Myth Crackers 406 Magazine
Carlson Chiropractic Offices has the sweet opportunity of appearing in 406 Magazine. Performing and attacking Myths in the field of chiropractic.
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My Pinched Sciatic Nerve
Ah, the joy of having a pinched sciatic nerve. Sounds pretty easy to accomplish and seems like everyone has had a pinched sciatic nerve at one time or another in their life. The fact is, that the word sciatica is basically a catch-all term for radiating nerve pressure. Similar to when we get congested and have a runny nose, we might say we have the flu. Your nerve system is your master control system. Every cell, tissue, organ, and gland is regulated and controlled by your nerve system. Your pinched sciatic nerve that is causing you “pain,” is and should be the least of your concerns. Think about all of your bodily functions controlled and regulate by your pinched nerve. The function is the aspect we are trying to maintain here.
Your pinched sciatic nerve is in your body continually getting worse without you knowing about it. Pinched nerves (subluxation’s) are what chiropractors find and correct. No other health discipline does this. If you restore proper function to the nerve by removing pressure off of it, then your functionality is back and the “pinching” stops. The sensation that comes with your pinched sciatic nerve is obvious, yet does not appear right away. It could be years before the sensation of pain finally appears for some individuals. So, to differentiate the two variables pain vs function of a nerve even more… A subluxation causing irritation to a nerve results in loss of normal function in your body. Nerve fibers are designed to only transmit 10% of sensations of pain. The other 90% of the nerve is designed for function. Safe to say that your function in life is the one going to be experiencing the loss. Have your nerves checked for possible subluxation’s affecting your overall quality of life.
The Perky Chronic Fatigue and A Reason Why
Chronic fatigue likes to wreak havoc on our society. Chronic fatigue is something that tends to just creep up on some, while others will get hit by it right away. If your body is overworking and firing on all cylinders for a prolonged period of time, eventually your going to need a rest. Enter your adrenal glands! Imagine if you hit your “funny bone.” You will immediately have a weird sensation and might put pressure on your “funny bone” or start to move it back and forth real quick. What you are doing is suppressing the response by putting movement in the area (proprioception) and masking what you did. Your adrenal glands have enough time to release some hormones to further suppress the inflammation. Now, just imagine if your continually hitting your “funny bone” over and over again. Those adrenal glands are going to be doing some heavy work. If your body is like that “funny bone” being continually struck over and over again, your body cannot heal / adapt from the stress placed on it. Talk about chronic fatigue, jeez la weezy.
When your nerve system has stress placed on it: such as chemical stress (medication), physical stress (big brothers), and emotional stress (public speaking), these will place a toll on you body. So, in order to combat chronic fatigue, just avoid wrestling with your bigger brother, public speaking, and taking medication. OK, it is not that simple. When your master control system recognizes that stress is placed on it, those adrenal glands are going to be activated to release hormones. Any types of stress on your body for a prolonged period of time = over stimulation of adrenal glands. Over stimulation of adrenals for a period of time would definitely caused chronic fatigue. As a chiropractor, we check your nerve system for dysfunction (stress) and adjust if necessary. Have your nerves checked for dysfunction. Overcome chronic fatigue with a healthy functioning nerve system!
Chiropractic Is Natural Healing
Natural healing comes in the form of doing what is best for your body. Natural healing is always within normal limits. Chiropractic is natural healing. No medication, no surgery, no outside substance is required for natural healing. So, in our society we apply and use band-aids for multiple reasons and for unknown reasons. These band-aids come in the form of medications, removal of needed structures (surgery), and substances that are just not necessary for what they say they do. Just imagine if I cut myself. The band-aid is not providing some miracle cure, my body is just healing itself. Unfortunately for most, your body just needs TIME to heal (something we do not have the patience for). How does my body heal to it’s utmost potential? With a healthy functioning nerve system of course.
