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3 Ways Chiropractic Care Can Help Your Back

When it comes to treating back pain, chiropractic care is a proven treatment option with a stellar track record. Since the late 1800s, when D.D. Palmer developed chiropractic, millions of people have received relief for their back pain through chiropractic intervention. Your Reston chiropractor has a number of therapies at hand to ease your pain and get you firmly on the path to long-term healing.

1. Spinal manipulation
Also known as "spinal adjustment" or "chiropractic adjustment," spinal manipulation is the big gun in your chiropractor's arsenal of weapons against debilitating back pain. Extremely popular among back-pain sufferers, spinal manipulation offers immediate improvement that you can really feel. Most conditions that cause back pain are complex and require a series of adjustments designed to return your spine to a healthier state. However, relief is ongoing, and many patients report they can feel a significant difference after each adjustment. Spinal manipulation can also be used to maintain improvement once it is achieved.

2. Physical fitness and exercise
Although it doesn't produce the immediate relief of a spinal adjustment, targeted exercise and increased overall fitness are powerful tools your chiropractor is trained to use. Chiropractors use specialized exercises and nutritional therapies to help patients recover from back pain and to prevent it from recurring. Proper diet and exercise can be crucial to regaining your health and reclaiming your life after the onset of back pain, but doing the wrong exercises or performing the right ones incorrectly can actually increase the damage and make your condition worse. Your chiropractor knows which exercises are safe and beneficial for your condition and can show you how to perform them properly, and then evaluate the results to be sure you are on track.

3. Trigger point therapy
Trigger point therapy is one of many treatment methods your chiropractor may use to treat back injuries and pain. This therapy works by improving joint and muscle function and promoting healing. There are several methods for performing trigger point therapy, but one common form feels very much like a deep tissue massage. It is a very powerful therapy that uses physiological principles to restore muscle and joint function to a healthy level.

For many people, back pain is a debilitating condition that disrupts every aspect of their lives. Chiropractic has a proven history of treating back pain and allowing people to return to their daily routines. If you don't have a regular chiropractor, contact your Reston chiropractor to request an initial consultation and find out what chiropractic can do for you.

Advice from a Chiropractor: Chronic Ankle Sprains -- How Do I Stop This?

by H. Edward Camp DC  a Chiropractor in San Francisco

When I embark on an article of this nature I’m tempted to go on and on with specific mechanism of injuries, tissue types, and explanations that tend to come across as gobbeldy gook to most of my readers… Somebody Stop Me!

I’m going to take a stab at this topic with as plain of a delivery as I can yet still impart the important concepts.

The most common type of ankle sprain is what’s known as an eversion sprain. This is when one rolls over the outside/lateral side of the foot. That would be the right side of the right foot and left side of the left foot.

If the sprain is mild, one can use the following acronym RICE which stands for Rest, Ice, Compression, and elevation. This means crutches or a cane, and staying off of it as much as possible (Rest). Twenty minutes of ice with at least two hours between applications three times a day, five would be better. This protocol should be at least for the first seventy-two hours after the sprain. (Ice) Wearing an ace type bandage or compression stocking. (Compression) And the last part of this, designated sofa time with your ankle elevated on the back of the sofa or with pillows ideally above the level of your heart. (Elevation)

The aforementioned protocol is good for all ankle sprains however some sprains are more serious and may require more in the way of long term care.

If this is your first sprain and there is nominal swelling and no visible bruising, you are probably not more likely than anyone else to have another sprain.

If this is your third sprain, or you have massive swelling and visible bruising, you may have done enough damage to the ligaments that you now may have a more long-term problem. Its not a situation of will you sprain it again, but when.

Ligaments are full of proprioceptive fibers. These are fibers that work within the nervous system to tell us where we are in gravity. When they are stretched beyond their design parameters, they loose their mind body connection leaving us less aware of where our parts are in gravity or….. in other terms, with slower reaction time when the damaged body part goes beyond its normal range of motion. Simply put, when your ankle starts to go over the outside edge of your food, your reaction time is reduced enough that you can’t catch it in time and thus, over you go with another sprain in the making.

