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Highland Chiropractor

Air and water are the Big Two for human survival. We humans cannot live long without either. Now, most adults likely haven’t intentionally held their breath to see how long they could go without breathing (or in order to see if mom or dad would give in and give them what they wanted) since they were children. But, how often do we, adults, forgo the other necessity of life…drinking water? And, not just drinking water, but drinking enough water. In order for the human body to function optimally, it needs water (and plenty of it!) Every cell, tissue, organ and system in your body relies on the water you drink. For instance, did you know that your saliva, and the fluids around your joints, are essentially water? It’s true, and in addition to generating dry mouth, dehydration may make your joints ache. Furthermore, water controls the temperature and metabolism of your body and keeps your blood circulating. And, there are still more wonders to drinking sufficient water, such as the improvement of nutrient absorption and toxin removal, as well as the reduction of heartburn, hypertension, exhaustion, headaches. Even back pain has been attributed to staying well-hydrated. As a Highland Chiropractor I make it a point to ask my patients with back pain and joint pain how much water they drink each day, and I advise all of my patients to drink plenty of water on a daily basis.

When it comes to staying well-hydrated, “water on the brain” is a very good thing! Drinking enough water is fundamental for optimum health in all the ways described above one day researchers may find even more. Now, most humans would not be foolish enough to try to go through the day without breathing, yet all too often many of us go through our day either not drinking water at all or not drinking enough. No matter what phsycial activity a person may engage in, the human body requires proper hydration. When it comes to functional challenges caused by dehydration, athletes (and you’d think they’d be far more cognizant of the importance of hydration than non-athletes!) are markedly at risk. Researcher, Susan Yeargin, assistant professor of athletic training in Indiana State’s College of Nursing, Health, and Human Services, said of athletes,”Physiologically, their core body temperature could be higher than it should have been if they were hydrated. Their heart rate will be higher, and they’re going to perceive that they’re working harder than they actually are.”

People often ask how much water is sufficient. Chiropractors like me, your chiropractor in Highland, agree with most health care professionals in advising at least eight, 8-ounce glasses of water daily for most of our patients. However, for our patients who are athletes, or for patients who carry around excess weight or exercise or work where it’s hot, we advise even more! So, how can you tell if you’re drinking “enough” water? It’s simple! The answer is in the color of your urine. If you’re well-hydrated, your urine will be a light, pale yellow!

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Simply going for a walk, let alone catching a frisbee or running in the park, can be very difficult and extremely painful for a dog with arthritis. To put it another way, arthritis can take the fun out of doing what dogs do best…have fun! As a attentive veterinarian in Decatur I am pleased to tell you that treatment for canine arthritis is not totally reduced to the use of painkilling drugs. Dogs suffering from arthritis may be able to benefit from the physiotherapy that helps to improve joint mobility, just like humans are. Physiotherapy, in humans, aids in decreasing arthritic pain and improve function of the affected joints and limbs. You may be wondering how physiotherapy affects canine joints and limbs, as well as what exercises are most effective.

Even though physiotherapy for dogs has been available for a while now, until recently there hasn’t been enough research done to competently document its effects on canine arthritis. However, according to a new study, the results of which were published in the American Journal of Veterinary Research, validation of the efficacy of physiotherapy in decreasing arthritic pain and immobility has been made by researchers at the University of Veterinary Medicine in Vienna.

The researchers used a specifically-designed treadmill and sophisticated computer algorithms to study the movements of the joints in the front and back legs of dogs while the dogs performed three different types of exercises: walking uphill, walking downhill and walking over low obstacles.

The study showed that the three movement protocols had distinct and explicit effects on the movements of the dogs’ joints. While walking downhill did not appear to have much therapeutic benefit because it caused the hip to be less bent and the tarsal joint to be less extended, walking uphill caused notably greater bending at the hip, while the stifle joint (the dog’s knee) was less extended. There were also decreases in the accelerations at the carpal and elbow joints. However, the most significant effects came when the dogs walked over low obstacles. This resulted in increased bending of all joints except the hip and shoulder, and greater extensions of the carpal and stifle joints.

