When you are in pain, you want relief, and terms like “chiropractic integrative care” don’t seem important; however, these words are important. It’s a care label that encompasses the idea of treating the whole patient with all forms of care available so that full healing and full functioning can be restored as soon as possible. That’s the kind of help everyone wants and needs!

Good health, after all, isn’t just the absence of disease, pain, stiffness, or impairment. It means you are well physically, mentally, and socially, and that goal is at the heart of chiropractic integrative care.
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Recently I spent a great weekend “flying” with my two sons. We heard about the Fly Zone in Delta and decided to do something a little different. The back extension position is good for your spine! Check out the video and let me know what you think.

A recent study (2011) published in the international spine-specialty journal “Spine”, supports the premise of continued spinal care for the treatment of chronic, non-specific low back pain. The study by medical specialists Senna and Machaly write; “To obtain long-term benefit this study suggests maintenance spinal manipulation after the initial intensive manipulation therapy”. These authors observed; “since patients did benefit from the maintenance treatments, we believe that periodic patient visits permit proper evaluation, detection and early treatment of an emerging problem preventing future episodes of low back pain”.

Bio-mechanical and neurological effects of spinal manipulation include; disruption of articular or peri-articular adhesion’s, improvement of trunk and neck mobility, relaxation of hypertonic muscles by sudden stretching, release of entrapped synovial folds (plica), attenuation of alpha-motor neuron activity, enhancement of proprioceptive behavior and release of beta endorphins thus increasing pain threshold. These mechanisms are expected to be sustained during maintenance spinal manipulation therapy.

Headache is one of the most frequent reasons people seek medical advice and is the primary complaint of about 10% of chiropractic patients. The majority of headaches are not linked to any specific injury or disease, and are known as primary headaches. The three most common types of primary headaches are migraine, tension-type headache and cervicogenic (arising from the cervical {neck} spine) headache. Read more

Traditionally, a herniated or “slipped” discs was diagnosed when a patient had back pain with referred symptoms down a leg sometimes as far down as the foot. There are certain back conditions that mimic disc herniation however a true herniated disc causes neuralgia symptoms into the leg with symptoms of numbness, tingling or muscle weakness in the leg &/or foot. Read more