Health & Wellness

Patients who are seeking chiropractic care can rest assured knowing that we enhance your health by teaching and practicing today’s most advanced chiropractic wellness procedures for back pain and other chiropractic needs.

There are two main methods for applying health care – wellness procedures and ordinary medical procedures, and while these two forms of care often treat the same conditions, the two do differ.

Perhaps the main difference between wellness practices and ordinary medicine, is that wellness techniques train the body and mind to stimulate the healing process naturally. This approach avoids adding medicine or supplements to the system, but instead, teaches the body to reject biomolecules that interfer with the body’s natural functions. In contrast, ordinary medical care is often the practice of adding outside elements to the body. This could include medicine, vaccine, and even surgical means of repairing the body.

Here’s our philosophy: Inside out, not outside in.

Let’s take a look at a common ailment, high blood pressure. The standard approach that your family practitioner may take, is to provide you with blood-pressure lowering medication. While this may serve its purpose, which is to lower your blood pressure, this approach often ignores the underlying issue which is causing your high blood pressure to begin with.

The wellness approach, begins by identifying the specific issue that is causing your high blood pressure. Whether your high blood pressure is caused from nutritional, nervous system, or stress related issues, the goal is to treat this disorder at the source. If it is a nutritional issue, proper diet and exercise may be all your body needs. If it is a nervous system issue, we may have to manipulate the nerves back to functioning normal. And similarly, if it is a stress issue, naturally releiving it is our goal.

Neuropathy & the Peripheral Nervous System Treatment

One of the biggest worries for many diabetics is diabetic neuropathy. Neuropathy is a malady and affects the nerves. It can make one’s muscles feel weak, numbness, spasms, cramps, and loss of balance. Some people feel pain in certain areas of their body like their arms and legs.

With diabetics, neuropathy can be a sign that more severe problems are on their way. Numbness is especially worrisome because it indicates that not enough blood is getting to a specific area, which can lead to amputation, and all the worries associated with those types of procedures. But that’s the worst thing to worry about; some other things include:

• Diarrhea
• Dizziness
• Speech impairment
• Swallowing problems
• Muscle contractions and spasms
• Tingling
• Painful stabbing in areas of the body
• Decreased sensation to some body parts
• Gastric issues

One of the problems with neuropathy is that it’s hard to treat. Many of the medications that could possibly help have side effects that sometimes are worse than the neuropathy. Yet, there are some things that could help. For instance, whether you’re diagnosed as being diabetic or not, doctors recommend that everyone over the age of 40 take at least one aspirin a day, possibly two low dose aspirins a day, to help keep your blood flowing better, since aspirin is a blood thinner. Once diagnosed, it may be requested to increase the dosage.

Other medications are also sometimes used. Anti-depressants are used to help relax muscles and to help relieve nerve pain. Lidocaine patches can be applied to areas where there’s pain, but the relief doesn’t last too long so one might have to use multiple patches a day.

There’s also one medical procedure that might being some pain relief, but its effects also don’t last all that long. It’s called TENS (transcutaneous electric nerve stimulation). Basically, it’s a machine that sends an electric shock into your nerves to counter the problems your nerves already have. Many people say they feel better after having the procedure, but it won’t relieve the pain for you, and it could get costly having to do it all the time.

There are some other things people should do, which they should be doing ahead of time also, to help relieve some of these issues. Exercise is a big one. Changing one’s diet to something healthier could help. Getting regular massages, especially in the areas that are the most distressed, could help greatly. And, of course, quitting smoking and reducing the amount of alcohol intake are important as well.

If one is diagnosed with neuropathy, diabetic or not, it’s not a lost cause. But it will take some work to reverse things, and, if it’s going to take work anyway, why not start being healthier now.