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02/17/2025

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02/17/2025

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02/12/2025

February Newsletter: Chiropractic Care for Muscle Tension

How Chiropractic Care Decreases Muscle Tension

Are your muscles painfully tight? Although over-the-counter pain relievers and creams can offer temporary pain relief, your symptoms will continue as long as your muscles and soft tissues remain tight. Chiropractic care relieves muscle tension naturally without any uncomfortable side effects.

What Causes Muscle Tension?

Muscles react by contracting, or becoming tighter, after receiving a signal from the brain. Muscle contractions move the bone attached to a muscle, allowing you to lift your arm, take a step, or bend. After you complete the movement, the muscles relax.

Sometimes muscles contract partially even when you aren't using them. Muscle tension can cause stiffness and pain, which may increase when you move the affected muscles. As a result, you may notice reduced flexibility and range of motion in your joints. Muscle tension in your shoulders or neck can be a factor in painful tension headaches, the most common type of headache, according to JAMA Network. Tight muscles may also trigger migraines.

Sleeping becomes difficult when muscle tension causes pain and headaches. Unfortunately, lack of sleep may worsen tension, causing a seemingly never-ending cycle of pain and tightness.

Your muscles may become too tight for several reasons, including:

Injuries. Muscle tension may increase after an injury that strains or stresses your muscles.
Posture. Poor posture is a common cause of muscle tension. Slouching stresses muscles, pulling them tighter.
Stress. Have you noticed your shoulder and neck muscles feel tight when you're stressed? Muscle tension is a common reaction to stress, particularly if you often feel overwhelmed or stressed.
Overuse. Muscles can also become tense if you overuse them by exercising too long or too hard.
Relieving Muscle Tension with Chiropractic Care

Chiropractic treatments offer the ideal way to loosen tight muscles and relieve pain. Researchers who conducted a clinical trial published in the Journal of Manipulative & Physiological Therapeutics in 2024 reported that chiropractic adjustments were more helpful in reducing low back pain than placebos or muscle relaxants.

During a visit to the chiropractor, your doctor performs an examination to determine the cause of muscle tension. Based on the results of the examination and a review of your symptoms, you'll begin a treatment program that may involve one or more of these therapies:

Adjustments. Subluxations, misalignments of the vertebrae in your spine, pull on muscles and soft tissues, increasing muscle tension. Realigning the vertebrae with an adjustment decreases pressure on tissues and allows muscles to relax. Muscle tension in other parts of your body can occur due to a misalignment of a joint. Your chiropractor can realign joints with gentle adjustments that improve your range of motion while decreasing muscle pain and tension.
Soft Tissue Therapies. Massage, soft tissue mobilization, and other therapies gently stretch tight tissues, releasing tension, and decreasing muscle spasms. The treatments improve blood flow and decrease inflammation.
Posture Improvement. Tight muscles can become a chronic problem without posture improvement. Chiropractic care eliminates misalignments and balances your body, making it easier to maintain good posture. Your chiropractor can also offer posture tips and suggest ergonomic modifications that will help you maintain good posture while you work or play on a digital device.
Exercises. Exercises that stretch and strengthen your muscles extend the positive effects of your chiropractic treatments. Your chiropractor may teach you a few exercises and stretches designed to counteract the effects of stress and poor posture on your muscles.
Ease your muscle tension with chiropractic care. Contact our office to schedule an appointment with the chiropractor.

Sources:

PubMed: Journal of Manipulative and Physiological Therapeutics: A Randomized Clinical Trial Comparing Chiropractic Adjustments to Muscle Relaxants for Subacute Low Back Pain, 7/8/2024

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15319761/

National Health Statistics Report: Repetitive Strain Injuries in Adults in the Past 3 Months: United States, 2021, 7/25/2023

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nhsr/nhsr189.pdf

JAMA Network: Tension-Type Headache, 7/27/2011

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/1104151

National Health Statistics Report: Repetitive Strain Injuries in Adults in the Past 3 Months: United States, 2021, 7/25/2023

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nhsr/nhsr189.pdf

Cleveland Clinic: Muscle Stiffness, 7/20/2023

https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/symptoms/25147-muscle-stiffness

02/04/2025

02/04/2025

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01/21/2025

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01/13/2025

January Newsletter:
How Your Chiropractor Can Help with Personal Injuries

Got a personal injury? Chiropractic care can help.

