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by Dr. Brandon Chorney | Oct 21, 2014 | Health Articles
The vision of success and victory are measured by the successes of not only receiving high marks but how consistently a team or program can achieve the high marks of success. As we cheer and stare in awe at our athletes we often look at the days well done performance without looking at all the factors that lead them to the top of the podium. Their training regiment now includes proper spinal alignments for optimal performance and to avoid or recover from injuries.
Health and Fitness Today
In today’s age of health and fitness, more and more of us are involved in sporting activities. Whether we are weekend warriors or professional athletes in training, proper nutrition and body-conditioning are needed for preventing injuries on and off the playing field.
If an injury does occur, it is vitally important to get proper care for any injury to prevent the development of chronic problems or permanent damage. One great option is Chiropractic. Chiropractors are trained in treating sports-related injuries, so they can advise you in the best way to heal an injury and how best to prevent it from recurring. In fact, early research has suggested chiropractic is the most effective conservative treatment option for athletes with back pain.
Being Prepared
The majority, if not all, sports are good, provided our bodies are prepared appropriately. Highly competitive sports follow rigorous training schedules that can be potentially dangerous. The best advice is to prepare your bodies and to learn to protect yourselves from sports related injuries before they happen.
Although today we think we are invincible. The following tips can help ensure you not miss a step when it comes to proper fitness, stretching, training and rest that the body needs to engage in sporting activities.
TIPS For Top Performance:
- Wear the proper equipment. Any sport can be dangerous if the equipment is not properly fitted. Make sure all equipment, including helmets, pads and shoes fit. Properly replace any of the equipment if it is damaged.
- Eat healthy meals. Make sure you are eating a well-balanced diet and do not skip meals. Avoid high-fat foods, such as candy bars and fast food. At home, avoid temptation and have fruit rather than cookies, and vegetables rather than potato chips.
- Proper Nutrition. Breakfast should be the most important meal of the day. Also, eating a healthy meal two to four hours before a practice or a game and another within one to two hours after a game or practice allows for proper replenishment and refuels the body.
- Drink water. Proper hydration is a key element to optimal fitness. Athletes in training need to drink even more than the average daily recommendation of eight to ten 8-ounce glasses of water.
- Calcium Enriched Diet. Make sure your diet has enough calcium included in your diet. The calcium is essential for healthy bones and reduces the risk of joint and muscle related injuries.
- Avoid sugar-loaded, caffeinated and carbonated drinks. Sports drinks can be a good source of replenishment for those engaged in long duration sports, such as track and field, but water is vital.
- Follow a warm-up routine. Proper warm-ups should include a slow jog and then followed by a sport-specific warm-up which should include the stretching all of the major muscle groups. Jumping rope and/or lifting small weights reduces the risk of torn or ripped muscles. Flexibility is also key when pushing to score that extra goal or make that critical play.
- Take vitamins daily. A multi-vitamin and Vitamin C are great overall choices. Others such as Vitamin B and amino acids may help reduce the pain from contact sports. Thiamine can help promote healing, but also consider Vitamin A to strengthen scar tissue.
- Avoid trendy supplements. Avoid the use of performance-enhancing supplements, such as creatine.
- Get plenty of rest. Eight hours of sleep is ideal. Lack of sleep and rest can decrease performance. Sluggishness, irritability and loss of interest could indicate that you are fatigued.
- Chiropractic Care. For proactive care or sports injury your body can benefit from the range of massage therapy , joint manipulation, to specific exercises that target problem areas and strengthen previously injured or weakened muscles and joints. Working in conjunction with a qualified trainer, your chiropractor can help you stay in great shape and prevent injuries
We Can Help
Our team is trained and licensed to treat the entire neuromusculoskeletal system and can provide advice on sports training, nutrition and injury prevention. So if you are ready to play like a pro call our office so we can help you train and heal like a pro!
by Dr. Brandon Chorney | Sep 25, 2014 | Health Articles
Are you ready to experience the great sleep you had as a child? Of course you are so read on to find out how you can set Mr. Sandman back on speed dial!
Trouble Sleeping?
