The Importance of Blood Supply

Blood supply is terribly important for every cell of the body.  When I say that, most people would say “Duh.”  But really think about that.  When blood vessels supplying the heart muscle become clogged and the heart muscle is starved of blood, we call that condition a “heart attack.”  When blood flow to the brain is restricted, that leads to a stroke.  Blood loss to the limbs; you can guess is not good.  There are several problems when blood is subtracted from the tissues of the body.

Let’s think about the condition of arthritis for a moment.  In Latin the word “arthritis” means “joint inflammation.”   What happens in the joint to get “joint inflammation?”  The circulation through the joint has been restricted so fluid is building up in the joint area.  That introduces us to pain.  Where does the pain come from?  Pain is a nerve stretch sensor in the tissue.  You can test that for yourself by pulling your finger backwards.  You will notice pain begins when you pull it back too far.  Tissue is either stretched due to stress or stretched due to inflammation.  So the increase of fluid in the joint space stretches the tissue and sends a pain stretch signals to the brain. 

The increase of fluid over the joint space is fluid that is not circulating well.  This translates to the cell trying to survive in its own waste bi-products, and starving from the restriction of new nutrients.   After a little time the cell stops functioning.   An example of a cell that stops functioning in a joint is the “Chondroblast.”  This is a cell that builds connective tissue like cartilage.   Another cell is the “Synovial cell.”  This is a cell that produces the jelly like cushioning substance in the joint space called Synovial fluid.  No doubt those of you that have arthritis have heard the term “bone on bone.”  This is a result of the loss of Synovial fluid.  

So just how did the blood supply become restricted in and around the joint space?   This happened either through injury, repetitive use, or chronic lack of motion.   With an injury the tissue experiences little rips (sometimes big gashes) and in the repair process the subsequent split is closed and overlapped in order to secure the tissue.  The tear introduced disruption to small capillaries and the overlapping or shortening of the tissue impeded the larger capillaries.  Blood supply to the joint re-routed and often times did not supply the same tissue with new blood.  This lack of fresh blood supply or restricted blood flow led to lack of fresh nutrition to the area, inability to flush out metabolic waste, and the buildup of mineral deposits like calcium around the damaged area.  An example of what causes an injury is a car accident or a fall.  With repetitive use, small micro tears begin when the muscle over works.  The repair process for a micro tear and a larger rip is about the same leading to disturbance of the blood supply.  An example of this is like a baseball pitcher’s shoulder or a factory worker’s low back having stress on them over and over again.  With chronic lack of motion or static posture, blood circulation is reduced.  For example, constantly having your head forward with bad posture, or working long hours on the computer, or any activity that requires bending forward for an extended time leads to lack of blood flow.   The heart beats and pushes blood through the body and depends partly on the movement of muscle to help squeeze blood back to the heart.  When we take an x-ray or MRI it would reveal loss of joint space, disc degeneration, and bone spurring. 

So that is what is going on with the joint during degenerative joint disease.  You can get this in the shoulder, hands, neck, low back, hip, knees, ankles, and basically any joint area of the body.  So what is the fix?  Some elect surgery to shave off bone spurs, cut out damaged disc material, or fuse the bones.  Let’s think about that for a moment.  Since the joint has gone through a lack of circulation due to some sort of scar tissue in the joint space, does it make sense to cut the same space?  Remember that cutting in surgery is still cutting and cutting creates more scars.  Does it make sense to have the joint manipulated harshly?  Micro or Macro tears still are tears and introduce scar tissue.  I’ve found a number of ways to increase circulation to the joint and improve the normal motion of the joint without introducing scar forming trauma into the joint.

One way of increasing circulation into the joint is to increase overall circulation.  With an exercise that does not put direct pressure on the joint that is damaged, you work towards getting your heart rate to a range of 120 to 140 beats per minute for a solid five minutes per day.  That is perfect work for your heart and the rest of the body.  Next is the need to increase capillary development in the injured joint space.  This can be accomplished by stretching the joint space for 30 seconds 2 to 3 different ways about four times a day.  The stretch should not be painful but you should feel the stretch.  This will release chemicals from the tissue that will stimulate your body to build capillaries in that space. 

In my clinic I use low level laser to stimulate circulation in the joint area.  I also use controlled microburst adjusting with an impulse instrument.  This allows me to retrain the muscles for correct motion without introducing any new rips in the muscle.  This also stimulates good blood flow and reduces the swelling of the joint.  So the name of the game is to restore great blood flow through the joints.  This, I have seen, leads to the restoration of the joint and the reduction of the degeneration. 