This is not made up stuff. We as a society have a pre-conceived notion that we need to take something for our body to heal. When I sustain the cut, my brain sends messages to release proteins in my blood stream to form a scab. The scab protects the area from exposure while your brain is continually sending messages throughout your entire body to regenerate millions of cells that are damaged. Your brain is sending messages via NERVES to areas of dysfunction. Nothing is required of this process, no protein-enzyme blueberry smoothie, no drugs, no cutting of any kind. Your nerve system is your master system. If nerve dysfunction is present than you cannot heal to your utmost potential. A chiropractic adjustment does not give or take anything away from your body, nor does it give you anything. It removes STRESS on the nerve system, which in turn allows your body to stay connected! Natural healing takes time. A connected nerve system allows proper healing.
Healthy Child Development
Healthy child development sounds like something that should be on the back of a label reading follow the instructions or else. Child development is different for everyone and everybody. There are “norms” set in place/certain percentiles that we trust and base our child’s development on. You have to realize that just because your child might be in a lower percentile today, it does not mean you need to seek medical intervention. Remember, what should healthy child development look like? Healthy child development should consist of: eating, play, wake time, sleeping, and potty time. Pretty simple. If your child is not following those protocols or is having trouble with them, then there is a problem with development. If there is a problem with your child’s development, you need to look only to the primary cause. The nerve system.
Healthy child development can and will be halted with nerve system dysfunction. You see a subluxation (what chiropractor’s find and correct) are nasty things. Subluxation’s can begin right after birth, emergency C-section, forceps, vacuum, breached position, all of those and many more probably leading to a subluxation. Healthy child development requires proper functioning of organs (and much more). Just imagine if your child keeps having stomach ache after stomach ache or any repetitive sign and symptom for that matter. Now, we realize that diet is a huge component of development. If the child is not responding favorably to certain foods then why is the immune system targeting specific foods and not others? Why is the nerve system weakened in certain areas and not others? You must first look to the cause of why their development is halted due to the sign and symptoms. Signs and symptoms are a direct result of nerve dysfunction. For healthy child development have your child’s nerve system checked.
Energy Levels Decreased Mid-Day – Rhymes & Reasons Why
Mid-day hits and all of a sudden our body feels drained and almost like we need a power-nap. It’s only 2:30 p.m. though and it seems that this keeps happening over and over again. Your energy levels are becoming depleted before the day is over. I can try and combat this with some fruity-tooty energy drink, extra coffee, more sugar, or a caffeine drip into my arm. Seems like no matter what you do your body keeps wearing down its energy stores every day around the same time. So, let’s start at the foundation of this issue. Hands down, on a daily basis, we know our diet and regular exercise are essential for a vital life. This is at our common core and true fundamentals. Ok, now that the diet and exercise have been dealt with, let’s dive into the chiropractic rationale. You could eat all your greens and run 10 miles a day and still not be healthy, or have the energy you want. If your body has an inability to process all of your super greens and all the miles you run, that processing is dealt specifically and solely with YOUR nerve system.
Alright, what is one thing that we experience every single day for our entire life that everyone has to go “through?” Gravity! So, what holds us up? Our skeletal system. What keeps our skeletal system together and functioning correctly? Our musculoskeletal system. Who controls our musculoskeletal system to make sure we are firing on all cylinders? YOUR nerve system! Now, imagine if you have bad posture and you have improper curvatures in your spinal column. Your muscles are not only going to be working to go against gravity, they are and will be working to keep you upright due to your improper curvatures. So, your muscles will be working over-time due to your body’s ability to make sure you stay upright. In conclusion, you will be consuming more energy and your entire health will be compromised (lowered energy levels as well). Have your nerves checked by a chiropractor and sustain proper function and control of your muscle tone and balance. Control the nerve, control your energy levels.
Health Problems Caused By Stress
Health problems caused by stress are far from in between. Coming into a chiropractic office we tend to think of people with back pain or neck pain. Yes, we do see those individuals. The PRIMARY reason why people come into the chiropractic office is due to the stress in their life. Health problems caused by stress are due to the individual’s failure to adapt to that stress. What does it mean failure to adapt? If you are cut you begin to bleed and then a scab forms. Eventually your body will adapt and overcome. Your body will heal. When your body has a failure to adapt to the stress that is in your life, your body does not heal. It is as simple as that. One effect of chronic stress is prolonged muscle tension and contraction. Who controls the muscles? The nerves. Chronic stress = nerve irritation.
