Chiropractic

Parents can help their newborns adjust to life outside of the womb by engaging in skin-to-skin time and making sure they are taking care of themselves. This will help the baby stay calm, comfortable, and well-regulated.
 
Transcript: "What can parents do to help their newborns adjust to life outside of the womb? Such a great question. So first and foremost, it's going to be skin-to-skin time so whether you've had that golden hour after birth or not moms and dads have this beautiful super power to help regulate baby. So Mom especially has a superpower that can help regulates baby's temperature, baby's heart, rate, baby's breath. Mom also has certain sense that baby is able to smell that smells like the womb. So this helps baby. To adjust to this new life on the outside. Secondly is hey Mom, hey Dad. Hey parents, what are you doing to adjust to this new life? So babies act, as a hitchhiker on your nervous system, both Mom and Dad, especially mom. So if there are things that help Mom, stay calm, and relaxed, and well-adjusted and well-regulated. That is also going to help baby as well. So do we have a small circle of support? That's helping Mom. Do we have a ER, support of providers that's helping Mom. Do we have people who are cleaning and tending to her making sure that she can get showered, and that she's eating because if Mom is feeling anxious and is not well, regulated baby's gonna feed right off of that. So the biggest thing we can do is as parents is to regulate our own selves and then this transcends into the newborn. And then again, that skin is skin. Time is going to be huge, especially making sure that baby feels calm and comfortable and adjusting to the life outside of the womb."

The amount of time it takes for a patient to experience relief from Chiropractic Care can vary greatly and depends on how long the condition has been present. It could be instantaneous, but it could also take several months or years. In some cases, patients may get worse before they get better.
 
Transcript: "How long does it take for a patient to experience relief from Chiropractic Care? Well, that varies a great deal. As a general rule, the longer you have something the longer it's going to take to get rid of it. And so your body has now accommodated to it. Both from a structural standpoint, the link tension of muscles and ligaments as well as neurologically. Now, your body is perceived that is your new normal and often times you have to re-establish than a new link tension related. Ation ship and The New Normal and a more functional pattern so it can take anywhere from one miraculous. Instantaneous moment, which does happen or it can take several months and even years if you've had something for an extended time or it's extremely severe. So I wish I had a good set answer for you but it can take a little bit. The other thing too, is often times some people will get worse before they get better especially in chronic conditions. So So it might take a little bit for you to kind of rally up in, see that Improvement."

The biggest challenge I have faced as a chiropractor has been the pandemic, when I had to close my doors for 6 weeks. However, I was able to use the time to work on content, social media, blogs, and videos to make the best of the situation.
 
Transcript: "What challenges have I faced in my practice as a chiropractor. So I guess we'll talk about business challenges. There are some clinical challenges as well, but from a business standpoint early on in practice, it was the same as any small business. How am I going to pay my rent? At the end of this month? Of where are these patients going to come from? And are they going to come back and see me? Visit Chiropractic business models vary greatly from a constant stream of new patients. Always Getting new patients in to more of a wellness model which is theoretically, when you have 10 new patients they all stay on with care for regular adjustments or regular care and feedback. That business model is a little bit more sustainable and has a lot more of a community feel. So that's my business model, is more making sure that we're staying in touch with our patients and that they're coming in regularly for care. But initially early on it was, you know, that was the question was where these new She's going to come from the biggest challenge we've ever had, though. Obviously was during the pandemic when we have to close our doors for six weeks. Manda mandated in the state of Colorado. We were told that we could treat people virtually and do Telehealth, which is incredibly difficult in my profession because it involves putting her hands on people. However, we had a plan established for something like that to happen. We were able to cover everything we needed to cover and keep our heads up, chins up. Work on our social media work on content, and blogs, and make some videos. And we did, we made lemon out of lemonade, I guess that you could say. I do hope that never happens again though."

The popping noise heard during chiropractic adjustment is the joint freeing up from being stuck together and having that sliding and gliding. This is caused by the facet joints on the back of the spine releasing pressure which produces a POP sound. The fluid then seeps back in to allow for proper restoration of motion.
 
Transcript: "What is the popping noise? I hear when I go to Chiropractic adjustment, okay, little quick Anatomy lesson. The facet joints are on the back of the spine. They are the small joints in between each vertebrae that are meant to slide and glide when you move normally, okay. We are able to identify with our hands joints that totally using layman's terms. Here are stuck together. So what that popping noises is the joints freeing up from being stuck together and having that sliding and gliding. So you can see the position of the joints here is relatively flat. So I like to describe this as somewhat of a suction cup phenomena there. Convex? Okay? And they have synovial fluid between them. So if the suction cup is stuck to a mirror, even if it has fluid between it or a piece of glass and it gets stuck, you can't pry that you can't pull that off. If you try to pull, you can't massage it or acupuncture it or take a ibuprofen or heat. Or ice to soften that up. The only thing that's going to relieve that, or get that suction cup off of that piece of glass or mirror is prying it open and you'll often hear about a POP when you do that. So that's gas. Releasing long story, short or long, explanation short. That's basically just the pressure releasing from the joint and then the fluid seeping back in to allow for that. Proper restoration of motion, I hope that helps"

Vitamins and minerals beneficial for chiropractic care include magnesium, calcium, joint supplements like glucosamine, chondroitin and MSM, MCHC (micro crystalline hydroxyapatite), vitamin D, Omega-3s, and probiotics.
 
Transcript: "What minerals and vitamins are beneficial for chiropractic care. So, any vitamins, or minerals that support bone health and muscle health, and inflammation will be really beneficial to support your body combination with chiropractic care. So I really like magnesium, calcium, supplements, joint supplements, like glucosamine, chondroitin, and MSM, there's a great bone supplement. That includes MCHC. Mike. Micro crystalline hydroxyapatite, which is great for bone density and healing fractures, things like that. I also really like vitamin D, especially for newborns and any time that we're not getting enough sunlight. Vitamin D is very important for bone and joint health, as well as immune and gut health all them. But as dr. For Kim said all the vitamins and minerals are really essential for us, I like getting as much as I can out of food. There are some things that are hard to get from food like Omega-3s in high enough doses, vitamin D and probiotics. Those are the top three vitamins and minerals I recommend in my practice because they're harder to get from food."

Chiropractic Care affects the nervous system by decompressing areas of the spine that are causing irritation and inflammation, which can help improve the messaging from the brain to the rest of the body. It is also known to help with symptoms such as numbness and tingling in the arms and legs.
 
Transcript: "How does Chiropractic Care affect the nervous system? So the spine and the nervous system. Really go hand-in-hand, because the spine is the protector as well as the delivery method of the nerves from the brain to the rest of the body. Whether it's muscles moving extremities or whether its internal organs. So how does Chiropractic Care affect the nervous system? That is something that we are really interested in knowing more about but we do know that when there is maybe too much. For lack of a better word irritation inflammation. Compression on any given area of the spine, it can really affect the messaging from the brain to the rest of the body. So decompressing that area with some type of adjustment soft tissue work or decompression manipulation has a positive impact on the nervous system and overall in general, we do see sort of a constitutionally improved nervous system when the whole body is adjusted. So, it's a, it's a great question, there's a lot more that we need to know about. It, but suffice to say that a safe adjustment done. Well, will have a positive impact on, probably the biggest way that the biggest piece of evidence we have with that as looking at numbness, and tingling into the legs or arms, if that's caused from the spine and an adjustment, to the spine, in the right area, releases that symptoms. So that is kind of one way to sort of be able to picture it."