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                                                     Understanding Spinal Adjustments to treat your Back Pain

Today, we want to discuss an essential aspect of chiropractic care in the treatment of back pain: spinal adjustments. Spinal adjustments, also known as spinal manipulation, are a technique used by chiropractors to change how the vertebrae of the spine move in relation to other vertebrae.

Why do we need a spinal adjustment?

When vertebrae become misaligned they move

Understanding Neck Pain and How Chiropractic Can Help

Do you often experience neck pain or stiffness? If so, you’re not alone. Neck pain is a common problem that affects many people. But why do we get neck pain in the first place?

There are many causes of neck pain, including poor posture, stress, injury, and underlying health conditions.
Poor posture can cause pain in several ways;
1. Misalignment of the spine; this places large loads and pressure on the muscles and joints.
2. Muscular strain; poor posture means the joints are out of balance

Sarcopenia Part 4; What can you do to treat sarcopenia?

We know what it is, we know why we can develop it, we know how it is diagnosed. Let’s discuss what we can do about it.

There are two burning questions about sarcopenia. Firstly, how do l not get it or even slow down its progression since prevention is always better than cure. Secondly, if l have sarcopenia can l reverse it? Good questions!

Good news! The answer is we can always reverse and rebuild muscle tissue.

Are there any magic bullets? What pill

Part 3; How is sarcopenia diagnosed?

Imaging techniques. The gold standard (best) method for identifying sarcopenia is using MRI or CT studies around the pelvis region where an accurate measure of the body can be taken in cross section. It compares the relative amounts of muscle to fat to establish whether or not you have lost muscle tissue. However its cost and availability reduce how practical it is for everyday usage.

DEXA (dual energy x-ray absorptiometry) is cheaper and more accessible than MRI and CT but is less accurate. Even cheaper

Part 2; Sarcopenia – why do we get it?
So from Part 1 we know that sarcopenia is a loss of muscle tissue.

It’s no surprise that the most common cause of sarcopenia is the aging process. In fact we start losing muscle somewhere in our 30’s. The rate of loss is dependent on many factors but most estimates suggest that we lose about 8% per decade. The trouble is that people with sarcopenia lose it even faster than this.

What are the risk factors for Sarcopenia?

Aging
Physical inactivity including lack of incidental exercise

Sarcopenia is a good word for a start. We all know what a coffin is. What we may not know is that in old Greek a coffin was known as a sarcophagus because it was a “flesheater”. From sarco meaning flesh and phagos meaning eating. A bit graphic but we can see the connection.

In sarcopenia the sarco still means flesh but the penia means poverty. So sarcopenia refers to the lack of flesh, in particular as we age.

We all lose muscle size as we get older in a process we call atrophy. Sarcopenia differs in that it is not

Sarcopenia is a good word for a start. We all know what a coffin is. What we may not know is that in old Greek a coffin was known as a sarcophagus because it was a “flesheater”. From sarco meaning flesh and phagos meaning eating. A bit graphic but we can see the connection.

In sarcopenia the sarco still means flesh but the penia means poverty. So sarcopenia refers to the lack of flesh, in particular as we age.

We all lose muscle size as we get older in a process we call atrophy. Sarcopenia differs in that it is not

Are you a backpain sufferer in Pascoe Vale?

Not only can it be just plain painful but confusing as well. It’s an ailment that has a lot of myth around it? Here are some of the common sentences we hear every day.
● “But l didn’t lift anything heavy”
● “My family all have back pain so that means l have to as well”
● “I have a sit/stand desk and my pain is still here, how come?”.
● “But l walk every day?”.
● “All l did was cough…bend over….reach for a pen”.

Chances are you

If you Brunswick residents need a chiropractor you may be asking a few questions?

1. Which of my back pain’s is the worst?

Answer; the one l have today. Any pain you had yesterday or last month can be remembered and described but never felt. Today’s pain is the one that needs to be dealt with.

2. How do l deal with my back pain?

Answer; Some of us like to “suffer in silence” but that doesn’t make much sense. Some of us like to take a magic pill but that has its limits.

Are you a Pascoe Vale resident with a headache?

As you well know it interferes with many elements of life. It can affect work and sleep, prevent you from enjoying life and may even turn you into a grump. No fun there! Luckily for the headache sufferers of Pascoe Vale the experienced chiropractors at Essendon Health and Sport are close by.

We have the training to determine whether your headache will respond to musculoskeletal care or if you require other forms of intervention. We will examine you, take

Neck pain ……as you well know….is a pain in the neck! It doesn’t discriminate either. Young or old, short or tall, office worker or manual labourer. Neck pain can affect anybody. Well help is at hand. The chiropractors at Essendon Health and Sport are waiting to help the neck pain of our Moonee Ponds residents and those of surrounding communities. Your neck pain can be caused by many things;

Injury through sport or motor vehicle accidents
Trips and falls
Poor sitting postures at desks or on the couch
Overuse of phones and tablets
Sleeping

Are you a backpain sufferer in Coburg? Is so this information can start you on the path of recovery. Just what are the causes of lower back pain?

1. Muscular strain Common symptoms include shooting pain worsened by movement, difficulty in performing normal daily tasks and a sharp increase in pain on changing from standing to sitting or from sitting to standing. Pain is commonly reduced by resting on your back with your knees bent.

2. Disc prolapse Common symptoms include severe lower back and/or leg

Wondering about a chiro in Brunswick? If you find yourself asking ‘what is chiropractic?’ or ‘what does a chiropractor do?’ then look no further. As chiro’s servicing Brunswick and surrounding suburbs we are happy to help.

Chiropractic is a drug and surgery free modality of treatment concerned with the diagnosis, management and prevention of disorders of the musculoskeletal system which obviously incorporates your spine and back.

Chiropractors work in partnership with their patients by utilising their clinical experience, and tailoring care to your needs and preferences.

Fact. We all are acutely aware that Covid-19 has changed life as we know it. How many of us have had lives turned upside down and inside out? The way we live and work has been heavily challenged and with that comes stress and pressure.

And with all that can come headaches as we sit at Zoom meetings for hours, figure out how to get our work online or keep the kids engaged with new school arrangements. Talk about a pain in the neck!

Moonee Ponds

Covid-19 has changed everything. You may have lost work, lost hours of work or be working from home. Life has changed and so have our habits of all aspects of life.

With this can often come back pain, particularly back pain that is hard to establish causality. So, for all the back pain sufferers in Brunswick let the chiro’s of Essendon Health and Sport help you out.

Our body becomes “fit” for the habits of our lives. This is the adaptation capacity that amazes us. Equally