Chiropractic Elk Grove

1. Spend More Time with Family & Friends

Recent polls conducted by General Nutrition Centers, Quicken, and others shows that more than 50% of Americans vow to appreciate loved ones and spend more time with family and friends this year. Make plans to meet up with friends for an evening of comaraderie at a favorite restaurant or take the family to one of these popular places for family fun. Work shouldn’t always come first!

Did you know that an estimated 75 to 85 percent of all Americans
will experience some form of back pain during their lifetime? Most
certainly low back pain can be quite debilitating and painful. Good
news, most cases respond well with non-surgical treatment. However, it
has been estimated that 50 percent of all patients who suffer from an
episode of low back pain will have a recurrent episode within one year.

The
costs associated with diagnostic procedures alone are estimated at $50
billion yearly. Back pain is one of the most common reasons for missed
work. In fact, back pain is the second most common reason for visits to
the doctor's office, outnumbered only by upper-respiratory infections.
The personal costs are immeasurable from chronic pain alone, pain
sometimes so great that it interferes with a healthy and satisfying
lifestyle.

Also, it is recognized that most cases of back pain
are mechanical in nature, and the pain is usually not caused by very
serious conditions, such as cancer, fracture, infection, etc. The
anatomy of the spine and the many conditions that negatively impact
spinal health are complex.

You are at particular risk for low back pain if you:

• Work in construction or another job requiring heavy lifting, lots of bending and twisting, or whole body vibration
• Smoke, don’t exercise, and/or are overweight
• Are over age 30
• Are pregnant
• Have bad posture
• Have arthritis or osteoporosis
• Have a low pain threshold

Schedule an appointment today with Dr. Hansen for a full examination and start
down the path road to recovery.

This is designed for anyone suffering from back pain, sciatica, leg pain, herniated disc, degenerative disc disease, bulging disc, tingling, numbness, arm pain, neck pain, and some patients with spinal stenosis and failed low back syndrome.

The American Spinal Decompression Association brings together patients and leading specialists in Non-Surgical Spinal Decompression all across the country. This allows patients a 70% chance of resuming a normal lifestyle.

This site is designed to fully inform the millions of Americans who suffer with debilitating pain on a daily basis. Patients can now be informed and updated with current working knowledge of these conditions and the latest Non-Surgical breakthrough technology called Spinal Decompression Therapy.

If you or your family members have been struggling with these debilitating conditions with little or no relief, then ask yourself the following questions.

• Are you currently dependant on medications on a daily basis?
• Are you limited in daily activities?
• Have you had repeated injections or epidurals with little or no relief?
• Are you considering surgery and are uncomfortable with that choice?
• Have all the options been presented to you?
• Have you already tried chiropractic or physical therapy?
• Have you been out or work due to pain?

If you answered yes to any of these questions, then non-surgical spinal decompression therapy is certainly a viable treatment option and could very well be what you’re looking for.

We sincerely want you to utilize all the material and animations provided for your benefit. You are going to have some decisions to make, and you should be making those decisions based on your comfort level. Choices must be made. Some treatments are aimed at pain suppression and temporary pain relief. Other treatments are corrective in nature. Know the difference! Empower yourself to choose those procedures that make sense to you, it’s your health. EXPLORE, LEARN AND BE WELL.

The American Chiropractic Association suggests the following tips to help seniors maintain a healthy lifestyle:

Walking

Walking improves elasticity in blood vessels, which makes them less susceptible to formation of aneurysms or rupture.

Start with one-third of a mile per day - one-sixth out and one-sixth back. (Measure the distance with your car.) Do that three days a week for a month, then double the distance, working gradually up to at least one mile a day, three days a week.

Expect a little soreness in the thighs and calves for the first week or two. If you experience more than soreness, check with your chiropractor.

Stretching

The average person should stretch to prevent the bowing or stoop caused by shortening of ligaments. A stoop can inhibit normal breathing.

Stretch the groin muscles by sitting on the floor and bending one leg to the side and back as far as possible. Or sit Indian fashion on a cushion and watch television. A relaxed stretch is the goal.

Stretch the back leg muscles by putting your hands on a wall, one foot flat on the floor behind you. Then lean into the wall. Or stand up straight and bend over. Or sit with one foot on an ottoman and bend forward.

