Natural Arts Chiropractic & Acupuncture

Good morning Sioux Empire! Our providers are out of the office tomorrow Friday 8/30/04 and will return Tuesday 9/2/04. Both have a few spots left today if you wanted in, Dr. Tricia from 12-1 ish and Dr. Tracy from 2-3 ish. Call / Text 605-373-9090.

Overuse injuries getting the best of your body?

August Newsletter: Chiropractic Care for Overuse Injuries Could chiropractic treatment help you manage painful overuse injuries naturally?

Update, TKN in the finals! It will be on right after the men’s final, so about an hour or so.

Its only on ION tv, moving from the Ballys app.

Just because we promised to share…🙂

Here’s where to watch the Manhattan Beach Open semifinals coming up soon!

https://www.ballylive.com/?cuuid=2

If they win the finals are on ION tv which can be found on your regular streaming app (directtv, cable, youtubetv, etc

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Happy birthday to our rockstar do-it-all air traffic controller who handles everything with ease and makes everyone feel welcome with that golden smile! Join us in wishing her a happy birthday! 😃🎂🎂 (shout out to Kathy for putting together the basket! We are blessed to be surrounded by such terrific humans here!!)

Good morning Sioux Empire! We are back stateside catching up this week taking care of everyone. We do plan on doing a writeup of our time overseas for the Olympic games when we get a minute, but for now we wanted to share where the girls are playing this weekend for the American tour’s biggest tournament in Manhattan beach California. We know a lot of you are following so we wanted to provide information to make it easier to watch.

Here ya go!

* The first match today will be at 10 o’clock central time.

* Download the “Ballys” app on your phone or on your smart tv.

* The final matches Sunday should they make it will be on “ION tv” which can be found on most TV streaming services. We will share more links later for that.

https://www.ballylive.com/?cuuid=2

Happy Wednesday! Dr. Tricia had a few cancels this afternoon and has some openings.... FYI she is out of the office for 2 weeks beginning next Thursday... call / text 605-373-9090 if you want to sneak in yet today!

June Newsletter: How Chiropractic Treatments Can Improve Your Range of Motion Having trouble moving your joints? Try chiropractic care!

Its a good read!

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California doctor reveals the 10 big ‘lies’ the medical community is telling patients A California doctor wants people to know that the medical community doesn’t always tell patients the truth. Dr. Robert Lufkin shares an excerpt from his book, "Lies I Taught in Medical School."

Good morning Sioux Empire! Dr. Tricia will be out Thursday and Friday this week but there are some appointments available today and the next few days..... give us a shout at 605-373-9090 (Call OR Text) and we'll get you taken care of!

Good morning and happy Monday! Are we finally going to get some prolonged heat in Sioux Falls? A quick UPDATE for our clinic. As many of you know, both docs will be out of the office from JULY 26 to AUGUST 11th to watch their daughter Taryn participate in the Olympic games!! So crazy, and yes, this is a long time out of the office. SO...we have secured a practice relief doctor from Minnesota to take care of patients during those 2 weeks.

Dr. Ryan Buell practiced in Minnesota from1999 to 2020. He then started a practice relief business and is licensed in multiple states. His practice is much like ours with a focus on relief care with some wellness care as well as Personal Injury and Work Comp. He utilizes the same techniques we do here and in addition he has a background in sports injuries training as an athletic trainer prior to becoming a doctor of chiropractic. We feel very confident he will do a great job for you all!

We will update more on the exact hours / days Dr. Ryan will be filling in for us as it gets closer but wanted to assure everyone we will have someone here to provide care for you. 🙂

Go USA!

Hey NACA followers.... take a second and head over to the Local Best to vote for us in TWO categories...wait ...THREE!

1. Alternative Medicine
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Our providers have seen thousands of athletes over the past 2 decades (including their own collegiate and now OLYMPIAN athletes :) and they'd agree, receiving excellent chiropractic care is VERY beneficial to athletic performance.

May Newsletter: Does Chiropractic Care Improve Athletic Performance? Frustrated by athletic setbacks? Chiropractic care could help you succeed.

FYI Dr. T (no hair) of TNT at Natural Arts Chiropractic will be out of the office this coming Monday May 6th. If you need in before the weekend, shoot us a text or call at 605-373-9090! :)

The good weather is here...or nearly here! Time to get moving, worried about dealing with aches and pains? Recovering from injury? fitness levels? Stamina? Flexibility? Balance? Read this!

