Chiropractic

Why seeing a Chiropractor After a Car Accident is Right?

Drivers and passengers should see a chiropractor after a car accident. Thousands of Kiwis experience a car accident every year, often at low speed. Most of the time, they do not complain of several disorders at the time, more worried about their vehicle’s condition.

However, others can feel severe pain and need to go to E.R. for painful back or neck pain. Unfortunately, they do not think about visiting a chiropractor.

The most common symptoms are:

neck stiffness with pain or whiplash;
a restricted range of movement,
blurred vision,
dizziness,
headaches,
shoulder pain.
and low back pain.

The first symptoms may not appear in the first hour but a bit later when the micro-tears in the fibres of the muscles or ligaments are swelling.

Incredibly, 70% of the people going to an emergency room will report some symptoms six weeks afterwards, and a quarter within the half-year.

43% of patients will suffer long-term symptoms following whiplash injury.

According to Dr Mason Hohl from UCLA Medical Center “, Follow-up x-rays taken seven years after injury showed that 40% developed degenerative disc disease, while the expected incidence should be 6% over this time.”

Everyone experiencing a car crash should consult a chiropractor.

This is a much better solution than taking pain relief.

Chiropractors receive long education and training to treat neck and back disorders such as whiplash and headaches, or spine strain/sprain, reducing the use of medicine.

1- Pain Relief

Chiropractors provide treatments broadly recognised as an effective to reduce pain from the musculoskeletal apparel, using neurological stimulation to reduce the level of complaint and so, decreasing the use of medication.

2- Mobility Restoration

After an accident, the movement of the cervical spine would likely be restricted. Chiropractic adjustments focus on restoring the normal range of motion of the spinal part involved, improving the comfort of the neck and so, getting a better quality of sleep.

3- Improving the Process of Healing

During the accident, the neck's soft tissues receive a substantial load when the head is projected forward and then backward in reaction. It creates micro-tears in the muscles and ligaments and then some inflammation. Chiropractors provide spinal adjustment so that the tissues are positioned correctly, reducing the tension. The recovery is faster, and the tissue heals properly, avoiding scar tissue and provoking long-term discomfort or pain.

More importantly, you will prevent further injury rendering the normal function of the spine.

The chiropractic treatment is unique to each whiplash injury and addresses the first segmental dysfunctions found during the physical examination.
Chiropractor’s treatment usually employs spine adjustments, muscle relaxation and/or stimulation, various exercises, and ergonomic and lifestyle changes.

Drivers and passengers should see a chiropractor after a car accident. If needed, he will assess your spine and correct the hidden dysfunctions and disorders.

Chiropractic / Chiropractor - 03/28/2020

Why Seeing a Chiropractor

Seven Reasons to See a Chiropractor

We can't wait to show you how naturally incredible you can feel with chiropractic care. Curious? Give us a call.

1. Chiropractic focuses on your health. Your nervous system controls every part of your body, from the cell to the organ and the whole system. The original purpose of chiropractic is to restore the integrity of the general nervous system. When the nervous system functions correctly, your body works better.

2. Chiropractic does not use medication. Chiropractic is holistic care focusing on natural resources to assist the body to function and heal better without adding chemical substances. Chiropractic care uses hands-on therapies and exercises and ergonomic and diet recommendations.

3. Chiropractic is internationally recognized as a safe therapy. Chiropractors adjust babies, seniors or moms throughout the world every day. The treatment is tailored to any person's age, condition and needs.

4. Chiropractic adjustments lead to minimal discomfort. If the muscles ache after the first session, the benefits are instantly felt, such as improved balance, better sleep, increased energy and vitality, and other endurance and coordination.

5. Chiropractic, since its discovery in 1885, has spread throughout the world and is now professionally accredited in most countries despite criticism from people who would not accept the evidence of chiropractic's benefits, mainly due to ignorance. Chiropractic has become more and more popular because of the high level of satisfaction and the spread of the word.

6. Chiropractic is logic. Pain is your friend, telling you that you have to do something to help and rather than wanting to kill, it makes sense to correct the underlying cause to prevent its recurrence. Evidence has shown that intense and flexible spines are less exposed to accidents and injuries.

Do not hesitate to share the knowledge of chiropractic's benefits as chiropractors can help your family and friends.

Chiropractic / Chiropractor - 05/07/2019

Benefits of Chiropractic Adjustments

The Great Benefits of Chiropractic Adjustments

Chiropractic has been more and more popular throughout the world as it brings real benefits thanks to the adjustments.

Usually, chiropractic is conceived as the most effective treatment for back pain, but do you know other great benefits of the adjustments?