Eating Right

Make sure you have a properly balanced diet. If you take vitamins, take them with a meal. Drink 10 eight-ounce glasses of water a day to help keep the kidneys active, dilute and remove toxins from the body, and replace lost fluids. (Coffee, tea, soft drinks and alcohol are diuretics. Don’t substitute them for water.)

Cancer has reached epidemic proportions.  Every 30 seconds someone is diagnosed!  One out of eight women will develop breast cancer, 700,000 people die per year in the United States of cancer!  Cancer rate in children has exploded in the last 10 years.  One out of 300 children are diagnosed with cancer before the age of 20.  Come learn necessary skills to prevent this disease from even starting.

Strategies include:

Detoxification

Proper Nutrition

Supplementation

Excercise

Nervous System Function

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There is no better way to rejuvenate your health than by eating more nutritiously. In fact, even a few simple changes in your diet and lifestyle can have a positive impact on your health-and can also prevent a variety of health problems in the future.

The traditional coffee and doughnuts for breakfast; a hamburger for lunch-or no lunch; candy, cookies, and a soft drink for a snack; followed by a huge dinner with more protein than a person needs-are unhealthy dietary choices. As a result, younger people are starting to suffer from heart disease-not only because of poor diet, but also because of an epidemic of inactivity.

To reverse the alarming trend, many doctors of chiropractic urge patients to stop smoking, eat a balanced diet, drink plenty of water, exercise regularly, and augment their balanced diet with appropriate nutritional supplements.

What can you do?  Lifestyle changes, including dietary changes can have a huge impact on your health:

Lifestyle Changes

Dietary Changes

Vegetarian Diets

Research shows that a good vegetarian diet as part of a comprehensive health program can help prevent heart disease, cancer, and other diseases.  However, fried foods, hydrogenated fats, and commercial meat substitutes may contain more sugar and fat than a meat-eater would consume.

If you are considering a vegetarian diet, keep the following tips in mind:

Supplements

According to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, dietary supplements are not substitutes for foods, nor can a person sustain good health by just taking vitamin and mineral supplements. When taken properly, however, supplements can play an important role in achieving maximum health. If you are considering nutritional supplements, keep the following tips in mind:

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Doctors and clinics are reporting increasing numbers of people seeking psychiatric help to deal with mounting stress from financial problems.

Lost homes, jobs and economic woes are taking a broad toll on mental health. Outside the Sacramento County courthouse Friday, deputies stood watch at every corner and near every entrance, looking for an angry ex-courthouse employee. The man lost his county job, and officials said he e-mailed a threat.

“Nothing specific, other than he was planning to come to the courthouse today. So what we’re doing is trying to make sure nothing happens so that business can run as usual here,” said R.L. Davis, of the sheriff’s department.

The man was later found in Antelope and sent to the county mental health treatment center for evaluation.Officials said the center’s crisis unit has seen a significant increase in people seeking help because of financial stress.Sutter Psychiatric Services, meanwhile, reported an increase in admissions for depression, much of it triggered by job loss and financial trouble.”Eventually, when stress continues to go on, they just cannot handle that and they just take it out on the kids, they take it out on the spouse, so we see a lot of people coming with depression, anxiety,” Sacramento psychiatrist Dr.Janak Mehtani said.Warning signs of depression include:

The ten vital steps to wellness, which are found in all natural healing disciplines, encompass what is commonly known as the “Triad of Health”:

Structural:   Spinal alignment and muscle balance
Nutritional:  Biochemical balance
Emotional:   Psychological

The ten steps are:

1.  Re-establish structural integrity, the foundation of health.
2.  Rebalance electromagnetics.
3.  Reset the adrenals and the general adaptive syndrome (GAS).
4.  Replenish nutrition for organs, glands and or system weakness.
5.  Restore immune function in the body.
6.  Replace enzymes to aid digestion, assimilation and elimination.
7.  Restore proper bowel flora to optimize colon function.
8.  Reprogram the body for any allergy sensitivities.
9.  Release aberrant emotional patterns and limiting beliefs systems.
10.  Remove heavy metals and other toxins from the body.