How does a joint form arthritis?

Several people get the diagnosis that they have arthritis and assume that is some kind of condition that they can not get help with. There are several types of arthritis.  Some are autoimmune disorders.  I am not writing about those at this time.  I am concentrating on the kind of arthritis that comes from degeneration of a joint via overuse and external damage.   The diagnosis is a little more general than specific by definition. The word arthritis comes from the Latin root "arthro" meaning joint and "itis" meaning swelling. How many people can I tell have joints that are swollen? When knees hurt after working out, could I tell a person they have arthritis? What about when someone worked hard with their hands and they hurt, can't I say they have arthritis of the hands? And what is the common medical remedy for arthritis? Isn't it an anti-inflammatory? A prescribed ibuprofen that reduces inflammation. Celebrex is an anti-inflammatory. Are anti-inflammatories all that good for the human body?

First, let's look at what is taking place in the body under normal conditions: The joint consists of two bones inter-related to form a point of movement. Covering the bones are cells called synovial cells. On the bone side of the synovial cells the blood vessels bring nutrients to the cells. On the joint side of the synovial cells, the cells produce synovial fluid (a runny jelly like substance). This synovial fluid keeps the joint connective tissue healthy and provides a cushion to the joint. Surrounding the joint and forming a capsule is connective tissue, ligamentive material that is tough and flexible. Running over the joint is tendons that attach muscle to the bones above and below the joint in order to move the joint.

In healthy conditions the muscles contract pulling on the bones and the joint flexes according to the design of the joint. Everyone has several different types of bone joints like joints that act like a hinge or a one directional mover like a Elbow joint. Some joints act like a ball and socket like the shoulder joint. Some joints are like a rotational joint that can flex a little with some pivot and side to side motion like the neck joint. Some joints allow small range of motion like the low back joints protecting us from rotational injury.  The muscles move the joint.  Blood vessels carry nutrients and oxygen to the joint.  Nerves give correct information back and forth between the brain and the body.

The muscles move the joints around.  Located throughout the muscle is blood vessels and nerves.  When the muscle strains and sprains small cellular breaks happen in the muscle.  Supportive cells lay down new connective tissue to repair the breaks.  The blood vessels may get interrupted and circulation will be altered. If this happens over and over again then the muscle's flexibility and elasticity becomes reduced.  The circulation through that same space is altered and reduced.  Nutrients and oxygen is reduced to the joint.  The synovial cells starve for nutrition and reduce synovial fluid production.  Muscles become tighter around the joint.

These things make the joint feel stiff.  When we move some, we feel pain from tighter muscles stretching.  Sometimes we feel pain from the bones of the joint pushing together.  This stretch and pain releases inflammatory chemicals to cushion the joint.  These chemicals cause more stretch of muscle, ligaments, and tendons sending more signals of stretching pain to the brain. After a while we give in and take anti-inflammatories.  These anti-inflammatories contain chemicals to stop the prostaglandin molecules and COX molecules.  Yes, this reduces the inflammation.  Guess what though..., prostaglandin is also needed to make more connective tissue.  So we stop the inflammation but also we stop the production of connective tissue like important cartilage and synovial fluid.  Oops!  Some one goofed on this one.

The better solution to arthritis is in prevention.  We need to restore the normal movement of the joint. This is done by re-aligning the bones in proper joint position, retraining the muscle to be elastic and flexible, increase the circulation through the area, and restore the nerve function.  Chiropractors are the only practitioners who are trained over four years to do exactly this type of work.  I would not trust this work to someone with a weekend seminar training, a 64 hour specialty training, or even a two year training coarse.  The best trained individual to restore normal joint movements are chiropractors who have trained four years in school for this and have lots of experience with correcting joint movement.  Now there are limitations to the joint.  If the degeneration of the joint has gone for such a long time some repair may be nearly impossible.  I say nearly because as long as you have blood moving through your body, you can make a difference to the joint.  However, saying that, I also have to note that restoration of joints takes time and effort.  Sometimes the damage is so extensive that the majority of us would not continue with the repair process.  So the best thing to do is catch things early.   

Bone and Joint

My job is to reduce "Subluxations" in order to restore health to the human body.  Let me explain; a Subluxation is related to a joint in the body. A subluxation is the "less than" a "luxation" or dislocation of a joint. So a subluxation is a joint that is not in normal location but is not separated and out of location completely.  

