What Causes Numbness?

Many people feel numbness or numbness like symptoms and they can be very annoying and aggravating. We treatment many patient who have numbness, but numbness is usually not their only symptom. Their numbness is usually accompanied by neck pain or lumbar spine pain. Numbness can also be called transient sensory neurapraxia, which is the scientific name. The point is numbness usually does not happen unless there is nerve involvement, meaning a nerve is injured or is pinched. Most of the time in chiropractic we find that a patient has spinal dysfunction which causes the nerve to be irritated, injured, or pinched. When the nerve is affect where ever that nerve goes to is going to be equally effected with numbness or symptoms.

As chiropractors, we can find out what is causing the spinal dysfunction and also find what is causing the numbness. More often than not if the spinal dysfunction is alleviated then the numbness usually clear up when the nerve heals. Numbness can also occur out of the spine as well, although we find the spine to be most common area. The problem is that nerves are all throughout the body and sometimes they have to travel near the skin and have to go through little holes in the bone called foramina, there is a possibility the problem can arise from these area as well. The good news is that chiropractors are well versed in finding where the nerve is injured at and where to fix it. If you have numbness and it's driving you crazy, check out Twisted Spine and Joint Center in Plano to see if they can help.

Why Everyone Should Use Chiropractic

Chiropractic is a discipline of the healing art and not just an adjustment, while adjustments are the cornerstone of care there is literal hundreds of different treatment protocols that could help. The protocols recommended will be based on what the condition is, the experience of the doctor to treat that condition, and what kind of treatment that the patient is looking for. The most important aspect of chiropractic is that they will try to find the solution to your problem inside instead of using drugs and surgery as an option. It was been found that chiropractic care as a whole is much more cost effective than traditional medicine and also has higher patient satisfaction. With these two points it should be a no brainer that all musculoskeletal pain and functional problems should go to a chiropractor to be triaged first. However most people don't choose this method, why? I have concluded that people have been bombarded with medical propaganda from ads from medical devises to medication.

There are startling facts that we see to suggest that natural healthcare is the way to go first. First if medicine is the way to heal people than why are we as a society not the healthiest population in the world since we consume fifty percent of the worldwide medication? Yet, we are the thirty third healthiest country. The countries above us use the hard facts of healthy diet, lots of exercise, and natural healthcare first. The fact of the matter is if you go to a chiropractor first for lower back pain you only go to surgery 1.5 percent of the time, but if you go to a medical doctor you go to surgery 42 percent of the time and most likely get medicated one hundred percent of the time. I will also point out that the failure rate for back surgery is above fifty percent as well. If you want to do the healthy and smart thing choose chiropractic first. Remember true health lies within and not from a pill.        

Why Are Exercises So Important In Our Plano Chiropractic Office?

 We offer a wide range of exercises in our Plano Chiropractic office and the reason is quite simple, to get the patient better quicker. We know that Chiropractic is the most effective and safest healthcare delivery system for musculoskeletal pain in the world, but we can still make it better. There are tons of evidence to suggest that Chiropractic care is effective in helping spine pain and there is also evidence that suggest Chiropractic in combination with exercise is the most effective. Patients are paying us their hard earned money and we owe it to them to do the most effective treatment to get them healthy quicker. Not only will the patient start to feel better but overall they will be stronger and have more endurance. Once we get the pain subdued and the spine moving properly it is the best time to usher in the strengthening phase of treatment. If you know someone who want to get the best out of their treatment we are here to help.   

Can Chiropractic Help Me With My Shoulder Pain?

Shoulder pain is a very common symptom we find in our Plano Chiropractic office, as we spend more and more time in front of a computer and at our desk. You are probably at a computer right now or perhaps your phone reading this article. Take note of your shoulders, do you see how your shoulders are protracted frontward and your head is over the keyboard, which is call forward head carriage because you carrying your head forward from the normal line. The muscle that makes the shoulders protract forward are the pectoralis minor muscles which are a tightness prone muscle and conversely the rhomboids which counteract the pectoralis minor muscles are weakness prone muscles. The scalene muscles are the muscle group in the neck that is responsible for forward head carriage and tend to tighten up in the neck causing pain and compressing anatomy.

The best way to treat shoulder pain is to find the pain generating tissues, where is the dysfunction coming from? In my experience we tend to find that shoulder pain is usually caused by dysfunction in the cervical spine as well as in the shoulder joint and shoulder girdle muscles. The problem typically involves the cervical spine first, as the cervical vertebra can get misaligned and cause improper nerve impulses to the shoulder muscles which than function improperly and the improper muscles cause the shoulder joint itself to have improper biomechanics due to the muscles not working in synergy during normal motion. Treatment would include removing the cervical dysfunction in the cervical spine as well as stretching the tightness prone muscles of the scalenes and pectoris minor. Equally it is also important to strengthen the rhomboid muscles in the back to stop the shoulder protraction. Once the muscles are working proper the shoulder joint itself should start to work with correct biomechanics which will help the pain. If the pain is still present pain modalities can help to easy the progression along.