From the Journal of Upper Cervical Chiropractic Research comes a case study published on July 10, 2014, documenting the subjective and objective improvement of a young boy with ADHD after receiving chiropractic care. The author begins his study by explaining that "Attention deficit hyperactive disorder (ADHD) is a condition known to cause bouts of inattention, hyperactivity, impulsivity, poor academic performance and disruptive social behavior." He notes that ADHD has been shown to affect 5% of children and 4% of adults.
The common medical practice in cases of ADHD is the use of medication. The author warns of the dangers of this approach. "Although medication has been shown to help in the management of symptoms in children with ADHD, research shows that academic performance is not improved in the medium and long term and may have harmful effects given the typical way the medications are used in the community and the adverse side effects caused by the medications." In this case, an 11-year-old boy was brought to the chiropractor having been diagnosed with ADHD two years earlier by his psychologist. He was originally given Concerta but was later taken off that drug by his guardians due to the boy experiencing the side effects of appetite loss and reportedly turning him into a "social zombie." He was also suffering from neck pain for the past three years. One of the examination procedures performed was a "TOVA" examination. This procedure objectively tests and rates some of the issues with ADHD such as an individual's sustained attention, speed and consistency of responding, and behavioral self-regulation. With this test, it was possible to rate changes to the boy's ADHD before and after his chiropractic care. A chiropractic examination and x-rays were performed which determined that vertebral subluxation was present at the top of the boy's neck. Based on this finding, specific chiropractic adjustments were started to correct the subluxations. The boy was also given exercises and his diet was more closely watched and regulated. After the first adjustment, the boy's neck pain was gone and did not return. After three months of care, the boy was re-evaluated using the same processes performed at the beginning of his care which included the TOVA examination. The test showed improvement in the boy's spinal structure, and improvement in his neurological imbalances back to normal levels. The TOVA test showed the most objective improvement. A normal TOVA score is "0" or above. The boy's original score was (minus) -3.94, and had dramatically improved after three months of chiropractic to a (minus) -0.46. In his discussion of this case the author notes, "Although the purpose of chiropractic care was not to diagnose or treat the patient's ADHD, his condition improved both subjectively and objectively and that likely translated into academic improvement." He continued in his conclusion, "Although it is impossible to make sweeping conclusions about the link between the Atlas Subluxation Complex being a causative factor of ADHD, we can conclude that this patient has achieved quality of life improvement that has been subjectively reported and objectively measured by the TOVA software, neurological exams and behavioral evaluation." Call or email your local Elkhorn Chiropractor today! TWPChiro@gmail.com or 262-215-2292
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Chiropractic and Vitamin D: The winning team
Exposure to sun is a natural way for your body to receive Vitamin D. While this can be both relaxing and nourishing to your body, did you know that receiving regular chiropractic adjustments may also improve your body’s ability to receive Vitamin D? Benefits of Vitamin D: Vitamin D is just as important a vitamin as all those other lettered vitamins you hear about. It has been shown to help:
So, if eating healthy and soaking up the sun help us receive Vitamin D, how can chiropractic help too? The Power of a Healthy Nervous System Chiropractic care doesn’t treat Vitamin D deficiencies, but a person often can better receive Vitamin D by having a healthy nervous system. The nervous system is the master system of your body. This system controls every organ, muscle, and tissue, including your skin—the largest organ of your body! When the bones of your spine are out of place, this can put pressure on the nerves that communicate to your skin. As specific chiropractic adjustments are made to your spine, your spinal bones are moved back in place, taking pressure off the nerves traveling to your skin and other organs. Reducing this pressure or interference improves the health of your nervous system. With a healthy nervous system, your skin is better able to send sensory information to the brain to help the body know how to properly function. When your skin is able to do its job, your body is then able to properly access and use Vitamin D for your overall health. Working Together Vitamin D and chiropractic care make a winning team. Together, they can help you have a healthier immune system, a healthier working heart, and an overall higher quality of life. Visit with us today to discuss how you can receive the benefits of Vitamin D and chiropractic care! Call our Elkhorn, WI chiropractic office today! It's a question we hear all the time. If you have experienced results from care, it's only natural that you want someone you love to benefit too. Here are some non-treatening approaches that may be helpful for you.