Chiropractors focus on spine disorders and poor posture. The medical term is called segmental dysfunction due to injuries, inadequate posture or lack of exercise.

Sports performance and Chiropractic Adjstments

international athletes and professional players receive regular adjustments not only to prevent injury and increase their body’s flexibility but also their precision.

For example, the swing of golfers has been shown as more natural and effective by golfers followed by chiropractors.

Spine Flexibility

Segmental dysfunctions lead to a certain level of stiffness like difficulties putting on pants, impossibility to sit correctly or bending forward.

This is very debilitating at home or work, even reducing the quality of daily and social life.

Chiropractic adjustments greatly benefit your personal life, which you can enjoy again.

Pain Management and Spinal Manipulations

Chiropractic adjustments are ideal to treat acute and chronic pain.

They do not only "align" the spine but also stimulate the nervous system to inhibit the pain inputs from the body to the brain in conditions like nerve entrapments or fibromyalgia.

In a certain way, "pain killers" without the reverse effects can provide some medicine.

Headache Relief

Headaches, tensional or cervicogenic, and migraines have terrible effects on people's lives, creating times when they have to do things slower or even stop any activities and lie down in a dark room.

Chiropractic adjustments have terrific results, and people suffering are the most ecstatic about chiropractic. They experienced many sorts of treatments but never had such improvement.

Sleep Quality

Pain or ache continuously stimulates the nervous system, including the brain.

The part controlling awakening and sleep receives permanent inputs and has no time to recover. This severely affects another part of the brain controlling the mood.

In the case of chronic pain, the patient feels even more depressed. Chiropractic helps to improve the quality of your sleep and emotions.

Chiropractic adjustments are not just about getting relief from back pain but also about improving your well-being. You will feel surprised at how better you are after a chiropractic visit.

Chiropractic - 04/23/2019

Chronic Low Back Pain Case

A Chronic Low Back Pain Case

Sue, a 45-year-old lady, came to Orewa Chiropractic referred by a GP to evaluate and manage her complaint of chronic low back pain.

She had been suffering for about one year, and the symptoms worsened.

After slipping on a wet surface at home, she fell and landed on her right hip. X-rays were unremarkable.

The pain varied from 4/10 to 9/10 at its worst.

While she reported being very active before the accident, she had very little physical activity since then.

Rising from a chair, putting shoes on and turning over the bed was painful, and cleaning and gardening impossible.

Driving and walking for more than 15 minutes were excruciating.

Chronic Low Back Pain Examination

The examination showed that the lumbar spine was reversed sitting, but the arch increased standing contrarily.

Additionally, the gait was very short, with little strength around the hips.

Lumbar paraspinal and gluteal muscles were tight and tender with moderate pressure.

The range of motion was considerably restricted at the lumbo-pelvis junction.

Back Pain Management

We started the course of chiropractic sessions per week, including adjustments and muscular release techniques.

After three weeks, Sue was more mobile, dealing better with daily activities, sleeping deeper and walking for 15 minutes with little hindrance.

Accordingly, our chiropractor prescribed specific stabilisation exercises for the lumbar spine and hips. After four weeks, Sue complained of intermittent aches, 4/10 at worst.

Most activities were pain-free except gardening. From then, Sue started more advanced strength, mobility and endurance exercises and still receiving adjustments weekly.

Happily, after 12 weeks, Sue returned to her previous life, free of chronic low back pain and enjoying all the physical activities she loved and being much more optimistic about her life.

She visited her chiropractor monthly to receive adjustments until the end of the year to settle down the progress.

If you suffer from chronic low back pain, do not hesitate to book an appointment with one of our experienced chiropractors.

Chiropractic / Uncategorized - 02/13/2019

How To Choose A Mattress?

How to choose your mattress?

We spend two hundred thousand hours in our bed, roughly one-third of our life and the quality of our sleep is essential for our mood, well-being and health.

We turn something like 40 times each night, so we don't sleep in the same single position. Some prefer to sleep on their back and others on their side. As you probably know, it is not recommended to sleep on your stomach as it creates a large amount of strain on your cervical spine.

You may think your bed is too old and time to change it. Bed stores are quite well-minded, and they will be happy if you try these tips:

Lie on your back and pass your hand under your lower back arch. If there is no problem, the mattress could be too firm. It should provide good firm support but with enough softness so that your musculature can release.
Turn on your side and push down the mattress with your elbow. If it's too deep, it may be too soft. You may think it's comfortable, but your back won't like it, especially if you hhave suffered from it.
Lie in your favourite position and try to feel your muscles between your shoulder blades and pelvis released.

We should change our bed every ten years, whatever its purchase cost. It is important to be aware that mattresses made with springs will lose some of their properties sooner than latex ones.