The 'joint' is a union where two bones come together as a hinge, ball and socket, rotating, or gliding moving parts. Around the joint is a capsule that keeps a semi jelly like fluid in contact with the joint.  The capsule is made up of connective tissue that is spongy and elastic.  The fluid is called synovial fluid and is produced by blood vessels discharge of atoms and molecules through special joint cells into the joint space.  The special joint cells are found covering the two bones of the joint and are called synovial cells .  The fluid produced by these cells acts like lubrication and nutrition for the all of the joint. That is the simplicity of the joint.

Next is the voluntary skeletal muscle.  These muscles move the bones around which actually moves us around.  The muscles work using fulcrums and levers to move us.  Every muscle is a pulling muscle.  When we push anything we are actually pulling a muscle that moves a bone in a push direction.  We generally call a bone pulled into a push direction an open direction movement.  For example, when we push away from the table, our hands are in contact with the table and the triceps (the muscle in the back of our arm) pulls at the attachments at the shoulders of the humerus bone and the attachments at the elbows on the ulna bone. This action opens the arms up into a straight position thus pushing us away from the table. (Several of us need to practice this more.)

In the muscles are nerves.  Nerves are cells that transport electrical/chemical impulses and convert impulses into chemicals that are used to communicate with target cells like the brain cells or the muscle cells. Some nerves come from the brain to tell the muscle to contract. Other nerves report back to the brain the activity of the muscle. Information that is most important from the muscle is how long the muscle is, how short the muscle is, how fast the muscle is changing, and how far the muscle can stretch. These nerves are very important to the function of the muscle.  There are also nerves that come from the joint and goes to the brain to tell what is happening with the joint.

The muscles and nerves receive oxygen and nutrients from the blood supply.  The blood is carried through the muscle by capillaries (small blood vessel tubes).  In that muscles work hard, they need energy.  The energy is produced inside the muscle.  The fuel for the energy production is oxygen and glucose (a molecule found in a lot of our food we eat) and the "waste products" are carbon and hydrogen atoms.  The oxygen, glucose and carbon/ hydrogen atoms must be moved to and away from the muscle cell all the time.  When this doesn't happen the cells start to die.  This is called "ischemia.:"  When circulation stops around the heart cells we call it a "myocardial infarction" or best known as "heart attack".  When circulation stops around the brain cells we call it a "stroke."  We need good circulation in the muscle to keep all the muscle cells healthy.

Amongst the muscle cells and the capillaries are other cells called chondrocytes and a variety of blast cells that patch, repair, support and build connective tissue.  These are very necessary cells because the muscles work really hard and often break and strain the connective molecules with all the flexing and contraction we put ourselves through. So we need repair all the time.

In between the muscle and the outer skin is fat cells, dermis cells, more fat cells, and finally skin cells.  These cells are richly supplied with nerves and blood vessels.  When chiropractors talk about subluxation we often talk about a subluxation complex.  That subluxation complex involves the bone joint, the muscles, the nerves, the blood vessels, the connective tissue and supporting cells.  A subluxation complex is the alteration of the position of the joint, the muscle contraction imbalance, the nerve irritation and improper function, the circulation dysfunction, and the supporting tissue swelling/ tenderness.

The human body has a core nervous system that consists of the brain and spinal cord.  This allows us to collect information about our environment and make valued responses to our environment.  The internal organs like the heart pushes blood around the body. The lungs exchanges oxygen and carbon dioxide regenerating the oxygen carrying capacity of the blood.  The stomach and intestines lets us convert food into molecules for the rest of the cell's nutritional needs.  The kidneys and liver allows our body to regulate the molecules moving around our body.  The hormone centers in the body helps regulate activities on a large scale.  (All of these body activities I will explain in future articles to help understand these systems better.)  Considering the voluntary skeletal muscle mass makes up over 50% of our body.  Also to note the central core nervous system is protected by 24 bones of our spine with lots of muscle around each bone.  We can say during a typical day over 50% of our health is directly related to how our muscles and skeletal structure operates.  Subluxations effect over 50% of our daily health.  Actually when the subluxation is with the joint of the spine that carries the information to and from the brain way more than 50% of our health can be effected. (That is the topic for another article.)