Ask questions: Rather than judge their unwillingness to try chiropractic, become curious. Since our beliefs dictate our behavior, try to find out what belief(s) stand in their way. Often it is some fear of a terrible past experience or the thought of "if I try chiropractic, I'll have to come for the rest of my life". The truth is and you know, that we have never been and never will be high pressure. Instead, we try to create a friendly, family-centered environment that teaches individuals how their body truly heals. Supply information: One of the best ways to diffuse irrational fears is to supply information (which we are more than happy to provide) or have them come in during your next visit to meet Dr. Chad and the staff. Give it time: Change takes time. Whether it's making new healthy habits, changing someone's belief system or changing someone's spine. Be patient. Trust that your friend or family member will choose chiropractic when the time is right. The reason we have a nervous system is to perceive our environment and coordinate the behavior of every cell in our body. It is an epigenome thing, not a gene thing! Chiropractic rests on the simple truth that "your nervous system runs the whole show, maintain it!". When you tell others about chiropractic, you are slowly but surely changing the world. Practice Members, you are appreciated! Keep telling the world! Call or email your Elkhorn, WI chiropractor if you have any Many of us have already seen success in chiropractic care helping us with various problems and pain. However, chiropractic care is often seen as something you do for your back pain or neck pain. Though it is natural to associate chiropractic and back care, there is a multitude of other health concerns that may be helped through chiropractic care. Some conditions that many have seen alleviated by chiropractic care are: Surprised? Since chiropractic care is really about restoring nervous system control of your body, and your nervous system controls everything, we see many types of health issues other than back pain resolve with chiropractic care.
Chiropractic helps to remove the interference in your body that is causing your symptoms. This way your spine aligns into its proper position, boosting your entire body’s function and healing. Questions about other conditions? Just ask, we may be able to help! All to often I hear the expression (really an excuse), "We'll, I have heart disease (diabetes, obesity, etc..) because my parents have it or had it." Or "it runs in the family". The central dogma that our genetics cause us to be healthy or unhealthy is about as accurate as saying "the skinny guy with heart disease that is high-strung has the same heart disease as the obese guy who has never worked out a day in their life."
Health comes down to taking care of the HEAD. Not your eyelashes, or the way you look, or your hairstyle but keeping your brain-body relationship functioning at 100%. Why is is exercise, food and a positive mind set so important to keeping you healthy?? Because your brain (HEAD) is a movement based-sensory organ. The brain is like a battery that needs recharging from the body to keep your body functioning at 100%. There are 2 types of stimuli the brain receives... Proprioception (good info) and Nociception (bad info). Your brain perceives 300 trillion bits of information at any given moment... you are conscious of only 50! Not, 50 billion, or 50 million, or 50,000 but 50! Exercise (movement), good diet/lifestyle (food) and thinking well cause Proprioception (good info) into the brain. Lack of those and a SUBLUXATED spine causes Nociception (bad info) into the brain. If you put Garbage IN (thoughts, traumas, toxins "Subluxation" - nociception) then you'll get Garbage OUT (heart disease, cancer, stroke, diabetes, obesity, aches, pains, headaches, allergies, asthma etc...) The body always needs to have a good relationship with the head - physical health and spiritual health have the same Doctor. Call or email our Elkhorn, WI chiropractor today for your wellness evaluation! It always fascinates me when people tell me that they have had chiropractic wellness care since they were born but they still have periods of low back pain, aches and pains, and sometime feel unstable - how can this be?
