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How you can prevent inflamed joints

Inflammation of the joint, also known as osteoarthritis, is not “wear and tear or old age”, nor is it “bone on bone”. It is “a whole joint disorder – all involved in an inflammation repair process, which means your body is trying actively to make you better or stabilise an area under strain.”

This means that this can afflict the young as well as the old, and that preventative care is the cure to manage this.

Research has shown “increasing evidence supporting the use of chiropractic care as part of a preventative approach”.

In fact, the chiropractic community is redefining osteoarthritis, seeking to “regard it instead as a natural repair process that, with help from the health care professional and patient, often leads to a better functioning, pain free joint.”

And the best solution? “[W]ith the right care and support including manual care, a third of people with arthritic knees get better”.

Manual manipulation, such as chiropractic therapy, can help many osteoarthritis sufferers breathe a little easier.

This new chiropractic technique can NEUTRALIZE pain

Chiropractors can be lifesavers for those with back pain.

And with the prevalence of people doing office work, where your back can be strained by staying in the same position all day, chiropractors are more important than ever.

In Los Altos, CA, Dr. Mary Reimer uses a special technique on her patients called the Graston technique, which is “a manual modality that releases scarred or trapped muscles and connective tissues”.

When muscles are injured, scar tissue forms. But the scar tissue can overdevelop, impairing muscle movements and causing more pain than the initial injury. This overgrowth of scar tissue is known as an “adhesion”.

The Graston technique for correcting this problem is based on the use of stainless-steel instruments that enable the practitioner to detect and release adhesions. The instruments are coupled with emollient cream (Gaston cream) allowing the instruments to glide easily. With Dr. Reimer’s expert stroking technique, the procedure is literally painless and very effective.

It has a “75 to 90 percent success rate”—making this form of muscle manipulation is the next generation of chiropractic techniques.

Do back pain steroids cause meningitis?

Meningitis, a fast-spreading and painful illness, is sweeping the country due to “a tainted steroid used to treat back pain — that has sickened more than 400 people in 19 states and killed at least 31”.

Back pain treatments are becoming more and more common, and pharmacological cures are more often being sought.

Now that the steroid has been recalled, many people are turning to non-invasive treatments, such as chiropractic treatments, to heal the pain.

The statistics over back pain are dire:

[it’s} the second most common neurological ailment in the United States behind headaches, according to the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke. More than a quarter of adults experienced lower back pain in the last three months, according to a recent report by the National Center for Health Statistics.

As a result, traditional chiropractic methods were pushed aside in favor of injectable treatments, like steroids.

Since the outbreak, steroid treatments have dropped dramatically in usage, and back pain sufferers are rediscovering chiropractors to drug-free and pain-relieving result.

Does your child need a chiropractor?

The latest thing after school activity for your kids may be a trip to your friendly neighborhood chiropractor.

Childhood illnesses like the sniffles, ear infections, and sinus problems are now being treated by chiropractors, who use gentle pressure to help kids get back to tip top shape.

The key is to not use heavy, manipulating pressure, but pressure “so gentle it’s almost like the pressure you would put on a tomato to dent it”.

According to chiropractors, they “want the body to do what it needs to do to heal itself”, and kids can also benefit from their therapy.

Pregnant moms also can benefit from going to the chiropractor. According to Dr. Lona Cook, “[t]he spinal development of the baby while it’s in the mom’s tummy and obviously if the baby is positioned correctly…[it] betters the baby developing [in] the mom.”

Always check with your local chiropractor and pediatrician to make sure it’s safe for your kids to attend.