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Category: Chiropractic
Santa Maria chiropractor Dr. Beau Pierce explains a little bit about what chiropractic is and how sports chiropractic is leading the revolution for sports care.
Chiropractic care concentrates on keeping the body in tune with itself by maintaining alignment of the spine and joints. A chiropractic treatment might consist of a chiropractor massaging the muscles and soft tissue along the spine searching for subluxations, which are misalignments of the bones in the joint.
When they find a subluxation, they manipulate it back into line. This is called an adjustment. Subluxations can pinch or block nerves, causing pain and poor communication between brain and muscle.
While it is obvious that a vertebral subluxation would cause pain, a chiropractor would believe that all physical maladies originate in these subluxations. Their belief is that if the vertebra is kept in alignment, the body will regulate itself and maintain health on its own, naturally. If you interrupt the flow, bad things will happen.
Sports chiropractic works in two ways. First, it is a preventive treatment. Regular adjustments and massages enhance the flow of blood, oxygenating all the muscles. This might be the most important use of chiropractic for athletes, as a proactive treatment to prevent injuries from occurring in the first place. When incorporated into a training regimen, chiropractic boosts the results of training and helps to prevent injury by increasing joint health and range of motion.
Famous professional sports superstars turn to chiropractic because it is non-invasive and does not include drugs. Tiger Woods, Martina Navratilova, Barry Bonds and Lance Armstrong have chiropractors who traveled with them for treatments before and after competition. When an athlete does suffer an injury, adjusting any subluxations that occurred during the injury will help speed the body back to its normal, healthy state.
Studies have shown that injured athletes treated with chiropractic recover faster than those who healed on their own. Football superstar Joe Montana said he recovered from a possibly career-ending injury to his back thanks to chiropractic treatments. In fact, before winning the 1990 Super Bowl, seventy-five percent of the San Francisco football team had chiropractic treatment.
Additionally, continued chiropractic treatments will keep the vertebra aligned and improve posture. Good posture has numerous health benefits itself, several of which overlap the benefits of chiropractic, so you get double the rewards. Chiropractic treatments will strengthen the immune system and increase concentration and focus. There is a reduced chance of injury and increased flexibility in the joints with continued chiropractic treatments and overall health is improved, since the body can efficiently regulate itself.
As a sports chiropractor in Santa Maria, California, I know that athletes want advice on keeping their body in top condition, ready for the challenges of competition. Your body will give it all back to you, if you give it some preventive care. Call me and let’s take your body to the next level!
Dr. Beau
Pierce Chiropractic and Sports Injury Center
4 Ways to Decrease Risk of Back Pain:
1) Get adjusted by your chiropractor. Your muscles, bones and ligaments are stressed continuously by normal daily activities (driving, sitting at the computer, lifting your kids, etc.). These stresses add up over time and can lead to muscle tightness, spasms, joint stiffness and pain.
2) Proper ergonomics. Properly set up your computer work station. When lifting, use your legs and trunk. Try to avoid bending the back while you lift.
3) Exercise regularly. Exercise helps the stretching and strengthening of your back muscles.
4) Avoid unhealthy lifestyle habits. Emotional stress can cause muscle tension. Watch what you eat as excess weight can contribute to back pain.
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Fibromyalgia (FM) Fibromyalgia is a chronic pain disorder characterized by widespread musculoskeletal aches, pain and stiffness, soft tissue tenderness, general fatigue, and sleep disturbances. The most common sites of pain include the neck, back, shoulders, pelvic girdle, and hands, but any body part can be affected. Fibromyalgia patients experience a range of symptoms of varying intensities that wax and wane over time. There is no lab test for fibromyalgia. The diagnosis is based entirely on symptomatology. Many Doctors believe this is a catch all diagnosis that is often overused when there is no other explanation for the patient’s symptoms.
At Pierce Chiropractic we have had positive results helping patients with Fibromyalgia. Our success rate has been extremely high with only a couple of patients no recovering fully.If you are suffering from Fibromyalgia, you have nothing to lose but your pain. Yet you have everything to gain.One of the best things about our office is there is never a charge to sit down and talk to a Doctor. All you need to do is call our office at 925 685-2002 and schedule your free consultation.
Below I have included a couple of research articles on the effectiveness of Chiropractic care on Fibromyalgia
Upper cervical management of primary fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue syndrome cases. Amalu WC. Today’s ChiropracticMay/June 2000 Pp.76-86.
This is a paper of 23 successive cases (5 male, 18 female from 11 to 76 years of age) of primary fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue syndrome suffering from 2 to 35 years.Total care visits ranged from 20 to 48. All patients reported maintaining their improvements at 1 to 1 ½ years or more of follow up. After care every patient was able to resume normal activities including full time work.The author writes “Improvement in symptoms of 92-100% was achieved in both these syndromes subsequent to corrections of aberrant arthrokinematic function of the occipito-atlanto-axial complex…A causal relationship between biomechanical faults in the upper cervical spine, abnormal central neurophysiologic processing and subsequent peripheral neuropathophysiology, is suggested as the possible genesis of these two syndromes.”
The effectiveness of chiropractic management of fibromyalgia patients: a pilot study. Blunt KL, Rajwani MH, and Guerriero RC. J Manipulative Physiological Therapy; 1997: 20(6):389-99.
Twenty-one rheumatology patients aged 25-70 suffering from fibromyalgia (muscular pain characterized by muscular tautness/stiffness, well-defined tender/trigger points, numbness, tingling, and pain) were studied to demonstrate chiropractic’s effect on this condition.Chiropractic care consisted of 4 weeks of spinal care plus soft tissue and passive stretching at the chiropractors’ discretion. Chiropractic management improved patients’ cervical and lumbar ranges of motion, straight leg raise and reported pain levels.
Prospective, longitudinal study of service utilization and costs in fibromyalgia. Wolf F. Anderson J, Harkness, D et al.Arthritis and Rheumatism, 1997; 40, pp.1560-70.
In this study of 538 fibromyalgia patients it was revealed that chiropractors were one of the more common health care professionals visited by patients, averaging 30.4 visits per 100 patients (per six-month period).
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Dr. Beau
http://www.doctorbeau.com
Chiropractic: Bed Rest? After 8 weeks of bed rest, low back muscles in healthy patients exhibit the to same negative weakening effects of bed rest seen in low back pain patients. Patients may develop compromised function even if they do not have low back pain. Spine, 2007
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Chiropractic: Pain Free? Strains on the tissues of your spine build-up gradually from the repetitive activities of daily living. In time, the tissue will be stressed enough to cause pain as chemical by-products become trapped in the tense tissue. Maintaining proper spine and joint motion through chiropractic can prevent and decrease pain.
