Common Sense For The Common Cold

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Common Sense For The Common Cold

The common cold and some common sense!  Personal contact is decidedly the most likely way in which cold like symptoms are contracted.  So, are we supposed to just hibernate during the season and avoid any contact with other people?  That could work, and it would be very boring at the same time.  When your body does respond to the common cold the first line of defense is going to be sneezing and maybe a runny nose.  These can be very annoying and we are told by many advertisements to suppress these signs and symptoms.  Sneezing is a way your body defends against the common cold when your immune system senses attackers in your nasal and sinus cavities.  Coughing is another way your body defends against the common cold, yet ads in magazines and television say to take a cough suppressant or a pain reliever for a fever.  Your bodies immune system uses coughing to get rid of unwanted invaders in the throat and chest.  Pain reliever for a fever?  FACT: Viruses and bacteria cant live in higher temperatures, hence your bodies response to produce a fever to provide inadequate conditions so the invaders die.

The common cold and chiropractic! Of course we have to involve chiropractic in this discussion!  When your nerve system is free of subluxations (what chiropractors find and correct) your resistance to “catching” common cold’s are at its optimum.  Chiropractic allows your body to ward off sickness and disease by allowing your nerve system to function the way it is supposed to be, which means your immune system is 100% as well as all your other systems!  Chiropractors are the only ones that access and correct subluxations that rob your nerves of their full potential (your body’s full potential).  Chiropractic is the best PREventative measure for the common cold.

Flu Shot vs Flu Adjustments

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Flu Shot vs Flu Adjustments

The flu shot vs the flu adjustment!  Such dilemmas we face in our society!  Let us begin!  80% of flu-like symptoms are not the actual flu, Barbra Lowe Fisher National Vaccine Information Center.  There is no single virus that causes the flu.  The flu / influenza is a group of symptoms used to describe an illness that is caused by many viruses.  Viruses change or mutate everyday to survive detection and destruction by our immune cells.  There are over 900 strands of the flu and growing.  The shot given to us consists of 3 or 4 of those strands….what about the other ones?  Most of the flu victims each year are precisely the same people who took the flu shot.  Using the industry’s best evidence, flu vaccines are no more than one percent effective at actually preventing the flu– and that’s only during the first few months before they “fade out”.  The effectiveness of annual flu shots has been exaggerated; they have little or no effect on many influenza campaign objectives, including reducing the number of hospital stays, time off work, and death from influenza and its complications, British Medical Journal, Oct. 28,  2006.

Okay!  Let us talk about flu adjustments now!  What are they?  The same as all adjustments, stimulating your nerve system to adapt and overcome…..due to the fact that your nerve system controls how your immune system functions!  No flu shot here!  Chiropractic offices all over the country have front office staff that see hundreds of patients every week.  They are not receiving the flu shots like other places and have not lost any days from work or have had any signs or symptoms!  How does chiropractic increase immunity?  Studies show better coordinate immune response, boost T1 immune cell response, decrease inflammation, etc etc!  1918 Flu Pandemic: Medical doctors in Davenport, Iowa treated 93,590 patients with 6,116 deaths 1 out of 15.  Palmer College of Chiropractic in Davenport, 1,635 flu cases were adjusted, with only one fatality.  No flu shots there!  Allow your body to receive what it needs from within, the way you were designed.

 

 

 

Heartburn Relief

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Heartburn Relief

Heartburn also known as GERD if it is reoccurring long term, and the relief: chiropractic.  Some peeps will over indulge in some high protein meats, some solid carbs, or have a one time exposure to some over stimulated habanaro peppers and experience some heartburn.  Heartburn occurs when some digestive juices or contents of our stomach get past our stomach barrier and seep into our esophagus.  Heartburn and chiropractic share a story.  Let us tell you more!  First, let us talk about hiatial hernias.  Heartburn relief can be futile if a hiatal hernia is present.  Hiatal hernias are often over-looked when it comes to heartburn.  Some peeps have hiatal hernias and do not even realize it.  Why?  Your body enters protection mode and your body begins to defend itself.  The diaphragm will enlarge and the muscles will apply pressure on the stomach thus creating your heartburn.  If you have your nerves checked, which control the muscles you can reduce the hiatal hernia by effecting the muscles.  Proper nerve communication = proper GI function.