Don't hesitate to ask for more information from your chiropractor. Chiropractors are experts in spine health and will advise the sort of mattress that you need according to your spine needs when they are assessed. It is simple to choose a bed when you have the correct information.

Chiropractic / Chiropractor / Uncategorized - 12/01/2018

How to Choose a Pillow?

"How to choose the best pillow for neck pain?"

This is one of the most common questions that health providers can hear.

The best pillows improve your sleep and quality of life

We spend one-third of our life sleeping, something like 200,000 hours in our life.

Thousands of New Zealanders could needlessly suffer from disrupted sleep due to lousy support choices at bedtime.

According to the Massey University Sleep-Wake Centre, 37 per cent of New Zealand adults aged 30 to 60 are sleep-deprived.

Several studies have shown that a proper neck support pillow selection can significantly alleviate your sore neck.

If neck pain is the most apparent condition due to a wrong choice, it may also create lower back discomfort, headaches, shoulder and arm pain, and restlessness.

It would also improve the quality and duration of sleep. Chiropractic practitioners believe that more education on pillow and bed selections could improve their patient's quality of life.

Choose the filling of the pillow.

Today the choice is vast. There are now pillows on the market made from memory foam (developed by NASA), natural latex/bamboo or Merino wool. They have been shown very effective for neck pain suffering and improving sleep quality. But, they can be a significant initial investment.

Polyester filling, less expensive than down and memory foam, provides proper and firm neck support and holds its shape reasonably well. However, it is also the least durable of these materials.

Consider your sleep position.

It is essential to choose a pillow that is of material and a shape that suits your sleep position. Consider the way you sleep to pick the height of your pillow; different positions require different types of support. It will determine how comfortable you are.

Back and stomach (not recommended) sleepers may want to choose a flatter pillow that helps keep the natural curvature.

However, if you sleep on your side, higher cervical support, which fills the gap between the head and neck, is generally better.

We all have different necks, with varying widths of shoulders. That’s why there isn’t a standard “best of the World” pillow.

The point is to have the cervical spine (neck) aligned with the rest of the body spine, not allowing any head tilt.

It doesn’t need anything contouring the neck or with a specific edge; sometimes quite uncomfortable. Orthopedic or ergonomic pillows are not necessarily a reference.

Take special needs into account.

You’ll find plenty of specialty pillows on the market tailored to specific situations.

For example, people with allergies might think about a pillow with a cover and filling specifically formulated to keep away dust and mites.

If you snore, consider a pillow-shaped to position your head, neck and shoulders in a way that will prevent your airway from becoming compressed.

Finally, we recommend a more breathable and lightweight pillow for sweaty sleepers.

If you are in any doubt, book a visit with one of our chiropractors at Orewa Chiropractic. We will be more than happy to point you in the right direction.

Chiropractic - 11/01/2018

Is Chiropractic Safe?

Is Chiropractic Treatment Safe?

Chiropractic is a safe practice as millions of chiropractic are provided worldwide every day. Discover why it is as safe as any care.

Evidence Chiropractic is Safe

A new major study reports evidence that chiropractic is safe for neck pain treatment

The large American study, using the records of 40 million people, researched the link between chiropractic care and VBA stroke.

As it was expected, it shows no obvious causality between chiropractic manipulation and vertebrobasilar artery (VBA) stroke.

This study supports the results of another previous and independent made by Cassidy, Boyle et al.

Indeed, the latter concluded that neck adjustments do not cause a stroke.

However, an association between the two events may exist.

The Study Results

In this new study, the researchers analysed up to 30 days before the date of hospital admission for VBA stroke:

They controlled if their patients visited chiropractors and/or GPs.

Positively, the authors' conclusions were unequivocal: “there was no association between chiropractic visits and VBA stroke found for the overall sample or samples stratified by age."

In contrast, “there is an association existing between GP visits and VBA stroke incidents regardless of the length of hazard period."

The likelihood or odds ratio of there being an association between a stroke and a GP visit “increase dramatically from 1-30 days to 1-1 day."

This is consistent with “the hypothesis that patients are more likely to see a GP for symptoms related to vertebral artery dissection closer to the index date of their actual stroke.”

“Overall, our results increase confidence in the findings of (the Cassidy, Boyle et al. study) which concluded there was no excess risk of VBA stroke associated with chiropractic care compared to primary care".

Reference:
Kosloff T, Elton D et al. (2015) Chiropractic Care and the Risk of Vertebrobasilar Stroke: Results of a Case-Control Study in U.S. Commercial and Medicare Advantage Populations. Chiropractic and Manual Therapies; 23:19. (Appendix A)

Chiropractic / Chiropractor - 09/01/2018

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