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Apr 30 2024

Causes of Back Pain

Back pain may occur due to various reasons; be it a sports injury, pulling a heavy object or a fall/ injury to the spine. If you are suffering from back pain, it would be wise to have a look at some of the common risk factors and causes of back pain by consulting a Chiropractor.

Risk Factors

The risk of back pain varies in different individuals, depending on their lifestyle. People who work in a mentally stressful job, smoke or go through strenuous physical work are more susceptible to back pain than those who don’t. Other factors such as pregnancy, anxiety, depression and obesity can also lead to this condition. Age is also a factor, as older individuals are at a higher risk than younger ones.

Causes Of Back Pain

 

Strain

The most common cause of back pain is strained muscles and ligaments, which may be a result of lifting something heavy or a sudden awkward movement. It can also be caused by improper posture due to a bad mattress or sitting position.

Structural Problems

The human body is a complex structure composed of bones, muscle, ligaments and joints. A fault in any of these can cause numerous problems, including back pain. Some particular structural problems that may affect the back are as follows:

Arthritis

Arthritis can cause various joint problems in the hips and lower back.

Bulging And Ruptured Disks

The vertebra in our spine is cushioned by a disk, so a ruptured disk would result in more pressure on the nerves, resulting in back aches. A bulging disk would put even more pressure on the nerves.

Sciatica

A bulging disk can also press on a nerve in the spine, causing a shooting pain through the buttocks and down the legs.

Curvature Of The Spine

An unnatural curvature of the spine can cause the space around the spinal cord to narrow, causing back pains.

Osteoporosis

A vertebra fracture can be caused by the bones becoming more brittle.

Conditions, There are also some conditions which may cause back pains.

Spinal Cancer

A growth or tumor on the spine may press against a nerve.

Infections

Infection on the nerves (shingles) and spine may also cause pains.

Cauda Equine Syndrome

The growth of nerve roots at the bottom of the spinal cord can cause a dull pain, as well as lack of feeling in the upper buttocks.

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Apr 30 2024

Vitamin D Goes Beyond Preventing Osteoporosis

12683326584_66c4aabbf1_zMost people know that insufficient calcium and vitamin D can lead to worsening osteoporosis. It seems to be a simple solution, take vitamin D with your calcium and you’ll stave off the worst of osteoporosis.

What scientists and doctors are learning, however, is that getting an adequate dose of vitamin D is not as easy as it might seem. Many dairy products are enriched with vitamin D. Eating salmon provides a natural food source of vitamin D. But in order to get enough vitamin D in the diet, an individual would have to eat two servings of salmon a day in order to get enough.

Exposure to sunlight is certainly one way to naturally increase vitamin D levels, but worries about skin cancer have had people coating themselves with sunscreen, preventing them from getting the vitamin D production benefit that sunshine usually provides.

That leaves supplementation. In order for vitamin D to be adequately absorbed by the body, it needs to be ingested in the presence of either calcium or magnesium. Calcium is found in dairy products. Magnesium is found in leafy green vegetables.

Visiting your trusted chiropractor in Oklahoma City, OK – Family Tree Chiropractic – is the best way to make sure you are being supplemented sufficiently.

And to make matters worse, osteoporosis is not our only concern in matters of inadequate vitamin D. Here are a few other diseases that are worsened by low vitamin D levels:

1. Kidney disease. There is a link between chronic kidney disease and vitamin D deficiency.

2. Diabetes. There is an inadequately understood link between Type I diabetes and vitamin D. A study in Finland gave over 10,000 children 2000 IU of vitamin D3 the first day of their life. The same children were tracked to adulthood and found that their risk of developing Type I diabetes had decreased by 80%.

3. Asthma. Used to reduce the severity of asthma attacks in children, vitamin D comes to the rescue. A Japanese study showed a dose of 1200 IU of vitamin D reduced their chances of a severe attack. There is some promise that vitamin D might be a road to treating chronic asthma sufferers.

4. Heart Disease. It is only recently being understood, but there is a definite link between vitamin D and the prevention of heart disease, specifically congestive heart failure in the elderly. In addition, women with low vitamin D levels had a nearly 70% greater risk of developing high blood pressure.

5. Schizophrenia and Depression. Mothers who take adequate amounts of vitamin D during pregnancy have children with much lower incidence of schizophrenia and depression in later life. It is believed that vitamin D receptors in the brain are critical for brain development and mental function as we age.

