Thursday, October 20, 2016

World Osteoporosis Day

World Osteoporosis Day is October 20th!


WOD is dedicated to raising awareness of the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of osteoporosis and metabolic bone disease.

Osteoporosis is a disease where decreased bone strength increases the risk of a broken bone.

When having osteoporosis you are at greater risk of breaking about any bone in your body. In fact, the first sign of osteoporosis for many people is a broken bone.

By using hands-on approach for treatment, chiropractors can help prevent osteoporosis from getting worse as well as treat an osteoporosis-related injury.

Your long term bone and muscle health starts now! Take early action by following these tips:

Regular exercise
A bone healthy diet
Consulting a doctor about osteoporosis
 

Sources: Wikipedia. http:// bjdonline.org. Freed Chiropractic Clinic, Ally Wilson. September 26, 2016,

Wednesday, October 19, 2016

Pediatric Bone and Joint Day (PB&J Day)



World Pediatric bone and Joint (PB&J) Day
World PB&J Day is here to highlight the impact of musculoskeletal conditions on children and educate healthcare providers and the public about children’s musculoskeletal health issues.
Here is some useful information from Pediatric Physical Therapist, Maureen Suhr that could help you to understand more about PB&J and helpful tips.



 

Don’t ignore a limp: Limping in a child or adolescent is a sign of pain or pathology. If a limp persists more than 24-48 hours it is worth seeing your pediatrician or pediatric orthopedist, regardless of whether or not a child complains of pain.

 

Bones grow faster than muscles: Because bones grow faster than muscles, children and adolescents tend to get asymmetrical forces about their joints during growth spurts. When an active child goes through a growth spurt, his muscles suddenly become much tighter and less flexible. Additionally, in a growing child, the tendons tend to be stronger than the growing bone. This puts him/her at risk for an avulsion fracture. A sports injury that would likely result in a muscle strain in an adult, may result in an avulsion fracture (injury where a tendon pulls off a small piece of bone from its attachment) in an adolescent. Treatment typically involves pain management, possibly with crutches, and rest with gradual restoration of flexibility and strength.

 
Be aware of the potential for stress fractures: It is common today for children and adolescents to specialize in one sport early on. This increases their potential for overuse injuries like tendonitis or stress fractures, which are small breaks in the bone that are typically not displaced. They are particularly common in high-impact sports such as long distance running or gymnastics and tend to be common in females. Female athletes who train at a high level may present with the female triad of poor nutrition, absent menstrual cycles, and weak bones, which predisposes them to stress fracture. As parents and coaches we need to remember the importance of balanced nutrition and balanced training (cross training).



 
Knee pain doesn’t always mean a knee injury: Sometimes, as is the case of knee pain in a child or adolescent, it’s not always what it seems. Pain in the knee may be referred from the nerves in the hip. In a child between the ages of 4-9 years of age, it may be due to Legg-Calve-Perthes disease which is degeneration of the top of the thigh bone where it inserts in the hip socket. This is a serious condition which may lead to significant loss of motion and potential deformity if left unchecked. Another serious hip condition that presents in adolescents typically between the ages of 10-15 years of age is Slipped Capital Femoral Epiphysis (SCFE). This also presents with a limp, with the child’s foot turned out, and referred pain to the knee. Symptoms may come on gradually over a few months or it may occur suddenly with severe pain limiting the child’s ability to walk altogether. With SCFE, the growth plate on the top of the thigh bone separates from the shaft of the bone. Again, if left untreated, serious and debilitating consequences may occur including pain and arthritis.

Sunday, October 16, 2016

October 16th is World Spine Day

October 16th is World Spine Day
Every year on October 16th people from around the world join together to raise awareness on World Spine Day as part of the Bone and Joint Action Week. The World Spine Day theme for 2016 is "Straighten up and Move". We want to highlight the importance of physical activities and improving your posture as part of spinal health and prevention of injury.

With back pain the largest single global cause of disability, World Spine Day will be raising awareness of occupational factors and how we can reduce the impact they have on our backs and necks. Heavy lifting, repetitive movement and sitting for long periods can all become painful over time; in fact back pain is one of the major causes of time off work, with workers sometimes out of action for weeks or months.
Your health is important to us! Come in to get your spine checked. We are offering FREE one time use, spinal checks.
Check out the tips below.

Wednesday, October 12, 2016

October 12 is World Arthritis Day

October 12 is World Arthritis Day



There are many ways chiropractic helps those with arthritis. If you do indeed have spinal misalignments referred to as subluxations, this can cause the discs to wear down more quickly. Chiropractors are trained to detect and correct those misalignments with gentle, specific adjustments. As your body stays in its proper alignment, not only is pressure taken of the nerves, but the proper
motion between the spinal bones is restored. This reduces your bodies need to
lay down new bone to stabilize your spine.


