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Jan 21
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Cost Effective Health Care

By | Benefits of Chiropractic

Cost Effective Health Care

Cost effective health care in the form of chiropractic.  Chiropractic is not sick insurance, life insurance, or disability insurance.  Chiropractic care is health care!  Health care is exactly in the words, you are wanting to maintain your health.  Health does not come in the form of pills or surgery.  Health care comes in the form of allowing your body to be at its peak potential!  In comparison with other forms of care: “Reduced odds of surgery were observed for…those whose first provider was a chiropractor. 42.7% of workers [with back injuries] who first saw a surgeon had surgery, in contrast to only 1.5% of those who saw a chiropractor.”-Keeney et al (2012), Spine.  Seems like that is cost effective!  

“Low back pain initiated with a doctor of chiropractic (DC) saves 40 percent on health care costs when compared with care initiated through a medical doctor (MD), according to a study that analyzed data from 85,000 Blue Cross Blue Shield (BCBS) beneficiaries in Tennessee over a two-year span,” –Liliedahl et al (2010), Journal of Manipulative and Physiological Therapeutics.  The concept of health care is to REMAIN HEALTHY.  Your greatest asset hands down, that everyone has is the ability to alter  your health.  “Chiropractic is the largest, most regulated, and best recognized of the complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) professions. CAM patient surveys show that chiropractors are used more often than any other alternative provider group and patient satisfaction with chiropractic care is very high,”-Meeker, Haldeman (2002), Annals of Internal Medicine.  Health care without restrictions and without medication, sounds like it makes sense.  Have your nerves checked by a chiropractor.

Jan 19
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Fight Or Flight

By | Benefits of Chiropractic

Fight Or Flight

Fight or flight is and has always been a way that your body depends on functioning as a unit.  Fight or flight is how your body utilizes two different types of nerve systems.  These systems are set up and should be utilized in order for proper functioning.  When your body is at rest, growth, relaxation (etc), you are utilizing your parasympathetic nerve system.  When your body’s adrenal glands are stimulated and you starting pumping some “fighting juice”, tension, and signs and symptoms become apparent throughout your body.  Your bodies fighting response (sympathetic) are turned on when a subluxation (misalignment of the spine) is present in your body.  Your body’s fighting response is not initially to elicit pain, it is to elicit signs and symptoms!  Fight or flight, the fight response is: high blood pressure, asthma, fevers, seizures, autism, colic, etc.  Your body’s flight response is not to make you sound like your giving up, it is actually opposite of this.  Your flight response (parasympathetic) is to establish growth, healing, and normal continual functioning of your body.  Once your body is using both systems together.  Too much flight is a bad thing!

Fight or flight is designed to be used together in harmony.  Too much of something is a bad thing, too little of something is a bad thing when dealing with your body.  Subluxation’s can allow your body to do this though, and can cause too much or too little.  Restoring proper connection with chiropractic care is a way for fight or flight to work together.  When your body is overcome by stress, you need to adapt and overcome.  Chiropractic allows proper communication so your body can adapt and overcome, and get stronger from your condition!  Proper nerve system harmony between these two systems means proper functioning as a unit!  Have your nerves checked to establish the proper fight or flight unity.

Aug 01
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Headaches

By | Benefits of Chiropractic

Headaches

Chiropractic and headaches.  Those two words seem to go together like low back pain and chiropractic.  Truth be told, yes chiropractic can reduce your ability to encounter headaches.  Why do headaches even start is the question we should be asking?  Headaches are signs and symptoms that an underlying CAUSE is being activated.  Headaches are signs and symptoms that something is not right in your body.  Typically, signs and symptoms are the last “things” to ever appear when nerve dysfunction is present.  People go through their lives and every week (ex) they will undergo a headache at some point.  That is not normal.  That is your body throwing up red flags and saying that there is an underlying CAUSE associated with these headaches.

The CAUSE of the headaches is what chiropractor’s find, check, and adjust.  We look at your nerves which control EVERYTHING.  If there is nerve dysfunction present in your body, the signs and symptoms that you will be showing can be headaches.  Some people like to take dope (drugs) and cover up the symptoms and then think they are cured.  If you give your body a crutch, your body is going to rely on a crutch again and again.  OR, you can address the CAUSE  of your headaches with chiropractic care.  At Carlson Chiropractic Offices we do not guess on your health, we do not chase your symptoms, and we do address the CAUSE of your suffering.

If you have a headache, you’re not alone. Nine out of ten Americans suffer from headaches. Some are occasional, some frequent, some are dull and throbbing, and some cause debilitating pain and nausea.  What do you do when you suffer from a pounding headache? Do you grit your teeth and carry on? Lie down? Pop a pill and hope the pain goes away? There is a better alternative.
 
Research shows that spinal manipulation – the primary form of care provided by doctors of chiropractic – may be an effective treatment option for tension headaches and headaches that originate in the neck.  A report released in 2001 by researchers at the Duke University Evidence-Based Practice Center in Durham, NC, found that spinal manipulation resulted in almost immediate improvement for those headaches that originate in the neck, and had significantly fewer side effects and longer-lasting relief of tension-type headache than a commonly prescribed medication.
 
Also, a 1995 study in the Journal of Manipulative and Physiological Therapeutics found that spinal manipulative therapy is an effective treatment for tension headaches and that those who ceased chiropractic treatment after four weeks experienced a sustained therapeutic benefit in contrast with those patients who received a commonly prescribed medication.