These fibers can in fact be rehabilitated over time by putting them on a regimen of progressively unstable surfaces and literally practicing your balance like you would practice any sport.

This is something a Chiropractor who has this training or a physical therapist can guide you in doing. If you’ve been a chronic ankle sprainer, its not will it happen again, its when will it happen next, unless you do this type of work.

I’ll try to address the progressive levels of unstable surfaces in another article later. I hope this proves helpful particularly to those of you who’ve sprained your ankle(s) more than once. Yes, there is hope.

All about subluxations

 

A brief FAQ on subluxations:

 

This post sponsored by Dr. Phillip D. Golinsky, Reston VA Chiropractor

 

What is a "subluxation"?

A subluxation is a misalignment of the bones that house and protect the spinal cord. Any misalignment puts unnecessary pressure on the nerve system and cuts off the nerve supply to different parts of the body. Vertebral subluxations that are left undetected and unadjusted for many years can lead to symptoms of pain, diseases, and an unhealthy expression of life.

How do I know when I am subluxated?

It can be difficult for you to know without visiting a chiropractor whether or not you are subluxated. Sometimes they cause pain, but often the nerves that have been affected by the misalignment are damaged and cannot carry pain signals and Falls Church Va Chiropractors

Subluxations can exist for years without warning signs, but if left untreated they can negatively impact organ function and lead to a deterioration of your health.

Chiropractors are trained to detect the subluxations with their trained hands and correct them properly.

How did I get "subluxated"?

A person can become subluxated in a wide variety of ways. Simple things like how you sleep, sit, and stand can contribute to subluxations. Some subluxations can even be developed during birth.

Normal childhood activities like falling from a bike, sledding, playing ball, or anything else that results in a jarring impact cause subluxations in children.

Why do subluxations take so many chiropractor visits to cure?

Because most subluxations have persisted so long, the muscles around the misaligned bones have conformed to these incorrect positions. Muscles try to return to these positions and resist chiropractic adjustments at first.

As with a workout routine, the muscles need to be trained. In the case of subluxations, your chiropractor will train them to conform to an aligned position, which takes time. Over time the adjustments to "hold" for longer and longer periods. Eventually the visits will taper off until you only need minor fixes every once in a while.

Will this cure my back/neck pain?

While correcting subluxations might bring you relief from pain, the general aim of the chiropractor is not to merely fix painful backs and necks, but to enable the body to express a full range of movement, without interference from misalignments. Correcting subluxations contributes to overall wellness and health because the body is able to function as it was meant to. Without the nerve blockages subluxations cause, the body can boost its immune system and more effectively fight disease and illness. Relief from back and neck pain, which are the most common symptoms that bring people into a chiropractor's office, might come about from the adjustments, but there are no guarantees.

 

 

Alexandria Chiropractic on Pain Relief

Dr. E'rika Brock: Hi! I am Dr. E'rika Brock an Alexandria Virginia Chiropractor and today we'll be talking to you how to get rid of back pain. In this segment, we'll be speaking to you about the knee to chest exercise.

Now you want to start in the same position that you were in when you did the partial sit-up in the last segment. Once again, a good and comfortable pillow is needed in order to keep your feet flat on the floor and knees bent.

Now when doing this exercise, it's suggested to bring one knee to your chest using both hands to pull backwards and hold this position for 10 seconds and relax by bringing the knee back to the original position. Now bring the other knee to your chest the same way and hold this for 10 seconds and release.

You want to alternate four times for each leg. Now another way of performing this exercise is to bring both knees to the chest and hold for approximately 10 seconds and release. You want to also do this four times as well.

Dr. Cameron Hatam: Thank you for joining us today please visit our Alexandria VA Chiropractic Office. We hope you enjoyed our video and we hope we have helped you alleviate your back pain. If your back pain is from a more serious source, we recommend you come in for a proper evaluation to any Chiropractic Physician. Thank you and have a great day.