The standard medical approach to "wear and tear" arthritis is self-medication with over-the-counter painkillers and NSAIDS, or non-steroidal anti-inflammatory
drugs like Tylenol, Advil, etc. If not resolved, you can end up on steroids or
prescription painkillers that can lead to addiction. The eventual medical
solution is surgery, sometimes very risky surgery with long-term consequences.

Many people associate this condition with the elderly and the health concerns that affect them, and statistical evidence supports that those over 65 are in fact the primary sufferers. But there is an often forgotten section of people who are under that age, almost 30% of all sufferers are under the age of 65, with some of them being no older than their teen years, and some rare cases existing even in the very young.

Take the time to educate yourself on this condition, and find the ways you can help prevent or hold-off this condition in your own life.

Sources: https://www.daysoftheyear.com/days/world-arthritis-day/

Thursday, September 29, 2016

World Heart Day is September 29th


         World Heart Day is September 29th
 
Learn to listen to your body and if you have a concern, don’t rest until you have an answer.
This World Heart Day, we want everyone to understand what they can do to fuel their hearts and power their lives. Your heart is at the heart of your health. And it's easy to give it the care it deserves.
Just a few simple steps such as eating more healthily, staying active, regular check ups, cutting down on alcohol and stopping smoking can improve your heart health and your overall well-being.
 
 
September 23, 2016, Freed Chiropractic Clinic, Ally Wilson

Tuesday, September 20, 2016

September is child safety month

September is Child Safety Month

Here are some simple, low-cost product safety tips to protect children:

1. Never leave standing liquids unattended. Stay within arm's reach while your child is bathing or near any container of water. If the phone rings, let it ring; stay with your child.

2. Prevent tap water scalds by adjusting the temperature on your hot water heater to 120 degrees F. 

3. Keep medicines and hazardous household chemicals locked up and out of sight. Use child-resistant packaging for medicines and hazardous household chemicals, and call 1-800-222-1222 if a poisoning occurs.

4. Cut the loops on window-blind cords and call 1-800-506-4636 for a free repair kit.

5. Make sure your hairdryer has a large rectangular plug. The immersion protection device prevents electrocution if the hairdryer is dropped in water.


6. Change the battery in your smoke alarm when you change your clock's setting in October.

7. Have a professional check your furnace for carbon monoxide leaks and your chimney for blockages; put a CO alarm in the hallway near every separate sleeping area. 

8 Prevent electrocutions by installing a ground fault circuit interrupter (GFCI) in your household outlets.

9. Installing Arc Fault Circuit Interrupters (AFCIs) can prevent electrical fires. AFCIs can sense electrical arc and trip circuit. 


Sources: childrenshealth.gov

Monday, September 19, 2016

How Chiropractic Can Benefit An Athlete


How Chiropractic Can Benefit An Athlete

 

An athletes body takes on a lot of stress. Between workouts, practices, and games, of course they suffer from aches and pains. These can sometimes cause more serious injuries.

By correcting spinal alignment and function, a chiropractor can help maximize your performance on the field by preventing injuries and improving recovery.

Chiropractic adjustments allow the body to move as freely. When your spine is out of alignment, your muscles commonly spasm or cramp up, causing a decrease in range of motion. Relieving misalignments throughout the spine helps free up areas of tension in the back and neck, reducing pain and improving mobility.

 

Chiropractors mainly focus on the spine but can also help to treat:

  • Shoulder pain
  • Shoulder, elbow, wrist and hand sprains and strains
  • Hip, knee, ankle and foot sprains and strains
  • Tennis and golfer's elbow
  • Headaches
  • Neck, mid-back and low-back pain
  • Sciatica

 

September 19, 2016 Freed Chiropractic Clinic, Ally Wilson

Tuesday, September 6, 2016

Back pack safety: Backpack buying tips

Backpack Safety: Backpack Buying Tips
 
The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) suggests that backpack safety begins with making sure parents purchase the right backpack. Look for:

•A lightweight backpack that doesn’t add weight to what your child must carry. If it’s a choice between that cool leather backpack, and a more common canvas backpack, choose the canvas. It’s lighter, so better for backpack safety.

•Two broad shoulder straps with padding are better than narrow straps... which are more likely to dig trenches into a child’s shoulders. A backpack with one shoulder strap may look awesome, but isn’t good for backpack safety. Your child needs two straps to distribute the weight of the pack as evenly as possible.

•Padded backs are a feature of better quality backpacks and a must for backpack safety. Padding makes the backpack more comfortable, and also keep those sharp pencils, rulers, and book corners, for instance, from poking your child in the back.