Health problems caused by stress come about in three different ways: emotional, chemical, and physical. Stress placed on your body takes many different forms. Health problems caused by stress is directly proportional to how your nerve system is functioning. If your nerve system is compromised due to stress and is not sending proper communication, your body begins to suffer as a direct consequence. Chiropractic care allows your body to run uninterrupted. If your master control system is functioning at 100% then your body is given the fighting chance it deserves. Health problems caused by stress are severely limited when your body’s master system is functioning at 100%. Chiropractic is the only science directing attention to assessing and adjusting spinal subluxations (stress on your nerves). Regular check-ups with your doctor of chiropractic can prevent stress from plaguing your body.
Health problems caused by stress is different for everybody. The factor that stays the same for everybody is how you are able to adapt and overcome it depends on how your nerve system is functioning. A fun interesting read for more about stress click on the link : Click Me.
Come Back When You Have Pain….Said No Chiropractor Ever
Neck pain leading to your shoulder? How does this work? Neck pain that all of a sudden travels and happens to enter into my shoulder region and even down into my elbow and even into my fingertips? Some low back pain just happened to show up after 2 days and I cannot seem to shake it. If we use chiropractic like the way it was intended then no chiropractor should ever say come back when its painful. You can use chiropractic like an ER, and chiropractic does have a message for you, but (BUT) we are missing the light bulb of what chiropractic is. Well, first of all let us talk about pain itself so we don’t get off on the wrong track. Pain is and always will be the last thing to show up physiologically unless a tank hits you, jump off 12 stories and land on your head, get into a fight with Mike Tyson, you get the picture. There are some different types of pain that we need to be aware of.
You see when dealing with pain you can break it down into superficial pain (someone cutting your skin) or into deep pain (tendons and tissues that you do not see). Then you have visceral pain (organ). Visceral pain once it happens your body is diffuse in nature, less precisely graded and typically accompanied by slowing of the heart, lowered blood pressure, cold sweats and nausea. Okay, just talking about 3 types of pain here(more to come). Major premise to understand is that when you first have a response your body will enter protection mode : thirst, electrolyte balance, dysfunction in the respiratory and circulatory system, flexion reflex, postural readjustment, rubbing….etc etc. Why does your body do these things when pain comes a knocking? Your body wants to function, your body works as a 1 unit. It does not care about pain, it wants to make sure you function….say it again…..it wants to make sure you function the way you should be! You see when your body throws up a red flag such as a sign or symptom, the sign and symptoms should be your first sign of actual pain! Do not let pain be a dictating your chiropractic care. Hence, why you come and just get checked for possible dysfunction in your body!
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!
Subluxation Pandemic in Kids
Did you know that our kids today have a lower life expectancy than we currently do? There is a subluxation pandemic in our kids! This is no conspiracy theory! It is happening right now! A subluxation compromises our ability to adapt to our surroundings. If our kids have a failure to adapt to physical stress, chemical stress, and emotional stress then they are exhibiting signs and symptoms of a lesser life! Asthma in our kids is reaching higher and higher heights every day. They are requiring more and more medical use to suppress their symptoms. 11% of our kids in the age range of 4-17 have been diagnosed with ADHD as of 2011 (6.4 million). One in twenty kids are diagnosed with sensory processing disorder (SPD). Autism and kids takes the cake though! More of our kids are diagnosed with autism than cancer, and diabetes combined. Something is not going right with our kids.
If our kids intelligence is being compromised, that means their health is being compromised as well. The intelligence I am referring to is their nerve system. First major trauma that we ALL experience is birth. You set the precedent right there and then! Having your kids checked after birth for subluxations is monumental to setting a lifestyle you wish for them. If our intelligence / nerve system is disconnected their overall function is compromised and they begin to suffer. We literally receive millions of sensory messages from the outside and have to be processed via your nerve system. If subluxations are present then their processing of information is compromised. Then the medical world begins to use mind altering substances to control their state. NOT THE CHOICE TO MAKE!
“The upper neck should be examined and, if required, specifically adjusted…as the success of the adjustment overshadows every other type of treatment.” Gottfried Guttman, MD. Have your kids checked for possible subluxations. Chiropractic is not a trend or a fad. Chiropractic care for kids establishes proper development and functioning for ALL!
