The gluteal muscles are the power house of the human body. The muscle group is comprised of gluteus maximus, medius and minimus, controlling the major movements of the hip. Each muscle has a vital function:
Hip Extension: Vital for gait (walking)
Pelvic stability
Controlled movement of the hip
Power for propulsion
Stability and alignment of the pelvis during single-leg movement
What if the role of the Gluteus Medius (GM)?
GM serves to maintain pelvic alignment during single-leg activities such as jumping, kicking and running. When you consider that over 50% of the gait cycle is spent on one leg, which can be increased by over a further 30% during running, it is easy to appreciate the importance of this muscle in a healthy, functioning body.
A weak GM can result in what is called the ‘Trendelenburg Sign’or hip sag. This hip sag sounds relatively innocent, however repeated misalignment of the pelvis during gait can lead to other problems in the spine, knee and ankle. This not only increases risk of overuse injuries, incorrect tracking of the knee cap, poor transmission of impact forces and decreases the body’s ability to generate power during general and sporting activity.
How can chiropractic help?
Chiropractic treatment ensures that the entire body is in alignment allowing the pelvis to maintain optimal positioning, thus giving the glut muscles the best possible chance to fire properly.
If incorrect pelvic alignment is present, muscles such as the ITB and TFL tend to act as cable pulls. These muscles then take over as the primary lateral pelvic stabiliser, causing the GM to switch off. Patients with an inactive GM will begin to experience pain and dysfunction in the lower chain, including the lower back, hip, knee and ankle.
Changes in pelvic alignment alters the force vectors in the lower body. Here patients will often experience hamstring and hip flexor over activity, leading to changes in gait, posture and often low grade tears or injuries within these tissues. These changes in vectors cause joints throughout the body to overload, as well as increasing the chance of injury.
Chiropractors work closely with the spine to ensure optimum nerve firing and neurological function. By doing so, we can ensure that all nerve pathways from the brain and spinal cord are flowing uninterrupted, thus reducing the chances of muscular atrophy and inhibition.
Adjustments to the sacroiliac joint (part of the pelvis) provides a strong proprioceptive input which lets the body know where all of its joints and muscles are in space. This encourages joint centration and appropriate muscle tone. NB: When a patient has a repeated muscle problems, there will almost always be a joint alignment issue as well as a disconnect between the brain and muscle regarding the nerve supply, the so called “switching off” of the muscle. Trigenics Myoneural Medicine is an easy procedure we use to get the brain talking to the muscle again so recovery is far quicker. Many Olympians will use this form of treatment to enhance performance before an event, as simple minor changes in biomechanics can be the difference between a podium and non-podium finish.
How can I strengthen and switch on my gluts?
Single leg exercises with a practitioner prescribed gym program
Wall hip drops
Bridges on a yoga ball
Theraband clams
Crab steps
Resisted and Bulgarian lunges
Pilates, pilates and more clinical pilates
For more information and an assessment contact the staff at Longueville Road Chiropractic Centre for an appointment.
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Increase Performance, Decrease Recovery Time, Reduce Pain – Laser Therapy is the New Frontier in Sports Performance
For the last three years, Longueville Road Chiropractic Centre (LRCC) has been paving the way for sporting performance, recovery and pain modulation. Currently at the forefront of leading research, Low Level Laser Therapy (LLLT) has proven its effectiveness and power in enhancing performance and minimising tissue damage with results published in over 4000 articles in well-respected journals internationally, and one new paper daily is admitted to PubMed.
So what is LLLT?
LLLT is the application of low power laser beams, at three varying wavelengths, to enhance cellular function. This use of multiple wavelengths optimises absorption by saturating tissue levels and penetrating deeper. This absorption of light wave triggers a series of physiological changes, modulating cellular metabolism, stimulating immunity, reducing inflammation, accelerating tissue healing and dampening pain perception.
LLLT is currently used by a number of leading researching institutions, space exploration programs and high performance sports teams including, Chicago Bulls, Detroit Lions, San Francisco 49ers and Los Angeles Kings. Research is presently under way with the Argentina Rugby Team.
How does it work?