•Waist belts are important for backpack safety, as they keep the weight of the backpack more evenly spread out, to prevent stress on any one part of the body.


•Lots of compartments are good for backpack safety, because these too, help spread the weight around, preventing injury and stress to the body.




Saturday, August 27, 2016

August is Bone Cancer Awareness Month

August is Bone Cancer Awareness Month

Bone cancer is uncommon and begins in a bone. This can begin is any bone in the body but it commonly affects the long bones that make up the arms and legs.

How often does bone cancer occur?

Bone cancer is rare. About 2,300 new cases of primary bone cancer are diagnosed in the United States each year.
What are the symptoms of bone cancer?

The most common symptom of bone cancer is pain but not all bone cancers cause pain. A bone tumor may cause a painless mass. Some people have dull, aching pain. And in some cases, minor injury causes a fracture near the tumor. Persistent or unusual pain or swelling in or near a bone can be caused by cancer. It is important to see a doctor to determine the cause.

How is bone cancer diagnosed?

To help diagnose bone cancer, the doctor also performs a physical examination and may order laboratory and other diagnostic tests. These tests may include the following: X-rays, bone scan, computed tomography (CT or CAT) scan, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) procedure, positron emission tomography (PET) scan, an angiogram, a biopsy (removal of a tissue sample from the bone tumor) to determine whether cancer is present and blood tests may be performed.

Freed Chiropractic Clinic, Ally Wilson. August 26, 2016


Sources:
http://www.nylencancercenter.com
Google.com

August is Bone Cancer Awareness Month

August is Bone Cancer Awareness Month

Bone cancer is uncommon and begins in a bone. This can begin is any bone in the body but it commonly affects the long bones that make up the arms and legs.

How often does bone cancer occur?

Bone cancer is rare. About 2,300 new cases of primary bone cancer are diagnosed in the United States each year.
What are the symptoms of bone cancer?

The most common symptom of bone cancer is pain but not all bone cancers cause pain. A bone tumor may cause a painless mass. Some people have dull, aching pain. And in some cases, minor injury causes a fracture near the tumor. Persistent or unusual pain or swelling in or near a bone can be caused by cancer. It is important to see a doctor to determine the cause.

How is bone cancer diagnosed?

To help diagnose bone cancer, the doctor also performs a physical examination and may order laboratory and other diagnostic tests. These tests may include the following: X-rays, bone scan, computed tomography (CT or CAT) scan, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) procedure, positron emission tomography (PET) scan, an angiogram, a biopsy (removal of a tissue sample from the bone tumor) to determine whether cancer is present and blood tests may be performed.

Freed Chiropractic Clinic, Ally Wilson. August 26, 2016


Sources:
http://www.nylencancercenter.com
Google.com

Wednesday, August 24, 2016

Can Chiropractic Care Benefit Your Child?

June 14, 2016
Can chiropractic care benefit your child?

Many spinal problems seen in a someone as early as birth. Birthing can cause stress on an infant’s spine and developing nerve system. Colic, breathing problems, nursing difficulties, sleep disturbances, allergic reactions and chronic infections can often be traced to nerve system stress. These common newborn complaints are often caused by spinal and cranial misalignment.

Since significant spinal trauma can occur at birth, many parents have their newborns checked right away. As an infant grows, and learns to walk, crawl, and sit, this can affect spinal alignment. Chiropractic care can keep your child growing on the right track.

Did you know chiropractic pediatric care is not only for newborns?

Getting your child regular check ups with the chiropractor can prevent or help conditions such as ear infections, asthma, allergies, and headaches (to name a few). Regular check ups or adjustments can help prevent health complaints later see in adults.

It is important to understand that the Doctor of Chiropractic does not treat conditions or diseases. The expertise of the chiropractor is in checking the child’s spine for mis-alignments that impair nerve system function therefore affecting overall body function.




Sources
ICPA "Can children benefit from chiropractic care" http://icpa4kids.org

June 14, 2016 Freed Chiropractic Clinic, Ally Wilson

Monday, August 22, 2016

Boost your immune system naturally with Chiropractic Care

Boost your immune system naturally with Chiropractic Care
 
 
Chiropractic adjustments relieve you of stress on the nerve system. In turn this allows the nerve system to better direct the immune response.

Subluxation is the term used for misalignments of the spine. This can cause compression and irritation of nerve pathways which affects the organ systems of the body. According to research, stressful conditions as this can lead to altered measures of immune function and increa...sed susceptibility to a variety of diseases.

Inflammatory disease is influenced by the nervous, immune, and endocrine systems. Nerve stimulations affects the growth and function of inflammatory cells. Reasearch has found that dysfunction in this pathway can result in the development of a variety of syndromes such as behavioral syndromes such as depression and inflammatory syndromes such as rheumatoid arthritis.

