Sciatica causes a lot of people a lot of pain but read on to learn of some myths we can dispel.

MYTH: Sciatica will just “go away” with some rest.
FACT: If you are dealing with back pain, buttock pain or leg pain, then you must seek help from a sciatica specialist immediately. Left untreated, sciatica can lead to permanent nerve damage.

MYTH: Pain is the only problem associated with sciatica.
FACT: In severe cases, sciatica can lead to the inability to control your bowels or bladder.

MYTH: You must take pain medications to deal with sciatica.
FACT: Drugs like muscle relaxants, pain killers, narcotics, antidepressants, and anti-seizure medications have serious potential side-effects and do not cure the root cause of sciatica.

MYTH: “I must have done something wrong to get sciatica.”
FACT: Physical work or simply sitting at a desk for long periods can lead to sciatica. Accidents and trauma can also be the culprits. Pregnancy can cause sciatica. Sciatica can affect anyone.

MYTH: Stop exercising and get several weeks of bed rest to overcome sciatica.

FACT: Staying active can help to relieve sciatic pain and prevent the pain from getting worse. Staying inactive in bed could be the worst advice.

MYTH: Sciatica requires surgery.
FACT: NO! There’s been a huge breakthrough in the treatment of sciatica and lower back pain. It’s a new procedure called Non-Surgical Re-Constructive Spinal Care. The excellent results from this treatment have been published in major medical journals. Success rates are up to 90%.

Sciatica causes a lot of people a lot of pain but read on to learn of some myths we can dispel.

MYTH: Sciatica will just “go away” with some rest.
FACT: If you are dealing with back pain, buttock pain or leg pain, then you must seek help from a sciatica specialist immediately. Left untreated, sciatica can lead to permanent nerve damage.

MYTH: Pain is the only problem associated with sciatica.
FACT: In severe cases, sciatica can lead to the inability to control your bowels or bladder.

MYTH: You must take pain medications to deal with sciatica.
FACT: Drugs like muscle relaxants, pain killers, narcotics, antidepressants, and anti-seizure medications have serious potential side-effects and do not cure the root cause of sciatica.

MYTH: “I must have done something wrong to get sciatica.”
FACT: Physical work or simply sitting at a desk for long periods can lead to sciatica. Accidents and trauma can also be the culprits. Pregnancy can cause sciatica. Sciatica can affect anyone.

MYTH: Stop exercising and get several weeks of bed rest to overcome sciatica.

FACT: Staying active can help to relieve sciatic pain and prevent the pain from getting worse. Staying inactive in bed could be the worst advice.

MYTH: Sciatica requires surgery.
FACT: NO! There’s been a huge breakthrough in the treatment of sciatica and lower back pain. It’s a new procedure called Non-Surgical Re-Constructive Spinal Care. The excellent results from this treatment have been published in major medical journals. Success rates are up to 90%.

People experiencing pain from headaches often turn to chiropractic care for help. Read on to learn more.

According to the American Chiropractic Association (ACA): “Research shows that spinal manipulation – one of the primary treatments provided by doctors of chiropractic – may be an effective treatment option for tension headaches and headaches that originate in the neck. A 2014 report in the Journal of Manipulative and Physiological Therapeutics (JMPT) found that interventions commonly used in chiropractic care improved outcomes for the treatment of acute and chronic neck pain and increased benefit was shown in several instances where a multimodal approach to neck pain had been used. Also, a 2011 JMPT study found that chiropractic care, including spinal manipulation, improves migraine and cervicogenic headaches.”

Triggers

Triggers may include foods, noise, stress, lights as well as behaviors such as excessive exercise, insomnia and blood sugar changes. 95 percent of headaches are primary headaches, such as tension, migraine, or cluster headaches. These types of headaches are not caused by disease; the headache itself is the primary concern. The primary cause of headaches are associated with muscle tension in the neck. Today, Americans engage in more sedentary activities than in the past, and more hours are spent in one fixed position or posture.