The absorbed energy emitted by the light wavelengths stimulates a series of metabolic events that enhance the body’s natural process at a cellular level. This increases blood flow and thus oxygen and nutrient supply to tissue, reduces inflammation and pain, as well as stimulate tissue regeneration at a faster rate. By stimulating tissue granulation, fibroblast and collagen production, tissue regeneration and healing of injured tissue occurs more efficiently.
However, not only does this reduce recovery time, LLLT has been shown to enhance performance and muscle recovery as well as prevent injury. The increased release of ATP, the body’s primary energy supply, allows the athlete to work at a higher intensity for longer periods. As such the laser can be used throughout any stage of training; Preparation, Performance or Recovery.
How LLLT can help assist in Performance & Recovery
Preparation
Your training is intense, and happens over an extended period of time. Your body has to get stronger, faster, more agile as you peak for competition. Use laser before training to relieve any muscle-skeletal pain, reduce future muscle fatigue. The LLLT also has a protective effect on the muscles, minimizing oxidative damage and protecting against fatigue, as supported by the literature.
Performance
As an athlete you know how much a split second counts. Studies have shown improved performance by 20% (over placebo) during the activity and a noted increase in performance by 10-15% after 48 hours. Another study found that 80% of all pitchers were able to improve total pitch count (p<0.023) by 16% with one active laser session that lasted less than 5 minutes!
Recovery
You require your body to bounce back for the next session, often which is in as little as 24 hours, or in the case of cross fit less then an hour. Your next competition could be in less than an hour, or it could be a week or month away. LLLT provides powerful relief for acute issues such as spasms, strains and sprains, as well as more chronic repetitive stress. The laser will speed up the recovery, reduce muscle fatigue and gain the strength and stamina to get to the next training session quicker, with studies showing 300% faster recovery (than a placebo).
Pain
Unfortunately pain is more often then not a component of any intense training program. LLLT provides natural relief by dampening substance P, the chemical controlling pain perception within us.
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If you’re like most experienced sports injury practitioners, you’ve been recommending Rest, Ice, Compression and Elevation (RICE) for acute injuries since the seventies.
Today we see our sports heroes on TV in the change rooms after the game packed with ice or elite athletes telling us how their gruelling training programs include regular ice baths.
Rest put to Rest
But increasingly the tide has been turning against the gold standard of acute injuries. Professor Gordon Waddell put the boot into Rest many years ago when he called for bed rest to be put to rest, in his book The Back Pain Revolution (Churchill Livingstone 1990). He said, “It should come as no surprise that there was never any scientific evidence to support the dogma of bed rest for back pain.”
Now, the father of RICE, Dr Gabe Mirkin, sports medicine guru who coined the term RICE back in 1978 in his best-selling Sports medicine book believes rest and ice therapy delays recovery from injuries.
Ice out in the Cold
He points out in a recent post (drmirkin.com) that a systematic review of 22 RCT’s (Am J Sports Med 2004) found very little evidence that ice and compression over compression alone, had any significant effect on outcomes although ice plus exercise marginally helped to heal ankle sprains.
They concluded that “the strength of the evidence supporting the use of cryotherapy in managing an acute soft tissue injury is generally poor.” And the results of their study showed that “…the benefits are currently restricted to pain relief.”
The truth about inflammation
With powerful TV ads by pharmaceutical companies cleverly portraying inflammation as the bad guy, we need to remind our patients that inflammation is good. Not too much and not too little but healing needs inflammation. Passive recovery may lead to an excessive inflammatory response (too much) which can delay recovery leading to excessive fibrotic scar tissue. As this excessive scar tissue matures over the following weeks and months, the devastating capsular contracture effects take place, setting up the next injury.
Cryotherapy or anything that reduces the inflammatory cascade significantly (too little) such as cortisone and NSAIDs can delay healing, also with long term consequences.
The inflammatory cascade is where inflammatory cells rush to the injured tissue to start the healing process—a natural response beginning instantly after an injury.
It starts with the migration of leukocytes to the site of injury. Within two hours and over the next twenty-four, neutrophils— which make up nearly 80% of the white blood cells and form the essential front of our innate immune system—begin their work.
