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Tension headaches can takeover your day. The pounding pain, the overwhelming ache, and the inability to rid of a headache can impact your work, your day to day activities and can even result in you missing out on events that you otherwise would have enjoyed.
Unfortunately, medication does not always provide relief and always targets the symptoms, never the cause. Chiropractic Care, however, addresses the tension that causes the headaches and has been proven an effective treatment in various research studies.
Recent studies confirm that Chiropractic Care can lower blood pressure and reduce the risk of a heart attack.
Part one discussed physical stress, a stress on the body that is visible in poor posture or in the form of an injury. In part two, we will cover emotional stress, which can be just as harmful to your body yet not visibly apparent like physical.
According to Dr. Ben Kim, emotional stress is one of the most significant challenges in achieving overall wellness. Below is a direct excerpt from Dr. Kim.
Because your body cannot defend itself against the damage that emotional stress quietly creates over time. Your body pays a heavy physiological price for every moment that you feel anxious, tense, frustrated, and angry.
I’m not suggesting that you should strive to never feel these emotions. Anxiety, tension, frustration, and anger all serve important purposes when they first arise. The danger is in experiencing these emotions on a chronic basis.
Emotional stress sets off a series of reactions in your body that involve yoursympathetic nervous system, the portion of your nervous system that would increase your chance of surviving if you were to run into a mountain lion during a hike. In such a situation, your sympathetic nervous system would:
- Speed up and intensify your heart and breathing rates, so that you could have more oxygen and nutrients available to your muscles to run or fight.
- Divert the bulk of your blood supply to your large muscles groups to run or fight.
- Slow or even shut down your digestive system so as to not waste blood, nutrients, and oxygen that could be used to run or fight.
- Stimulate the release of extra glucose into your blood to give you a burst of energy, just as a cheetah’s spleen gushes extra blood into its circulation when it needs a burst of acceleration.
- Cause your adrenal glands to release epinephrine and norepinephrine into your system to increase cardiac output and increase blood sugar.
- Stimulate the release of cortisol from your adrenal glands to increase blood sugar and energy.
- Increase the diameter of your pupils to allow for more light to enter your eyes and more acute vision for fighting and running quickly on any type of terrain.
Clearly, it is to your advantage to have a healthy sympathetic nervous system, one that is capable of providing all of the functions listed above during physical emergencies.
What you don’t want is for your body to experience all of the above on a continuous, low-grade level because of emotional stress.
And this is exactly what many of us are suffering from in today’s hectic world.
There’s really no need to provide a list of health conditions that are partly caused by emotional stress, because every health condition is partly caused by emotional stress. Emotional stress always equals increased output by the sympathetic nervous system, which always equals accelerated aging and breakdown of your tissues.
You can read the full article in its entirety here. Overall, emotional stress can be damaging to your wellness and health. However there are several ways to manage, mitigate and reduce emotional stress.
Purposeful relaxation or mediation, nourishing your body with proper nutrients, realigning your energy flow, as well as activities such as massage or exercise that promote the release of the feel good chemicals endorphins.
A 2010 survey conducted by the APA showed “that the majority of Americans are living with moderate or high levels of stress”.
Stress can present itself in one (or more) of three forms: Physical Stress, Emotional Stress, and/or Chemical Stress.
Dr. Mercola recently wrote an article centered around a study that illustrated that chiropractic care and exercise are better than drugs.
Become a Chiropractic Member with Moyer Total Wellness.
Receive the effective benefits of Chiropractic care at a reduced and affordable rate. Chiropractic care has multiple health benefits that all work to improve overall wellness. Continual care constantly maintains and improves the structural integrity of the spine and the optimal functioning of the nervous system.
Benefits of Being a Member
- Chiropractic members receive a 50% discount on all physical therapy modalities.
- Chiropractic members can purchase a 1-hr signature massage for only $40 (includes gift cards).
Benefits of Chiropractic Care:
There are many physical benefits to chiropractic care. Here are just a few of the things that can be made better in your life through chiropractic care:
- Decreased arthritis and pain in joints that have arthritis.
