Showing posts with label low Back Pain. Show all posts
Showing posts with label low Back Pain. Show all posts

Tuesday, January 31, 2012

Consider Chiropractic care as part of your work out!

We at Van Every Family Chiropractic Center of Royal Oak, Michigan, care about your health and well-being and strive to provide you with current information in a variety of health topics!

Personal trainer and kick boxer Christopher has been a life long athlete. A life long love and enjoyment of sports helps in maintaining a healthy life style. It also can take its toll on the body if it is not properly cared for. Watch below as Christopher explains his history of sports, his new found appreciation for Chiropractic care and how it has helped him continue to live his life the way he wants to!

Tuesday, October 25, 2011

We can help so much more than just back pain at Van Every Family Chiropractic!

We at Van Every Family Chiropractic Center of Royal Oak, Michigan, care about your health and well-being and strive to provide you with current information in a variety of health topics!

Chiropractic has become the most popular natural, drugless healing art in the world because of its great success. People with all kinds of health concerns, in all age groups and from all over the world, have discovered the benefits of chiropractic – often after drugs and surgery failed. Before you resort to powerful drugs and surgery, it is prudent to explore more natural, less toxic and safer options (if at all possible). Below are only a fraction of the successes chiropractic has had.


Neck pain, carpal tunnel syndrome, low back pain and cholesterol levels.
A 49-year-old woman with neck pain, carpal tunnel syndrome, low back pain, high blood lipids (dyslipidemia) and vertebral subluxations began chiropractic care.

Lipid-lowering statins were prescribed by her medical physician, but, using her own
judgment, she elected not to take them.

After six months of chiropractic care her total cholesterol improved from 221 to 170 mg/dL, her LDL went from 153 to 109 mg/dL and her HDL went from 33 to 38 mg/dL. Her triglycerides improved from 241 to 199 mg/dL and her quality of life scores were increased in eight categories. No other interventions were used. (11)

References:
11. Fedorchuk C, Burk JL, Phillips S. Reduction in cholesterol and improved quality of life in a patient with dyslipidemia undergoing chiropractic care: a case study. Annals of Vertebral Subluxation Research. June 2, 2011;26-36.

Tuesday, September 13, 2011

Chiropractic after car accidents? Yes, it helps!

We at Van Every Family Chiropractic Center of Royal Oak, Michigan, care about your health and well-being and strive to provide you with current information in a variety of health topics!

Watch the following video and see why our patient Liz says "I am doing wonderfully well...and I have to attribute it to (Van Every Family Chiropractic Center)" and her husband Tom says they "feel rewarded with their treatment". They love the gentle KST, or Koren Specific Technique we utilize in our clinic, and as long-time chiropractic patients, love the results the technique provides them. They are two of our happy patients, and we are grateful for them!

Monday, September 12, 2011

"Immediately the (ankle) pain left, never to return again!"

We at Van Every Family Chiropractic Center of Royal Oak, Michigan, care about your health and well-being and strive to provide you with current information in a variety of health topics!

Watch the following video and see why our patient Jan explains how KST, the Koren Specific Technique, style of adjusting helped her ankle: "Immediately the pain left, never to return again!", and how it keeps her in working form all summer to successfully run her landscaping company. She is one of our many happy patients, and we are so grateful to share her story!

Friday, September 2, 2011

Van Every Family Chiropractic shares some important research about depression and chiropractic care

We at Van Every Family Chiropractic Center of Royal Oak, Michigan, care about your health and well-being and strive to provide you with current information in a variety of health topics!

Depression, asthma, high stress … and chiropractic.

A 49-year-old woman with a history of depression, asthma, high stress, mood and gastrointestinal changes began chiropractic care.

She was checked and corrected for vertebral subluxations during a 7-month period. During that period she was re-evaluated and exhibited a considerable improvement in her physical, emotional and social well-being.

