Chiropractic can help patients suffering from a number of different illnesses or discomforts. Follow the links below to learn more about the benefits of Chiropractic.

Shoulder Pain Arm Problems Disc Problems Aging Problems Spinal Subluxation Headaches and Migraines Accident Rehabilitation Colds, Flu and Respiratory Problems Hand Problems Menstrual Problems Sports Injuries

Headaches, Migraines and Chiropractic
Headache is humanity's most common pain. Sooner or later nearly all of us get one. But about 20 percent of the population, headaches are more than an occasional discomfort; they are chronic or recurrent. A headache is no simple condition; there are more than 20 varieties. One variety alone, the migraine, has five sub-varieties. Each different kind of headache can have a different cause as well.

There are headaches caused by inhaling the fumes of noxious chemicals, looking at intense bright lights, sinus trouble or eye problems, high blood pressure, diseased teeth, ear problems vision problems, fevers, infections, tumors, the side effects of drugs... the causes are numerous.

Rather than relying on drugs to treat the pain associated with headaches, an approach that overlooks the underlying cause of the pain, the chiropractic approach centers on adjusting the body to be better able to correct the malfunction causing the headache. Removing spinal nerve stress permits the body to restore itself to agreater level of health and wholeness; in effect, to heal itself.

Chiropractic spinal care is essential for anyone who suffers from headaches. This is not because chiropractic is a headache treatment, which it is not, but because for everyone who wants to have a healthy body, a healthy spial column is the first order of the day.
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Shoulder, Arm and Hand Problems
Problems with the neck, shoulder and arm are often called different things by patients: neuritis, bursitus, neuralgia, rheumatism, frozen shoulder, fibrositis , sprained, strained or sore muscles, or "poor circulation". Some people may blame their shoulder or other joint pain on "old age", even though their other shoulder, which doesn't have any problems, is just as old.

The brachial plexus is a complicated nerve network that originates in the middle and lower neck and upper back, and branches off to supply different areas, especially the shoulders, arms, elbows, wrists, hands and fingers. The most common form of brachial plexus damage occurs to the nerves as they exit the spinal column through a hole surrounded by a ring of spinal bone and other hard tissue. If the hole is compressed due to spinal stress, injury, accident, arthitis, or the stresses and strains of daily living, the nerves can become compressed or "pinched". Depending on which brachial plexus nerves are damaged, different symptoms and problems may be experienced. Neck pain or neck stiffness may be one of the first signs. In some people the pain may radiate to the shoulder and down to the arm, wrist, hand or finger. Sometimes there's extremity pain but not neck pain. Sometimes there's no pain but numbness, a sure sign of nerve damage. "Pins and needles" of the fingers or other areas can be a sign of brachial plexus problems, while weakness of the invloved parts also may occur.

Althoug h chiropractic's success with problems relating to spinal nerve injury and brachial plexus symptoms is well documented, it is not a treatment for those problems. The chiropractic approach to a person's health problems is very different from the medical approach. Rather than treat a condition a patient has, the chiropractor concentrates on the health of the patient. The chiropractor specializes in analyzing your spinal column for vertebral subluxations and correcting them when found. In this way the chiropractor helps restore the healthy flow of nerve impulses between the brain and body parts.
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Colds, Flu and Respiratory Diseases
Chiropractic and the common flow? But chiropractic is justs for backs! Not so. In fact, many people seeing chiropractors for spinal pain find a general improvement in the health that includes fewer and less severe colds and other respiratory problems.

The common cold is associated with viruses that affect the nose, throat, larnyx and sinuses. Breathing in the cold viruses does not in itself cause a cold. For For cold and flu viruses to grow they must find a hosts who has a body with weakened natural resistance. Chiropractic doesn't treat the common cold or flu. It does, however, help raise our natural resistance to disease. Natural resistance is the only reason colds, flu and other respiratory disease "go away" rather than last for weeks, months or an entire lifetime. Chiropractic care helps raise our natural resistance to disease by removing a serious interference to our natural healing ability; Spinal nerve stress and vertebral subluxations. Keeping the spinal column free of vertebral subluxations, which inhibit the flow of information and energy between the brain and the rest of your body, helps keep natural immunity high.
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Spinal Subluxation