- Pain relief from all areas of the body, virtually.
- Reduction of pain in the back, legs, feet and knees through the relief of spinal pressure.
- Less stiffness in the areas that are treated.
- Less muscle spasms throughout the region.
- You will be able to move better and more if you were restricted to begin with. Range of motion will increase.
- You have better coordination from taking that step to throwing that baseball.
- You have increased energy, self esteem and you just feel better overall.
Clients can become a chiropractic member one of two ways:
- Purchase 12 chiropractic adjustments for $499*. These 12 visits can be used anytime. Additional chiropractic treatments can be purchased for $40 within one year of package purchase date.
- Purchase 1 chiropractic treatment per month for 12 months at a price of $42** per month, automatically billed to your account. Additional visits can be purchased per month for $40.
* Membership price includes Initial Consultation.
** The first visit is $59 and includes Initial Consultation.
Become a member today! (303) 756-9355 (WELL) or moyerwellness@gmail.com.
The staff at Moyer Total Wellness is here for you as a genuine ally to optimize your health!
Trick or Treat! There is no treat like taking care of yourself. Have a wonderful Halloween from Moyer Wellness and Massage Denver. We are always here for you and your natural health care needs. We offer massage therapy, chiropractic care, acupuncture, nutrition counseling, personal training, and other weight loss services.
Every year 38 million Americans try alternative therapies such as acupuncture and chiropractic treatments. How helpful are those and other alternative treatments?
Consumer Reports’ survey of its readers found that hands-on treatments such as chiropractic and deep-tissue massage helped relieve back pain, neck pain, and osteoarthritis. And in the case of back pain, chiropractic care outperformed prescription medicine.
Sixty-five percent of those surveyed using chiropractic treatments for back pain said they helped a lot. Only 53 percent using prescription medications found them as helpful.
Half of those who used deep-tissue massage or yoga found they helped a lot for osteoarthritis. The survey results indicated that both were almost on par with prescription medication.
But in the Consumer Reports National Research Center survey, alternative treatments were not found to be as helpful with many other medical conditions.
Take depression. Yoga or meditation helped about 35 percent. By contrast, 70 percent of those using prescription medication found it to be very helpful.
As for colds, flu, and allergies? Prescription medications were deemed much more helpful than nutritional supplements such as Vitamin C.
So alternative treatment in some cases may help, but Consumer Reports advises checking with your doctor first.
Consumer Reports says don’t forget to check your insurance. Certain types of alternative treatments might be covered. Consumer Reports can help you find alternative medicine practitioners.
It’s March Madness!
In an effort to keep everyone sane, we are offering a discount towards out Ultimate Massage and Ultimate Stress Relief packages.
During March, any client can add on a personal training session or a chiropractic treatment to any massage for only $25 more.
Is It Safe To Crack My Back?
The possibilities of joint or nerve damage.
By Henry S. Lodge, M.D.
Q. Because my back often gets stiff and tight, it feels good to crack my back. Is this ok?
A. In general, yes. People have been doing it for thousands of years, and it’s unlikely you can apply enough force to your own spine to cause nerve or muscle damage. Chiropractic back manipulation creates problems so rarely, you can consider it safe, too. (But do see a pro and avoid having your cousin Joe crack your back.)
You might wonder what, exactly, is cracking in there. Your vertebrae may be changing position as they slip back into alignment; in other cases, the sudden pressure shift inside a spinal joint forms gas bubbles, as when you open a bottle of seltzer. The bubbles reabsorb into the joint fluid quickly, so it’s weird but harmless. Still, long-term studies on joint damage are lacking, and you can overdo anything. If you need to crack your back often, or if you experience pain, weakness or numbness anywhere, go to your doctor right away.
Can I wear my joints out?
Consider Your Hands
Perhaps the best argument against a direct connection between use (or overuse) and osteoarthritis is when OA affects the hands. Finger joints with OA look very similar to the knees with OA, yet we don’t bear weight on the hands — at least I don’t. There’s also the observation that “handedness” doesn’t play a part in osteoarthritis. If 90% of people are right-handed and if osteoarthritis were purely use-related, there ought to be a lot more right-hand arthritis compared to left-hand involvement. That’s simply not the case.
