It is really vital to recognize that chiropractic does not actually and specifically treat conditions such as a headache, stiff neck, and whatever else ails the individual.  Chiropractic, through mechanical methods, conditions the spine and body to perform better in a body that just happens to have headache, stiff neck, and whatever else ails the individual.  Please understand that chiropractors treat the person who happens to have an unhealthy condition.

HEADACHES - STIFF NECK - CARPAL TUNNEL SYNDROME

NEUROPATHY - SCIATICA OR BACK PAIN - INSOMNIA /ANXIETY

HEADACHE TREATMENT

Bellingham's Life Chiropractic knows full well that living with headaches is tough.

Day after day of being miserable, irritable, and looking a lot older than you really are.  The frustration of knowing that your friends and family don’t understand what you’re going through.

It's enough to make anyone want to scream!

Chiropractic headache treatment is one of my favorite clinical activities.   For years I’ve been helping patients with neck tension, headaches and migraines live pain free or with less pain.

Every week I hear how women suffer from severe headaches – statements like…

• “I feel like my head is in a vice.”
• “My eyes hurt and I feel so drowsy.”
• “I have to lie down.”
• “I’ve had migraines since childhood.”
• “Muscle tension in the neck and pain into the shoulders.”

Could ProAdjuster Chiropractic Treatment Be Your Headache Solution?
Numerous studies have shown the benefits of spinal adjustments with headache patients.

The Boline Study

This study compared two groups of headache patients; half went for chiropractic adjustments, the other half took amitriptyline, a medication often prescribed for the treatment of severe tension headache pain.  After six weeks researchers found that chiropractic patients experienced almost no side effects.   And only the chiropractic patients continued to report fewer headaches when treatment ended.  Boline, PD, Kassak, K, et al. “Journal of Manipulative and Physiological Therapeutics.”  March/April 1995; Vol. 18, No. 3, pp. 148-154.

The Duke Study

Medical experts concluded that spinal manipulations resulted in almost immediate improvement for headaches.  Patients also had significantly fewer side effects and longer-lasting relief of headaches than a commonly-prescribed medication.  McCrory, DC, et al.  “Evidence Report: Behavioral and Physical Treatments for Tension-type and Cervicogenic Headache.”  Duke University Evidence-Based Practice Center.”  Durham, North Carolina, January 2001.

It needs to be clearly understood!

Recurring Headaches and All The Stuff That Goes With Them Are Not Normal and Why Would Anybody Settle on Living That Way?

No question… if you are having headaches then something is wrong.  Pain is your body’s way of telling you something is wrong.  Finding the problem and fixing it has got to be top priority!  Break free from the bondage of your headaches.  Call today to get started on your road to recovery.

STIFF NECK

If you’re over the age of 30 and suffer from a stiff neck, tingling in the arms, or headaches, this is a very important article for you to read and absorb.

Why Haven’t People With a Stiff Neck Been Told These Facts?

A recent scientific study showed chiropractic adjustments outperformed massage treatments in reducing pain.  The study concluded that patients with a chronic stiff neck and neck pain showed “clinically important improvements from a course of spinal manipulation… The current evidence does not support a similar level of benefit from massage.”
“Journal of Manipulative and Physiological Therapeutics.” 2007.

In another study comparing acupuncture, a non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug, and spinal manipulation found…

“After a median intervention period of 30 days, spinal manipulation was the only intervention that achieved statistically significant improvements.
“Journal of Manipulative and Physiological Therapeutics.” 1999.

In addition to that, here’s what some of the top medical researchers had to say …

Chiropractor’s manipulation of the spine was “more helpful than any of the following:  traction, massage, biofeedback, acupuncture, injection of steroids into the spine and back corsets, and ultrasound.” – Stanley Bigos, MD, Professor of Orthopedic Surgery.

Effects on Daily Activities 

A "simple" thing such as a stiff neck can affect your sleep, your marriage and your job.  Nothing’s worse than feeling great mentally, but physically feeling held back from life because your stiff neck hurts and the pain just won’t go away!  Over the past 28 years I’ve seen hundreds of people with a stiff neck, neck pain, arm problems, carpal tunnel syndrome, and headaches leave the office pain free.  With our comfortable and safe ProAdjuster chiropractic treatment instrument

Patients tell me all the time: I only wished I had found you sooner.  I look forward to getting treated with the Pro'Adjuster.”