Interesting enough, some individuals have joints that are abnormally angled. The word abnormal is probably a bit harsh, but I'll also point my finger at myself as well seeing that, I too, have an abnormality of the low back which periodically gives me some aches and pains. Approximately 20-35% of people are born with an anomaly or birth defect where a joint sits higher on one side compared to the other. Another reason for feeling unstable is, during pregnancy, some females can dislocate their pubis symphysis... combine these two factors and this can create havoc. The vast majority of pregnant women experience musculoskeletal pain and it is very important to see a chiropractor regularly to ensure stability, proper developmental signals to the developing fetus, and keeping mom's nerve flow running properly and adaptive to stress. 3 Important points I am trying to make: 1. Pregnancy places significant strain on even the healthiest of spines. 2. Everyone's spine is different and each body responds in its own unique way to stress. 3. Additional support such as chiropractic adjustments allow the body time to re-orient itself to the 9 months of changes that are happening and create healing. Why do so many pregnant women experience back pain during pregnancy? 1. Hormones - an increase in hormones during pregnancy affects the joints of the pelvis making them more lax or mobile. This is a normal process that helps a woman's body accommodate to a vaginal (natural) birth. Hormonal changes plus the alteration of the center of gravity due to a large pregnant belly lengthens and weakens not only the ligaments and surrounding muscles around the pelvis, but the thick band of fascia that helps to stabilize the thoracic and lumbar spine. 2. Weight Gain and Previous Injuries - the natural increase women have during pregnancy loads our spine and pelvis. If the mother has experienced pervious injuries or had accidents that have damaged the low back area and these injuries have been left uncorrected, they may have healed with poor joint biomechanics. How does it affect the mother? We see that when a pregnant mother's spine is placed under stress with a sizable abdomen, any number of health complaints may result - including low back or leg pain (stabbing, dull, shooting, or burning), pain felt around the pelvic girdle, buttocks, pubic region or radiating into the back of the thighs. Because the spine moves as one unit, one area of injury may impact the motion of the spine in another area and so there is typically no shortage of health implications. Additionally, because of the way the nervous system works, the musculoskeletal system (low back, thighs, abdominal wall) can also influence the organs of the body (somato-visceral reflexes), thus some women may have pain (referred pain) into her organs. For some women this may result in heart burn, or bowel issues for example. All in all, with everything said -- it makes perfect sense that so many pregnant women experience aches and pains during pregnancy. Shockingly though this is not the greatest concern I have for pregnant women. My deepest concern is how poor function of the mom's nervous system and spine can impact the growth and development of the baby... Call and get your nervous system checked at our Pediatric and Wellness Chiropractic office in Elkhorn, WI. Located just north of sunset park. It is becoming more common for parents to seek chiropractic care for kids. Many of the problems seen in adults often begin in childhood, even as early as birth. Birth trauma, even "natural" birth, can be traumatic to a developing spine and nervous system. Babies born via C-section, as well as those that are delivered by forceps or vacuum extraction, receive enormous amounts of pressure to their cervical spine. This trauma can cause the vertebra of the spine to become misaligned, a condition commonly known as a vertebral subluxation. Subluxations in newborns are common and health complaints such as nursing difficulties, breathing problems, colic, sleep disturbances, acid reflux, ear infections, allergies and asthma can result from it.
Chiropractic care for kids gets them on the road to reach their full potential. Due to the fact that birth is traumatic, many parents have their newborns checked by a pediatric chiropractor almost immediately after being born. It is important to have children checked regularly as they learn to hold their head up, sit, crawl and walk. The reason being, when a child is born, their spine looks like a "C". It does not have the 3 developed curves of the spine as an adult has. When a child learns to hold their head up, the cervical (neck) curve starts to form. When they begin/learn to crawl, the weight of their abdomen starts to form the lumbar (low back) curve. And when a child learns to walk, they fall on average, 5000 times per year. I advise a mother of a newborn that is completely symptom-free to get their child checked for subluxations 4 times in the first year of life. 1. immediately after birth. 2. when they learn to hold their head up. 3. when they start to crawl. 4. when they learn to walk. Keeping the child's nervous system working correctly will keep them growing and developing as they are designed to. Call or email our local Elkhorn Chio One of the best kept secrets is that athletes visit chiropractors. In fact, athletes have benefited from chiropractic care for many years. Athletes of all types, from weekend warriors to world-class champs utilize chiropractic because it is a drug-free way to achieve better health and performance. Just as chiropractic can benefit athletes, it can benefit you in terms of better health and performance.
