Wyoming Family Chiropractic

It's time to get back into the "swing" of things! The weather is warming up and the fairways are calling.

Wyoming Family Chiropractic on Google The weather is warming up, and it's time to get back on the golf course! But before you tee off, be sure to get an adjustment! A chiropractic adjustment can help to improve your range of motion, flexibility, and strength. It can also help to reduce pain and inflammation, which can make it easier to....

Why is 🐯 using ice after his 1st round at Augusta?

Old habits and dogma die hard. Here’s a snippet of what the research says.

Ice vs heat for injuries:

“RCTs have shown that heat-wrap therapy provides short-term reductions in pain and disability in patients with acute low back pain and provides significantly greater pain relief of DOMS than does cold therapy.”

Mechanisms and efficacy of heat and cold therapies for musculoskeletal injury (2015). Mechanisms and efficacy of heat and cold therapies for musculoskeletal injury. Postgraduate Medicine: Vol. 127, No. 1, pp. 57-65.

For runners starting their training regimens, we highly recommend the Pose Method of running.

This method of running used properly can limit impact on knees, injuries to the plantar fascia and hips.

The Pose method also helps conserve energy and decrease impact on the lower extremities.

The effects of stress on your body

https://www.stress.org/stress-effects

During one of my rotations we were working with a patient who had suffered a severe TBI. She was doing much better in her progress but continued to struggle with anxiety.

The doctor I was working with advised the patient that she needed to increase her aerobic activity levels, as she did not really have an exercise regimen. She also recommended that when she would start to feel her anxiety levels rise, she should focus on her breathing and go for a short walk. Nothing crazy, just a little something to move her body and physically increase her heart rate.

This worked really well for her and after adopting a weekly exercise routine (for her it was walking 30-60 minutes a day outside), she began to notice a dramatic reduction in her anxiety episodes.

Move the body…move the brain!

Checkout this Youtuber’s transformation in less than 1 year.

A 24-year-old male YouTuber presented with head and neck pain and paresthesia of the right upper limb for 12 months.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1930043321009146?fbclid=IwAR3rBvJVWhtakjKoNGTxPofw-q-sbicnrK8CsWbzKo-dQlMsKBDy0o7m0wk

RCT Spinal manipulation vs. amitriptyline for the treatment of chronic tension-type headaches: a randomized clinical trial

“Four weeks after the cessation of treatment, however, the patients who received spinal manipulative therapy experienced a sustained therapeutic benefit in all major outcomes in contrast to the patients that received amitriptyline therapy, who reverted to baseline values.”

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/7790794/

Now you know!

I have always wondered about this (sticking my tongue out while I type😛👅😛👅)

Neuroplasticity refers to the brain’s ability to modify, change, and adapt both structure and function throughout life and in response to experience.

Here are some positive and negative ways to stimulate neuroplasticity.

Neuroplasticity is a two-way street.

Most of the time, when I mention neuroplasticity on this page, I am discussing ways to help build positive plasticity in the brain. Positive plasticity is helping the brain change in a more…..well….positive way.

Activities like reading a good book, engaging in positive social groups, getting a good sweat in each day, etc. all help promote positive neuroplasticity.

Negative neuroplasticity, on the other hand, takes over when we engage in activities that can change the brain in unwanted ways.

Activities that are non-stimulating (like scrolling through instagram for 3 hours on the couch(sedentary lifestyle))…by yourself (social isolation), etc…you get the idea.

If we want to build a better brain, we have to focus on daily activities that help promote positive plasticity!

The Island Boys have very prominent metacarpals! Did you know hands can be adjusted to help with and general hand pain.