Feel the Improvement – and Say “Yes” to Life Again

See and feel your life change for the better.  Start your body on the way to pain-free, normal living.  Feel tight joints rest, relax, free up.  Feel muscles tied in knots become supple.  Feel muscular strength increase.

As you begin to see motion returning to your joints, you’re preventing and reducing chances of disability and a crippling future.

You’re able to live life like a normal person again, without a stiff neck and neck pain --  able to play with your kids, enjoy time with friends, and not have to worry that your pain will hit you at just the wrong time.

“Will This Really Work For Me?”

Chiropractic has been around for over a hundred years, and has been used to help everyone from tiny babies to the elderly.  Even top sports star and entertainers… like Tiger Woods, Emmitt Smith, Tony Robbins, Joe Montana, Jerry Rice, Billie Jean King, Martina Navratilova, Lance Armstrong, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and Mel Gibson. 

These professional athletes and public people have the money to hire any kind of doctors they want, yet they choose to have a chiropractor on their team.

The 9 Most Dangerous Words A Person With a Stiff Neck Can Say or Think

“Maybe it will just go away on its own.”

A 1998 study in the British Medical Journal proved this myth false, showing that most back pain sufferers who do nothing will have pain 12 months later.  That’s no way to live.

IF YOU READ NOTHING ELSE READ THE FOLLOWING MATERIAL

The listed conditions can be caused by a mechanical or structural problem in your stiff neck…

• Carpal tunnel syndrome
• Numbness and tingling in the arms and
   hands
• Cervical disc bulging and herniations
• Weakness in the arms/hands
• Neck Pain
• Headaches
• Tension in the shoulders
• Shoulder and arm pain

P.S. Headaches are the number one reason to take over-the-counter medications.

ER Visits Soaring for Prescription Painkiller Misuse

Abuse of OxyContin, Vicodin and the like keeps rising, U.S. government report shows.
By Steven Reinberg, HealthDay Reporter

THURSDAY, June 17, 2010.  (HealthDay News) -- Recent years have seen a steep rise in U.S. emergency department visits by people abusing prescription pain drugs such as OxyContin, Vicodin and Dilaudid, a new report finds.

Misuse of oxycodone (brand name OxyContin) rose 152 percent between 2004 and 2008, to more than 105,000 emergency room visits.  For products containing hydrocodone (Vicodin, for example) emergency department visits rose 123 percent, to more than 89,000; and for the heroin-substitute methadone emergency department visits rose 73 percent, to close to 64,000, according to the report.

CARPAL TUNNEL SYNDROME

Who Else Wants To Get Rid Of Carpal Tunnel Syndrome Symptoms Without Surgery?

If you are over 30 and having wrist or hand pain, you must read what these studies reveal about Carpal Tunnel Syndrome.

Carpal tunnel syndrome is a condition that affects everything in your life.  It’s difficult to sleep and painful to work. You’re unable to enjoy life to its fullest.

One pregnant female patient said it like this…

“I dread going to bed, I dread sweeping, doing dishes…any kind of household chores I dread – because of the pain."

Over the past 28 years I’ve seen dozens of carpal tunnel sufferers leave my office pain free or with a lot less pain.  Many patients tell me they wished they’d found me sooner.  Suffering for years was agonizing for them.  I want to let you know there is real hope…

You Now Have an Option …One That Really Works

Scientific studies have proven that chiropractic is effective in helping carpal tunnel patients live a better life with eliminated or decreased symptoms.

One study showed that with chiropractic care, patients had “significant improvement in perceived comfort and function, nerve conduction and finger sensation overall.” – Journal of Manipulative and Physiological Therapeutics, 1998.

Another research study concluded…

“Significant increase in grip strength and normalization of motor and sensory latencies were noted. Orthopedic tests were negative. Symptoms dissipated.” – Journal of Manipulative and Physiological Therapeutics, 1994.