Macrophages (Greek for big eaters) arrive the next day and set up camp for the next two weeks. Both neutrophils and macrophages contribute to tissue degradation through the release of reactive oxygen species and production of pro-inflammatory cytokines such as interleukin 1-beta (IL-1β), interleukin 6 (IL-6), and tumour necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-α).
Ice Keeps Healing Cells from Entering Injured Tissue
The message from Dr Mirkin now is that “Applying ice to injured tissue causes blood vessels near the injury to constrict and shut off the blood flow that brings in the healing cells of inflammation (Knee Surg Sports Traumatol Arthrosc, published online Feb 23, 2014).”
The blood vessels did not open again for many hours after the ice was applied. This decreased blood flow can cause the tissue to die and can even cause permanent nerve damage.
Mirkin says that if you have to apply ice, “You could apply the ice for up to 10 minutes, remove it for 20 minutes, and repeat the 10-minute application once or twice. There is no reason to apply ice more than six hours after you have injured yourself.”
Lasers trump Ice & NSAIDs.
At the same time, cryotherapy is being questioned, cold laser or low-level laser therapy (LLLT) is seen as the next breakthrough in acute injury care. Almeida et al (Lasers Medical Science, March 2014) discovered that LLLT is more powerful than cryotherapy and NSAIDs.
Surprisingly, the researchers concluded, “… in the present study, two of the widely used treatments in the acute phase (Ice and NSAIDs) after muscle trauma do not show significant effects compared to the nontreated injured group.”
NSAIDs risk Ligament Damage
It’s no secret that Non-Steroidal Antiinflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) have been the treatment of choice for ligament injuries for many years. They deliver short term gains by (excessively) blocking the inflammatory cascade but can lead to poor soft tissue healing and eventual osteoarthritis.
In a study by Slatyer (Am J Sports Med 1997) found Australian military recruits with acute ankle sprains were given Piroxicam (Feldene). While the recruits were able to resume training more rapidly, over the longterm, those in the piroxicam-treated group experienced an increase in ankle instability, as evidenced by a positive anterior drawer sign.
M.E.L.T Injuries Away
Today, our patients need new solutions particularly those devotees of ice and NSAIDs. A holistic approach to the healing of ligaments for long term strength and flexibility is Movement, Elevation, Laser and Taping (MELT).
M is for Movement/Mobilisation
Hauser et al point out in their excellent review article, Ligament Injury and Healing (Open Rehab Journal 2013) a study by Kerkhoff et al, on ankle ligament injuries in 2,184 adults. They concluded that functional treatment involving the motion of the affected joint was a statistically significant strategy for healing the injured ligament, compared with immobilizing the joint.
Patients who treated their ligament injuries with motion were able to return to work quicker and resume sports activity sooner than those who were immobilized, and had less objective instability, as shown by stress X-ray.
E is for Elevation
Elevation is a natural way of decreasing the swelling of an acute injury. The rate-limiting factor or bottleneck in lymphatic drainage are the lymph nodes.
L is for Laser/Lymphatics
Low-Level Laser Therapy particularly applied with a super pulsed cold laser such as the ACTIV™ to lymph nodes proximal to the injured tissue can dilate and improve motoricity of lymphatic drainage. Piller et al (Laser Therapy 1995) discovered lymphoedema patients had 17-40% less oedema with a super pulsed laser.
Secondly, apply the ACTIV™ cold laser to the injured tissue for 3-5 minutes for stronger, more uniform and more flexible repair tissue (figure 1). LLLT has been shown to increase ATP synthesis triggering an immunological chain reaction resulting in macrophage and fibroblast activation.
T is for Taping (Kinesio)
Apply a good Kinesio tape. Stretching is good and Rocktape™ is made with 180% elasticity and a bias in its weave allowing a stretch in one direction and not the other. This creates a biomechanical ‘lift’ of the skin from the soft tissues underneath, allowing more blood to flow for optimum healing.
a. Passive Recovery b. Cryotherapy c. Low Level Laser Therapy
Figure a. Passive recovery animals presenting areas of muscle necrosis (white arrow), oedema, and inflammatory infiltrate (black arrow). b. Cryotherapy group presented areas of oedema and inflammatory cells (black arrow). c. The LED therapy group did not present muscle fibre necrosis or oedema.
