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by Dr. Brandon Chorney | Apr 11, 2023 | Health Articles
If you’re suffering from knee pain, you know how it can interfere with your daily life. Knee pain can make it difficult to walk, climb stairs, or even sit down comfortably. But you don’t have to suffer in silence. Our chiropractic services in New Fairfield, CT can help you find relief from knee pain and get back to doing the things you love.
A Holistic Approach to Knee Pain
At Chiropractic Life and Wellness Center, we take a holistic approach to knee pain. We understand that knee pain can have a variety of causes, from sports injuries and overuse to arthritis and degenerative conditions. That’s why we start by thoroughly evaluating your knee pain and identifying the underlying cause.
Customized Treatment Plans
Once we have a clear understanding of your knee pain, we’ll create a customized treatment plan that’s tailored to your needs. Our chiropractic care may include manual adjustments, soft tissue therapy, and other techniques to alleviate your knee pain and improve your overall mobility.
Lifestyle Counseling and Nutritional Guidance
In addition to chiropractic care, we also offer lifestyle counseling and nutritional guidance to help you maintain a healthy lifestyle and reduce the risk of future knee pain. We’ll work with you to identify any underlying factors that may be contributing to your knee pain, such as poor posture, improper footwear, or nutritional deficiencies.
Contact Chiropractic Life and Wellness Center Today
If you’re ready to say goodbye to knee pain and start living life to the fullest, contact Chiropractic Life and Wellness Center today. Our experienced chiropractors are dedicated to helping you find relief from knee pain and improve your overall health and wellness.
by Dr. Brandon Chorney | Feb 28, 2023 | Health Articles, Uncategorized
Are you sitting on the sideline for some of your favorite activities due to a shoulder injury that is making many routine activities challenging and painful? Or have you played through telling yourself it will heal or you will address later? Be warned! It could be an injury to your rotator cuff! Your shoulder injury...
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by Dr. Brandon Chorney | Aug 23, 2022 | Health Articles
We all know that playing sports and healthy exercise should be an essential part of staying healthy. These health-smart actions benefit your heart, lungs, joints, bones, and also your mind in the way it releases mood-enhancing endorphins. The downside is that physical activity can sometimes lead to injuries. Injuries are caused by a variety of factors including accidents, poor conditioning or training practices, not wearing the proper protective equipment or an inadequate warm-up. Some of the most frequent sports injuries include Achilles tendon injuries, sprains, strains and stress fractures and knee injuries.
What is most important is that if an injury does occur that you know what to do to help expedite the healing and seek advice from a sports rehabilitation specialist.
Athlete’s First Aid Protocals
Sports injuries are usually pretty easy to diagnose because the athlete will typically be aware of when something went awry. A physical examination should confirm this, but x-rays may also be ordered if the injury suspected could be more severe, like in the case of a fracture.
Most often the injuries are less severe and are to the soft tissue, as in the case of tendonitis, strains, and sprains. With these type of injuries, the treatment can be one or a combination of the following protocols:
Raise it High and Compress
Typically forty-eight hours of rest with compression and elevation are the general prescription for a mild strain or sprain. Raising the injured joint or limb above the level of the heart along with light compression by a medical bandage or sleeve is helpful in reducing the inflammation and swelling.
Optimally a balance of activity and restoration of normal function are encouraged earlier to avoid harm from inactivity while avoiding a re-injury due to over enthusiastic comeback before the injury has healed properly.
Nature’s Best Anti-Inflammatory
Ice is nature’s best anti-inflammatory. It can help to reduce the inflammation and increase the speed of the healing process. The best guideline is to use the ice for 20 minutes every hour. Is is best to place the ice, which is wrapped in a thin towel to protect the skin, on the affected area for 20 minutes and then remove to let the area return to a normal temperature. This action will act as a natural pump to reduce the inflammation.
What Should I Do About Pain Relief?
According to recent research, the use of certain nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs should be limited as they may, in fact, retard the body’s natural healing process, causing a longer recuperation than necessary. If you use anti-inflammatory medication use sparingly and restrict activities as the medication will allow your body to feel you are no longer in pain and no longer injured.
Sports Rehabilitation Is So Much More
Sports rehabilitation treatments can help with certain types of injuries, lowering pain levels and speeding recovery. Chiropractors and their teams are trained musculoskeletal experts and work with their teams to provide the best sports rehabilitation programs.
We’re On Your Team!
Our expert team is trained and licensed medical professionals who work with physicians and other healthcare providers to evaluate and manage musculoskeletal injuries. A huge bonus is that our team will not only rehabilitate your injuries back to active health status but work to revitalize the areas to a better condition than which you arrived.