Also, an often-overlooked cause of carpal tunnel symptoms can come from nerve roots in the neck and upper back as they exit the spine.  A study in the Lancet journal showed that up to 75% of carpal tunnel patients also had nerve problems in their neck.

Dr. Susan MacKinnon, professor of surgery at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, said the high failure rate of surgery has caused her to rethink the cause of carpal tunnel syndrome.

She states even after surgery problems like neck stiffness and shoulder pain persist in patients.

Could Life Chiropractic's ProAdjuster computerized treatment instrument be your solution to Carpal Tunnel pain, stiffness, and weakness?

Perhaps these studies, and others, are correct in that carpal tunnel is related to a stiff neck, muscle weakness, and shoulder pain and other problems.

Feel the Improvement – and Say “Yes” to Life Again

If we can find the cause with our evaluation and determine that you qualify for chiropractic treatment we can start work on correcting it.  Think of how you canl feel in just a few short weeks.

Remember what it was like before you had carpal tunnel problems.  You were pain free and could enjoy everything life had to offer.  It can be that way again.  Don’t neglect your problem any longer – don’t wait until it’s too late.

As you begin to see motion returning to your joints, you’re preventing and reducing chances of disability and a crippling future because you are now freely moving body parts that were designed to freely move.  Why waste your time and energy by restricting body parts with a brace or asking those body parts to perform poor quality exercises which do not address any nerve root problems in the neck and/or upper back. 

Soon you’ll be able to live life like a normal person again, without carpal tunnel pain  – able to play with your kids, enjoy time with friends, and not have to worry that your pain will hit you at just the wrong time.  This injury, and that is what it is, when left unchecked will frequently lead to more degrading neck, shoulder, and upper back problems. 

Here’sWhat to Do Right Now

If you are a carpal tunnel sufferer, stop neglecting your symptoms and futile attempts at short-term relief and covering up symptoms with pain killers and inappropriate or ill-timed exercise and stretching.

Make a strong commitment to rid yourself of  progressively more complicated symptoms.  At Life Chiropractic we will utilize our comfortable, safe ProAdjuster Carpal Treatment methods to specifically treat the cause(s) of your carpal tunnel syndrome.

Don’t neglect your hands and wrists any longer, disabling you for life.  Take committed action and call (360) 734-5433 and make your first appointment for your initial consultation,  evaluation, and spinal stress analysis.

P.S. Are you taking pain pills or considering having surgery on your carpal tunnel pain?

If so, perhaps you should wait and try a natural approach.  Surgery is expensive, takes time to recover, and many doctors agree it should only be used as a last resort.

P.P.S.  Nothing’s worse than feeling great mentally, but physically feeling held back from life because your wrists and hands hurt – and the pain and stiffness just won’t go away! 

NEUROPATHY

1. A general term for any dysfunction in the peripheral nervous system. Symptoms include pain, muscle weakness, numbness, loss of coordination and paralysis.  This condition may result in permanent disability.

2. Neuropathy refers to any disease or injury affecting nerves or nerve cells.

Which Of These Neuropathy Symptoms Cause You to Suffer?

• Pins and needles feeling
• Numbness in the hands or feet
• Tingling or burning sensations
• Weakness in the arms or legs
• Sharp shooting or burning pains 

Neuropathy affects every part of your life -- walking, sitting, and even sleeping.

As a chiropractor, I've been helping people with neuropathy and nerve problems for  more than 28 years.

More than 20 million Americans suffer from peripheral neuropathy, a problem caused by damage or irritation to the nerves that supply your arms and legs.

This painful condition interferes with your body's ability to transmit messages to your muscles, skin, joints, or internal organs.  If ignored or mistreated, neuropathy can lead to irreversible health conditions.

Why not get help by those trained to correct the major cause of peripheral neuropathy?

Data from the National Board of Chiropractic Examiners' Job Analysis of Chiropractic lists arm and leg neuropathy as the second most common nerve problem treated by chiropractors.

Often neuropathy is caused by a degenerating spine pressing on the nerve roots.  This can happen in any of the vertebral joints from the neck all the way down to the tail bone.