What is your vitamin D level? Can you increase your vitamin D levels either with increased sun exposure or by taking supplements? It looks as though many serious illnesses can be improved when you your levels are adequate.

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Apr 30 2024

Why Spinal Surgery is a Bad Idea

Illu_vertebral_columnBecause it takes the smallest mistake to permanently paralyze a healthy individual, a fact that any chiropractor will attest to. There is always a risk of injury involved in spinal surgery.

Almost 80% of the people in the country will complain about lower back pain at some point in their lives. More work days are missed because of spinal pain than any other sort of ailment. This also places it as one of the most common causes of disabilities right after cardiovascular disease.

However, most people would rather seek the services of certified chiropractors than their doctors. Doctors usually prescribe numbing medication or painful surgical procedures like spinal surgery for patients who complain of repetitive chronic pain. But that is hardly a permanent solution and also involves a great deal of risks.

What can go Wrong:

Transitional Syndrome

Perhaps one of the most interesting aspects of the spine has to do with its behavior. Your spine behaves like a chain of repeated segments. Each of the individual segments works as a whole to share the workload that is involved in moving the body by sharing the load along the spinal column. In other words the stress that is imposed on the spine during the movement is shared amongst the segments.

However such a process can only happen seamlessly when the spine is healthy. When one or more of the segments doesn’t work as they should their neighboring segments have to pick up the slack and work harder. The segment that is closest to the dysfunctional one gets most of the stress. This means that the area near where the spinal surgery was performed takes on more stress.  This is what is known as transitional syndrome since it occurs due to the transition of a healthy area of the spine to the fused area.

General practitioners and even orthopedic surgeons can never claim to know what causes pain in the back. To them, complex procedures like spinal surgery appear as handy default treatments. This is not to mention the disastrous residual pain that is caused by inappropriate surgery. Such a complication is more of a possibility after common spinal surgeries, such as laminectomies, in which a disc is removed to give the nerve near the central spinal cord more space to move, or fusion, in which a vertebra is surgically joined to another to restrict excess movement.

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Apr 30 2024

Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder and Chiropractic

800px-Playing_childrenWhat is Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)?

Being one of the most commonly occurring behavioral disorders, ADHD can be diagnosed at a very early stage. Three main elements namely hyperactivity, inattention and impulsivity can be the basis for this disorder and can be obvious at a very early age. Although, it is common for children to be inattentive and run around, the inattentiveness, hyperactivity and impulsivity for ADHD comes forward in an exaggerated manner.

To be diagnosed with ADHD, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual for Mental Disorders- IV (DSM-IV) gives a list of certain signs and symptoms that have to prevail for a period of at least six months. However, care needs to be taken not to engage in self diagnosis or in the process of diagnosing your child yourself. Several times, only certain traits for as particular disorder are prevalent, indicating that a full blown diagnosis cannot be given.

How Can Chiropractics Help With ADHD?

What A Chiropractic Practitioner Does?

Chiropractic is based in the belief that the spine is the central structure and determines the activities and functioning in every other part of the body. Spine manipulation is adopted several times to stimulate the joints and adjust the spine. Chiropractic doctors make use of manual therapies where they use their hands and apply a certain amount of force at an area of concern.

Kids and Chiropractic

Chiropractic is mostly associated with adults who have pain in the back or neck and visit the practitioners for alleviation of the pain. With adults, they make use of high velocity thrust, if the case requires so. However, with infants and young children, they take the sensitivity of their bones into special consideration. With kids, chiropractic doctors avoid every sort of pressure and the pressure applied is equal to a fingers touch.

Spine Manipulation and Chiropractic

The area of the brain associated with ADHD is called the reticular activating system. This area is involved in two other activities of the body – the vision and hearing. Besides the reticular activating system, patients with ADHD are believed to have an under functioning in the frontal lobe, the cerebellum and the right or left hemisphere.

Depending on the side that is your child’s strength (whether he is right or left handed), the particular hemisphere is likely to be under functioning. Based on these issues, the child faces major obstacles in processing and interpreting information. With the help of chiropractics, the spine manipulation therapies can be utilized to activate and stimulate the under functioning areas of the brain. Thereby, treating ADHD in younger children and preventing it from being carried till adulthood.

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Apr 30 2024

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Family Tree Chiropractic Oklahoma City
12325 N May Ave
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