If you have trouble getting quality sleep, rest assured you’re not alone. “Rest assured” is probably a poor reference here… However, surveys into sleeping problems reveal that between forty and sixty percent of adults don’t feel that they sleep as well as they should or would like to. It is often down to stress in a variety of fashions: money, family, work, aches and pains, general discomfort, poor quality pillow or bed, or a myriad of other reasons.
Good quality sleep is crucial to maintaining good health. It allows your body to recharge and regenerate, and gives your mind the break it needs to stay focused through the next day.
Many people who experience problems sleeping will resort to sleeping pills, but research shows these do not provide the truly quality periods of deep sleep that we need, and anyone who’s used them will testify to how fuzzy they can make you feel in the morning.
Chiropractic Works!
Doctors of chiropractic are trained in all aspects of creating wellness, and can offer advice to help the troubled sleeper kick the meds and enjoy a naturally-induced slumber that refreshes as it should.
Let’s begin with a few tips to create a better environment for quality sleep:
- Exercise regularly, and preferably in the morning. Evening exercise can raise your heartbeat into a range that may prevent you settling down to sleep. Try to leave a 2 to 3 hour gap between finishing exercise and going to bed.
- Limit caffeine consumption later in the day and especially before bed. That means not just coffee, but caffeinated sodas and also tea. Counteract the effect of any such beverage during the day by drinking an equal amount of water.
- If you need water during the night, drink it at room temperature not cold, which can upset the digestion and therefore your sleep.
- Try not to eat dinner later than 6pm, again because this sets off the digestive functions which need to be settled for you to sleep well.
- Try to go to bed and wake up at the same times to program your system.
- Sleep in a cool room and as dark as possible. Any light, even through closed eyelids, triggers hormones to be produced that tell you to wake up.
Essential Tools
Make sure you give yourself the best chance of sleep by choosing a good mattress and pillow. Choosing the wrong one will lead to more unwanted neck and back pain.
The mattress should provide even support for the body and maintain the spine in its natural alignment. This is subjective for each person. To give an idea of whether it feels okay for you, it is recommended that you lie down on it in the store for 3 to 5 minutes. Any longer and you may be over run salesmen.
Best Mattress Recommendations
- Support should be uniform from head to toe, with no unsupportive gaps.
- To firm up a soft mattress if you have back pain, put a board underneath it, but only until you feel better. Too-firm mattresses are not good.
- Flip your mattress, or rotate it head to toe every few months to prevent any part becoming permanently indented.
- When you start waking up feeling achy, that may be a sign you need a new mattress. Mattress life varies according to the quality of the build and how it is used.
- Your mattress may need changing sooner if you experience changes in your life that affect you physically: weight gain or loss or injuries, for example, or anything that affects the weight or the placement of weight on your mattress. Even a new partner!
- To soften up a too-hard mattress if you don’t want to splurge on a new one, there are memory-foam toppers available that will certainly help.
Proper Head Support
A bad pillow can negate all the good work performed every night by a good mattress. The aim of a pillow is to keep the cervical spine (the neck) aligned with the thoracic and lumbar sections of the spine (the chest and the lower back).
- As a guide, a pillow should be able to keep your head and neck level with your mid and lower spine when you are lying on your side. If you lie on your back, it should be able to keep your head and neck level with your upper back and spine. Any deviation from these that angles your head and neck wrongly means you need to find another pillow.
- Foam pillows are good so long as the material is firm enough to provide proper support and not squish away to nothing under your weight.
- You should not need to put your arm under your pillow to get it to the right height, nor bend it over on itself to double its thickness. Those are good indicators your pillow is wrong.
- Like a mattress, it is not a one-size-fits-all situation with pillows. Choose the one that is right for your shape.
Better Sleep is Near
To learn more about sleep wellness and what type of sleep surface may help you achieve better health and well-being do not hesitate to ask our office. Our expert team is ready to help!
by Dr. Brandon Chorney | Aug 21, 2014 | Health Articles
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Are you ready to experience the great sleep you had as a child? Of course you are so read on to find out how you can set Mr. Sandman back on speed dial!
