There are so many benefits to trying acupuncture. Chiropractic and Acupuncture West Palm Beach: 4 Reasons To Try Acupuncture is about 4 top reasons to try acupuncture.  By seeing a chiropractor who is also certified in acupuncture, you can treat a wide range of health issues without the side effects of prescription medication.  Read below to find out more.

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1. Pain relief

Acupuncture can be used alone or in conjunction with chiropractic care to manage pain.  It is an ideal adjunct to chiropractic care.  Acupuncture is a centuries-old healing procedure which focuses on the integrity of bodily systems and not specific conditions.  It is a form of holistic healing. And it can be used to treat arthritis, tendinitis, GI disorders, anxiety, musculoskeletal conditions, and acute/ chronic pain among others.

2. Reduce inflammation

Acupuncture can help reduce inflammation in the body. It can help with a wide range of inflammatory conditions.  This includes acute inflammation from sports injuries or falls, to autoimmune disorders, and chronic inflammatory conditions. Scientists are researching how acupuncture reduces inflammation in the body. Simply put, acupuncture releases muscle tightness, improves circulation, and activates your natural opioids that help reduce pain. Acupuncture is said to alter physiological processes in the body via the brain and nervous system.

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3. Reduce Stress and Anxiety

Firstly, acupuncture has been shown to help reduce stress and anxiety. Even one treatment has been shown to be of benefit. Additionally, with a full course of care, the benefits have been shown to last many months to a year.

Secondly, Acupuncture helps to reduce stress by balancing the sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous system. So Chronic stress can create havoc in your body. It can disrupt hormonal balance, which can influence everything else in your body. It can cause mood swings, thyroid issues, immune problems, and even fertility issues. Therefore, acupuncture can be part of a complete and holistic treatment plan to manage any disorder.

Lastly, not only can Acupuncture help you reduce stress, it can help improve your mood. 

4. Increase Energy

Acupuncture re-energizes you. It restores your body by balancing your meridian pathways. Also, acupuncture has successfully helped insomnia patients.  Of course, getting enough sleep is important for your energy level.  Similarly, if you are not in pain or fighting an ailment you will be able to exercise more regularly.  Regular exercise is important for your health and overall wellness. In conclusion, acupuncture will not only increase your energy, but helps your ability to perform physical activity.

Therefore, many athletes utilize acupuncture services to perform better and reduce exercise soreness and prevent injuries. Indeed, Acupuncture is being utilized by more and more professional and amateur athletes. Athletes have used acupuncture to help with injury recovery and pain management.

Meiri Chiropractic in West Palm Beach offers Acupuncture for the whole body. Schedule an appointment for chiropractic, acupuncture or both.  It all depends on your health goals, ailments and healing response. Schedule a holistic treatment for you or your loved ones for the whole body or specific condition by calling 561-253-8984 today.

This post is about Chiropractic West Palm Beach: Acute Locked Low Back Syndrome.  Symptoms include lateral (moving sideways) antalgia (leaning away from the side of pain).  In other words, you won’t be able to straighten out while standing, sitting or lying.  Moreover, it may have come on without any warning to you.  Typically, you will experience severe pain especially when trying to stand up after sitting.  So movement will be extremely difficult. If you have Acute Locked Low Back Syndrome, Chiropractic can provide relief! We’ve got some great information to share below.

Chiropractic West Palm Beach: Causes of Acute Locked Low Back Syndrome

Acute locked back syndrome can have many causes.  These can include multiple underlying biomechanical and musculoskeletal causes.

Muscle Spasm

A muscle spasm of the low back muscles may be the culprit. For example, the quadratus lumborum muscle can be a cause. It is the deepest muscle of the lumbar spine (low back). And It runs from the pelvis to the last rib. It contracts while sitting, walking and standing.  Mishaps leading to acute muscle contraction are numerous.  They include trauma, structural inadequacies, visceral (organ) disease, emotional distress, and even exposure to cold.

Facet Joint Irritation 

A unilateral (one sided) facet joint irritation may be implicated. The facet joints become inflamed and may cause pain, soreness, stiffness and sometimes locking or imbrication (overlapping).  Your facet joints are on either side of the back of each vertebra of your spine. The vertebral bodies make up the bony building blocks of the spinal column. There are two facet joints at each level of the vertebral column (spinal column). Facet joints provide stability to the spinal column while allowing movement. Encased with capsules, the synovial fluid within protects and lubricates the facet joints.