My job is to re-align the joint, improve the muscle contraction balance, relax the nerve and restore the normal function, improve the circulation, and bring down the swelling and tenderness.  When I do that through a variety of therapies the body can return to normal health and strength.            

body in accident

The human body is designed to do just about anything we want to do, with some limitations. For example our bones can withstand huge amounts pressure. In studies of human bone strength the scientists took long bones from several cadavers and subjected them to forces from top to bottom, pulling them apart, and from the side. It was found that human bones could withstand top to bottom compression forces of 22,000 pounds per square inch, pulling apart force of 10,000 pounds per square inch, and sideways force of 5,000 pounds per square inch. That's incredible. The connective tissue is hard to test because no person alive will subject themselves to an experiment to test when their ligaments will fail. Studies on dead tissue will not prove accurate because the tissue is missing blood supply and regular repair mechanisms that are in place in our body. What we do know about the human body when it undergoes injury is the following:

• The immediate effects of an abrupt surprise start or stop accident are small or large ruptures in the muscle and connective tissue.
• Bleeding over and through the torn muscle and connective tissue.
• Clotting of the bleeding tissue.
• Dead cells, clots and fibers covering the places of bleeding much like a scab on the skin of the body
• The separate parts of the torn muscle and connective tissue are pulled together by the clotting tissue.
• Tender new cells are formed to replace the old torn tissue
• The tender new cells mature and improve in strength and elasticity.

Because of these processes listed above it is normal to feel the following after an accident:

• A sense of looseness and lack of control because of the small or large tears in the muscle and connective tissue. Usually felt immediately and can last up to two weeks depending on how much damage was caused
• A feeling of pressure, achiness, and swelling because of the bleeding, clotting, and dead cell accumulation in and around the torn tissue. Usually felt two to three hours after the accident and can last up to three months and longer if the tissue is being torn again and again.
• A feeling of stiffness and restricted movement because of the clotting material pulling the torn ends together. Usually felt from three days after the accident and can be indefinite if the tissue is not conditioned correctly.
• A feeling of strength restrictions due to the new and tender tissue replacing the old dead tissue. Usually felt around two weeks after the accident and can get worse if the tissue does not heal in a good condition.
• A loss of normal range of motion and continued swelling and soreness if the torn tissue does not heal correctly.

It is important after a surprise start or stop abrupt injury to help the body heal the soft tissue just like a correct setting of a broken bone. Soft tissue also needs specific care to heal right and true.

What happens in a car accident

This is a reprint of an old post because it is still important information:
When a motor vehicle accident occurs, the outcome is highly variable depending on multiple factors involved in the accident like:

• Speed of the vehicles involved
• Size of the vehicles involved
• Road conditions for the vehicles involved
• Direction of the vehicles involved
• Position of the seats of the vehicle passengers
• Positions of the passengers in the vehicle
• Type of restraints on the passengers in the vehicle
• Type of deployment for the passenger restraints

One key thing to remember when evaluating an accident is to remember one of Newton's laws that is that an object in motion will remain in motion until a sufficient equal and opposite force brings that object to a stop. Another thing to remember is that momentum can be transferred from one object to another. Often it is assumed that because the vehicle did not show much damage on the exterior, then the passengers should sustain little damage. The other assumption is that because the impact speed was low, the damage to the occupants is low. Let's handle the speed issue first. How slow is slow? NFL lineman usually clocks in at 4.9 to 5.2 seconds for a 40 yard sprint. That works out to about 16 miles per hour. How much damage can a NFL lineman cause to a person standing still, when he hits them in the middle of the back going full speed? What happens when we double the weight of the lineman and cut the speed in half? The force is still the same. What happens if we triple the mass of the lineman and cut the speed to one third as fast? Still this is the same force. According to the New York Times the average car sold in 2003 weighed 4021 pounds. An average NFL lineman weighs 300 pounds. The average car weighs 13 times more than an average NFL lineman. That means that the average car traveling about 1 mile per hour would have as much force as an average lineman does when he hits someone running at top speed. So if the average car hits an object at 5 miles per hour, that would equal an NFL lineman hitting the object at 80 miles per hour. What do you think would happen to that object? The bigger the vehicle doing the hitting, the greater the force is.
The vehicle damage does not determine the amount of damage to the passengers inside the car. This point is a little complicated to explain but imagine two cars of equal size. The car in front has the brakes firmly in place applied to great tires with a firm grip on the road. The striking car is of equal size and hits the front car at 10 miles per hour. In this scenario the front car driver has strong and immovable pressure on the brakes and is firm in the seat with head firmly against the head rest. The cars are of equal size and the brakes and friction against the road is acting as the equal and opposite force pressing against the striking car. The results will be skid marks on the surface of the street, rear end damage on the front car, and front end damage on the back car equaling 10 miles per hour times 4000 pounds. Because the passenger was firm in the seat and firm on the brakes, the passenger did not travel independent of the car and the protective seat along with both vehicles absorbing the force of the impact through the crumpling metal protected the driver of the front car. The cars sustained extensive damage and the passenger in the front car was pressed into the cushioned seat and sustained little damage. The elasticity of the seat shot the drivers head forward at a reduced speed because the momentum was absorbed by the seat and the car metal. So the outcome for the driver of the front car is better than what it could be. The driver of the back car had head speed forward, because an object in motion will remain in motion until forces equal and opposite can act on that object to bring it to a stop. The air bag deployed and absorbed the force of the head traveling forward, so the driver of the back car might also fair good despite the gross look of the cars. Let's use this same scenario but change the front car driver's pressure on the brake and position in the seat so that the drivers head is six inches forward from the head rest. The striking car hits the front car and the front car leaps forward at 10 miles per hour in 0.053 seconds. The brake is not well deployed because the front car leaping forward has the driver pressed into the seat and the foot has left the brake. The front car has sustained little damage because it acted like a billiard ball bouncing away from the impact, but the front car driver's head travel back at 10 miles per hour in 0.053 seconds for 6 inches. The driver's head hit the head rest and recoiled forward about the same speed less the cushion absorbing the momentum. The driver's soft tissue in the neck sustained a great amount of damage although the car appears lightly scathed. Now just imagine the vehicle in the back was twice the size of the front car, but the speed was half and much. Just like before, the force is the same, and the outcome will be similar.
Next post will be about the soft tissue damage that the driver's body undergoes when involved in this type of accident.