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Excerpt from a 1930's test on chiropractic technique from Chamblee Chiropractic:

Five vertebrae have special names. The first Cervical 

is called Atlas ; the second Cervical, Axis ; the seventh Cer

vical is commonly known as Vertebra Prominens on ac- 

count of its long and large spinous process, although this 

long process belongs to the sixth Cervical or first Dorsal 

instead in 35% of all cases; the large, irregularly fusiform 

vertebra just below the Lumbars and between the ilia is 

called the Sacrum ; and the smaller one below it, the Coccyx. 

The latter is occasionally missing. 

Each vertebra except the Atlas is composed of a body 

and an arch; the arch is made up of two pedicles, short, 

thick plates of bone extending outward and backward from 

the postero-lateral surface of the body nearer its upper than 

its lower border, two laminae, thin plates of bone extending 

backward and inward from their union with the pedicles and 

joining behind to form the spinous process, and has pro- 

jecting from it seven processes, two transverse, one spinous, 

and four articular, two of which are superior and two in- 

ferior. The foramen enclosed by the body, pedicles, and 

laminae is called the neural or vertebral foramen and the 

canal formed by the connection of these foramina and com- 

pleted by the ligaments which unite the arches is called 

the neural, vertebral, or spinal canal. It contains the spinal 

cord with its membranes and the roots of the spinal nerves. 

By means of the four articular processes each true vertebra 

except the first articulates with its fellows above and below. 

The body of the vertebra is its largest portion and is 

joined to its fellows by fibrocartilaginous disks which are 

sufficiently elastic to permit some torsion and compression. 

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The Axis, or second Cervical, is distinguished by its 

large, strong spinous process, which is bifid at its tip, by its 

superior Chamblee Chiropractor articular processes which rest upon body, pedicles, 

and transverses, and by its odontoid process, upreared from 

the body. 

The Seventh Cervical, or Vertebral Prominens, usually 

has a large spinous process, presents no foramina in its 

transverse processes, or only one, the left, and shows no 

facets on body or transverse for the rib articulation, as do 

the Dorsals. 

The Sacrum is the largest vertebra; is curved with its 

convexity backward; is commonly made up of five fused 

segments ; has only rudimentary spinous and transverse 

processes except the first ; and shows sixteen openings, eight 

anterior and eight posterior, or four on either side of the 

median line in front and the same number and arrangement 

behind. These openings permit the exit of the anterior and 

posterior primary divisions of the sacral nerves separately. 

The Coccyx, usually composed of four fused segments, 

is a triangular bone which articulates with the Sacrum 

above and is free at its distal extremity. Its portion of the 

neural canal is open posteriorly and contains merely the 

thread-like termination of the cord membranes. It is fre- 

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Each vertebra except the Atlas is composed of a body 

and an arch; the arch is made up of two pedicles, short, 

thick plates of bone extending outward and backward from 

the postero-lateral surface of the body nearer its upper than 

its lower border, two laminae, thin plates of bone extending 

backward and inward from their union with the pedicles and 

joining behind to form the spinous process, and has pro- 

jecting from it seven processes, two transverse, one spinous, 

and four articular, two of which are superior and two in- 

ferior. The foramen enclosed by the body, pedicles, and 

laminae is called the neural or vertebral foramen and the 

canal formed by the connection of these foramina and com- 

pleted by the ligaments which unite the arches is called 

the neural, vertebral, or spinal canal. (chiropractor in Alexandria VA) It contains the spinal 

cord with its membranes and the roots of the spinal nerves. 

By means of the four articular processes each true vertebra 

except the first articulates with its fellows above and below. 

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416 SPINAL ADJUSTMENT 

Under normal conditions a sufficient degree of acidity is 
probably present to destroy these eggs, and if the gastro- 
intestinal tract is in such a normal condition, these eggs may 
be ingested, and destroyed. However, there is not enough 
acid in the stomach to destroy a tapeworm. In the author's 
opinion, fasting and giving a vermifuge, or the eating of 
pumpkin seeds, are the only logical methods of treating this 
condition. Adjustment of the 5th and 8th thoracic vertebrae 
may be given for their influence on the secretion of the di- 
gestive fluids. The 10th and 12th thoracic, and the second 
lumbar vertebrae may also be adjusted for their influence on 
the large intestine. 