What Can Be Done

The American Chiropractic Association offers the following advice:

• If you spend a lot of time in one fixed position, for example, in front of a computer, on a sewing machine, typing or reading, take a break and stretch every 30 minutes to one hour.
• Low-impact exercise may relieve the pain associated with primary headaches. However, if you are prone to dull, throbbing headaches, avoid heavy exercise, activities as walking and low-impact aerobics may be of benefit.
• Avoid teeth clenching.  This results in stress at the temporomandibular joints (TMJ) – the two joints that connect your jaw to your skull – leading to TMJ irritation and a form of tension headaches.
• Drink at least eight 8-ounce glasses of water a day to help avoid dehydration, which can lead to headaches.

What Can Chiropractic Care Do?

• Perform spinal manipulation or chiropractic adjustments to improve spinal function and alleviate the stress on your system.
• Provide nutritional advice, recommending a change in diet and perhaps the addition of B complex vitamins.
• Offer advice on posture, ergonomics, exercises and relaxation techniques. This advice should help to relieve the recurring joint irritation and tension in the muscles of the neck and upper back.

If you use your hands a lot you may find they are in pain at the end of the day. Instead of taking medication,a a chiropractor may be able to help your pain symptoms and restore some range of motion back to your hands. Read on to learn more.

Bone Realignment

Your hand pain may be as a result of bone misalignment in your back or neck as the nerves in your hand originate at your spinal cord. If you have a slipped disc, it can cause the compressing of the nerves leading back to your hands, causing pain or numbness.

Inflammation Reduction

Chiropractors use social methods reducing the pain in your hands and wrists especially if you have arthritis or carpal tunnel. Electronic muscle stimulation can be used or tissue massage or ultrasound can all help relieving the pressure you are under. As the pain subsides you should find your range of motion gaining once again.

Stretches and Exercise

Once the pain has gone away the chiropractor can show you stretches and exercises to help keep everything properly aligned. You can do these between visits to the chiropractor and prior and after doing certain activities. Very useful for people who regularly utilize electronic devices and keyboards.

From time to time we bring you news about the latest developments of chiropractic care and as October is National Chiropractic Health Month 2021, we thought we would share a link from the American Chiropractic Association to let you know about all the latest developments in the world of chiropody!

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People experiencing wrist pain often turn to chiropractic care for help. Read on to learn more.

The wrist is complex and performs complex movements.  Additionally, nerves, muscles, bones, and other tissues not only of the wrist itself but of the fingers, hand, forearm, elbow, upper arm, and spine can also be involved in wrist pain, so it can be manifested in many ways.

Wrist Pain Causes

Wrist pain can be caused by any of a number of different reasons. It can be caused by normal wear and tear, by overuse, by injury, or through the natural aging processes, or a systemic disease process to name a few of the more common causes. Wrist pain caused by any reason should get an accurate diagnosis and can benefit greatly from medical attention by a qualified healthcare provider. Here are some examples of the causes of wrist pain:

Peripheral Nerve Entrapments

Known as a pinched nerve, this is when a nerve becomes literally impinged or entrapped by the surrounding tissue, be that bone, muscle, tendon, or cartilage.

Pronator Syndrome

A peripheral entrapment neuropathy that occurs when the median nerve of the arm becomes compressed between muscles of the forearm. Prolonged gripping, twisting, and pronation, as in working with construction equipment, can lead to this condition.

Radial Tunnel Syndrome

When the radial nerve becomes compressed in a canal in the elbow called the radial tunnel. Symptoms of this condition are often mistaken for tennis elbow.

Carpal Tunnel Syndrome

When pressure is put on the median nerve, it can cause pain and numbness or tingling sensation in the thumb and the closest next two and one-half fingers.

Cubital Tunnel Syndrome

When pressure is put on the ulnar nerve of the hand, it can cause the ring finger and pinky finger to swell and become weak or clumsy. Pain, numbness, and tingling in these two fingers are also symptoms of cubital tunnel syndrome.

This article is from WebMD regarding how COVID-19 is impacting Chiro care.

Here is a great academic article from the US National Library of Medicine National Institutes of Health on the subject of chiropractic care and pregnancy. it has bene fully peer reviewed and there are further links to citations within the article, if you are looking for a study on how chiropractic care may help when you are pregnant.

Read the article here: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2647084/