Hand OA is a good example of genetics at work: If your parent or other first-degree relative has OA of the hands, it markedly increases your risk of the condition.
Protecting Your Joints From Stress Versus Disease
“Use it or lose it” is certainly a concept that applies to the joints. The fact is, joints were meant to be used. A condition appropriately called “frozen shoulder” can develop within a week or two if the shoulder doesn’t move, even if there was no injury involved! That’s a good reason to avoid using a sling for prolonged periods and why range of motion exercises are so important after an injury or surgery. It’s also why people who already have arthritis are encouraged to keep moving.
The concept of “joint protection” is typically applied to people who have arthritis as a way to encourage use while avoiding excessive stress on the joints. For example, rather than carrying a heavy load with your hands, rest it on your forearms and use your arms rather than hands to carry it. The same concept is applied to exercise — swimming or biking provide excellent cardiovascular exercise that is easier on the joints than jogging.
These measures may lead to less pain or stiffness — that is, they may protect you from joint pain by avoiding stress to the joints. Unfortunately, that’s not the same as protecting the joints from deterioration, which joint-protection measures cannot reliably accomplish.
What Causes OA?
If OA is not caused by wearing out the joints, what causes it to develop? The answer varies, depending on whom you ask and whose joints you ask about. In fact, there is often no single cause that can be identified. There may be several potential explanations. Often there is no reasonable explanation at all.
The most common risk factors for osteoarthritis include:
- Advanced age
- Obesity
- Family history – Up to 50% of osteoarthritis is thought to be related to inherited tendency to develop joint degeneration
- Injury – especially a fracture that involves the joint)
- Rheumatoid arthritis (or other diseases that cause chronic joint inflammation)
However, these are risk factors, not causes. Plenty of older, overweight people never develop OA.
The Bottom Line
If you’re worried about “using up” your joints, remember that there is not a limit on the number of times you can make a fist and there is no “shelf-life” for the knees. From my reading of the available research, it’s much better to be physically active than to hold back to protect your joints. If they aren’t bothering you with the activities you’re doing, it’s unlikely you are harming them. Perhaps someday you’ll have 90 year-old knees that serve you well and feel just fine. But if you do develop arthritis, don’t blame the exercise. In the absence of significant injury, it might make more sense to blame your parents.
Testimonial from Cari Levy, MD – Colorado Board Certified Internist
“I first tried chiropractic because I felt something was out of place in my neck. After receiving regular chiropractic care, I soon realized that my migraine medication began piling up in my medicine cabinet. I used to suffer from debilitating migraine headaches, several times per month. Now, simply visiting Moyer Total Wellness every 3 weeks allows me to enjoy life, migraine-free! Dr. Moyer is a highly skilled chiropractor.”
Moyer Total Wellness is excited to have opened one of the first Denver-based Groupon Stores.
On Monday 2/07/2011, Moyer Total Wellness offered the following deal: $39 for 1-hr Therapeutic Massage at Moyer Wellness ($59 Value). On Wednesday 2/09/2011, this deal: $39 for Chiropractic Treatment and Initial Evaluation (60 min) at Moyer Wellness ($90 Value).
Groupon has recently created “Groupon Stores” to allow business to post deals themselves. Instead of waiting to be featured, which can take months, businesses now can create deals and post them on Groupon. In addition to receiving the “Deal of the Day” in your inbox, Groupon users become “fans” of the merchants they have purchased from and receive additional notifications when these merchants post deals.
If you would like to be notified of when we post new deals on Groupon, go to this website and click on the “Follow” button. www.groupon.com/merchants/moyer-wellness
Don – Jan 19, 2011
Donna was my massage therapist and she was amazing. My neck, upper back and shoulders were really stiff with lots of knots, and she worked them out. My neck was no longer sore after the visit. Moyer Wellness also has other valuable services that can be taken advantage of, but they are not pushy. I get the general idea that they really believe in healing and helping people be well.
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