or maintain proper balance.  Think of all the metabolic, chemical, hormonal changes that your child will be experiencing upon that first day; new stressors are going to be in effect and attacking the body.  Best to make sure that every experience your child encounters is with a clear and functioning nerve system.  Life for the newborn depends upon the preservation and healthy functioning of the brain stem and spinal cord at the level of the upper neck – Abraham Towbin M.D. – Harvard Medical School.  Adjustments are crucial for allowing the body to express its innate ability to regulate and control life at its best.

 

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Dec 08
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Autism Help Through Chiropractic

By | ADHD, Benefits of Chiropractic, Ear Infections

Autism Help Through Chiropractic

Parents that are going through the development of a child should have the opportunity to enjoy every moment.  Children that are diagnosed with autism should have the same opportunities that every other family experiences.  First, recognize that autism is a very self-limiting name, and for that fact is just a name that often can be over-used and improperly thrown around.  We call that name calling.  Verbal communication, behavioral patterns, and social interaction are some of the most common patterns that are exhibited with autism.  First and foremost, autism is a neurological problem.  “Something” has to be affecting the child’s behavior and development as they continue to grow.  Some of the most common cases that we see in the office are: mother had a prior drug related problem during pregnancy, difficult or traumatic birth, and adverse reaction to vaccinations.  Keep in mind that every case is different, these are just a sample of the most common occurrences that we notice in their histories.  All of these issues create a neurological compromise on the child’s developing nerve system.

Autism help through chiropractic?  What does that even mean?  Chiropractic is a science strictly based with the nerve system, in essence chiropractors are nerve system specialists.  Chiropractors are trained to access the nerve system for proper function by finding and adjusting specific vertebral subluxations.  A vertebral subluxation occurs within the spinal column causing the entire nerve system to become compromised.  This subluxation creates dysfunction within the ENTIRE body by limiting the body’s true potential.  Think of a subluxation as a downed power-line.  There is still power/energy being transmitted but it is not sending and receiving the proper communication as if it was properly connected.  Imagine not being able to interpret incoming data from your external environment or process thought patterns.  By accessing your child’s nerve system with chiropractic, you can give them the best option of recovering and restoring normal function for that individual.  Autism seems to be a growing trend and parents deserve to have every moment be enjoyable with their child.  Your child deserves to have a nerve system that is functioning at their optimal potential.

Autism and chiropractic have been tested.  The results are in, chiropractic is here to stay and help families enjoy those moments.  Want to read more about autism and chiropractic: Click Me.

 

Oct 15
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Our Chiropractic Team Members

By | ADHD, Benefits of Chiropractic

Our Chiropractic Team Members

Better late than never!  Heather Lusignan has been with us for several months now and is helping us change the outlook on health in this community.  It was time to give her a little shout-out and learn a little more about her.  To see all our chiropractic team members they can found by following this LINK   and reading their quick bio’s.  

Heather originally from Texas, grew up on a small ranch near Galveston, TX.  Heather’s family decided to move to the Northwest when she was 12 years old.  Heather attended Central Washington University with a BA in Anthropology.  Heather has traveled and lived in numerous states in the Northwest region.  Calling Flathead “Home” to her means she can spend time with her family and enjoy the outdoors.our chiropractic team

Heather brings a warm and friendly smile to Carlson Chiropractic Office.   When the front office is filled with laughter look to Heather.  Heather strives to make every experience a memorable one and to make sure you feel and know without a doubt that you are important to us.

Jul 02
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Chiropractic And Allergies

By | Allergies, Benefits of Chiropractic

Chiropractic And Allergies

Hereditary, pollen, food, itching, swelling, histamines, just a couple of words that people associate allergies with.  How about associating allergies with immune system function and response?  More importantly the role between chiropractic and allergies.  Why do some people respond differently to some things than others do? Let’s begin our crash course in the body.  Your central nerve system controls and processes all incoming and outgoing information (so, everything that you do, think, or want to do) and yes, it controls and regulates the immune system.  Basically, your central nerve system is like the control tower at the airport, if there is a bad experience with allergies and your body, blame the control tower not the planes.