Figure 1. a. Passive recovery animals presenting areas of muscle necrosis (white arrow), oedema, and inflammatory infiltrate (black arrow). b. Cryotherapy group presented areas of oedema and inflammatory cells (black arrow). c. The LED therapy group did not present muscle fibre necrosis or oedema.
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Have you ever had a tight hamstring, or one calf muscle tighter than the other? Why am I sore always in my shoulders if I do a certain exercise? This generally is not to do with overworking in the gym one particular muscle but the alignment of the bones that the muscle attaches to. Think of your muscles as a system of pulleys and cables. Imagine the Leaning Tower of Pisa with those cables holding it up and the different tensile strengths the individual cables hold. They are of course loading differently from each other. This too happens in a human skeleton.
One of the many postural problems in the community is forward head carriage. Unfortunately, loading the spine for long periods of time will progress to spinal degeneration. This includes other postural distortions not just the forward head position. It can be a slightly tilted pelvis, a flat foot, an old knee injury, a slight tilt sideways of the head on the neck, or shoulders too rounded.
Forward head posture leads to long term muscle strain, disc herniations, arthritis and pinched nerves. –Mayo Clinic, November 3, 2000
Loss of the cervical curve (i.e. loss of normal spinal posture), stretches the spinal cord 5-7 centimeters, and causes disease.–Dr. A. Breig, Neuro-surgeon, winner of the Nobel Prize
For every 2.5 cm of forward head posture, it can increase the weight of the head on the spine by an additional 4.5 kg
17.5 cm of forward head carriage = an extra 18 kilograms that your neck and shoulder muscles carry.
We have often seen forward positioning up to 25cm. That is an extra 45 kg that your body has to carry.
We have used the neck as an example as it is easy to understand, however, this can occur throughout your body structure as previously mentioned. If you have knee pain and have never had a direct trauma to your knee, the problem can actually come from pelvic alignment. Pelvic alignment issues can easily arise from a bad work station or even sitting for long periods. The knee is the middle joint so anything out of alignment above will load the knee more than it should aggravating the bony structures and nerves supplying it.
Interestingly, postural changes or altered movement patterns affects the neurology of muscle function. Any loading change can effectively “switch off” the muscle, making it far more susceptible to injury.
Chiropractors operate like fine tuning a wheel alignment in a car. Obviously it is a lot more complicated than this as we are essentially neurology based, however, it does make a good analogy. With incorrect foot, pelvic,or neck movement for example due to an imbalance, the body will load too much causing over or under active musclefunction, leading to injury and eventually wear and tear. Pain unfortunately follows.
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Cold Laser is also known as Low Level Laser Therapy (LLLT) or Photobiomodulation
This is what it does
Boosts oxygen levels, activates natural pain relievers, reduces swelling and inflammation, speeds the healing process.
Who uses LLLT
NASA; over 3000 hospitals; 60 professional sports teams in the US including ice hockey, basketball, soccer, football, baseball teams; French, Canadian, US and Russian National teams use it as do US Air, Army and Navy Bases; the US Veteran Administration; Harvard Medical School; Liverpool and Man United football teams; and all forces in the UK. It was used on the MIR space station. The list keeps growing. It was introduced commercially in the 80s for cosmonauts as it is a safe, light weight, non-invasive, low energy device providing relief and healing for take-off, docking and re-entry trauma.
How it works
It is not a heat therapy, but more like photosynthesis in plants using low intensity lasers and light emitting diodes (LEDs). When LLLT is placed over injured, aged or sick cells, the light energy is absorbed exerting a chemical change. This stimulates the damaged cells to increase their energy production which is used to transform the damaged cells into healthy active cells.