How Your Chiropractor Can Help with Personal Injuries

Whether you're suffering whiplash following a car accident or experiencing joint and tissue pain after a fall, your chiropractor offers treatments that relieve pain and help you heal faster. Chiropractic care is an excellent option for many types of personal injuries and offers a drug-free approach to healing.

Chiropractic Care for Personal Injuries

Wondering if chiropractic care is right for you? Chiropractic care treats the source of your injury and can be a good choice for sprained ligaments, strained muscles and soft tissues, tendinitis, pinched nerves, misaligned joints, back and neck pain, and other painful conditions caused by personal injuries.

Adjustments Are a Key Component of Chiropractic Treatment

Vertebrae, the tiny bones that make up your spinal column, help you bend and twist. Falls and other types of personal injuries can disrupt the normal alignment of one or more vertebrae. Misalignments, or "subluxations" as chiropractors call them, can cause pain, inflammation, stiffness, and reduced range of motion. Subluxations may also press on nerves and soft tissues, increasing pain.

Chiropractors realign vertebrae by adjusting the bones with a handheld activator or a quick thrusting motion of the hands. Adjustments relieve pain and muscle tension while improving mobility. A research study published in Frontiers in Pain Research in 2021 noted that spinal manipulation is as helpful as physical therapy and medical care in relieving back pain.

Your pain may be due in part to pressure on a nerve. Nerve pressure can happen due to a subluxation or overly tight soft tissue. Correcting the subluxation removes pressure on the nerve, eliminating or reducing pain.

Treatments Target Inflammation and Stiffness

As soon as your body realizes you've been hurt, white blood cells flood your bloodstream and race to the site of your injury. The cells help repair and heal damaged tissues, although the increased blood flow causes inflammation. Swelling due to inflammation triggers stiffness that may make movements painful. Chiropractic care improves your symptoms by decreasing pressure on nerves responsible for inflammation.

Once your spine is properly aligned, treatments like massage or ultrasound therapy soothe sore, tight tissues. Massage stretches and loosens muscles and tissues, while ultrasound waves pe*****te deep tissues. The warming waves reduce pain and stiffness.

Chiropractic Care Improves Blood Flow

Your body's self-healing system relies on oxygen and nutrients circulated through your bloodstream. Unfortunately, blood flow is often restricted after an injury. Chiropractic treatment restores normal blood flow, speeding healing.

Chiropractic Eases Pain Holistically

Chiropractic treatments also spur the production of endorphins, dopamine, and seratonin. These hormones naturally ease pain, enhance your mood, and help you relax.

Prescription or over-the-counter pain medication decreases pain, but can cause side effects, like nausea and dizziness. When you use chiropractic therapies to treat your personal injury, you may be able to avoid pain medication completely or might be able to manage your pain with a lower dosage. Chiropractic care could also help you avoid opioid addiction.

Patients who received care initially from a chiropractor or physical therapist were less likely to use opioids in the short- or long-term compared to patients who first saw a primary care doctor, according to an observational retrospective study published in BMJ Open in 2020.

Chiropractic Can Shorten Recovery Time

Chiropractic treatments jumpstart healing, helping your body repair itself naturally. Since treatments target the source of your pain, you'll be less likely to experience lingering pain. During your visits to the chiropractic office, your chiropractor may also teach you exercises that reduce stiffness and strengthen muscles that support your joints.

Are you in pain due to a personal injury? Chiropractic treatment offers the ideal way to treat your injury.
Contact our office 972-417-0651 to schedule your appointment.

Sources:

NCBI: Frontiers in Pain Research: Clinical Effectiveness of Chiropractic Spinal Manipulation for Spine Pain, 10/25/2021

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8915715/

https://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/9/9/e028633

American Chiropractic Association: Neck Pain and Chiropractic

https://www.acatoday.org/Patients/Health-Wellness-Information/Neck-Pain-and-Chiropractic

Mayo Clinic Health System: Benefits of Massage Therapy, 3/22/2022

https://www.mayoclinichealthsystem.org/hometown-health/speaking-of-health/benefits-of-massage-therapy

03/08/2024

Chiropractic Care for Neuropathy

Do you have neuropathy? Chiropractic could have the answer to your pain.

Chiropractic Care Could Ease Your Neuropathy Symptoms

Finding a treatment that keeps your pain under control can be difficult when you have neuropathy. Whether you're experiencing pain, burning, tingling, or numbness, your chiropractor can help relieve your neuropathy symptoms.

