Treatments

Car Accident Injury

I get many car accident injury victims coming to me with pains they sustained from their recent (or not so recent) accident. A motor vehicle accident (MVA) can be deceiving regarding injuries received at the time of the accident. The forces involved when two or more two or three ton vehicles smash together are more Car Accident Injury

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Headache

Most headaches are tension headaches. The muscles of the upper back and neck get so tight and congested in response to a person being anxious, worried, very busy , or under a deadline, etc. This tightness results in the muscles pulling the vertebrae of the neck out of proper alignment. This results in inflammation. The Headache

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Neck Pain

Neck pain can have several causes. If the patient with neck pain is very young, the cause is usually some sort of trauma such as falling, and hitting the head, or any sort of youthful activity. Usually a treatment regimen of two or three chiropractic spinal adjustments are all that is necessary. Children heal very Neck Pain

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Dizziness & Vertigo

Vertigo and dizziness is one of the easier maladies to treat with chiropractic spinal adjustments. In all cases that I have seen and treated the first cervical vertebra, aka Atlas, is involved. This vertebra is the very first one under the skull. All the spinal nerves pass through the Atlas so its alignment is very Dizziness & Vertigo

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Constipation

Constipation is often the body’s reaction to a diet lacking enough fiber. This can be corrected by eating less bread, pasta and junk and increasing the intake of fresh vegetables and fruit. Another increasingly common cause for constipation is the use of opioids for the treatment of pain. This can be a fine balance of Constipation

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Heart Burn / Acid Reflux

Heartburn or the disease big pharma dreamed up: acid reflux disease, can usually be corrected and eliminated by doing a few simple things. Heartburn is the presence of stomach acid in the esophagus. That is the structure that connects the mouth with the stomach. The pain is caused by acid finding its way from the Heart Burn / Acid Reflux

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Stomach Ulcers

Gastric or stomach ulcers respond very well to conservative treatment, chiropractic being one of them. I treat patients with stomach ulcers with a four way approach: 1.Drink lots of water. A doctor from India has written several books about the body’s need for water, “You’re not sick, you’re thirsty” being one of them. In his Stomach Ulcers

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Earaches

I am so very excited to write this about earaches and Chiropractic’s involvement in the problem. I have eliminated earaches in children many times in my 38 years of practice. Earache is known medically as otitis media. The best answer the medical profession can give for the cause of earache is that the eustachian tube Earaches

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Lower Back Pain

You might guess that low back pain is one of the major reasons for missing work or pleasure activities in this country. You would be correct, as low back pain in many forms is almost epidemic in our society. In younger people low back pain is almost always a result of overdoing activity in a Lower Back Pain

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Sciatica (Leg Pain)

The term “Sciatica” is used to describe a painful sciatic nerve. The sciatic nerve takes root at the lower two lumbar vertebrae as well as the first three sacral levels. The only place that interference of the sciatic nerve can happen is at the levels of L4 and L5, on both sides, of course. Sciatica Sciatica (Leg Pain)

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Bell’s Palsy

Bell’s palsy is treated by the medical profession in one of two ways: 1. wait until it goes away, or 2. prescribe corticosteroids. In this office I treat Bell’s palsy also in two ways:  1. use my soft laser 632. This is a “cold” laser that does not cut or burn. Rather it stimulates the Bell’s Palsy

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Migraine Headaches

In my experience I have identified three types of migraine headaches. 1. One source of migraine headaches is muscle tension. Muscle tension is from stress. As we become stressful, our muscles start to contract and become more and more congested with fluid. As tension mounts, the vertebrae of the neck are pulled out of place Migraine Headaches

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