When an injury occurs, the sharp pain usually eases off and you can be left with a constant dull ache. The damaged cells are then replaced with scar tissue. Targeting LLLT on scar tissue ‘softens’ fibrotic nodules of the scar tissue. This restores normal local circulation, allowing nerves to regenerate. Using LLLT over blood vessels has been shown to release more oxygen to damaged tissues. LLLT can stimulate parts of the brain to produce natural pain relievers (endorphins) improving total body blood flow. Applying cold laser to your body’s lymphatic drainage system will help move inflammation out and into the circulation. Not only can LLLT soften already formed scar tissue, it can reduce the formation of scar tissue. It creates growth factor secretion for collagen production.
Professional sports teams in the United States use cold laser as their “go to” treatment. Also, when a small device can increase blood flow by 10%, and decrease muscle fatigue by 87% many athletes are using it to enhance sports performance, and it is drug free!
6000 research papers have already been submitted to PubMed, one of the leading medical research libraries in the world, and approximately 200 a year are added. Many of those research papers are a result of over 48,000 patient treatment cases.
What has it been helping?
Reduction of inflammation and swelling, non-healing wounds e.g diabetic ulcers, traumatic brain injuries, any musculoskeletal pain and injury, neuropathic pain, lymphoedema, orthodontic pain, stimulation of stem cells, sports performance, ulcerations from chemotherapy (oral mucositis), skin rejuvenation, post–operative pain, depression, chronic pulmonary obstructive disease, aged macular degeneration, and acne.
Examples of musculoskeletal conditions: REDUCTION of scar tissue in old scars and recent. PREVENTION of scar tissue formation in new injuries and post operatively, REDUCES neck pain in acute and chronic cases (proven more effective than non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs)), SIGNIFICANT RELIEF and recovery from muscle soreness, SOOTHES knee osteoarthritis, REDUCES swelling from ankle sprain, RELIEF from back and leg pain.
We have been using a super pulsed laser for a few years now, enabling greater depth of penetration. It is also the only laser in the world with TARGET technology and TENS alerting us to the presence of tissue change below the skin, calculating the dose for accurate effective treatment and the reduction of pain. Our Sweep technology prevents tissue adaption.
Treatment time varies according to the condition being treated. It may last 1-2 minutes per point and up to 30 minutes in total. The treatment must be administered directly on the skin for better efficacy. You can feel a soothing warmness or tingling (if TENS is used). Patients generally experience results after 2 to 5 treatments. Super Pulsed light can reach up 10-13 cm deep.
Many injuries prevent a person getting back to therapeutic exercise. LLLT enables you to get back to exercise faster. According to new research, a small dose of laser therapy is superior to cryotherapy (ice) and non-steroidal anti-inflammatories without the harmful side effects. MELT (Mobilise Elevate Laser Tape) not RICE (Rest Ice Compression Elevation) is the proven way to treat for faster/better results.
How it can help you?
Decrease inflammation, improve lymphatic drainage, spondylosis, tendonitis, relieve muscle and joint pain, reduce swelling, soften scar tissue and prevent scar formation, improve skin condition, relieve stiffness and improve range of motion, facial rejuvenation, acne, eczema, psoriasis, faster wound healing, relieve muscle spasm, improve microcirculation and immune response, increase blood flow and assist healing, promote relaxation of muscle tissue, venous insufficiency, varicosities and Raynaud’s, relief from fibromyalgia, improve tissue repair, increase sports recovery time, increase sports performance, injury prevention, relief from acute and chronic conditions including arthritis.
YES, IT SEEMS AUSTRALIA HAS BEEN LEFT BEHIND ON THE BENEFITS OF LLLT FOR SOME TIME NOW.
NO HEAT NO HARM JUST HEALING GETTING YOU BACK ON YOUR FEET AND KEEPING YOU THERE LLLT is muscle, heart, cell, eye, nervous system protective.
Join the rest of the world. COME JOIN THE COLD LASER REVOLUTION.
TEL: 94183930 Longueville Road Health Centre or email us reception@lrcc.com.au
For an amazing insight into LLLT and all its wonderful benefits and far reaching applications, watch this incredible presentation to the United Nations Global Health Summit.
