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Athletic Tape Isn’t Just For Sports Injuries!
Posted by: | CommentsAs a chiropractor I treat many people who suffer from arthritis, and I also help individuals who have sustained sports injuries. With the former, I use chiropractic adjustments and with the latter, in conjunction with the adjustments, I often use kinesio taping. Now, it appears that athletic tape can also be beneficial in treating patients with arthritis. Read on…
Athletic Tape
Researchers in Australia have found that athletic tape can be used to improve pain from patellofemoral osteoarthritis, a form of osteoarthritis found around or behind the kneecap.
This was a small study, to be sure, involving only 28 people, 14 with and 14 without patellofemoral arthritis. Yet the findings may provide another therapy option for people with this knee pain. This finding may also benefit people with chronic patellofemoral pain, which is relatively common in runners and can oftentimes be related to a misalignment in the knee joint.
The researchers from the University of Melbourne enlisted the 28 participants, all adults with an average age of 57. The researchers took MRI scans of the participants knees and discovered that the arthritis sufferers had a higher incidence of misalignment of the knee joint, including an inclination for the kneecap to be positioned toward the outside of the leg.
Using athletic tape to wrap the patient’s knees, the researchers were able to improve that misalignment. This contributed to improvement in reported pain during a squatting exercise.
According to lead researcher, Dr. Kay M. Crossley;
“Our results confirm that patellar taping is an excellent technique which can be recommended for people with (patellofemoral arthritis).”
The tape must be applied correctly to achieve the benefit, and not to worsen the condition. The researchers indicated that a physical therapist would be the most appropriate to wrap the knee, but that with instruction and practice, the patient would be able to successfully tape their own knee.
Using tape may not be the best solution for everyone with patellofemoral pain. Many people may require other forms of therapy or a combination with taping. Dr. Crossley stated that she and her colleagues are currently conducting a clinical trial which is studying the outcomes of knee taping with other treatments.
The results of the taping study were published in the journal Arthritis Care & Research.
Your Cameron Park Chiropractor: "No Pain, No Gain?" Not When It Comes to Getting Older
Posted by: | CommentsIt probably goes without saying that as we age our body feels and acts differently than it used to when we were younger. It just doesn’t seem fair that as our mind appears to improve and become more “inventive,” our body seems to become less “cooperative.” We’re stiff when we get out of bed; certain activities during the day make us sore at night; and, if we’re not truly careful, even a movement as simple as turning too hastily or bending over to pick up a dropped pencil, can send our back or some other muscle group into spasm. But, our body doesn’t need to go from bad to worse because there is natural treatment for us, “boomers,” that can not only slow down the aging process of the body, but help us to avoid some of those problems altogether.
For instance, arthritis. To be sure, barring pharmaceuticals, allopathic medicine fails to take care of this age-related affliction. What is the basis for such a limited approach? The answer is that most medical doctors focus only on the symptoms of arthritis. Chiropractic management, on the other hand, not only is beneficial in relieving the pain of arthritis, naturally, without drugs, but it addresses the origin of the affliction and corrects it. Chiropractors, like your Cameron Park Chiropractor, have been treating men and women suffering from pain caused by arthritis, and other age-related challenges, for over a hundred years.
Repetitive stresses, years of poor gait and incorrect posture, and lack of beneficial movement cause wear of certain joints over time and create the arthritic changes the body experiences as you get older. chiropractic adjustments restore motion back into your joints and ease any vertebral misalignments that may be causing irritation and restriction. In addition to causing arthritic changes in the spine and increasing pain, did you know that misaligned vertebra can also reduce your resistance and immunity? It’s true, and this might be one of the reasons why it may seem to you that as you age you experience more health issues and that it frequently takes longer for you to feel better again. According to studies done on older individuals, those who received regular chiropractic care stayed healthier. In fact, you could say that, as you get older, chiropractic adjustments are good for what ails you!
When it comes to the health of the musculoskeletal system, chiropractors are highly knowledgeable whether it’s the small, growing frame of an infant or the full-grown body of an aging adult. Your chiropractor is experienced in working with the aging process of the body and has exceptional observational and diagnostic skills that aid in detecting spinal misalignments and joint degeneration. In fact, a chiropractic examination can often reveal some age-related changes before they’ve begun to create noticeable pain. Moreover, your Cameron Park Chiropractor can check your posture and analyze your gait to ascertain if there are any faulty patterns that could generate more arthritic changes in the future.
So, if you have been feeling your age lately, but you’d like to feel a whole lot better, make an appointment with your Cameron Park Chiropractor today!
Chiropractic: Drug-Free Treatment for Arthritis Pain Relief
Posted by: | CommentsIt is seldom necessary for you to look for a conventional healing approach if you are suffering from arthritis. On the contrary, some natural techniques may actually be able to help you overcome arthritic pain, even when medical science is incapable of doing so. Sadly, medical techniques regard merely the symptoms of disease, while natural techniques tend to look for the real origin of a problem and then correct it. If you are looking for a natural approach that has proved, repeatedly, to relieve arthritis pain, as well as many other problems, you need look no further than chiropractic care.
For over a hundred years, chiropractors have been helping people suffering from back pain due to arthritis and other arthritic problems. A chiropractor treats individuals who are suffering from musculoskeletal and nervous system problems. Arthritis is commonly inflammation and degeneration of particular joints within the skeletal system. Chiropractic medicine treats the aberrations of the vertebral column that impede the function of the nervous system. These misaligned vertebra, in addition to causing arthritic changes in the spine, can weaken resistance and immunity, therefore producing new health problems.
An effective chiropractor, like Dr. Yong Kim, has excellent observational and diagnostic skills that assist in detecting physical irregularities and joint problems. He performs neurological tests and orthopedic examinations. He may scrutinize your posture as a way of identifying causative or co-creative conditions, and he may also check your gait to determine faulty movement patterns that may produce new arthritic changes as well as add to your present arthritic pain.
Chiropractic therapy is not only a non-surgical, drug-free treatment, but in addition to treating your current pain, you will be offered advice and provided educational information regarding the benefits of individual lifestyle changes, such as exercise and nutrition, that will help to slow down joint degeneration in your body.
So, if you suffer with arthritis, back pain, headaches, neck pain, hip pain, carpal tunnel syndrome, or balance challenges, and you’d like to do more for your body than to just take a pill, chiropractic care may be the answer for you. One way to find out for sure is to go in to see Dr. Kim, your Sacramento Chiropractor, and let him tell you exactly what he will be able to do for you. It’s very possible that you will experience some relief from your problem after only one visit. With subsequent visits, you will continue to make improvements, and it is likely that you will find that this natural treatment works best to relieve your painful arthritis.
