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Avoid Re-occurring Back Pain. Here's How -

 

Our office has always enjoyed a very good track record for helping people’s back pains.

          We’re very good at catching horses once they’re out of the barn.

It is said that as many as 80 % of all adults have some form of re-occurring back problem, so it comes as no surprise that one of the biggest questions we get asked is WHY or HOW did my back pain start and how can I avoid it from coming back?

It really doesn’t seem to make a whole lot of sense to keep fixing the same problem and not address     how to avoid it.

 As part of our effort to help people to be a bit proactive and AVOID the problems all together - we have developed a program of back ( and neck…), pain avoidance steps to take that are far less expensive than treating the problem once it has you on the floor, unable to get up.   

Don’t get carried away here. There’s, obviously no guarantees, but if one were to take these steps you could reasonably expect to experience far fewer episodes.

The buzz word for avoiding back problems is simply motion.  Motion is your friend.

 You certainly might not feel like that once your back is all jacked-up but if you keep it moving you will, very likely, rarely get to that point.

 There are other very important parts to this program but that is why the centerpiece of our back pain avoidance program is motion oriented.

                                        How does this work?     

1.  You will first come to our office in Wappingers so that we can test you, to minimize your risk of causing any new injury and determine that you can actually do the drill without causing more damage.

2.   Then you will meet with our personal trainer at our local gym who will guide you through our exercise drill. If you are not a member of any gym or you do not own your own exercise equipment – you will be encouraged to join one. There are several in the area to choose from. 

Don’t worry – weight lifting is not involved in this program, other than proper foot wear, no special clothes to wear, no sweating and really nothing that the average person cannot do. No special skills required and there's nothing to feel insecure about

 The beauty of it all is that it is so effective and it only takes about 25 – 30 minutes.

You will do it every other day for 2 weeks and then increase it incrementally ( a little at a time).

3.  Two weeks later we will test you to see how you’re progressing to being pain free, injury resistant and on your way to not having to be “thinking” about your back every day.

If you’re feeling a little intimidated or even skeptical…That’s to be expected so why not give us a call and we’ll explain it further.

  There’s really no need to continually have your back risk ruining your day – we can show you how to avoid it ever giving you trouble again.

  We’re just a phone call away – Call today for details:  845-297-6688    

 You can do this now or see us later after the horse is out of the barn…

 

 

 

Have Your New Years Resolutions “Stalled”?

Or, are you following through with them?

By the time the holidays are finally over most of us have put on a few extra pounds.

Many people I talk to, however, are at the point that they’re very close to simply giving up. They are so disgusted with themselves that they don’t even try anymore to control their weight.

The good news is it’s never too late to get things under control.

There are simple in-expensive ways to lose weight and get into shape and regain your youthful flexibility and health.

It is not engraved in stone that you must be over weight, out of shape and developing Type II  Diabetes.

At Hannigan Chiropractic we have partnered, in effect, with Medifast or Take Shape for Life to help you lose weight faster (and less expensively) then any other of the name- brand weight loss systems.

This program is also one of the safest on the market because it is one of the only ones actually developed by medical doctors (at John’s Hopkins Research Hospital), for people who desperately needed to lose weight fast for heart related problems.      

Hannigan Chiropractic became involved with Medifast for a similar reason. We felt we were not doing our patients any service if we merely did the chiropractic without helping the underlying cause of the patient’s problem…which was their weight.

In our effort to encourage our patients to get into shape and improve their over-all conditioning, one of the services we provide to our patients is to take them as our guest to the local gym and provide them with and then guide them through a basic “starter workout” program to get them going and then to follow up with them at a later date to ensure they are following our recommendations.

If you need help with your New Years Resolutions let us help you. Call (845-297-6688), for a free evaluation of your body mass index and a basic pre-work-out evaluation including blood pressure screening and a flexibility test.

Then we can design a work out just for you that we will walk you through, basically holding your hand until you get it down the way it needs to be done to give you the most benefit.

Then we can work on lowering your body mass index and your weight with Take Shape for Life.

If you call and come in for weight-loss before the end of January there's a nice savings waiting for you but you have to hurry or you'll miss it and if you bring a friend for the workout program session at the gym your fee for the session wil be waived. 

We're trying to make this easy for you but you have to hurry. By February ...New Years Resolutions aren't fresh and don't carry as much weight anymore         

Did you ever think you might be able to be or at least feel young again?

           You really can!

Realizing and achieving your New Years Resolution is just a phone call away.

It is much easier and more fun to do it with a friend so - bring a friend, or just email this to her so she can hound you into going.

Call today: 845-297-6688            

Feeling the Storm?

 

Have you ever wondered why you ache more just before the storm?

 

It’s actually for the same reason deep sea divers feel pain in their joints if they come up from depth too fast.

 

It’s due to unbalanced pressures.

 

The air around us exerts pressure on us because of the weight of the atmosphere pressing down from all the way up to top of the atmosphere near the edge of space.

 

The weight of the atmosphere is about 14.7 lbs. per square inch.   

 

That’s on a good day.

 

If the weather is going to be turning bad it is typically due to a change or reduction in that pressure.

 

We’re getting a storm tonight and the barometer (a device used to measure the air pressure) is already showing that the pressure is dropping.