Chiropractic adjustments help ensure that the body functions as effectively as possible, which can maximize healing and recovery from all types of injuries. The list of athletes using chiropractic care is long. 31% on NFL teams use chiropractors in an official capacity, 77% of trainers have referred their athletes to chiropractors for adjustments and spinal evaluations. A survey of certified NFL trainers revealed that 100% of them agree that players will use chiropractic care without referral from the team medical staff. Proper Nerve Supply is essential for optimal body functioning. The nervous system controls every activity in the body by sending and receiving nerve messages. The spine is designed for two reasons. Protection and motion. The skull completely encases the brain and the vertebrae/back bones completely encase the spinal cord. The spine consists of 24 movable bones because if it were on solid bone we wouldn't be able to bend, twist, move, pick up our kids, play sports, etc. Unfortunately, because of stress (usually a physical stress especially in athletes) these vertebrae can move out of alignment and get fixated or stuck and they no longer move the way they were designed to move. This causes stress on the nerves around it and stress on the nervous system, hence, causing the body to lose function. - this is termed a 'subluxation'. Chiropractors detect and correct vertebral subluxations. This restores the spine and nervous system to a more optimal level of function, and maximizes the body's performance and healing potential. Anyone who engages in athletics can benefit from regular chiropractic checkups to ensure that their spine is balanced and free from structural stress and subluxations. When the spinal column is brought into balance and alignment, the body's nervous system and body biomechanics (posture) are maximized. Thomas Harris, MD says in The Sports Medicine Guide, "changes in the optimal spinal position produce spinal pathologies and loss of function. Spinal pathologies destroy joint reflexes, arc fibers, and cause nerve impedance." Postural strength and coordination are essential for injury prevention and sports performance. In professional sports, injury is the number one reason for early retirement. Overall, 67 billion dollars is spent each year for the treatment of athletic injuries. There are essentially two categories that athletic injuries fall into: the acute or traumatic category, which is an injury that is the result of a sudden impact or unseen force; the the repetitive overuse category which is injury from such activities as repetitively swinging a racket or golf club. In fact, virtually every workout results in micro injuries as the body is torn down and then rebuilt through rest and recovery. As a society, we have been conditioned to believe that symptoms are bad and the key to health and recovery is their removal. However, symptoms are actually part of the body's healing and repair process. They are the body's best efforts to heal itself. By making symptoms our objective, we find that we are "healthy" by being symptom free. And we'll do anything to make the symptoms go away. By treating symptoms, you are suppressing the body's natural response and inhibiting the healing process. Instead of treating symptoms, doctors should stimulate the body's defense to allow for completion of the healing process. Chiropractic helps the body heal itself. Athletes don't get adjusted to "feel better", Athletes get adjusted to PERFORM BETTER! Call our Elkhorn When confronted with a health issue, most people reach for the medicine cabinet to mask the symptoms and make themselves "feel" better. But does masking the symptoms really help us in any way long term?? What if we are chronically in pain but we've been masking the discomfort with muscle relaxers, advil, tylenol, pain killers, etc? Just because we cannot "feel" the issue does that mean that we have been Healed.
Lets say you're at home and you hear the smoke detector go off. Does it make sense to hit the button or pull the batteries out or does it make sense to sniff around for smoke or look for a fire? Lets say, you're like most people and you pull the batteries out (mask the pain with muscle relaxers) and then 30 minutes later the smoke detector up stairs starts going off. So you run up stairs, you smell the smoke but don't see anything so you decide to pull the batteries out again. Now you're sitting up stairs watching t.v. and you feel some heat. You go to open your door and you're trapped in a blazing inferno and you have no way out! This is how some people view health. The word health comes from the root word "heal". If your body is not in healing mode, you will never be healthy. The difference between symptom based health care and functional based health care is really simple. Symptom based masks the symptoms but never heals the body (it never puts the fire out) and functional based understands that symptoms are only a way of your body saying something is going wrong (your smoke detector is going off). So by prioritizing your function we get your body to "heal" as it's designed to. If you or someone you know deals with their symptoms by keeping them silent/masking symptoms and needs someone to put their fire out/get their body back in healing mode then give us a call. Schedule a free consult with our El
Here are some natural solutions that can take the "pressure" off and won't leave you wondering which you would rather deal with... the allergies or the side-effects of allergy medication.
1. Nasal Rinses: Available over the counter, and are also safe for children. Simple saline sprays and Neti pots are most popular. 2. Quercetin: Is a natural plant-derived antioxidant with anti-histamine qualities found in many foods, such as citrus fruits, onions, apples, parsley, tea, tomatoes, broccoli, lettuce and wine. 3. Vitamin C: Has been shown to enhance the effectiveness of Quercetin and boost your immune system. 4. Probiotics: A great way to help the body combat allergies. When the body has the proper balance of bacteria for digestion, it is less likely to have hypersensitivity reactions to allergens. 5. Local Honey: Every day consumption of honey from a hive where bees are using local pollen can expose you to small doses of allergens, preventing your body from perceiving them as a threat. |
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