April Newsletter: How Therapeutic Exercises Can Help You Heal Wish you could heal faster? Therapeutic exercises from your chiropractor could help.

Happy Monday! This is a 'ask the pros' segment to start the week. So we're going to reach to our friends at South Western Dental in Sioux Falls and put this to them, is this true? What would you recommend Dr. Alica?

TikTok video from London dentist goes viral for revealing 3 surprising times you should not brush your teeth TikTok users are reacting after a dentist in London shared the top moments when you should not rush to brush your teeth. The video has been viewed more than 12 million times.

Shoulder problems? Rotator Cuff problems? Read this!

April Newsletter: How Your Chiropractor Can Help with a Rotator Cuff Injury Chiropractic treatment might be the answer to your rotator cuff pain.

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Terrific research on how chiropractic care FIRST results in significantly reduced health care costs. It makes TOTAL sense. If you dont HAVE to have Xray / MRI plus medical care costs then WHY do it? Sometimes its needed, sometimes we refer for it, but the majority of occasions its unnecessary. Back when all of this care cost everyone $15 copays nobody cared. Now when health care costs 25x times that people are noticing. You don't have to see us, but see a good Chiro FIRST and you will often avoid heavy medical costs. Don't get us wrong here, Medical facilities are absolutely a necessity, we need them, we WILL refer to them if we cannot fix the problem or its out of our scope, and modern medicine is amazing, BUT....if you go see them they will evaluate you and that will often require unneeded costs because medicine HAS to practice in a way to avoid lawsuits. This is what in the industry call CYA testing. :) you figure it out.

Get hurt? See a CHIROPRACTOR.... it will often save you a fortune. Better yet, find someone who works with medicine, refers back and forth. Then your care is the best it will be.

"Patients with spine-related musculoskeletal pain who consulted a chiropractor as their initial provider incurred substantially decreased downstream healthcare services and associated costs, resulting in lower overall healthcare costs compared with medical management"

https://chiromt.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12998-024-00533-4

Its Friday, and its crazy warm outside! Are you going to be outside? Get your kids moving and off their phones.

Did you know?...Research that was printed in The Journal of Science and Medicine in Sport concluded that active kids are more resilient to stress. Researchers think that because CORITSOL (the body's stress hormone) rises when they exercise, their rapidly developing brains will start to 'associate' the a rise in cortisol with something positive. Thus when they are stressed in other situations (exams in school, life situations, etc), their brains have developed somewhat of a natural coping mechanism.

Bottom line; get your kids moving! Computers and phones are absolutely where the world is going and we are all on them ALOT, but you cant just sit, you have to move.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2023/09/230905124926.htm

This suggests three 5 day cycles of this per month... interesting. Who wants to be younger? :)

Fasting-like diet could slow the aging process, study suggests: ‘Living longer and healthier’ A fasting-like diet could help slow down aging and reduce the risk of certain diseases, according to researchers from the USC Leonard Davis School of Gerontology.

😂😂😂 People do tell us they hurt all over and yes, there is a correlation with decade of life.

“CAN YOU TREAT SCIATICA WITH JUST STRETCHING?”

We’ve been following some recent fads in stretching facilities. A question was posed on their page “Can you treat sciatica with stretching?” They answered yes

While stretching is a good thing, and people don’t stretch often enough, I feel there is some misconception here. First, the research indicates when you stretch a muscle, you don’t create permanent change. It doesn’t stay ‘lengthened’. That muscle goes back to its original length very shortly after the stretch. You can move better but the reason is your pain receptors are essentially turned off or ‘turned down’ after stretching and your body undergoes hormonal changes that ‘feel good’. Its not ‘tight muscles’ that limit you, its your body’s pain response. Don’t get us wrong, we often stretch out many people either before or after we treat them with our main therapies. It is a very useful therapy but we feel it is being over pitched in this case.

Second, to answer the question; “Can stretching treat Sciatica?”
The answer is no.

Why? Just so there’s no arguing on sources and expertise, we’ll quote the Mayo Clinic here;

“Sciatica refers to pain that travels along the path of the sciatic nerve. The sciatic nerve travels from the buttocks and down each leg. Sciatica most often happens when a herniated disk or an overgrowth of bone puts pressure on the lumbar spine nerve roots. This happens "upstream" from the sciatic nerve. This causes inflammation, pain and often some numbness in the affected leg.”