What does all of this mean for your dog? One for, it’s an indication that walking uphill is an easy exercise that you could provide to help to improve your dog’s joint flexibility, especially at the hip joint, and that adding low obstacles could aid in improving the bending of the joints in the forelimbs and hind limbs. It is important to mention, though, that adding low obstacles should be avoided if your dog has recently had surgery for the tibia, because such activity could result in increased bending of the joints and potentially strain the tendon that joins the knee to the shin.

And, as a dog loving Decatur veterinarian, I would add one final suggestion for “man’s best friend,” since the study indicated that walking downhill wasn’t  shown to be effective anyway, after you’ve exercised your dog uphill, perhaps a ride in the car back down the hill would be a nice treat!

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Are you “put out of commission” by your tension headaches? Do they cause you to be absent from work or ineffective while you’re there? Do they interfere with your family and social life? Most people have experienced more than one tension headache in their life. If you are one of those people who has had tension headaches, the intense, dull ache in your head is a familiar one. Such pain is frequently accompanied by a sensation of tightness or pressure along the forehead or on the sides and back of the head. Occasionally, you might feel a tenderness of your scalp, neck and shoulder muscles, and periodically you may experience a loss of appetite or even nausea.

Most tension headaches are defined as mild to moderately intense, but the severity of the pain varies from one person to another, and can vary from one headache to another in the same person. Do your headaches occur often? Headaches are considered chronic if they occur fifteen or more days days a month for a minimum of three months.

The good news is that if tension headaches are interfering with your life just once in a while or chronically, chiropractic treatment can help. For over twenty years Dr. Helwig has been helping the Oak Lawn Community to get out of pain, whether an individual is suffering from back pain, neck pain, shoulder pain, hip pain, knee pain, foot pain, and headaches. Just in case you didn’t know, chiropractor don’t just treat back pain. They take care of the entire musculoskeletal system!

So, if you’re not living your life as fully as you’d like, call Dr. Helwig, your Chiropractor in Oak Lawn, Illinois today. Get back to living fully again!

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Oxnard Chiropractor

Dr. Donald Bolt, your Chiropractor in Oxnard, is aware that allergies can make your day-to-day activities  unpleasant. A walk in the park, snuggling with your favorite feline, a seafood entree, or merely something as minute as a nut might bring about such unwelcome symptoms as itchy eyes, a runny nose, sneezing, or a skin rash.

But then, in some cases an individual’s allergic reactions can go from merely bothersome to acute and life-threatening as the air passageway begins to tighten and breathing becomes difficult. This progression of symptoms can typically generate a state of panic and even a trip to the emergency room.

Allergies can, indeed, turn into an alarmingly troublesome matter and make you feel unable to participate in daily life. Indeed, if you are one of the many sufferers who have allergies, it may even seem to you that, from time to time, your environment is a pretty antagonistic space and that natural environment out there you is, literally, out to get you!

You might contemplate as to why it is that others seem to be so immune to the very same environmental stresses that send your system into overwhelm. Other people seem to be either unaware of or plainly`totally unresponsive to the would-be irritants that lurk at just about every turn, while your body reacts, or rather overreacts, to them. Why you? It’s a valid question. The fact is that some men and women, not unlike yourself, have a hyperactive immune system that literally “goes into a frenzy” whenever you encounter routine substances such as pollen, dander, shellfish, or nuts.

Can your Chiropractor in Oxnard help you in obtaining a significant decrease in your allergy symptoms? The answer is a resounding “Yes,” and the treatment may likely surprise you. A good number of chiropractic patients have noticed that they enjoy freedom from their allergy symptoms following a chiropractic treatment, even though chiropractic care does not really treat allergies, per se. The true reason for the abatement of allergy symptoms is because of the fact that chiropractic manipulation has an effect on the whole nervous system, which includes your autoimmune system, which is the origin of your allergic responses. Whenever there’s a disturbance within the nervous system, together with other challenges, the autoimmune system, whose duty it is to enable you to adjust and respond appropriately to your surroundings, will likely become under-active or overactive. Where your allergies are concerned, the breakdown is the latter (it becomes overactive).

Because chiropractic manipulations are intended to decrease or even entirely remove perturbations within the nervous system and bring back balance and harmony to the complete body, together with a variety of corrections, the treatments offer homeostasis to the autoimmune system as well. A sound immune system responds normal to so-called allergens in the natural environment.