Interarticular Block

What’s called an Interarticular (existing or acting between the adjacent surfaces of a joint) Block may occur. So a source of derangement of the posterior (back) joints is speculated to result from entrapment of joint meniscoids or synovial folds. The intra-articular meniscoids are leaflike fibroadipose (fatty fibrous tissue) folds of synovium (tissue lining the inner surface of joint capsules). These meniscoids are present in all of the joints of the spine. Entrapment of these meniscoids can cause acute locked low back syndrome. Specifically, the meniscoid can be pulled out of its resting position during flexion (forward bending). Indeed, it may even be a minor movement that causes the entrapment with associated muscle spasm.

Discal Entrapment

There may be discal entrapment. And the term ‘disc’ is short for ‘intervertebral disc’. The disc is essentially divided into two parts: (1) a central, softer jelly like inner nucleus pulposus and (2) an outer tougher, dense connective tissue (fibrocartilaginous) annulus fibrosus surrounding it. The discs separate the bones of the spine (vertebrae). An acute locked low back syndrome may be due to displacement of nuclear disc material (gelatinous core) into radial fissures of a deteriorating disc.  This can happen with bending on flexion.  Next, when you are trying to straighten out in extension, it’s impossible.  So attempting to return to an upright position illicits a painful response.

Chiropractic West Palm Beach: Acute Locked Low Back Syndrome and Proper Diagnosis

This is where a thorough exam is necessary as the separate scenarios above involve different treatment approaches!  Therefore, uncovering the underlying c differences between conditions is crucial.  It will lead to distinctions in therapy that might be necessary.  Lastly, a thorough exam is important to rule out other disease states or traumatic events that would contraindicate (make certain therapy inadvisable) certain chiropractic adjustive therapy.

Chiropractic West Palm Beach: Acute Locked Low Back Syndrome

Dr. Natalie Meiri, your chiropractor in West Palm Beach will examine you and come up with a treatment plan to get you better. You can get pain relief and function better with chiropractic care naturally.  Moreover, you can improve your health through regular chiropractic care.

If you have back pain due to Acute Locked Low Back Syndrome, call us today at 561-253-8984!  Ask to make an appointment or find out more about: Chiropractic West Palm Beach: Acute Locked Low Back Syndrome.

Chiropractor West Palm Beach: Intensive Care Versus Corrective Care

Chiropractor West Palm Beach: Intensive Care Versus Corrective Care is a blog about the different types of care programs typically available in a Chiropractor’s Office. 

Intensive Care is To START your healing and STOP your pain!

Intensive Care is for severe acute cases or chronic cases that have flared up.  For example, you may have been in a recent car accident, fallen or have sciatica that came on insidiously (came on gradually).  Furthermore, the case of sciatica could have started out as an ache in your back. Of course, you ignored it until it started radiating down your leg.  In summary, a history of recent trauma and acute condition or flare up requires intensive care which can be more frequent visits.

Chiropractor West Palm Beach: Intensive Care Versus Corrective Care-

How Did the Pain Start?

Firstly, over time your spine might have slowly lost its ability to move properly.  Moreover, this might have occurred without you even realizing it’s happening. Your muscles tightened, and you might have lost flexibility and mobility.

Secondly, you could get postural changes, muscle strength changes and a marked loss of movement. Evidently, most people won’t even notice these gradual changes. Then one day you turn the wrong way. And suddenly, you can’t bend or even walk. Nevertheless, the truth is, the symptoms you currently have now can be traced back to having started years ago.

Thirdly, you wait to be in pain and then seek pain relief. Unfortunately, a lot of people wait to be in pain before visiting the chiropractor.  And When a patient has acute pain, the goal is to reduce the pain and get them symptom free.

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Corrective Care

After intensive care, you may need corrective care.  So Now that your pain is gone, you can complete healing and protect against reinjury.  Not every case or condition needs corrective care.  However, many, many do.  It depends on many factors (e.g. overall health, activity level, previous history, degeneration in joints etc). And only your chiropractor will address this after a thorough exam.  