Now, your control tower is very smart and intelligent and tells your immune system to release histamines when something attacks your body.  This is what your body is supposed to do, naturally!  If something such as a subluxation (vertebrae causing dysfunction in the nerve system) causes dysfunction in the control tower, then proper messages to and from that immune system are not going to be connected properly.  What can be a consequence?  Improper releasing of histamines in your body!  So, the solution that we hopefully ponder is to take anti-histamines and suppress our immune system?  Taking something externally to “fix” something internally just does not sound right, it’s just a patch-job (if that, sounds more like insanity).  Recognize, that a subluxation is a deep and nasty thing that goes on for a prolonged period of time and basically just festers in your body causing all sorts of dysfunction.  Understand dysfunction reveals itself initially by signs and symptoms and we begin to live with them and think it is normal for us.  What does chiropractic and allergies have in common?  In chiropractic we seek to find the cause of the dysfunction.   Chiropractic and allergies you need to realize is not a cure, it’s healing, and in healing your body overall becomes stronger.  Have your nerves checked for possible subluxations causing dysfunction within your body.

 

Mar 02
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The Webster Technique For Pregnancy

By | Benefits of Chiropractic

The Webster Technique For Pregnancy

The Webster technique is safe, non-invasive and effective at generating results.  As with all chiropractic techniques, the words safe, non-invasive and effective should always be in the title.  When people think about the Webster technique they assume breech position.  Rightfully so and much more.  According to the ICPA:  “The Webster technique is a specific chiropractic analysis and diversified adjustment. The goal of the adjustment is to reduce the effects of sacral subluxation/ SI joint dysfunction.  In so doing neuro-biomechanical function in the pelvis is improved.”  As with any pregnancy, the amount of distortion and discomfort due to subluxations is focused around the pelvic region.  Having regular check-ups by your chiropractor will alleviate the amount of stress that your body is undergoing.  This, in turn, will reduce muscle, ligament, and tendon tension.  

Going through your pregnancy with optimal fetal positioning is very ideal.  Utilizing regular chiropractic check-ups allows your body to function at its optimal potential.  Why is it beneficial to visit your chiropractor for regular check-ups during pregnancy? Misalignment’s of the sacrum creates tightening and torsion of the pelvic muscles and ligaments. Due to increase of hormones, weight gain, and postural adaptions, pregnant mothers have a higher chance of sacral subluxations and neuro-biomechanical imbalance than others.  If stress takes over the pregnancy and your body does not overcome and adapt by itself, mal-positioning of the fetus can occur.  C-section is typically what results when the mal-positioning occurs.  When successful, the Webster Technique avoids the costs and/or risks of external cephalic version, cesarean section, or vaginal trial of breech. In view of these findings, the Webster Technique deserves serious consideration in the health care management of expectant mothers exhibiting adverse fetal presentation (Pistolese 2002).  Our education at Palmer College of Chiropractic included the foundation and assessment of utilizing the Webster Technique.   Pre-natal chiropractic care sets the foundation for a healthy and vibrant life.

 

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Pistolese,  Richard A. “The Webster Technique: A chiropractic technique with obstetric implications “ Journal of Manipulative and Physiological Therapeutics – July 2002 (Vol. 25, Issue 6, Pages E1-E9)

Nov 12
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Can Chiropractic Help With Sleep Apnea

By | Benefits of Chiropractic

Can Chiropractic Help With Sleep Apnea

Can chiropractic really help with sleep apnea?  Sleep apnea is a condition in which the airways become constricted during our sleeping times.  Individuals who suffer from sleep apnea will often wake themselves up or those who are sleeping nearby (not fun).  Individuals will try alternative ways to help with their sleep, wear masks, sleep in a different bed, try dope…..still with the same effects though.  The reason still being that the airways are closing.  Well, lets take a step back and see what chiropractic can do again.  Chiropractors are nerve system specialists.  In our office we utilize the Gonstead system which is personalized, specific care to each individual.  We utilize x-rays to eliminate guessing and to see the structure of your spinal column.  Chiropractic and nerves.  Not chiropractic and low back pain!  This is amazing!  So, your nerve system controls everything you do?  Yes.  Does it control my respiratory system?  Yes!  If I am suffering from  a condition which my respiratory system is failing should I get checked for a possible vertebral subluxation?  Wait!  What is a vertebral subluxation?  A vertebral subluxation is when one or more vertebral bones acts (pressure) upon our nerves causing signs and symptoms to appear in our daily lives.  So, then yes you should get checked!

