Archive for February, 2010
As a chiropractor I always recommend that my patients get regular exercise. Often the “resistance” I get is from my older patients who don’t have “convenient” exercise opportunites available. However, it is extremely important, especially as we age, to keep our body moving or to get our body moving, so whether it is convenient or not, every individual needs to find a way to make routine daily activity…routine.
According to a new study, many older men find themselves leaving out this important aspect of health. In fact, the new study points to the health benefits of living in neighborhoods with built-in physical activity resources. Researchers conducted a study among community-dwelling men age 65 years or older from the Portland, Oregon, metropolitan area. They wanted to see whether or not older men who live within one-eighth, one-quarter, or one-half mile of physical activity resources (including parks, trails and recreational facilities) are more likely to maintain or increase the amount of time they spend walking than men who live farther from these resources. The study ran from March 2000 – April 2002 at six U.S. clinical centers, and then was then followed an average of 3.6 years to assess changes in time spent walking. The results of the study revealed a positive association among urban-dwelling older men between living within one-eighth mile of parks and one-half mile of trails and maintaining or increasing time spent walking, although the association was limited to men living in high-socioeconomic status neighborhoods. The study’s authors said, “Proximity to physical activity resources such as parks and trails may be important for maintaining moderate physical activity over time among older men residing in high-socioeconomic status neighborhoods. These findings support an eco-social model of physical activity promotion incorporating neighborhood-level resources and parks and trails.” Source American Journal of Public HealthThere is a variety of treatment options to choose from when it comes to your back pain and pain in other parts of your body due to arthritic changes, including going to see a San Jose chiropractor. However, quite a few people who are experiencing painful arthritis and back pain still suppose that they should go to a medical doctor in order to find a cure for their problem. Even so, it may surprise you to know that only a small number medical doctors are actually educated in how to help individuals overcome the condition of back pain due to arthritis. Medical doctors are trained to treat symptoms through medication, instead of finding and treating the cause of the pain you are undergoing. And, while certain medications may soothe the symptoms of arthritis, there is a lot that you can do not just for pain relief, but to actually slow down arthritic changes in your body.
One of the actions you can take to ameliorate your arthritis and back pain is to go to see a San Jose chiropractor. Chiropractors are doctors who concentrate exclusively on treating the muscular and skeletal system, and arthritis is a joint affliction. Chiropractic care has assisted many people in slowing the process of arthritis by getting their joints moving. Movement is essential for joint health. A good chiropractor is extraordinarily competent in treating back pain, even when it is caused by arthritis
You feel a bit concerned about what to expect if you’ve never been to a chiropractor before. It might help to give a quick overview about what you can expect. You will be given the opportunity to discuss your medical history, which will likely include a family history of arthritis. The chiropractor will ask about your current lifestyle and may offer certain alterations that will be advantages in lessening the inflammation due to arthritis. And, finally, you will receive a detailed examination. After the examination takes place, the chiropractor will let you know if chiropractic management can help your back pain, as well as relieve your painful arthritic symptoms. At the end of your visit!Then you will be told about the exact treatment you will need.
Chiropractic treatment is not only painless, but relieves pain gently and naturally. And, the most wonderful part of going to a chiropractor for your back pain and arthritis is that you can feel confident that the origin of your pain is being addressed, and that the ease you experience is not covering up the symptom of pain, but actually treating the origin of your problem.
Your Ventura Chiropractor knows that allergies can make our everyday life a misery. Unwelcome symptoms like itchy eyes, a runny nose, sneezing, or a skin rash can be the consequence of a simple walk in the garden, a play date with Kitty, a seafood pasta, or even something as small as a nut.
To make the situation worse, for some individuals, and perhaps you’re one of them allergic reactions can progress from just plain irritating to dangerous and life-threatening as the air passageway begins to close and breathing becomes labored. This progression of symptoms can commonly cause a state of panic.
In fact, if you have allergies, it may seem that, from time-to-time, your environment is a pretty unfriendly place and that the world around you is, in deed, out to get you!
You may be curious as to why it is that other individuals seem so unaffected by the environment, while your body reacts, or rather overreacts, to it. It’s a great question. The answer is because some individuals, like you, have a hyperactive immune system that literally “freaks out” when you encounter ordinary substances such as pollen, dander, shellfish, or nuts.
Can your Ventura Chiropractor help with your allergy symptoms? The answer may surprise you. Many people have noticed that they experience relief from their allergy symptoms after chiropractic treatment, even though chiropractic care doesn’t actually treat allergies.
The reason for this is because chiropractic adjustments affect the entire nervous system, including the autoimmune system. When there’s an impedance in the nervous system, in addition to other problems, the autoimmune system, whose job it is to help you to adapt and respond appropriately to your environment, can become under-active or overactive. The dysfunction is the latter (overactive) when it comes to your allergies.
Because chiropractic adjustments lessen or take away disturbances in the nervous system and bring back balance and harmony to the body, the adjustments bring that same balance and harmony to the auto-immune system as well. A strong immune system reacts appropriately to so-called allergens in the environment.
So, as mentioned above, your chiropractor doesn’t actually treat allergies. You could say, rather, that ease from your allergies is merely the by-product of a healthy nervous system. If you want to get back into harmony with your environment as soon as possible, make an appointment with Ventura Chiropractor today.
Whether you see a chiropractor for “crisis” care or on a regular basis, you may have assumed that chiropractic treatment has always been included for the athletes participating in Olympic Games. But, sadly, that hasn’t been the case until now. Read on… For the first time in the history of the Olympic Games, the 2010 Winter Games in Vancouver, Canada, will include chiropractic care inside the Olympic Village Polyclinic, a multi-disciplinary facility that offers comprehensive health care and medical services. While doctors of chiropractic (D.C.s) have historically been included on the Olympic medical staff, the upcoming events mark the first time that D.C.’s from the host country will be treating athletes and officials from around the world directly inside the Polyclinic.
“This is an historic event not only for the chiropractic profession, but also the athletes who will now have access to the care that will help them prepare their bodies for competition,” states Michael Reed, D.C., MS, DACBSP, and Team USA Medical Director (USOC). “These athletes train hard and endure significant physical demands. Sports-focused D.C.s, along with other members of the sports medicine team, are specially skilled to assist them in reaching peak performance.”
Throughout the years, chiropractic has become a mainstay in the care of world-class athletes, leading to a growing number of D.C.s included in the Olympic Games. Countless athletes attribute the care they receive from their chiropractors — working along-side other health care professionals – as a key to properly preparing their bodies to perform optimally.