This neuro-endo-immune repsonse plays a significant role in immune conditions such as chronic infections and cancer.

Wellness based chiropractors analyze the spine for subluxations and adjust to reduce stress on the nervous system.

In 1992, a research group found that when a thoracic adjustment was applied to a subluxated aera, the white blood cell count rose significantly.

Daily stress, whether nutritional, enviormental, physical, or emotional will affect how long the benefits of chiropractic adjustments can last. During times of increased stress, or with a weakened immune system, more frequent chiropractic adjustments may be needed to ensure immune function.

Sources
"Chiropractic boosts immunity" http://www.naturalnews.com/031206chiropractic_immunity.html
"Boost Your Immune System Naturally with Chiropractic" http://totalbalancechiro.com/blog/?p=226
Freed Chiropractic, Ally Wilson. July 8, 2016

Friday, August 19, 2016

A Study Of Over 20,000 Neck Adjustments Reveal...

A Study of over 20,000 Neck Adjustments Reveal...
 
 
Data was collected from patients after researchers set out to identify symptoms that could predict whether patients would feel "better" or "worse" immediately following neck adjustments. Patients in this study presented symptoms such as: reduced neck/shoulder/arm movement, neck pain/ shoulder pain/ arm pain/ headache, upper/mid-back pain.

Researchers determind that 95% of patients with the symptoms were immediately improved following a neck adjustment!
 

Pain is usually the first symptom to appear. Whether you suffering from headaches, shoulder, neck pain, or leg pain---complete healing takes time.

Tissues that do not fully heal and joints that do not move properly are prone to re-injury.

Sources:
Chiropractic natural health newsletter Vol. 28, Isuue 8
08/01/2016 Freed Chiropractic Clinic, Ally Wilson

Wednesday, August 17, 2016

Why is pain shooting down from my back to my legs?

Why is pain shooting down from my back to my legs?
 
The most common reason the pain or numbness or tingling will be shooting down your leg from your back is that you are having a disc problem in your lower back. Disc problems such as, disc bulges, inflammation, disc herniation's, disc extrusions are all very painful. A disc problem can take awhile to heal. Good news is that whether you choose Chiropractic care or surgery, the healing process will take about the same time with possibly the same results. So instead of the extra pain, give chiropractic a try.

You can also have tight muscles that compress or entrap nerves. This can happen with your hip flexors or even your hamstrings. As muscles start to bunch up and the muscle fibers adhere together forming scar tissue it then starts to wrap up the nerve fibers and create additional compression on your nerves. A chiropractor can diagnose and help to relieve the entrapped nerves.

If you are having an episode of this, get an ice pack out of the freezer and call us. We will be able to diagnose your problem correctly.
Any back problem that is extending into your leg, is not going to go away over night. You will need regular and frequent care to feel better for the long term.




Sources:
Active family chiropractic
08/08/2016 Freed Chiropractic Clinic, Ally Wilson

Monday, August 15, 2016

Do you or someone you know suffer from pulmonary disease?

                                           Do you or someone you know suffer from pulmonary disease?

Asthma affects over 17 million Americans as well as COPD.
Often, during the warm months children and adults with a lung disease can have flare ups.

Pulmonary diseases cause many symptoms such as blockage of airways, shortness of breath, tightness in chest, wheezing, and a cough to name a few. Many individuals with this disease have resolved maintenance of the illness by using inhalers. However, Chiropractic care has been shown to help improve the condition with regular chiropractic treatments.


Chiropractic treatment involves the realignment of the spine and therefore the nerves. Chiropractic manipulation can eliminate obstruction during nerve impulse conduction to the lungs and airway. When adjusted, your body is restored to its natural state of alignment, nerves can then function as they should, allowing the lungs to function properly.

Chiropractic care can also benefit by fixing musculoskeletal alignment problems in the ribcage and spine. When this is done, the thoracic cavity is free to expland like it should.

There is a study performed by Graham and Pistolese. The study was performed on 81 asthmatic patients before the start of chiropractic care and two months after their care. The results of this study showed improvment in 90.1% of patients 60 days after chiropractic care. The patients also reported nearly 50% reduction of frequency of asthma attacks.

Life style changes like chiropractic care can be an asset in the lung disease treatment process.


 
June 20, 2016, Ally Wilson, Freed Chiropractic Clinic
Sources
"Pulmonary disease eased bby Chiropractic" http://www.chironexus.net/2013/10/pulmonary-disease-eased-chiropractic/
"With chiropractic care, Asthma symptims can decrease" http://pathoflifechiro.com/reasearch/asthma.html
"Chiropractic care in the treatment of asthma"
http://lasvega.informermg.com/2013/03/30/chiropractic-management-for-asthma-sufferes-part-1-of-4/