Chiropractic allows your body to restore normal function.  No devices, no cutting, and no dope.  Probably a good thing to have your nerves checked and realize what chiropractic can offer you and your family.

A study published on Feb. 3, 2014, in the scientific periodical, the Annals of Vertebral Subluxation Research, documents the case of Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA) being resolved with chiropractic care.

The authors of the study note that symptoms of OSA can include excessive daytime sleepiness, unrefreshing sleep, difficulty concentrating, fatigue, and an overall decrease in quality of life due to a lack of quality sleep,. They report that, as of 1997, the prevalence of OSA in the United States was between 3-7% of the population.

In this case, a 34-year-old male went to the chiropractor in hopes of receiving help for his sleep apnea. He suffered with the symptoms of OSA for many years before finally being diagnosed five years earlier with the condition by his MD.   His symptoms included daytime drowsiness, lack of energy, loud snoring, and difficulty breathing while he slept at night.  Based on the prescription of this MD, the man had been using a continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) machine every night for the past three years.

A chiropractic examination was performed specifically looking for vertebral subluxations that were causing nerve system interference that could be affecting the man’s breathing mechanisms. The examination consisted of palpation, postural analysis, spinal range of motion, surface electromyography (SEMG), and spinal x-ray imaging.

The examination results indicated the presence of subluxations. The neck x-rays showed a reversal of the neck curvature and subluxation degeneration, indicating significant amount of nerve system interference. Based on the positive findings of subluxation, a specific course of chiropractic corrective care was started.

A three month evaluation showed an improvement in the man’s neck curvature. The study authors reported that the man was no longer snoring and was experiencing an increase in energy. As a result, he was not experiencing daytime drowsiness. He was also able to sleep throughout the night and discontinue use of his CPAP machine. The man also showed a significant increase in his quality of life as he was able to discontinue his medications and was no longer experiencing anxiety or acid reflux.

Oct 04
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The Magic Bean Of Chiropractic

By | Asthma, Benefits of Chiropractic

The Magic Bean Of Chiropractic

What is the magic bean of chiropractic?  Consistency!  Consistency is the magic bean of chiropractic.  For example someone that starts chiropractic care for the very first time is going to experience a world of change!  Initially you might expect to be a little sore.  Why would I be sore?  We utilize the Gonstead Technique in our office.  We eliminate guessing by utilizing x-rays, and state of the art neurological assessments protocols every single visit.  When somebody first begins chiropractic care with us, that will be the first time they had a specific chiropractic adjustment.  The chiropractic adjustment is change to your body.  Your body begins to start adapting to change and with that your body begins to grow and heal itself.  Why would my body react that way to a chiropractic adjustment.  Because your body has been doing its thing for some time and then finally we start to make the right changes.  Reason to be consistent with chiropractic care is because you go through a thing called….life.  Life has with it, it’s emotional stress, physical stress, and chemical stress.

Why consistency?  In order to retrain that muscle memory, tissues, memory and ligament memory you have to be consistent by allowing your body to accept change and have proper nerve communication.  Some people after their first specific chiropractic adjustment state they feel like it was their first time at the gym!  You are creating health and recovery with chiropractic.  Yes, at times with chiropractic you might be sore.  Chiropractic is not designed to make you instantly feel better, chiropractic is designed to make you HEAL better.  Your care is designed individually for you based on your x-rays, neurological testing, and how you live!  Chiropractic is authentically here to assist you in your walk of life so you are at your optimal function.  Bump in the roads might take place.  Being consistent with your care is the key.

Some people who have been to other chiropractors might say they had a bad experience or they stopped care early because they didn’t get any relief.  Chiropractic should be thoroughly explained to you and how we are able to help.  Taking the time to explain that we are authentically here for you and how changes happen in your body.  Heading to the gym to build muscle, takes time.  Healing takes time.  Peeps say, “Well, chiropractic is addicting, and once you start you have to continue to go.”  Well, it is addicting to feel healthy.  Chiropractic can assist you in this walk of life.  Consistency is the magic bean.  Having your nerves checked makes sense.  Let that bean grow!