Back Surgery?

For over thirteen years I have been a chiropractor. I love being a chiropractor so very much. It is so awesome to help people heal who could not find resolutions for their problems anywhere else. It is very gratifying to see that by correcting the spinal dysfunction, the nervous system starts to work again and their health improves. I love working outside the normal medical model and having multiple different tools for health care at my disposal. Yes it is true that not everybody has responded to the care I have delivered, but on the majority I have enjoyed helping people achieve better health. To the people I have not helped, "I am sorry that I could not help you. I am constantly studying to find resolutions for your various health problems and I am confident that in the future I will be able to help you."

Recently I was asked my professional opinion about surgery for a low back disc degeneration. I want to share what I shared with my client: I am biased about outcomes for surgery and chiropractic care. Just imagine for a moment, I see most of the surgical failures in my office. Would I see the surgical successes? Why would I ever see the successes from surgery? Those people would have no reason for coming to me and seeking my help for that same successful health care resolution. So when clients ask if I would recommend surgery, I am tainted by the countless cases over the thirteen years in practice of surgical failures. Like wise if the patient found resolution using physical therapy or any other medical approach, I would not see them in my office for those same health concerns. So I have been biased because of the medical failures I have seen over thirteen years. Now lets put the shoe on the other foot. Why would a surgeon see the chiropractic patient who had successful resolution to their health care concern? The surgeon's clientele are those people who have been unsuccessful at other resolutions. True I am talking in generalities, some people use medical intervention as the first step and some people use chiropractic care as the first step to help them with their health care concerns, but at least over sixty percent of my clientele had medical intervention failures. In short, if the patient has sought out resolution for difficult cases, the medical, chiropractic or any other practitioner has seen the patient who had failure with the other practitioners. So each profession will be biased by their past experience. If you have ever seen my right hand and the surgical failure you would know why I personally can not recommend surgery. I am personally biased especially when I experienced the same type of injury on my left hand, sought chiropractic therapy and found success with it.

S0 what is the resolution to the bias from each practitioner. We doctors need to:

• recognize that we are not the 'cure all' for everybody.
• learn and perform our healing art form very well
• keep an open mind to alternatives
• shelf our ego and place the over all health of our clientele above everything else
• continue to advance the science around our healing art
• inform our clientele about those things we know and not about our conjecture
• recognize that not everybody is the same and can not be treated the same

What Many People Don’t Know About Chiropractic And What We Can Do For YOU*

In just a moment I’m going to tell you some very interesting information about Chiropractic that most people do not know – but more importantly – what it can do for you and how it might even change your life.

This is really good stuff… especially if you have back pain now or have ever had back pain in the past. But first, there is something else you should know about. I think you’ll really like it.