What Is Neuropathy?

Neuropathy happens when one or more nerves are damaged due to illnesses, injuries, toxins, or infections. The damage affects the normal transmission of nerve signals between the body and the brain. Neuropathy types include:

Peripheral Neuropathy. Peripheral neuropathy, one of the most common forms of neuropathy, affects nerves outside the spinal cord and brain. An estimated 20 million Americans have the disorder, although the actual number may be higher, according to the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke. Peripheral neuropathy symptoms are often felt in hands, feet, arms, or legs. Diabetic neuropathy, a type of neuropathy caused by high blood sugar, is a common type of peripheral neuropathy.
Focal Neuropathy. Focal neuropathy affects just one nerve and may happen if swollen tissues, a bone spur, or a misaligned vertebra presses on a nerve. Carpal tunnel syndrome is a common type of focal neuropathy.
Autonomic Neuropathy. This form of neuropathy affects important bodily functions, like blood pressure, heart rate, bowel movements, and urination. It can be caused by injuries, diabetes, or other diseases, like multiple sclerosis or Parkinson's Disease.
Cranial Neuropathy. Cranial neuropathy occurs when nerves in the brain are damaged. Bell's palsy, a condition that causes weakness or paralysis of facial muscles is a type of cranial neuropathy.
Neuropathy Symptoms

Symptoms vary depending on the type of neuropathy but may include:

Pain, Which Can Be Severe
Tingling
Numbness
Burning
Weakness
Muscle Cramps or Twitching
Poor Coordination
Loss of Sensation
Loss of Bladder or Bowel Control
How Your Chiropractor Can Help

The treatments chiropractors provide relieve pressure on the nerves by keeping your spine and joints properly aligned and reducing tension on soft tissues. If you're experiencing tingling, pain, burning, and weakness in your arm, hand, foot, or leg, a misaligned vertebra, tight muscles or tendons, or a bulging disc could be to blame.

Small bones called vertebrae give structure to your spine, In addition to protecting your spinal cord, the vertebrae make it possible to move, bend, and twist easily. Your vertebrae can become misaligned due to a fall or poor posture. Although your posture may be perfectly fine when you're standing, spending hours hunched over your laptop or a video controller could cause misalignments, also known as subluxations.

A misaligned vertebrae could press on a nerve, triggering neuropathy symptoms. As a result of the subluxation, muscles and tendons can tighten in response and exert pressure on your nerves. A bulging disc in your spine could also be to blame for your neuropathy symptoms.

Your chiropractor offers treatments that relieve pressure on nerves to ease your symptoms. Spinal manipulation treatment restores vertebrae to their normal positions while easing pain, improving circulation and blood flow, and triggering the release of hormones that act as natural painkillers. Realigning spine allows tight muscles and tissues to relax and withdraw from your nerves.

If a bulging disc is the source of your neuropathy symptoms, your chiropractor may recommend flexion-distraction treatment. During the therapy, you'll lie on a segmented table that moves as your chiropractor adjusts your spine. The therapy decompresses your spine, which reduces pressure on spinal discs and nerves. It can also relieve muscle spasms and improve your range of motion.

Massage therapy offers a simple way to loosen tight tissues while reducing pain and improving blood flow. Soft tissue mobilization can help reduce the symptoms of Bell's Palsy. During treatments, your chiropractor gently manipulates the face to improve movement and mobility. In a case study published in the Journal of Chiropractic Medicine in 2013, chiropractic manipulation and low-level laser therapy improved facial movement by 70 - 80% in a 40-year-old patient. After the second treatment, the patient regained complete control of facial movement.

Transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation (TENS) therapy, another helpful treatment for neuropathy, involves preventing pain by sending a gentle electrical current through the skin. The current blocks nerve signals from reaching the brain.

Wondering if chiropractic treatment can relieve your neuropathy symptoms? Contact our office 972-417-0651 to schedule an appointment with the chiropractor.

Sources:

National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke: Peripheral Neuropathy

https://www.ninds.nih.gov/health-information/disorders/peripheral-neuropathy

Journal of Chiropractic Medicine: Chiropractic Management of Bell Palsy with Low Level Laser and Manipulation: A Case Report, 12/2013

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3838725/

Peripheral neuropathy refers to the many conditions that involve damage to the peripheral nervous system, which is a vast communications network that sends signals between the central nervous system (the brain and spinal cord) and all other parts of the body.