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by Dr. Brandon Chorney | Nov 12, 2019 | Health Articles
Playoff Season is Here! If you are a sports fan, you know that the excitement of any sport's season can have our bodies filled with adrenaline and eager to relive the good ole days.
If we have remained active and are in a conditioned state, the activities we attempt will be less taxing on our bodies, ...
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by Dr. Brandon Chorney | Nov 5, 2019 | Health Articles
Ice or Heat? When you suffer from an injury or are in need of pain relief, this question arises quite frequently. Most often apply the solution that our mothers gave us or what our best friend who also suffered from the same the injury or pain did.
While some say ice is better for your pain, others claim that heat will do the trick. But how can you tell which is more appropriate for the type of injury you’ve sustained or pain you are feeling? And what is the best way to apply ice or heat?
With many differing and conflicting opinions, let us help clarify what is the most effective way to use ice and/or heat to help you return to the best of health.
Nature Knows Best
Safe, natural and effective pain relief is found in ice and heat. When ice and heat are applied correctly, it will offer you natural and effective pain relief to precisely affected area, unlike pain medication.
Pain medication has to be swallowed, digested and assimilated which can affect your entire body. Unfortunately, most often leaving a trail of potential side-effects.
Ice It Down
With an acute or new injury, ice is very effective for relieving pain and reducing inflammation. The icy cold temperature numbs the area to reduce pain, slows down other cell functions and bleeding which in turn prevents bruising and swelling from the waste and fluid build-up, helping to minimize further tissue damage and scar tissue formation.
If you want to numb pain fast and most efficiently, invest in a gel pack and have it frozen and ready inside your freezer. If you are desperate and are nowhere near a frozen gel pack, grab some frozen peas and mold the package with maximum contact to your skin.
Fire It Up
Heat is best used for stiffness of joints, to relieve muscle spasm and chronic pain, such as chronic neck or back pain, it helps increase blood flow during the repair stage of an injury. Greater blood flow means more oxygen and nutrients to your cells along with the removal of waste materials.
With heat, muscles relax and allow you to move freely, allowing for increased flexibility and facilitating proper stretching of damaged tissue. Remember to always use a barrier between the heat and your skin, such as a cloth or towel to prevent burns. Heat can be applied with a thermal gel pack or simply a small warm wet hand towel.
When To Use Ice and Heat
When one or more of your muscles go into spasm, your body reacts to this “injury” by sending an increase of white blood cells to the site. These extra white blood cells can interfere with the red blood cells’ routine tasks of carrying oxygen and nutrients to the injured area. Waste products also stagnate and accumulate in the affected tissue.
A lack of oxygen to the site can also stimulate a “pain-spasm cycle” where the nerves send “pain” signals to your brain. In response, your brain contracts the muscles near the injury to close off blood supply and prevents swelling. So starts the vicious cycle that can lead to more spasms and more pain. Even worse, unless the cycle is broken, it can continue for years.
Best of Both
One of the best and easiest ways to break this cycle is to alternate ice and heat. Both ice and heat help shut down the nerves that fire the pain signals. When the pain messages can’t reach the brain, muscles don’t contract and constrict blood flow to the injured area. Applying ice and heat consistently for a sufficient period of time can help break the pain-spasm cycle.
Note of Caution
If heat is inappropriately utilized during the inflammatory phase of healing, an increase in blood flow to the already swollen, injured area often results in an increase of pain. A rule of thumb should be as long as the pain is present, ice is usually safer and more effective.
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by Dr. Brandon Chorney | Oct 24, 2019 | Health Articles
You do not have to be a great mathematician like our favorite characters in The Big Bang Theory to view our world with the simple applications such as the laws of mathematics and physics. We should understand that every action has a reaction and our world prefers to be balanced. We solve life's equations for ...
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by Dr. Brandon Chorney | Oct 17, 2019 | Health Articles
Grab your sneakers and a light sweatshirt and let's get walking! While some fitness enthusiasts relentlessly seek out the latest, trendiest exercise crazes, many others are returning to good, old-fashioned walking to help them feel great and get into shape without becoming a member of an expensive gym. Best of all except for a good ...
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by Dr. Brandon Chorney | Oct 10, 2019 | Health Articles
Do sugary treats make you cackle with joy and send spells of disdain towards your waistline? Unfortunately, one of our favorite candy-filled holidays is upon us, as the retail world likes to remind us. As in all ghoulish fairy tales, the wicked witch ensnares us with tantalizing sugar laden tricks that do not fool our ...
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by Dr. Brandon Chorney | Oct 3, 2019 | Health Articles
We very often hear people talk about “getting sick.” I would like to suggest that it is more of a case of you “doing sick.”
Sickness, disease, a cold or the flu are each far more related to what choices you make each day. Bad luck, and “catching a bug,” are not really what happens. After all, people around you often do not “catch” the same bug that you did, even though they touched the same door knobs and breathed the same air.
The secret here lies in your immune system. If it’s working right, you can breathe in dangerously bad germs all day long and not get sick.
The Secret To A Healthy Success
One secret to your over health success is your immune system. Your immune system has an enormous role in your health that it can affect every cell in your body. Your superhero immune system must not only protect you from coughs and colds but also to fight against cancer, repair damaged joints and regenerate properly aiding in the slowing of the aging process.
Let’s Take Action!
This month let us all commit to making ourselves a little healthier by choosing one or more of these healthy habits to harvest the rewards of an incredibly healthy fall season.
Rake In The Benefits With These Great Tips
- Sleep at least seven hours each night: Better sleep means a healthier immune system. Remember our brain and body recover from the day’s stresses while we sleep.
- Get Adjusted: Have you and your family’s spine and nervous system checked because your immune system is run by your central nervous system. Chiropractic kids are freakishly healthy — This is one great reason why!
- Avoid Sugar and Snacks: Especially sugary, salty or fried foods, or foods with pesticides or preservatives in them. Limit the added sugars where you can. Steer your family towards fruit and vegetables instead. Get creative and save time with power smoothies.
- Reduce Dairy: Try using almond or rice milk instead. Take any child with asthma or ear infections off of dairy, and they improve – just about every time. Add in some adjustments and the healing is even faster.
- Regular Exercise: Make sure you and your kids exercise each day. Want to make it one step better? Add a little workout in the morning before school or work that is fun. It will get your lymphatic system moving which makes for a healthier body.
- Avoid Medications and Let Fevers Ride: When you or your children do get colds, do not immediately lower the fever. When children have a fever, comfort, and love on them, and monitor them closely, but try not to break the fever. The fever is the body’s way of combating the “bug” and learning how to protect itself in the future from the unwanted invader. Far too commonly, we see that persons that use fever-reducing drugs often seem to have colds that last for a week or longer.
- Eat Breakfast Every Morning: That’s why they call it “breaking the fast,” so get your day started with a healthy meal.
Ready To Help!
Fantastic News! Chiropractic sits at the very top of that list! So do not limit Chiropractic care to aches and pains. This year make chiropractic part of you and your family’s wellness strategy.
Our expert team is ready, willing, and able to help you! Please ask one of our team members all of your important questions so that we can ensure that you can prepare your immune system for the strongest fall season yet!
Ice or Heat? When you suffer from an injury or are in need of pain relief, this question arises quite frequently. Most often apply the solution that our mothers gave us or what our best friend who also suffered from the same the injury or pain did.
