Network Chiropractic Heals More Than Back Pain
If you have been in some sort of pain, back pain or otherwise, you owe it to yourself to look into other avenues of healing. If you’ve only tried the conventional methods of medicines or physical therapy with none of the results you have hoped for, then you’re ripe for a new method or approach. Many people have some awareness or basic understanding of the concepts of chiropractic. However, there are some points that are often not made or that many are not aware of. Hopefully, you’ll find this article a bit more informative and detailed about what chiropractic is really all about.
As a brief history lesson, know that chiropractic dates back to 1895, a pioneering time in our country’s lifespan. This was a time of healing exploration as well. Daniel David Palmer, the father of chiropractic, first introduced this ‘practiced by hand’ or ‘by hand only’ (what chiropractic means in Latin) approach as a way of freeing up the interference in the body’s ability to send its messages effectively through the nervous system of body. When there is distortion, tension or compression of the spinal cord or nerves, the body is unable to effectively send and relay messages between the brain and body. This causes not only pain, but also more long-term health consequences.
We are far from understanding exactly how stress that the body cannot effectively adapt to and heal from causes disease. This will likely be the next frontier of health and well being. In this model, we will not look to the specific part of the body or symptomatic picture alone to introduce some form of therapy in an attempt to ‘fix’ that part. Quite the opposite may be true. We may look to the body’s inability to effectively adapt to that stressor and introduce an approach or application that actually helps the body – by way of the nervous system – to adapt more effectively and unwind the offending stress and tension before it becomes an ache, pain or dis-ease symptom.
Fibromyalgia is just one disorder that has the most current pharmaceutical companies chomping at the bit. This disorder is classically very hard to treat with the conventional Western medical approaches. However, some techniques and approaches that do what some of these more progressive approaches allude to; like Network Chiropractic and acupuncture have shown promise in many people suffering with this condition. It’s a bit ironic, actually. Acupuncture has a few thousand year history before our system was even developed, yet we seem to need more ‘research’ for it, while our (maybe) 150 year old system is taken as the gold standard.
So, to take this discussion full circle again, we need to remind ourselves what our back pain or aches are really all about. There may be any number of reasons in our life why we are feeling the way we are. Often times, emotional and mental stress will cause physiologic changes in our body that need to be addressed if we wish to experience any lasting relief. Network chiropractic is showing promise as just one such method.
Michael J. Funicello, DC is a Gilbert chiropractor in private practice since 1998. He has personally helped people, just like you, living with a variety of health conditions and pains regain their health and quality of life.
Who Would Want To Buy An Inversion Chair?
There are many advantages of inversion chairs. That's why they have become more popular the last few years. In this post, we will discuss some of these advantages, helping you to decide if an inversion chair is best for you - or if you would be better off going with a traditional inversion table. In addition, we will points out a few disadvantages that you should also consider.
Advantages of Inversion Chairs
Along with all the other traditional advantages that come along with inversion therapy, there are a few specific advantages that you have if you decide to purchase an inversion chair vs table. First of all, you have added stability - and this is the main reason why people purchase chairs instead of tables or gravity boots. This stability allows people with some injuries that would normally prevent them from enjoying inversion therapy to enjoy it (obviously, please speak with your doctor before starting any such training regime).
In addition, By safely and securely strapping yourself into the chair you don't have to worry about any stress on your ankles or ligaments - stress that can make it very uncomfortable for some people when they start inverting. Some people never get used to this stress, and for these people an inversion chair can be very effective.
Disadvantages of Inversion Chairs
While you do gain advantages in terms of stability with inversion chairs, you do lose some in terms of mobility. Because you are in the chair you are not able to fully stretch your ligaments and joints like you can on an inversion table. In fact, many people find gently swinging back and forth to be a very effective way to stretch their back, legs, and ligaments.
Summary
The bottom line is that if you are a healthy person, with the ability to support yourself from your ankles, then an inversion table is probably the better way to go. However, for all those people who have specific back problems that would prevent them from doing so, then an inversion chair can still give them many of the advantages of inversion therapy.