Ultimately, corrective care aims to get you symptom free by removing poor joint function and any underlying neuromusculoskeletal (nervous, muscular and/or skeletal system) problems.  If you choose corrective care, you will be healthier and not relapse. Also, you will enjoy a more active lifestyle now and in the future after corrective care.  In fact, many patients come in for corrective care when they are not in pain currently.  At their initial visit, they relay that they have a condition which flares up once or twice a year.  After Corrective care, they report no more episodes of flare ups or exacerbations.

Corrective care requires an investment of your time and money into your health care.  Additionally, you need to fit your chiropractic care and other lifestyle changes into your schedule.  Indeed, it takes effort! However, many have avoided drugs, surgery and lead pain-free lives and function better afterwards.

Chiropractor West Palm Beach: Intensive Care Versus Corrective Care

Even one visit to a chiropractor can offer tremendous benefits. You do not have to keep visiting a chiropractor for life to maintain the benefits. However, many people do find that long-term treatment helps them to feel and function at their best. Moreover, if they are fighting chronic pain or another severe health condition, corrective care maybe necessary. Each patient is different. Some patients may require multiple treatments to resolve or stabilize their condition. Others may not. In conclusion, the chiropractor will recommend a treatment plan. The plan will outline the type and frequency of treatment recommended. 

Get started with chiropractic care! Call us to schedule an appointment for you at 561-253-8984 today.

When you are in pain, you may reach for 2 very effective natural modalities, cold or heat therapy.  But which one should you use when, and what’s the correct way?  That’s what this blog post, “Chiropractic West Palm Beach: Heat or Cold for Pain?” is about.

Cold/Ice therapy

Firstly, use cold therapy for acute injuries or conditions, where there is inflammation, swelling, or recent trauma. Moreover, acute injuries include sprains, strains, tendonitis and bruises.

Secondly, care for inflammation might include (P.R.I.C.E.) protection, rest, ice, and, if appropriate, compression and elevation. So applying cold to the area helps constrict blood vessels and reduces blood flow. Next, it decreases inflammation and prevents further swelling.  In summary, this will help alleviate pain.  Ice may even numb the sore area, acting as a local anesthetic.

Thirdly, you can use cold/ice packs and ice cubes in a plastic bag.  Indeed, even frozen peas in a bag can serve the same purpose. Finally, ice should not be applied directly to the skin. Always use a cloth or towel as a barrier to prevent frostbite.

How Long to Apply Ice and the Hunting Response

Applying ice for a longer period of time than 15-20 minutes will initiate the hunting response. Furthermore, the hunting response is a process of alternating vasoconstriction and vasodilation in extremitites exposed to cold. For example, when your body is exposed to cold, vasoconstriction minimizes heat loss. However, if the cold exposure isn’t stopped, your body does the Hunting Response. And your body will expand your blood vessels again. Of course, this will circulate warm blood to the colder areas of the body (e.g. fingers, toes, nose and ears). In conclusion, this happens to stop hypothermia and cold-related injuries from occurring.  Therefore, applying ice for longer than 15-20 minutes will actually cause swelling again. 

Heat Therapy

Firstly, heat is great for chronic muscle pain, stiffness and sore joints from osteoarthritis (wear and tear arthritis). Applying heat to an inflamed area will dilate the blood vessels and promote blood flow bringing more fluid into the area.  Therefore, it is not recommended during the acute (short, initial, severe) phase of injury. 

Secondly, heat is also psychologically soothing, which can enhance its analgesic properties. Heat relaxes muscles, which can relieve pain and improve flexibility.

Thirdly, heat can be applied using warm towels, heating pads, or warm baths. 

Fourthly, always use protection (such as a cloth or towel) between the heat source and your skin to prevent burns.

Finally, if you have circulatory, sensory issues or nerve damage, consult your doctor prior to using  heat or cold therapy. Alternatively, sometimes you may use heat and cold therapy together.  Again, speak to your doctor about what’s the best therapy.

Chiropractic West Palm Beach: Heat or Cold Therapy for Pain?

Are you looking to get out of pain fast, perform better and reduce injuries? Dr. Natalie Meiri, a chiropractor in West Palm Beach can definitely help you! Call 561-253-8984 today to make an appointment or to find out more about Chiropractic West Palm Beach: Heat or Cold Therapy for Pain?