Heartburn relief can come in the form of chiropractic.  Chiropractic being safe, natural, and allowing your body to heal which ensures a strengthened overall system.  Heartburn relief can be accomplished through chiropractic care due to regular maintenance of the spine, which directly controls the nerves!  Chiropractors are nerve system specialists!  If you have experienced heartburn, your body is letting you know something is wrong….red flags should go up!  Then after you try and cover-up the heartburn relief with some dope it just becomes a repetitive cycle.  Pain will eventually show up in your mid-back region.  The actual sensation of pain is and will always be the last thing to show up!  Your nerves finally have had enough and…..HELLO PAIN!  Heartburn relief comes through chiropractic because we address the cause of your signs and symptoms.  By establishing proper connection to the muscles and barriers of your stomach and esophagus which are located in the mid back region, your heartburn relief is in the picture.  Heartburn relief is established when your nerve communication is established, not with dope, not with any form of cutting.

Thyroid’s Running Rampant

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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!

Asthma Epidemic In Kalispell…In The U.S.

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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!

Low Back Pain and Chiropractic

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Low Back Pain and Chiropractic

Low back pain.  Chiropractic care has been proven over and over again that yes, specific chiropractic adjustments can reduce your signs and symptoms of low back pain.  The major premise to understand is that once the signs and symptoms of low back pain are eliminated, the actual healing takes place afterwards.  Once your body is “pain free” you are able to heal and prevent your circumstances from happening again.  Getting rid of the pain and symptoms is the first part, allowing your body to express your true potential by functioning at 100% is the GOAL!  Chiropractic is not designed to make you feel instantly better.  Chiropractic is designed to make you instantly heal!

 

Chiropractic is a health care profession dedicated to the non-surgical treatment of disorders of the nervous system and/or musculoskeletal system. Generally, chiropractors maintain a unique focus on spinal adjustments and treatment of surrounding structures.  In fact, when patients with non-specific chronic low back pain are treated by chiropractors, the long-term outcome is enhanced by obtaining maintenance spinal manipulation after the initial  spinal adjustment.

 

Some Facts About Low Back Pain

  • Low back pain is the single leading cause of disability worldwide, according to the Global Burden of Disease 2010.
  • One-half of all working Americans admit to having back pain symptoms each year.2
  • Back pain is one of the most common reasons for missed work.  In fact, back pain is the second most common reason for visits to the doctor’s office, outnumbered only by upper-respiratory infections.
  • Most cases of back pain are mechanical or non-organic—meaning they are not caused by serious conditions, such as inflammatory arthritis, infection, fracture or cancer.
  • Americans spend at least $50 billion each year on back pain—and that’s just for the more easily identified costs.3
  • Experts estimate that as many as 80% of the population will experience a back problem at some time in our lives

 

 

1. Jensen M, Brant-Zawadzki M, Obuchowski N, et al. Magnetic Resonance Imaging of the Lumbar Spine in People Without Back Pain. N Engl J Med 1994; 331: 69-116.

2. Vallfors B. Acute, Subacute and Chronic Low Back Pain: Clinical Symptoms, Absenteeism and Working Environment. Scan J Rehab Med Suppl 1985; 11: 1-98.

3. This total represents only the more readily identifiable costs for medical care, workers compensation payments and time lost from work. It does not include costs associated with lost personal income due to acquired physical limitation resulting from a back problem and lost employer productivity due to employee medical absence. In Project Briefs: Back Pain Patient Outcomes Assessment Team (BOAT). In MEDTEP Update, Vol. 1 Issue 1, Agency for Health Care Policy and Research,Rockville,