Did you know that the use of Aspirin dates all the way back to around 400 B.C.? It’s true. The father of modern medicine, Hippocrates, who lived sometime between 460 B.C. and 377 B.C., left records of pain treatments. And these historical records included the use of a power from the bark of the willow tree to treat fever, headache and various pains.

It wasn’t until 1829 that scientist started figuring out what was going on. That’s when they discovered a compound called salicin in the willow plant was responsible for the pain relief.

In that same year, scientists were able to turn salicin into salicylic acid. The problem was that salicylic acid was very rough on the stomach and mouth… which limited its use. Then in 1853 a German scientist named Gerhardt buffered it. Although it worked, it was time consuming and Gerhardt stopped working on it because he didn’t think it was worth it.

OOOOPS!

Because in 1897 a German pharmacist working for a German pharmaceutical company Bayer, starts looking for a solution for his fathers rheumatism. His name is Felix Hoffmann and he “re-discovers” Gerhardt’s work and in 1899 patents a “new” pain reliever under the name aspirin.

As a quick and interesting side note: During that same month, Hoffmann synthesizes heroin by accident. His discovery of heroin obviously didn’t end up working out as well as aspirin! But one of the truly remarkable things about all this is:


Scientists did not have a clue how aspirin worked until 1971. In that year, John Vane theorized how it worked for which he was awarded a Nobel prize in 1982.

Today over 70 million pounds of aspirin are produced annually all over the world, making it the world's most widely used drug… and scientists still theorize about the exact mechanisms of aspirin.

So what’s all this have to do with
Chiropractic and your back pain?

Here’s what: Believe it or not – Chiropractic and aspirin have many things in common.

First -- they can both be traced WAY back in history.

In fact, Hippocrates, who used a form of aspirin back in 400 B.C., also used a form of spinal manipulation. And so did ancient Egyptians and many other cultures.

But it was not until 1895 that D.D. Palmer invented “Chiropractic.” Chiropractic was new and different because Palmer theorized the nervous system controlled every function of the body and Chiropractic adjustments (specific spinal manipulations) removed interference to blocked or pinched nerves. This, in turn, not only relieved pain… it helped the entire body function better and heal from all sorts of illnesses and diseases.

Just like the willow leaf and eventually aspirin, spinal manipulation got results and became very popular… but the mechanisms were not understood.

But here’s where Chiropractic & Aspirin differ –
in a very big way…

Doctors and scientists had no clue how aspirin worked – but it was hailed by the medical community as a wonder drug and mass-produced.

Doctors and scientists were not sure how Chiropractic worked – so it was branded unscientific and quackery.

Seems a little unfair – don’t you think?

Thank goodness in many areas, research has finally caught up with Chiropractic!

For example, Chiropractic’s ability to help relieve back pain is well researched. It is a safe, effective and cost-effective way to relieve back pain.


How Does Chiropractic Work?...FUNNY YOU SHOULD ASK:




Many times when you have back pain it is caused by a spinal joint sprain – or “subluxation.” Ligaments hold two bones together to form a joint and a sprain occurs when a ligament is injured by over stretching it.

This can happen due to small micro traumas over several years or one acute event like a car accident, sports injury or slip and fall. When the ligament becomes stretched and injured joints do not function properly and delicate nerve fibers can be injured.

Over time, even if untreated, pain can go away even though the spinal joint is not functioning properly. This can lead to flare-ups in the future and degeneration as joint moves improperly and wears out. This is why doing almost nothing – like bending over to pick up a pencil – can cause severe back pain.

Chiropractic adjustments and treatments are designed to normalize spinal motion as much as possible. This allows the spinal joints to heal better.

Here’s a simple way to look at it:

If you broke your arm and didn’t get the bone set properly – it would heal out of place and crooked. The pain might go away in the short term – but there would most likely be big problems in the future. The best thing to do is put everything in place and then let it heal properly.

Chiropractors are experts at getting your spinal bones and joints “in place” and working properly so they can heal correctly.

Chiropractors are also experts at keeping spines functioning properly to minimize future problems – much like periodic Dental check-ups and cleaning prevent tooth decay and loss down the road.

So, if you have back pain, you might want to try something that has a history starting in 400 B.C. with the father of medicine – Hippocrates – and has been practiced, improved and proven to help back pain.

If you do, just give us a call at 480-844-7900 and we will help you in any way that we can; conservatively and affordably!

I hope you found this information interesting and helpful.

Sincerely,

Dr. G. Craig Godard