A Possible Solution to Your Neuropathy

By using gentle techniques, we are able to release the pressure that has built up on the nerve. This allows the nerve to heal over time and the symptoms to go away.

If You Suffer From A Single One Of These Torturous Symptoms – Numbness, Burning, Tingling, Pins and Needles, Muscle Weakness. or Sharp Nerve Pain – THEN THE FACTS BELOW MAY BE THE MOST IMPORTANT YOU HAVE EVER READ IN A LONG TIME!

Numerous studies have proven chiropractic's effectiveness in helping nerve conditions...

“Manipulation [chiropractic adjustments], with or without exercise, improved symptoms more than medical care did after both 3 and 12 months.”– British Medical Journal.

Patients showed an 85.5% resolution of the nerve symptoms after only 9 chiropractic treatments. - Journal of Chiropractic Medicine 2008.

With chiropractic care, patients had “significant improvement in perceived comfort and function, nerve conduction and finger sensation overall.” – Journal of Manipulative and Physiolgical Therapeutics, 1998.

“Significant increase in grip strength and normalization of motor and sensory latencies were noted.  Orthopedic tests were negative.  Symptoms dissipated.” – Journal of Manipultive and Physiological Therapeutics, 1994.

"the spinal origin of neuropathic pain is not always obvious because spondylotic (spinal)degeneration follows a gradual, relapsing and remitting course that is silent.  Pain can arise with no history of trauma, and laboratory, radiological and other tests are unhelpful."
Gunn CC, Sola AE: Chronic intractable benign pain (CIBP) in: Gunn CC: Reprints On Pain, Acupuncture & Related Subjects. From: Gunn: pain clinic, 828 W. Broadway, Vancouver, B.C. V5Z 138, Canada.

What the  first 4 referenced studies mean is that with chiropractic care, you could soon be enjoying life...without those aggravating nerve problems.

How To Find Out If This Will Work For You

It’s time for you to find out if chiropractic will be your neuropathy solution.

Right now, call (360) 734-5433 and schedule for your neuropathy consultation and screening evaluation to determine if chiropractic care could be of help with your symptoms.

The initial screening appointment will not take long at all and you won't be sitting in a waiting room all day either.

P.S. At our office, we have specialized treatment programs for treating patients who suffer from neuropathy. Why suffer with years of misery?

That’s no way to live, not when there could be an easy solution to your problem.  Why allow neuropathy to hold you back from enjoying life.

Why bother livinge in pain when we may have the solution you've been looking for all along.

Call today...(3600 734-5433

Are You Living With Sciatica or Back Pain

...When There Is a Non-Invasive Sciatica Nerve Relief Treatment Called ProAdjuster Chiropractic

Having back and sciatic pain is a miserable – even crippling – condition.

You might not be able to play golf, work, or even sit in the car for a 30-minute drive.  It's almost impossible for anyone around you to understand how you feel.  Can you remember the last time you even had a restful night's sleep?

You may have a condition called “Sciatica” if you’re suffering from any of these annoying conditions.  Sciatica is a compression of the sciatic nerve, usually by an L4 or L5 disc bulge, herniation(s), spinal arthritis, or by neighboring inflammation of the sacroiliac joints.

Nothing’s worse than feeling great mentally, but physically feeling held back from life because your back or sciatica hurts and the pain just won’t go away!

Fortunately, if you are suffering from any of these connected problems, they may be relieved or eliminated with chiropractic adjustments.

“What’s the Chance This Will Work for Me?”

Chiropractic has been around for over a hundred years, and has been used to help everyone from tiny babies to the elderly.

Even to sports stars and entertainers . . . like Tiger Woods, Emmitt Smith, Tony Robbins, Joe Montana, Lance Armstrong, Martina Navratillova, Billie-Jean King, Gov. Arnold Schwarznegger, and Mel Gibson. 

These professional athletes and public personalities have the money to hire any kind of doctors they want, yet they choose to have a chiropractor on their team.

Here’s what some of the top medical researchers had to say about chiropractic…

"Manipulation (chiropractic adjustments), with or without exercise, improved symptoms more than medical care did after both 3 and 12 months." - British Medical Journal.