The researchers employed a Self-Rated Health/Wellness (SRHW) survey that was taken prior to care and at subsequent progress visits that assessed her physical state, emotional/mental state, her stress levels, life enjoyment and her Overall Quality of Life. (8)

Low back pain and urinary urgency. A 24-year-old soldier was suffering from low back pain and urinary urgency (needing to urinate 12-15 times per day). Medication to relieve the problem was unsuccessful. Chiropractic adjustments were applied to sites of vertebral subluxation resulting in an amelioration of the patient’s complaints. (9)

Pervasive developmental disorder. A three-year-old boy, who was diagnosed with Pervasive Developmental Disorder by a pediatrician, had communication problems, apraxia and speech delay. The child received chiropractic care over the course of 5 months to his upper cervical (neck) and sacral regions.

The outcomes were measured by re-assessments, parental evaluation and health care provider and teacher reports. The child began making friends, became more interactive and less defiant and was reported to be an overall happier child following the introduction of chiropractic care. (10)

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Monday, August 29, 2011

Chiropractic for back pain: Koren Specific Technique's "results are as good, if not better" than traditional adjusting!

We at Van Every Family Chiropractic Center of Royal Oak, Michigan, care about your health and well-being and strive to provide you with current information in a variety of health topics!

Watch the following video and see why our patient Rick says that KST, the Koren Specific Technique, style of adjusting provides "results (that) are as good, if not better" than traditional, manual adjusting. He is one of our many happy patients, and we are grateful to share his story!



Tuesday, September 14, 2010

What is Sciatica?

Your sciatic nerve is the longest and largest nerve in your body. When such a large nerve becomes inflamed the condition is called sciatica (pronounced si'ad-a'ka) and the pain can be intense! The pain may follow the path of your nerve – down the back of your legs and thighs, down to your ankle, foot and toes – but it can also radiate to your back with burning, pins and needles or tingling. Ugh!

Causes of sciatica can include an unhealthy spine with a protruded or ruptured disc which can irritate the sciatic nerve. Sciatica has been reported following accidents, injuries and childbirth. (1)

The medical approach to sciatica is usually to treat the symptoms with painkillers, muscle relaxers, traction and physical therapy. Relief may be obtained by injecting painkillers directly into the nerve roots! In extreme cases orthopedic surgery may be resorted to.

The chiropractic approach has been a blessing to sciatica and leg pain sufferers for over a hundred years (2-3) often saving them from surgery. (4-6)

All sciatica sufferers should see a doctor of chiropractic to ensure they have a body free from subluxations. A subluxation causes structural distortions, disc and nerve pressure and may stress the entire body and brain! Chiropractors correct or adjust subluxations to relieve stress on the structure, nerves, joints and discs.

If you do have sciatica, from whatever cause, a chiropractic adjustment is needed to remove pressure on your nerves, rebalance your spine and body structure, release stress from your discs and permit your body's muscles, glands and tissues to function in a more balanced manner.

Every sciatica sufferer should visit their neighborhood doctor of chiropractic for a checkup. It could save them from needless drugs, injections and surgery.

Cited:
1. Fonti S, Lynch M. Etiopathogenesis of lumbosciatalgia due to disc disease; chiropractic treatment. In J. Mazzarelli (Ed.), Chiropractic: Interprofessional Research. Torino, Italy: Edizioni Minerve Medica, 1983:59-68.
2. Johnson EW. Sciatic nerve palsy following delivery. Postgrad. Med. 1961;30(5):495-497.
3. Barge FH. The chiropractic vertebral subluxation and its relationship to vertebrogenic lumbar pain, cruralgia and sciatic syndromes. Chiropractic Research Journal. 1995;3(2):25-39.
4. Livingston M. Spinal manipulation: a one year follow-up study. The Canadian Family Physician. July 1969:35-39.
5. Mathews JA et al. Back pain and sciatica: controlled trials of manipulation, traction, sclerosant and epidural injections. British Journal of Rheumatology. 1987;26:416-423.
6. Osterbauer PJ, Fuhr AW. Treatment of chronic sciatica by mechanical force, manually assisted, short lever adjusting and a video assisted stretching program: a quantitative case report. Proceedings of the Consortium for Chiropractic Research Conference on Research and Education, 1992. Palm Springs, CA.