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by Dr. Brandon Chorney | Mar 1, 2016 | Health Articles
Healthcare in the US continues to deteriorate. Unfortunately, like a “boiling frog,” we are becoming more complacent as the costs for lower coverage insurance rises. These costs not only affect our wallets, but also the loss of time and productivity spent waiting at the doctor’s office. Waiting times can often be an hour or more. If unfortunately you suffer a problem that requires same-day medical attention, the waiting time at a hospital emergency room could easily range from several hours to more. Worse yet, what happens when you are suffering from excruciating back pain and you are offered a replacement of a degenerated intervertebral lumbar disc? Do you simply go for it knowing that success is not guaranteed or look at research on other options that have had great outcomes at a much lower cost?
When it comes to our health and health strategies we need to now become more prepared and critical of our options in case of an unforeseen health crisis.
Your Healthcare Bank Book
With the current financial situation, more and more are finding it difficult to keep up with the rising health costs. Those fortunate enough to have health insurance are able to cushion some of the monetary expenses. Even with an individual or family health insurance policy, annual out-of-pocket costs continue to rise sharply as monthly premiums, co-payments, and deductibles increase considerably each year.
With this in mind, we might consider getting a “personal” health insurance policy if we want to enjoy good financial health as well as good physical health. Your personal health insurance policy, which takes more work, involves taking action in the two main familiar lifestyle areas of one, diet and nutrition and secondly, exercise. A third lifestyle area, often ignored, involves our personal well-being. This area includes building increasingly positive family relationships and friendships plus developing a broader set of interests beyond one’s favorite television programs and virtual friend websites.
Lifestyle Matters
Lifestyle matters greatly to one’s long-term health and well-being. Numerous studies have shown that one in three Americans has one or more chronic diseases – diabetes, heart disease, and cancer. This not only effects with substantial costs to our personal and family costs but also at a price to society. We can help prevent these major health problems by implementing habits of good nutrition, regular vigorous exercise, and rewarding relationships and activities. Most importantly by engaging in healthy lifestyles, we are building a health savings account that will continue to grow and harvest many rewards for ourselves and our families in the future.
Creating the Fourth Area
A key to gaining the benefits from all the other lifestyle areas and activities is held in the fourth area – Chiropractic.
Chiropractic care is a comprehensive form of healing, which means that all aspects of a person’s health and lifestyle are taken into consideration for understanding how well your body is doing its job. This “job” is to interconnect all the various separate physiological activities – to make sure all your body’s systems are working harmoniously. The responsibility for this harmony lies with the nervous system. This master system controls every function in your body from your heart and lungs to your complete immune system. When a vertebra has shifted out of its normal position it places unwanted pressure on to our delicate nerve tissue. Over time, this “dis-ease” in our bodies becomes the disease. By identifying and correcting misalignments in the spinal column, chiropractic care helps ensure that your nervous system is functioning optimally. When your nervous system is functionally optimally the rest of your body has the opportunity to produce optimal health. The great result is that chiropractic care helps you get the most out of all your other activities and helps you gain and retain good health.
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The only requirement to begin receiving the benefits of improved health is the willingness to get started. Investing in your future today will produce a great return on your investment quickly!
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by Dr. Brandon Chorney | Feb 25, 2016 | Health Articles
Ice or Heat? When you suffer with an injury or are in need of pain relief this question arises quite frequently. Most often we reach for the solution that our mothers gave us or what our best friend who also suffered with 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, I am going to help clarify what is the most effective way to apply ice and/or heat to help you return to the best of health.
Natural Pain Relief Is Best
Safe and effective pain relief is found in ice and heat. When applied correctly, ice and heat offer you natural and effective pain relief. The other benefit is, when you apply an ice or heat pack to an area, you are placing it precisely on the affected area. Pain medication, on the other hand, has to be swallowed, digested and assimilated, affecting your entire body. Therefore, medication can leave a trail of potential side-effects. Remember, it is always better to act as Mother Nature intended.
Glorious Ice
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 effectively, 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 mould the pack with maximum contact to your skin.
Heat Is Sweet
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 Apply Heat and Ice
When one or more of your muscles go into spasm, your body reacts to this “injury” by sending more 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 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 a vicious cycle that can lead to more spasms and more pain. Even worse, unless the cycle is broken, it can continue for years.
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.
Quick Caution Note
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. As long as pain is present, ice is usually safer and more effective.
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by Dr. Brandon Chorney | Jan 28, 2016 | Health Articles
The winter season is upon us. Whether you live in a climate that naturally enjoys the excitement of the cold brisk weather or you travel to enjoy a snow holiday, here are a few great tips to keep you safe and healthy. Warming Up To Winter Snow, ice, and cold weather are part of the seasonal...
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by Dr. Brandon Chorney | Jan 21, 2016 | Health Articles
This is it! You have committed to eat right and loss the weight you promised to lose every year. Remember that statement you made on New Years? We know you do and want you to reach out and let us help you conquer finally that resolution to lose weight and to keep it off. The...
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by Dr. Brandon Chorney | Jan 14, 2016 | Health Articles
Another flyer to the local gym lands in your mailbox. You have committed that this is the year of my best body and you quickly call to join. It’s hard work, it hurts, and could be slightly embarrassing but in our minds we are still in our prime; so what could the downside be? The Down...
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