Trichinosis 

Etiology. — The trichina spiralis, which lives in the small 
intestine, and the embryos of which migrate to the muscles. 

Symptoms. — A week or two after eating the measled pork, 
the symptoms begin with a chill and high fever, severe pains 
and stiffness in the muscles, gastro-intestinal disturbances, 
edema, and rapid loss of flesh and strength. The stools 
should be examined. 

Fort Collins Chiropractic offers treatments for lower back pain.

Treatment. — Adjust the lower dorsal and upper lumbar 
vertebrae. Enemas, especially in the early stages, when the 
parasites are present in the stools. Symptomatic therapy. 
Hot compresses over the painful muscles. 

Reston Virginia Chiropractor Dr. Golinsky

Movement for Correction 

This is indicated in the third column, separated from the 
second by a dash, by means of some brief word or words 
which describe a certain movement used in adjusting. The 
descriptive words and terms used in this work are all given 
and explained under Technic of Adjusting. (See p. 89.) 
Each word or term stands for a definite method of pro- 
cedure. The best movement for the correction of any 
subluxation of any vertebra may be found by reference 
to the section on Preferable Adjustments. If other 
terms are more familiar to the student, or in time replace 
those which are now common usage in the profession, they 
will be brief and clear and may be easily substituted for 
those given. 

According to Dr. Golinsky a Reston Chiropractor Palpation, 
fixing in the mind of the palpater the manner 
and direction of the subluxation, should also suggest as the 
obvious correction a movement calculated to reverse the 
procedure by which the subluxation was first produced. In 
other words, a certain kind of subluxation stands as the 
effect of a certain application of force along definite lines 
determinable by examination. Its correction should be made 
in a reverse direction along the same lines. By recording 
with the record of subluxation the desired correction, the 
adjuster may be reminded daily without new palpation of 
the movement best fitted to the case. If on trial it is 
decided that some other movement than the one first indi- 
cated will better overcome the abnormality, the record 
should be changed to correspond to the decision, and there- 
after followed. 

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Every palpater unconsciously forms habits of thought
and action. These habits may be good or bad We deliberately form a habit of holding the first three fingers closely
together or the habit of using a downward glide, but we
should avoid the habit of finding certain subluxations be-
cause they are usual and expected rather than because they
are actually there. For instance, one may easily form a
habit of listing every other vertebra in the spine, his whole
record thus depending upon his first choice.

Because of this perfectly natural tendency to establish
a routine of thought and action and to follow it precisely,
it is best not to attempt palpation without the aid of an ex-
perienced teacher until after correct habits have been
formed. Once formed, a palpation habit, right or wrong,
is very hard to break deep tissue massage in Philadelphia. Many a teacher has expended him-
self uselessly in the effort to undo some technical fault ac-
quired by the student in a blundering undirected trial.
Facts Concerning the Spine

The spinal column is composed of twenty-six segments
called vertebrae, twenty-four movable and two fixed. The
movable vertebrae are divided for convenience in study into
three sections. There are seven Cervical vertebrae, twelve
Dorsal, and five Lumbar in the normal individual. The
number of Dorsals or Lumbars may vary by one in a rare
case. These variations occur in about one spinal column in
each five hundred and are usually in the Lumbar region,
which may contain four or six vertebrae. A prominent first
sacral spinous process may be mistaken for an extra Lumbar. 

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Five vertebrae have special names. The first Cervical
is called Atlas ; the second Cervical, Axis ; the seventh Cervical is commonly known as Vertebra Prominens on ac-
count of its long and large spinous process, although this
long process belongs to the sixth Cervical or first Dorsal
instead in 35% of all cases; the large, irregularly fusiform
vertebra just below the Lumbars and between the ilia is
called the Sacrum ; and the smaller one below it, the Coccyx.
The latter is occasionally missing.

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