Our bodies are amazingly complex structures. Nerve messages are what regulate bodily functions: breathing, digestion, heartbeat, excretions, hormones, glands, muscles-- if nerves are irritated, the brain's ability to communicate with and regulate the body is affected. A vertebral or spinal subluxation, like brain damage or strike, interfers with the proper functioning of the nervous system, the spinal column and ultimately the entire body. It creates incordination in the forces that control and coordinate the body. That creates "disease", lowers resistance to disease and paves the way for ill health. It is sometimes called the "silent killer" because it can slowly eat away at a person's health and vitality for years without that person having the slightest awareness of it. Doctors of chiropractic specialize in locating, analyzing and correcting vertebral subluxations.

Vertebral subluxations occur when one or more vertebrae are out of proper alignment, causing the opening between the vertebrae through which nerves travel to be narrowed. This pinching interferes with nerve messages between the brain and the body. Stress is the main cause of subluxation. either macro-stress caused by accidents, falls or other injuries, or micro-stress caused by repeated movements that gradually wear down the body parts.

Periodic spinal examinations to locate and correct vertebral subluxations should be a part of every family's health routine. Correcting silent subluxations today might save you and your family from diseases that later could not possibly be ignored.
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Accidents, Injuries and Chiropractic
Anyone who has been in any accident should make sure that the trauma has not misaligned their spinal column and caused nerve damaging vertebral subluxation . Only a chiropractor is trained analyze the spine this way.

Most accidents are minor. In those cases chiropratcic should be sought out as soon as possible. Too often severe health problems begin as a little fall, whiplash, bump, or shakeup that may have caused some pain initially but was later forgotten. Millions of people leave emergency rooms unaware that are carrying around hidden spinal distortions that may cause sebere health problems later.

Even serious accidents, chiropractic care is helpful. In such situations it is necessary to first attend to any life-threatening emergency such as bleeding or hemorrhage, lack of breathing, internal organ damage , broken bones, shock or other serious injury. This is the specialty of the medical profession, dealing with trauma. But after the medical doctors have done their work the body should receive the chiropractic care that will help restore communications lines between the brain and the body that can be seriously interupted. Without chiropractic care residual problems may linger for months or even years after an accident. Pain or muscle spasms in the neck, shoulders, arms, wrists, hands, legs, back, face or head all can result from failing to get the proper chiropractic following an accident.

Chiropractic care also helps restore a persons immune system, which may be weakened after an accident due to trauma. Restoring a weakened immune can prevent serious health conditions that often develop after an accident. Without this care, victims may continue to take pain killers, muscle relaxants, various therapies or repeated surgery for years after the accident. There people are often told that nothing more can be done, that they will just have to learn to live with their problems. They need to know that in many cases chiropractic care may totally eliminate or greatly reduce their problems safely, quickly and without drugs or surgery.
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Sports, Athelitics and Chiropractic
Many People watching the summer Olympic games in Seoul Korea, in 1998 saw Greg Louganis, winner of two gold medals, strike his head on the diving platform during the diving competition. They did not see Jan Corwin, a U.S. chiropractor on the Olympic Committee staff, deliver a spinal adjustment to Louganis' spine immediately after the accident. All they knew was that Louganis was able to return to the board and win another gold medal for diving.

An isolated occurance? By no means. Olympic wrestlers, NFL football players and other professional atheletes rely on chiropractors. Throughout the United States chiropractors are "team doctors" for professional as well as elementary, junior high and high school football, basketball, baseball, hockey, handball, rugby, soccer and other sports teams. These chiropractors help keep the atheletes on the field and help stop minor injuries from becoming major ones without the use of drugs or surgery.

Chiropractic care balances the spinal column and relieves mechanical and structural stress on the nervous system. Sports injuries nearly always jar and misalign the spinal column. This, anyone who plays any sport needs regular chiropractic spinal checkups to ensure his or her spine is balanced and free from structural stress ans subluxations.
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Disk Problems/Back Surgery
Today researchers are in general agreement that disc lesions are the single most common cause of lower back pain. The disc that cushion and seperate the vertebrae may start showing signs of wear and tear as early as age 15.
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Menstrual Problems and Chiropractic

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Chiropractic for the Elderly

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