 

It’s not a huge drop, but the pressure inside your joints is balanced to match that original 14.7 lbs. / sq. inch.

 

Now it’s not balanced anymore and even a slight difference is going to feel magnified by the pressure on the inside pressing outward against the lesser (outside) pressure pressing in from outside.

 

Why don’t all of my joints hurt then?

 

Only the joints that have been previously injured or are already slightly irritated / inflamed for other reasons are going to feel the pressure changes.

 

Having a joint “stuck”, not moving properly or even slightly out of alignment will cause it to be irritated and become inflamed and thus hurt with weather changes.

 

That is one of the benefits of safe modern chiropractic care. Regular chiropractic care can prevent your joints from hurting when the weather changes. 

How to Fight a Cold

When you have a good fight on your hands it’s a good idea to know the enemy.

 The “enemy” here, is a virus.

      Viruses are around us all of the time, but that doesn't mean you're going to catch every one of them.

Also, no one can give you their cold. You catch a cold only if your resistance is down making you receptive to it.

        Viruses don’t want you when you’re strong and healthy.

                       They want you when you're weak and your resistance is down as when …

• You're cold or feeling chilled.

Feeling chilled lowers your resistance almost more than anything else. Notice how you rarely get a cold in the summer except when going in and out of air-conditioned buildings?

 Stay warm, always dress in layers, wear your coat and hat if going outdoors.

• When you’re dehydrated - Your body needs water as much as food to function.  

Drink lots of water - 4-6 bottles per day        

• When you’re undernourished – Poor nutrition doesn’t supply the proteins and minerals the body needs to function best. What happens when you run your car run on the wrong gas?  It runs...poorly.  

 Eat balanced meals, at home, at least 3 times per day including protein, veggies, fiber and a small amount of carbohydrates.   

• When you’re exhausted – It’s like driving your car at 80 mph for days on end – you’ll wear it out & break down.   

Get to bed and get a regular, uniform night of sleep every night on a set schedule. Know when to quit every day and take a break - there's always a tomorrow.  

• When you’re stressed out – Too much stress (mental, emotional, or physical), and you start making too much cortisol which weakens your immune system. Back Pain is a stress.

        Save time every day to play, get some exercise and have some fun to alleviate the stress in your life. It's like what they say about who to pay first when you get your paycheck - yourself  

• When you’re out of adjustment – it directly affects your nerve system and this directly affects your immune system. One bone in your neck out of alignment can so stress your nerve system and… thus your immune system that you could easily catch a cold or many other problems as    well.                                                                                                                                                           Get adjusted regularly. The over-all effect on your immune system cannot be overstated. Chiropractors don't just do it because it's a business - it's a lifestyle  

All six of the above are important to raising your resistance but correcting any one or ALL of the first five together will not have nearly the same effect as correcting the sixth all by itself.

 So, your best defense against catching and / or fighting a cold is to become an in-hospitable host to the virus that causes it – make yourself so strong that you resist it.

Try it – The next time you start to feel like you’re starting to catch a cold - get adjusted as soon as possible and see what happens – You’ll be amazed.

What’s Your New Year’s Resolution Going To Be?

Let's start the new year off right –

 

Many people think that as they age – That they have to fall apart.

 That's not necessarily true.

The good news is life does not have to be a slippery slope.

         Your health and over-all condition is the cumulative result of all of the choices and decisions you make along the way, not just when you’re chips are down.

  - Every year at this time we all make “New Year’s Resolutions”

                   If not now …I guess – then, when?

But, here’s a crazy idea:  Why not, instead of making a resolution to take an active role in your health and condition, really make a commitment to do so.

 To make a commitment to do this you must not just quietly decide to do it – you have to boldly tell EVERYBODY you know that you’re going to do it.

That way you can’t back out or at least some of those you told you were going to do it are going to call you out on it. 

Commitments are like goals, and for a “goal” to work you have to write it down on a card and look at it every day and also (very important) - tell everybody you know that you are going to do it.

         So go write it down that you are going to…

 

       1 Get into shape – Call my office 845-297-6688 and ask for our simple / basic            

                   conditioning workout program to be sent  (it’s free)

       2 Lose weight - how much? Call my office and give us your weight & height and          

              we’ll tell you how much you need to lose and show you how easy it is to do it.

       3 Cut out the excessive starch, processed food, refined sugars and trans-fats.

       4 Increase your water intake to improve over-all body hydration levels

       5 Cut out the indiscriminate over-the-counter drug use.

       6 Call your chiropractor or if you don't have one ...call us and come in for a free check up          

          (please call 845-297-6688 for an appointment) and

              find out how to really improve and enhance your health as well as your over-all                        

              performance without taking drugs.

 

Just another thought – Whenever you’re trying to do something (assuming you wish to do it well…), doesn’t it make sense to look around you and see just how others (who are already successful at it), are doing it?    

                 It's already done. Why re-invent the wheel?  

 It’s no small coincidence that chiropractors just happen to be the healthiest of all health-care providers with the greatest longevity of any doctors. More chiropractors are involved in more competitive, strenuous, sometimes extreme, endurance sports than any other kind of docs.

                      – Because they can.