"Chiropractor's manipulation of the spine was more helpful than any of the following: traction, massage, biofeedback, acupuncture, injection of steroids into the spine, back corsets, and ultrasound." -- Stanley Bigos, MD, Professor of Orthopedic Surgery.

This means in just a matter of weeks you could be back on the golf course, enjoying your love of life, or traveling again.

                    Feel the Improvement – and Say “Yes” to Life Again

To determine if you are a chiropractic case, we will provide our “Back Pain And Sciatica Evaluation.” If there is a chiropractic problem we’ll be able find your problem and then correct it to your individual level of potential.

Think of how you could feel in just a few short weeks.

See and feel your life change for the better. Start your body on the way to pain-free, normal living. Feel your tight joints rest, relax, free up.  Feel your muscles tied in knots become more supple. Feel strength in your muscles increase.

As you begin to see motion returning to your joints, you’re preventing and reducing chances of disability and a crippling future.

                    A Most Important Sciatica Nerve Relief Treatment . . . May be our comfortable and safe ProAdjuster computerised chiropractic treatment instrument.

It’s time for you to find out if chiropractic will be your sciatic nerve and back pain solution.

Don't let your sciatia nerve pain get worse.  Take charge and make the bold decision to change your life and achieve a more robust health.

Tim Mick, DC, an associate professor and chair of the Department of Radiology at Northwestern Health Sciences University says…

"Untreated, sciatica can lead to a loss of muscle strength and muscle size that may be irreversible. Eventually, there can be problems with gait.”

Sciatica nerve pain can be successfully treated. You can recover. Healthy, pain-free living should be yours.

Call right now and we can get started with your consultation, and low back/sciatica exam as soon as there’s an opening in the schedule.

I look forward to helping you get rid of your pain so you can start living the life you want to live without the oppressive restrictions of an unhealthy body.

P.S.  You have too much of a life to live.  Why become just another statistical probability whereby you are older before your time?  Life is too short to let pain slow you down. 

Don't live another day like this. Call (360) 734-5433 and schedule for your consultation and evaluation.

INSOMNIA, ANXIETY, MEDS MAY SHORTEN LIFE SPAN

12-year Canadian study links drugs to 36 percent higher morality rate

By MyHealthNewsDaily Staff
Taking medications to treat insomnia or anxiety may shorten some people's lives, according to the results of a 12-year study in Canada.
The new findings are based on surveys of more than 14,000 Canadians, ages 18 to 102, that began in 1994 and kept track of their mortality rates.

Every two years, participants answered questions about their social demographics, lifestyle andhealth.  They also answered questions about their use of sedative drugs, including tranquilizers such as Valium, or sleeping pills, such as Nytol.

For respondents who, at the start of the survey, reported taking medication for insomnia or anxiety at least once in the month, the mortality rate over the 12-year period was 15.7 percent.  By comparison, respondents who had reported not using such medication had a mortality rate of 10.5 percent.

"These medications aren't candy, and taking them is far from harmless," study researcher Geneviève Belleville, a professor at Université Laval in Québec, said in a statement.

After taking into account other factors that might affect mortality rates — including alcohol and tobacco consumption, physical health, physical activity level and symptoms of depression —  the researchers associated sleeping pills or anxiety-relieving medications with a 36 percent increase in the risk of dying during the 12-year period.

The greatest differences in mortality rate between drug users and nonusers were observed in the age groups of 55 to 64 years and 65 to 74 years, according to the study.

The researchers, whose results appear in the September issue of the Canadian Journal of Psychiatry, said a number of factors might explain the link between these medications and increased mortality.  Sleeping pills and anxiety drugs affect reaction time, alertness and coordination, and so they may contribute to falls and other accidents, the researchers said.  The medications also may aggravate certain breathing problems during sleep.  And some of the drugs work on the central nervous system in ways that may affect judgment and thus increase the risk of suicide.

"Given that cognitive behavioral therapies have shown good results in treating insomnia and anxiety, doctors should systematically discuss such therapies with their patients as an option. Combining a pharmacological approach in the short term with psychological treatment is a promising strategy for reducing anxiety and promoting sleep.  Belleville said.

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