The KEY here is that often the real cause of true sciatica is a spur or disk that is bulged/herniated and is applying pressure to the nerve just as it branches away from your spinal cord in between the vertebrae of your spine to go down through your hip to your leg.

In fact, the ‘test’ we do to determine if this may be happening is called the “straight leg test”. We’ll literally raise your leg straight without any knee bend and ‘stretch’ you this way, a positive test, or bad result if you will, is if you get pain at a certain degree of this ‘stretch’. We then modify this and stretch the calf out and depending on your pain location / intensity, we can then tell if its likely that you have true sciatica from a pinched nerve root by the spine.

To confirm this, we can order MRI which shows the exact location of nerve root pinching and what is causing it. Side note: X-Ray only shows bone and will not show the nerve root or disc because they are mainly composed of water.

If this is the case and MRI confirms a COMPRESSED NERVE ROOT, then that person is suffering from true sciatica.

Evidence based treatments from a physician level provider that we do in office include;

1. TRACTION (yes home inversion tables count, but some people cannot tolerate being upside down due to head rush or other health factors, and it can be tough to control the force. Some people do great with them)

2. FLEXION-DISTRACTION on a specialized table

3. JOINT MANIPULUATION /JOINT ADJUSTING

4. ULTRASOUND THERAPY

5. MEDICAL CARE COLLABORATION: We often include medical doctors in this routine and obtain MRI and sometimes they’ll add steroids, either orally with a pill or an injection just like a mother about to give birth gets.

6. ACUPUNCTURE; this can be done along the nerve path to simply modulate pain. It does not ‘fix’ or ‘treat’ the nerve root impingement. We are simply buying time with this therapy.

7. If the impingement does not go away within a certain time frame, and/or weakness in the leg develops, then surgery may be required.

Simply ‘stretching’ muscles will often irritate sciatica, you are not going to ‘loosen’ the nerve root impingement. By pulling on the legs and stretching them all over, you will likely irritate the nerve root.

NOW…if the nerve is caught in the muscle groups lower away from the spine, this is different and not 'true sciatica', but this takes skill to differentiate and if you are not a physician level provider such as an MD, DO, PT or DC with experience evaluating and treating these, then you are flying blind.

We do this work every single day and have over two decades of experience. We have seen thousands of these cases and felt it was necessary to educate the public.

Have a great weekend!
NACA

Current research indicates neck muscles are a primary factor in headaches; migraine OR tension type. Suffer with headaches? We can help! Text / Call 605-373-9090

The concepts in stretching facilities involves increasing mobility and flexibility. This concept is nothing new. This is EXACTLY what our providers do here all the time. Our doctors introduce joint mobility through joint manipulation / mobilization AND target muscle groups with specific exercises and stretches. These come from many disciplines and 20+ years of experience; from yoga to classic PT programs, and sports rehabilitation areas. If you struggle with flexibility and mobility, give us a call! 605-373-9090.

New year, new routine: A guide to basic stretching for better overall health During an appearance on "Fox & Friends" in 2022, StretchLab flexologist Patrick Fernandez demonstrated several smart stretches to keep the body in good health, fit and limber.

Well happy Monday! Winter is HERE. lol We ARE OPEN but of course have many rescheduling due to the conditions out there.

Text/Call 605-373-9090 if you need in OR if you need to reschedule for a different day.

REMINDERS! Use your legs / core when shoveling, don't just rely on your back and 'twist' to flip the snow. That = back pain. Take your time and be sure to breath normally. Lifting heavy snow in the cold while straining / holding breath = heart attacks! Just TWO minutes of shoveling snow can create heart rates that are 85% maximal heart rate, which is the same as intense aerobic exercise. If you arent use to this, it can be a big problem!

Hope everyone's Christmas weekend was terrific! FYI We are back at it today until 1:00 and then here normal hours the rest of the week. Drive safe out there and it looks like winter is making a brief pit stop back to the Dakotas this year!

Happy Monday! We know many of you have been waiting for us to get this for this terrific metabolism / weight loss product back in stock since MARCH! You 'might' be able to find it online through secondary resellers but then you're not sure what exactly you're getting and if its legit / not expired repackaged / etc. This is directly from manufacturer and it has been out of stock for some time. Text / Call 605-373-9090!