How It Works When Cold Laser is placed over sick or injured cells, the light energy is absorbed. This stimulates the damaged cells to increase their energy production which is used to transform the damaged cells into healthy active cells. When an injury occurs, the sharp pain usually eases off and one can be left with a constant dull ache. The damaged cells are then replaced with scar tissue. If left untreated, the damaged tissue becomes harder and can ‘choke off’ the blood and lymph vessels. If the nerve tissue is damaged, wasting of the brain’s grey matter can occur (5-11% with patients with chronic back pain equivalent to 10-20 years of natural brain ageing).
Targeting Cold Laser on scar tissue ‘softens’ fibriotic nodules of the scar tissue. This restores normal local circulation, allowing nerves to regenerate. Using Cold Laser over blood vessels has been shown to release more oxygen to damaged tissues. Cold Laser Therapy can stimulate parts of the brain to produce natural pain relievers(endorphins) and may activate the relaxation response improving total body blood flow. Applying Cold Laser therapy to your body’s lymphatic drainage system may move inflammation out and into the circulation. Not only can Cold Laser Therapy soften already formed scar tissue, it can reduce the formation of scar tissue!!
If you have only read the blue highlighted field of this article, you can understand how this is such an amazing advance in healing available and you could possibly understand why professional sports teams in the United States use Cold Laser as their ‘go to’ treatment. Also, when a small device can increase blood flow by 10%, many athletes are using it to enhance sports performance and it is drug free!
6000 research papers have already been submitted to PubMed and approximately 200 a year are added. Many of those research papers are a result of over 48 000 patient treatment cases. Research shows that a certain treatment plan/protocol has a greater treatment outcome. The treatment plan is the one we apply here at LRCC.
Catherine has been trained in the treatment protocol and use of Cold Laser. The decade rule usually applies for pain relief, in other words, if you are in your 50’s five treatments will be generally required. Tissue repair treatments follow this and will vary in treatment numbers according to the level of tissue injury.
Some Examples of What Cold Laser Therapy can do for You
Reduction of scar tissue in old and recent scars
Prevention of scar tissue formation in new injuries and post operatively
Reduces neck pain in acute and chronic cases
Significant relief and recovery from muscle soreness
Soothes knee osteoarthritis
Reduces swelling from ankle sprain
Relief from back and leg pain
Prevents Oral Muscositis (following effects of chemotherapy)
The laser we use is the Multi Radiance Medical MR4. Multi Radiance Medical is an international corporation with a presence in over 30 countries. It has been serving customers for 20 years with leading edge therapeutic laser technology. Yes, it seems Australia has been left behind on the benefits of Cold Laser Therapy for some time now.
Book an appointment now so you can benefit from Cold Laser Therapy. Phone 9418 3930
Scar tissue prevention and reduction, pain relief, faster healing…. getting you back on your feet quicker.
If any of you have looked on our Longueville Road Chiropractic Facebook site you would have stumbled across many articles on the benefits of coconut oil.
Firstly, for any high temperature cooking, this is the oil you use as others will degrade. Olive oil is fantastic for low temperatures and salad dressings but does break down at high heat.
Coconut oil is made up of predominantly Medium Chain Fatty Acids (MCFA’s). These are made up of Caprylic, Capric, Lauric and Myristic acids. All these demonstrate anti-viral, anti-fungal and anti-microbial properties. Lauric acid has the greatest anti-viral activity. Caprylic acid the most potent yeast-fighting. Quality coconut oil made from mature coconuts, organic virgin and raw will have the higher MCFA. A study in the journal “Neurobiology of Ageing” determined that coconut oil MCFA’s improved cognitive function among older folks with memory problems and even Alzheimer’s disease. So a teaspoon a day…..
Proposed benefits: Increase your energy, detox your body, eliminate food cravings, assist in thyroid function, increase metabolism, antioxidant, enhance your immunity, beautify your skin and hair, hormone balance, support weight loss, whiten teeth… (Quite a list don’t you think?)
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90% of the information we receive into the body from the outside world (proprioception) we receive as a result of muscle spindles (the tiny little nerve measurements of movement in our muscles). The chiropractic adjustment primarily affects these muscle spindles .The treatment switches on the nerves in these spindles that then send information to the brain (mid brain to be more specific) for postural stability, that is, keeping you in the upright position .
