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If you want to spend less money, start feeling better faster, and not have to take medications, chiropractic wins in all three of those categories.
Making Lifestyle Modifications
For those who want to push themselves to move and feel better, coming in for an assessment can be a great proactive approach to your health.
What factors can effect my healing time?
There are a lot of factors that can how long it will take to get over any particular injury and this video touches on a few of those. The big ones that I like to bring up are previous injury and how long has the injury been around. For those with chronic injuries, it will take longer to heal because we are trying to get you to move away from your compensation patterns and move like you did prior to injuries. Knowing what to expect on healing time will not only help you get better today, but will help you when the injury likely returns.
What stretches/exercises should I focus on?
Stretch in the opposite direction that you are in all day and strengthen the muscles that you do not hit in your everyday activity. Balance is the key with all these activities.
How to interpret Health Insurance
Insurance can be hard to understand. Learn some basics here on what to look for and some things to be aware of in your search. Make the right decisions for yourself and your care in order to get the most out of your money and your insurance policy.
What is tissue tolerance?
The easy answer for what tissue tolerance is would be how much activity your body can handle before it breaks down. Every day we do activity, or even inactivity for some tissues (do not think that is your only way out of this), there is breaking down of our tissues in body (muscles, ligaments, etc.).
Spinal Decompression for neck and low back
Spinal decompression can help with neck and low back conditions such as disc herniations, degenerative disc and joint disease, and even headaches. This works by gentle pulling and releasing tension to allow for some movement in the injured area.
Knee Pain From Movement
Going back to the patellofemoral pain syndrome, let us take a look at the knee. The kneecap should move in a little groove on the femur and if it does not, it can cause pain. The big concern is that this movement of the kneecap is determined by either the hip above it, or the ankle below it. If the weakness in the hip is unable to support a good angle of the knee, this is a common cause of knee pain. The other is the ankle not moving up, dorsiflexion, enough will typically cause the foot to flare out and change the orientation of the tibia and then effecting the knee positioning.
Dr. Darin Haworth
DC, MS, CCSP®
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