So, as stated above, your Oxnard Chiropractor doesn’t simply address any particular allergy, though that doesn’t indicate your allergies won’t get better or disappear for good. On the other hand, you could point out, instead, that relief from your allergies is merely the consequence of your rebalanced nervous system. If you would like to get back into a balanced relationship with your environment as soon as possible, visit Dr. Bolt, your Chiropractor in Oxnard, today. He can help you to enjoy your environment again!

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As a chiropractor and healthcare provider, I cannot say enough about the crucial issue of excess weight and how it adversely affects every system of the human body. I “preach” to my overweight patients and hammer away on the subject in my blogs because in addition to the cardio-vascular diseases caused by obesity, much of the back pain, hip pain, and knee pain that people experience is influenced by the undue stress excess weight puts on the joints of the body. And, though it may not surprise you, an expert panel in a report out just today said that people in this country must slash their calories and increase physical activity because the obesity epidemic is “the single greatest threat to public health in this century.” 

We all know that dieting isn’t easy, but the advisory committee for the 2010 Dietary Guidelines for Americans gave this clear-cut advice: “People in this country need to cut the calories they consume from added sugars and solid fats (butter, marbled meats) and start eating a more nutrient-rich, plant-based diet.”

The report called for many changes in the food environment. To read more, go to: http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/weightloss/2010-06-15-

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Cincinnati Chiropractor

As a Cincinnati Chiropractor I treat plenty of older adults who suffer from balance problems. In fact, dizziness, “wooziness,” and other balance-related challenges affect at least nine percent of adults, aged 65 and over. Good balance is crucial, of course, in helping seniors in remaining independent and in avoiding falls and encounter injuries that are frequently extremely serious or even fatal. But, it may surprise you to know that falls are the cause of a large portion of work-related injuries for workers younger than 65 years of age, including workers in their twenties and thirties. That’s right! No one is exempt from to balance difficulties, no matter how young they may be. It is for this reason that those who work at “dangerous heights” like construction workers, roofers, oil platform employees, windows cleaners, or anywhere else where a ladder is required are far more vulnerable to serious injury if their balance is “off.”

The principal action of good balance is to aid us in managing and maintaining our body position, whether standing still or moving, and whether on the ground or high up on a platform. Good balance aids us in walking without staggering, arising from a sitting position without teeterin, and in climbing stairs without missing a step. It is obvious, then, that good balance is extremely important to our health and well-being.

What may be surprising to you is that you could have a balance abnormality without realizing how threatening it is. Sometimes a person can “shake off” a dizzy sensation and the feeling may not return for a while. The problem is that when unexpected dizziness comes about at a consequential time, it is too late to shake it off and a fall is often unpreventable.

When you have the feeling that you, individually, are spinning or that things around you are moving, it is termed “vertigo.” About 40% of individuals in the U.S. will have at least one incidence of dizziness that is serious enough to seek out help from a health professional, like your Chiropractor at Cincinnati Chiropractic. But, if you are involved in any of the activities listed above, having a chiropractor check your balance prior to a distinct episode of vertigo, make adjustments if necessary, and then help you to maintain good balance, may save you from serious injury or worse.

Balance disorders at any age are dangerous. If you think that you may have a possible balance disorder, it is vital for you to be evaluated and treated without delay. Often guidelines are helpful. Therefore, if you can answer “yes” to any of the following questions, even if the experience is seldom or infrequent, you should discuss the symptom(s) with a chiropractor as soon as possible:

• Have you experienced a feeling of being “unsteady?”

• Has the room seemed to spin around you?

• Has there ever a time when you felt as if you were moving when you knew you were standing still?

• Have you lost your balance and/or fallen down?

• Have you ever felt as if you were falling?

• Has your vision ever become “blurred?”

• Have you ever felt disoriented, or lost a sense of time, place or identity?

Remember: Balance problems are not specific to a particular age group. Our falling down is an ever-present possibility from the time we learn to walk until we take our final step All the more reason to have your balance checked if you work in a job that makes your falling down a “critical” issue. Don’t wait until you sustain a work injury! If you’re in the area, give your Cincinnati Chiropractor a call today. I can help!

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