Don’t Play With Shoulder Pain
Chiropractic and Shoulder Pain
Your shoulders work hard for you. They are depended upon to carry out countless movements during your day. This variety of intricate motion benefits you in doing what you need to do in your life – at work and at play. But, you have been overworking your shoulders if you are currently feeling shoulder pain. Namely, you might be engaging in repetitive activities such as lifting and other arm actions, particularly those done overhead, like throwing a baseball, swinging a golf club or tennis racket, or merely setting things on upper shelves. Nerve inflammation, joint stress, and wear and tear of the tissues surrounding the shoulder joints can take place as the result of these kinds of repetitive motions These repetitive movements shouldn’t actually produce pain if your shoulder is healthy. However, if you are experiencing pain in your shoulder, it is an indication that there’s a problem that needs to be addressed.
Shoulder muscles often become tight, and even weak, when the nerves are irritated, and motion is painful and restricted. This commonly takes place in the ligaments and a group of muscles (and their tendon attachments) known as the rotator cuff. These muscles and tendons attach your upper arm bone with your shoulder blade and also help to lock the ball of your upper arm firmly in its shoulder socket. It is the arrangement of this elegant combination that allows for the greatest range of motion of any joint in your body.
The extremity of this shoulder impingement syndrome can extend from a slight “catching” pain with movement (especially lifting your arm overhead), to a nearly complete loss of ability to use the shoulder. Do not, under any circumstance either tune out your shoulder pain or keep doing an activity while in pain. It is vitally important for you to attend to your shoulder condition as quickly as you can because the problem will only go from bad to worse. Unhappily, if disregarded, some shoulder challenges, such as Rotator Cuff Syndrome, often end up needing surgery and an extended rehabilitation. Your Santa Barbara chiropractor is a specialist in diagnosing and treating muscular-skeletal problems, and knows what to do to relieve your suffering. Santa Barbara Chiropractic management finds the cause of your shoulder pain and it treats it at its source. Your chiropractor will help to restore healthy mobility to your shoulder joints, and will also suggest rehabilitation exercises that will not only assist you in getting rid of your current shoulder pain, but will aid you in preventing shoulder problems in the future.
“No Pain, No Gain?” Not When It Comes to Aging
If you’re over 40 you know that as we age our body doesn’t feel or respond the same way as it did when we were younger. It just doesn’t seem fair that as our mind appears to improve and become more “inventive,” our body seems to become less “cooperative.” We’re stiff in the morning; certain activities during the day make us sore at night; and, if we’re not truly careful, even something as simple as turning too hastily or reaching down to pick up a dropped piece of paper, can send our back or some other muscle group into spasm. The good news is that there is natural treatment accessible that is not only beneficial in slowing down the aging process of the body, but can aid us in avoiding some of those problems completely.
For instance, arthritis. In point of fact, with the exception of pharmaceuticals, traditional medicine doesn’t take care of this age-related affliction. What is the reason? The answer is that most medical practitioners focus only on the symptoms of arthritis. Chiropractic care, in contrast, not only relieves the pain of arthritis, without drugs and their side effects, but it addresses the root of the problem and helps to resolve it. For more than a hundred years, chiropractors, like your Chiropractor in Santa Clara, have been treating people suffering from back pain and other conditions caused by arthritic changes in the musculoskeletal system.
Repetitive stresses, years of incorrect gait and incorrect posture, and lack of beneficial movement produce wear of various joints over time and cause the arthritic changes the body goes through as you age. Chiropractic adjustments bring back motion into your joints and decrease any vertebral misalignments that may be causing irritation and restriction. In addition to causing arthritic changes in the spine and increasing pain, did you know that misaligned vertebra can also weaker your resistance and immunity? It’s true, and this could be one of the reasons why it may seem that as you get older you experience more health issues and that it often takes longer for you to feel better again. According to studies done on seniors, those who received regular chiropractic care stayed healthier. To put it another way, as you get older, chiropractic adjustments are good for what ails you!
When it comes to the health of the musculoskeletal system, chiropractors are highly proficient whether it’s the small, growing frame of an infant or the full-grown body of a mature adult. Your chiropractor is experienced in working with the aging process of the body and has exceptional observational and diagnostic skills that help in locating spinal misalignments and joint degeneration. In fact, a chiropractic examination can often reveal some age-related conditions before they’ve begun to create noticeable pain. Moreover, your Chiropractor in Santa Clara can assess your posture and analyze your gait to identify inappropriate patterns that could cause further arthritic changes.
So, if you have been feeling your age lately, and you’d like to feel a whole lot better, see your Santa Clara Chiropractor today!