I am Dr Cynthia Seaman, chiropractor and owner of Seaman Chiropractic Center, a natural health care center combining hands on chiropractic, physical rehabilitation, massage, acupuncture and custom orthotics.
On December 21st, we ended the food drive for the Chicago Food Depository. I am so proud of our patients who brought in 20 bags of food. Thank you for your generous spirit.
The winner of the raffle for the free massage is P.Stearley. Enjoy your massage!
Anyone who has suffered from a bad back knows how desperately you want relief. The pain can be excurciating and really interfere with work and home life. There were times when I would of done anything and paid any price for just a few hours of relief or for a good nights sleep.
Inversion therapy works because in relieves the pressure on the nerves caused by a buldging disc. It’s like you reverse gravity, taking the body weight and pressure off your spine. Most doctors are too busy treating the symptoms of back pain with treatment like anti-inflammatory medications, electrical stimulation, ultrasound and cortisone injections, and they simply ignore what is one of the biggest factors contributing to back pain. This contributing factor is spinal compression – which can ONLY be addressed through inversion therapy.
Tags: inversion therapy, back surgery, electrical stimulation, cortisone injections, buldging discA slipped disc is a very painful medical condition arising due to some injuries to the spine. In slipped disc condition the soft core of the disc in spine extends through the circle of connective tissue.Chiropractic care is a non-surgical alternative used in treatment of disc injuries.Chiropractic first involves getting the complete information about the injury.Then it includes some tests and procedures for analysis. After examining the needed chiropractic treatment is determined for the injury.
Tags: spine, medical condition, chiropractic treatment, connective tissue, soft coreAccording to the Center of Disease Control (CDC) we have an eighty percent chance of developing a back problem in our lifetime. Each year the United States will have $34 billion in back pain treatment expense representing a huge slice of all medical reimbursements. Chronic back problems not only seriously affect your wallet they also drain you physically and mentally.
Tags: medical reimbursements, center of disease control, lower back pain, center of disease control cdc, lower back pain exercisesDo you often find yourself experiencing some discomfort when it comes to your back? Well it can be caused by various things. Here are some tips to help you relieve your backpain and finally live a more comfortable, happy life.
Tags: back pain, posture, backpain, happy life, girdlePeople who suffer from back pain find it hard to believe they could ever have chronic back pain relief. Most of the time, these people have had this pain for many years and so it is hard for them to imagine a life without it. Chronic back pain is actually something that can be alleviated in many cases.
Tags: chronic back pain relief, chronic back pain, back pain relief, reliefAgonizing pain in the back can be such a “pain in the neck.” Prolonged pain in the back {neck, mid-back or waist} can be an agony to its victim. Disabling back pain can be annoying and distracting.
Tags: agonizing pain, agony, pain in the neck, mid back, back neckA well known cause of pain in the case of common back pain (especially waist pain and neck pain) resulting from physical exhaustion, is marathon sex which involves excessive spine movement. For those not used to such a ride, this could well lead to pain after the euphoric pleasure wears out after the encounter.
Tags: waist pain, back pain, physical exhaustion, neck pain, sex lifeLots of people suffer from sciatic nerve pain. Maybe you, too, have experienced the pain that begins in your lower back then radiates down to the thigh then to the legs just below the knee.
Anyone who has thrown their neck or back out understands how this can completely incapacitate a person. The lower back can negatively impact hips and legs, while the neck can limit movement in the arms and hands and can even cause chest pain. Those who have visited a chiropractic office often find relief comes surprisingly quickly and total recovery can be expected within a matter of weeks.
Tags: chiropractic office, chest pain, hips, legs, chiropractic servicesChiropractic massage works out the kinks and gets you back on track and moving with smooth motion. When it comes to the physiological makeup of humans, a chiropractic doctor is an expert on how the body comes together with all of its parts. Every bone that fits every groove and every nerve that connects to a tendon.
Are you having discomfort in your spine or your joints? If you are, then it is likely that chiropractic services are the type of help you need. A chiropractor, by focusing on spinal readjustments and joint readjustments, may be able to help you with your overall health. These treatments are often associated with stress relief. When you can relieve yourself of stress and discomforts, you can live a better life.
The sciatic nerve is located in the lower back and extends down the back of each leg. Pain is caused when a disc has protruded and puts pressure on a nerve called the radicular nerve. This forms the start of the sciatic nerve. The pain experienced can be as simple as tingling or a weakness/numbness sort of feeling. This travels down the leg and usually goes into the lower leg and then back up again.
Rolfing is a technique used is to improve health by bringing segments of the body into proper alignment by freeing up those segments that are constricted or out of balance. This article describes how Rolfing can help improve your posture, and an alternative to Rolfing that provides precisely the same benefits.
A study published in The American Journal of Roentgenology recently reported that 80% of back pain sufferers had soft-tissue inflammation. Soft tissues pain is inflammation of tissues like muscles due to injury. Inflammation is your body’ natural relation to trauma. When these inflammed tissues swell they usually press on nerves. This causes a second type of pain, nerve pain.
A study published in The American Journal of Roentgenology recently reported that 80% of back pain sufferers had soft-tissue inflammation. Soft tissues pain is inflammation of tissues like muscles due to injury. Inflammation is your body’ natural relation to trauma. When these inflammed tissues swell they usually press on nerves. This causes a second type of pain, nerve pain.
There are many people who suffer from disc pain who despair of ever finding permanent relief; some assume that they will have to keep using medication for the remainder of their lives. A bulging disk can cause severe, chronic pain which cannot always be managed easily. There are many possible causes of back injuries and any disc in your spine can sustain injury; however, there are natural treatments which you can use that are often effective in treating back pain.
Sciatica or Sciatic Nerve Pain can be very painful; if that’s not bad enough, you don’t know when it will strike. It usually comes without warning and when it does, you’d feel like you are losing pieces of your life.
Tags: Warning, Approaches, sciatica, pain remedies, nerve painSciatica can happen to anybody – royal-blooded or not, young or old, active or inactive. It goes without saying then that you, too, can suffer from it. It is a common condition affecting hundreds of thousands of people.
Tags: hundreds of thousands, sciatica pain relief, Pain, conditionIf you experience the burning pain in lower back and you are looking for an effective treatment, then you need to be able to properly identify the different causes of your pain so that you can treat it. Often, we might think that we are simply suffering from muscle strain, or the sciatica is acting up, but you may find that there are underlying causes for your lower back pain that can help to ease the symptoms and cure your condition better than if you were to simply treat the pain.
In the computer age, so many jobs depend on computers, it’s amazing. But along with that came people working at computers 8-10 hours a day, 5 days a week. Also known as a “desk job”.
Tags: desk job, spine, jobs, week, computer ageMRI & CT scans will show disc bulges in many people’s lower back. But a disc bulge doesn’t mean you will have lower back pain, back aches or back spasms. In fact, the average person at 60 years of age will have 3 disc bulges. So why do so many people get told their back is stuffed when disc bulges show on CT or MRI scans?
Tags: ct scans, average person, diChronic pain is at epidemic proportions that costs $ጤ billion annually in the US alone. That’s billion with a capital B folks! One of my favorite general public articles on the topic was in News Week and was titled “The Great Back Debate” In many respects, it was a most ground breaking article.
Tags: public articles, news week, epidemic proportions, chronic pain, new perspectivesCarrying a back pack can be stressful on your body. Some helpful hints can reduce the wear and tear.
Tags: wear and tear, wear, helpful hints, back pack, Tips
