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Sports Physicals

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The Beginning of every new school year in the fall requires all students attending middle school and high school that want to participate in a school sport to have a sports physical completed and signed by a licensed health provider. All doctors of chiropractic in Colorado are licensed doctors that are experts able to perform any sports physical. Here at Springs Family Chiropractic, we go above and beyond the requirements for any physical exam for a school sport, as we are experts in sports medicine, biomechanics analysis, strength and conditioning, nutrition, and soft tissue injuries!                 Many kids play hard during the summer at sports camps, clubs, or around their own neighborhoods. The commonly acquire sprains, which are injuries and tears to ligaments that support and stabilize joints. A sprain will directly affect training and performing sport that your child participates in. A sprain that is untreated may make the difference for your young athlete between making
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Arthritis Solution!

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Do you suffer from arthritis in your wrists, shoulder, back, hips, knees, or feet? What is really occurring is that the joints have been misaligned, creating abnormal wear and tear on the joints, ligaments, and cartilage. Unfortunately, this can occur from physical, ,chemical, or emotional events that cause stress to our bodies. Once the joint is misaligned, it is unable to self-correct. It does not matter if you stretch, exercise, massage the joints, take pain pills, take vitamins, ice, take a hot bath, or try to sleep it off. The joints will stay misaligned. In time, this becomes osteoarthritis. Doctors have proven that a satisfactory treatment for arthritis is exercise, which gets the joints moving and increases oxygen and blood to the joints, which in turn decreases inflammation. Unfortunately, this does not correct the problem and does not stop the progression of arthritis. Doctors have found the best treatment for arthritis in our joints-a combination of
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Children and Chiropractic Care

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Do your kids jump from the couch, the bed, the stairs, like they’re acrobats? Or stunt doubles in a movie? This is pretty common for kids under youthful energy and fearless minds. Do you have babies or infants that can’t move their head very well or are hitting their head against the crib or always grabbing their neck or head with their hands? Parents see this activity in a baby or infant can be stressful or unsettling. Do your children have allergies or they seem to be sick all the time? This can be sad and frustrating for a child and the parent. A child’s life does not have to stay this way with struggles of health and physical ability. Children get exposed to many different forms of stress as do adults. We expect kids to be resilient, young, and tress free. However they really do have daily stressors that effect the functioning of their nervous system and their health. We’re going to review some of these stressors and how to correct them at your local chiropractic clinic. Fi
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DECOMPRESSION THERAPY

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If you have suffered a recent car accident, trip and fall, sports collision, or repetitive work injury, you may be having some joint problems in the spine and neck we have joints that are connected together with ligaments but in the spine we have a total of nine surrounding each bone. These ligaments are designed to maintain stability for the spinal column so that the bones do not misalign and compress, pinch, or sever the spinal cord, which would impair oxygen, blood and energy control to our organs and muscles. In our spine and neck we also have discs. These discs are called intervertebral discs. The discs are primarily cartilage on the outside with a center that is a gel water substance. Our discs act as shock absorbers when we walk, run or jump to allow forces to be spread out along our spine. These discs also allow space between each bone in the spine for nerves to exit out into the body. All of these ligaments and discs can be injured once or repetitively. Bones will shift out o
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Plantar Fasciitis

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Ever wonder why your feet just ache and burn? You wake up from bed in the morning and walk and you feel like your muscles are tearing. You wonder why sometimes it’s only on one foot but it can be on both feet too.  You’re in luck! You probably have a chronic case of Plantar Fasciitis. Now, separating this condition from severe ankle sprain, bunions, foot surgery to repair broken bones, and the first week of ballet dancing you will know if you have Plantar Fasciitis if the sole of your foot from behind the ball of your feet (commonly where your toes meet your feet) to the inside edge of your heel bone follow that up around the back side of your heel into your achilles tendon and sometimes finishing in your calf. Millions of people suffer with this every year. They try treatments to resolve it such as: super expensive prescribed foot orthotics, special socks, night splints, sports creams, which, unfortunately, have minimal resolution for plantar fasciitis pain. Some individuals will go
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Relief for Carpal Tunnel

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Do you have numbness in your hand or fingers? Do you have a hard time holding things because your hand is weak? Do small repetitious movements hundreds of times a day make your wrist or arm hurt? If these previous symptoms match what you’re presently experiencing you may have Carpal Tunnel. Other conditions may cause symptoms and problems like carpal tunnel. The treatments and the solutions for all of them are pretty similar. Let’s review the anatomy first to understand it. In the neck, nerves come out of the bones in the side of the neck called the Brachial Plexus. These nerves go underneath the collar bone and into the arm pit. Then the nerves run down the arm into the elbow then through the wrist into the hand. These nerves that come out of the neck and into the arm and hand control all the functioning of the arm and hands: oxygen and blood, sensory, and energy for muscles to contract and relax. In the wrist, there are nine little carpal bones. These bones together make an arch
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Whiplash :: Auto Accident

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Have you been in a car or motorcycle accident and decided you weren’t injured, but the next day experienced severe aches and pain in your neck or back? Or perhaps you suffered from a headache, numbness in your hands, legs, or had difficulty flexing your neck or turning your head normally? Maybe you hit your head on the steering wheel, windshield, or headrest during the accident and later experienced headaches, memory loss, blurry vision, or even a painful jaw ache? Or could it be that your symptoms following your accident included chest pain or cramps and spasms in your neck and back? Did you know that during an automobile accident, the most movable object in the car is you… your trunk, neck, and head! Imagine, one thousand pounds of pressure moving through your body in a split second and all of the bones in your neck and spine are mechanically altered by injury at this time. An accident can impact any human, altering the shape of their spine. The airbag, seat belt, and headr
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