Basically, the adjustment amplifies the proprioceptive/information feedback of body position. The adjustment also has an analgesic effect by blocking the pain pathways, which is of course why most people come to see us.
We utilize a lot of postural correction techniques including traction particularly to the cervical/neck spine because the neck muscles are a massive “organ’ to balance..
For example, there are 242 muscle spindles per gram of muscle fibre in one of the upper neck muscles attached to the skull versus 2 muscle spindles per gram in the trapezius muscle (that muscle that sits on top of the shoulders). This becomes a great issue for the elderly because as the midbrain area declines with age as does the vision centre, the neck is relied upon for postural control and stability. If the neck has degenerated/worn, it becomes a great problem.
Symptoms of dizziness, unsteadiness and visual disturbances can result of abnormal eye-neck coordination.
Even slightly enriching information/muscle spindle activity in the neck by way of a chiropractic adjustment can prevent a lot of elderly injuries. All procedures performed are modified to age and body type. A lot of elderly adjustments are by instrumentation only utilising a low amplitude adjusting instrument.
Basically, the adjustment increases the responsiveness of the neurological system. Which is of course Good for all ages!
O.K, now about the limbic system..the “feel good” section of the brain. The limbic system is thought to have connections with the above mentioned balance centre of the brain. Have you ever felt a greater sense of wellbeing after treatment to your spine (especially the neck)? A research paper by Balaban and Thayer are looking at the association of how neck dysfunction could produce anxiety.
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If you ever get blood work done to check out cholesterol, make sure the GP orders LDL as overall cholesterol is meaningless. Please refer to the attached article at the bottom of the page for a thorough explanation. The article will tell you about the side effects of taking statin drugs including muscle aches, diabetes risk, sexual dysfunction ..etc…
Dr Ross Walker, Cardiologist even suggests that instead of taking statin drugs, take Vitamin B3 instead, as well as lose weight, eat better and be happy! Of course!
It is also important to know that if you do take statin drugs, supplementation of Coenzyme Q10 is very important. Statins block the pathway that is involved in the biosynthesis of cholesterol and coenzyme Q10, an important co-factor involved in cellular energy production. In another word, statins deplete your body of CoQ10.
There are suggestions that coenzyme Q10 depletion may play a central role in the muscle pains and dysfunction of statin users. There is research coming about that statins cause diabetes. Statins also impair the function of all sterols, including cholesterol and Vitamin D, all your sex hormones, cortisone and dolichols (keeps the inside of your cell coatings/membranes healthy..Odds are greater than 100 to 1 that if you’re taking a statin, you don’t really need it. The subgroup that needs it is those who have a genetic defect called familial hypercholesterolemia.
Other research suggests that red rice yeast (guggulipids), in addition to reducing both total and LDL cholesterol also lowers triglyceride levels. It works like a conventional lipid-lowering statin drug (but it is NATURAL). Metagenic ( lipoplex product) and Bio-ceuticals practitioner supplements we stock have Red Rice and CoQ10 products.
I recently posted an article on our LRCC Facebook site by Dr Dwight Lundell, a past Chief of Surgery of the Cardiac Care Centre Arizona. He is the founder of Healthy Humans Foundation. He says the problem isn’t cholesterol but inflammation causing a change in blood vessel walls enabling cholesterol to lodge. So, get rid of the inflammation and you will get rid of the cholesterol problem.
“Since we now know that cholesterol is not the cause of heart disease, the concern about saturated fat is even more absurb today”. “The cholesterol theory led to the no-fat, low-fat recommendations that in turn created the very foods now causing an epidemic of inflammation…mainstream medicine made a terrible mistake when it advised people to avoid saturated fat in favour of foods high in omega-6 fats. What you can do is choose whole foods your grandmother served and not those from the grocery aisles filled with manufactured foods..return to foods closer to their natural state..animal fats contain less than 20% omega-6 and are much less likely to cause inflammation than the supposedly healthy oils labelled polyunsaturated..forget the “science” that has been drummed into your head for decades….That science is weak..”
Please go to our Facebook page for more information from Dr Lundell or visit his website.
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At the moment our chiropractic clinic continues to operate as an essential service, with rigorous sanitisation and infection control procedures in place.