Our Sports Motto: Be prepared 1000% by being the 1% who have the health team behind them to help get them there!
by Dr. Brandon Chorney | May 12, 2022 | Health Articles
Let's live healthier and more active longer. That alone has become the motto of our generations who may have reached our embracing years of our thirties and older. Our ability to want to play full out is fabulous as long as we maintain and take care our health and our bodies along the way. One...
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by Dr. Brandon Chorney | Apr 21, 2022 | Health Articles
Our society for the most part lives for the exhilaration of endorphins that we release as we strive for the goal line of victory. We simply love winning. Our addiction will often be the force that drives us to the next challenge. We know that our win is never based on “good luck” but our preparations meeting opportunities for victory. But as with all athletics there is also an inherent risk of injuries not based on “bad luck” but other unfortunate circumstances.
If A Sports Injury Happens
At the time of injury most often we are upset with ourselves, the circumstances and want answers to our questions:
- When can I start exercising again?
- When can I get back to my sport?
- What can I do to prevent this from happening again?
The answers to these questions are relatively straightforward. But for some, injuries continue to happen. Which leads us to our next key question:
- Why does this keep happening to me?
This question is the hardest to answer. Some athlete’s injuries may occur even when they are doing the things that they are supposed to be doing. Although challenging, it is imperative to continue to try to discover the underlying causes to better prepare and build strength for the next opportunities for greatness.
The “Why”
If we dig deeper, we’ll find that there are three primary sources of training injuries: (1) under-preparation, (2) over-training, and (3) lack of focus.
Training sounds pretty simple on paper. Just eat right, sleep well, and lift a little bit more weight every workout. But every workout takes place in real life, and real life can make training pretty hard. Optimal training only occurs when daily life doesn’t get in the way.
Training like an athlete while working a full-time job or going to school is not easy, but fixing weak points in your habits and lifestyle can help avoid training setbacks and plateaus.
The first training injury most often experienced is under-preparation. Under-preparation means doing things you’re not ready to do. For example, people who have never done aerobic exercise go out and try to run five miles, or people who have never done strength training go to the gym and try to lift weights that are too heavy. These exercise patterns can be dangerous, physically, and may directly lead to injury.
Remember a 16-year-old teenager has some leeway and can get away with making a variety of training errors. This leeway may even be true for those who are in their mid-20s, but persons who are older need to train on a trajectory. Sound principles include starting slowly, starting with the basics, and making sure to include rest days in your training program. Build up your strength and stamina. Doing more than you are ready for will send you straight to your chiropractor’s office or even to the hospital.
Remember exercise can cause muscle and joint pain. The severity of the soreness and how long it takes to recover depends on diet and lifestyle, as well as the kind of exercises performed.
Could I Be Over-Training?
The second most often cause for injury is over-training.
Over-training means doing too much. Most of us are guilty of this. For example, you love to run, you build up your weekly mileage to a good level, but then you keep piling on the distance. Then all of a sudden you’ve got a stress fracture in your leg or a severe strain of a calf muscle.
The key is to train smart and to be aware of the possibility of over-training. The temptation to do more is always there, but the result is never good. The short-term gratification is completely outweighed by the frustration and loss of conditioning resulting from injury-enforced down-time.
Clear the Mechanism
Many injuries happen during regular training because the person’s mind has wandered off from a life distraction or lethargy.
When people pay more attention to the TV or their incoming text messages than they do to the equipment they’re using or the weight they’re lifting, the result can be an injury, sometimes a bad one. In fact, you’re very unlikely to sustain an injury during normal training if you’re completely focused. Maintaining focus should be a central part of the discipline of training.
But what about lethargy and fatigue?
The occasional all-nighter won’t have a long-term effect on performance, but consistently poor sleep will. To ensure laser focus in mental acuity aim for six to ten hours of sleep every night and follow these guidelines for a healthy sleep environment:
A healthy sleep environment is:
- A slightly cool room tends to facilitate sleep.
- Turn off electronic devices. Smartphones and tablets just before bed will disrupt melatonin secretion, leading to a more difficult time falling asleep.
- Ears don’t close as eyes do. Even if you sleep through the night, loud noises can still impair sleep quality.
- Caffeine-free. Avoid any compounds that impair sleep and lower sleep quality.
- Where you sleep and how long you sleep for should be the same from night to night.
Ready to Learn More?
A big part of our sports performance and rehabilitation process is the acquisition of knowledge. In the realm of exercise and fitness, some personal knowledge of biomechanics can go a very long way toward preventing injuries.
Our expert team has been designed to help not only rehabilitate sports injuries through Chiropractic and other rehabilitative care but to help you learn more about human biomechanics and how to achieve your optimal physical performance.
