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Strategies to improve balance and support healthy aging in your patients

Chiropractic Economics

1 The aging patient presents many complex conditions that can affect all the body’s major systems. Most of the issues that result in a patient seeking care from a DC are usually associated with joint pain of the extremities and back and neck pain, usually due to osteoarthritis.

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How Custom Orthotics Improve Posture and Spine Health

Reinhardt Chiropractic

How Custom Orthotics Improve Posture and Spine Health Custom orthotics play a vital role in improving posture and supporting spine health. They help correct imbalances that may be affecting your posture and overall spinal health. Over time, this misalignment can lead to chronic pain and poor posture.

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Treating cervicogenic headaches with dry needling and manual therapy

Chiropractic Economics

10 The study’s results demonstrate the application of dry needling of suboccipital and upper trapezius muscles induces a significant improvement in headache symptoms, functional rating index and range of motion in patients with cervicogenic headaches. This is often termed a rams horn presentation.

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Brachioradial Pruritus: The Neuropathic Itch Every DC Should Recognize

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2) Chiropractors routinely encounter patients with neuropathic itching, particularly conditions like brachioradial pruritus, as they often stem from cervical spine dysfunction and nerve irritation. 9) Neuropathic itch is more common in patients with systemic triggers like sensory polyneuropathy (e.g., 12) What Causes Neuropathic Itch?

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A comprehensive guide to attaining spinal stability

Chiropractic Economics

DCs play a pivotal role in assessing and enhancing spinal stability through manual therapies, corrective exercises and patient education. Anatomy and biomechanics of spinal stability Stabilizing subsystems Passive subsystem Comprises vertebrae, intervertebral discs, ligaments and joint capsules. erector spinae , rectus abdominis ).

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Adolescent posture assessment

Chiropractic Economics

Recent studies indicate a multimodal approach to adolescent posture corrections proves the traditional chiropractic marketing slogan. “As Depending on the definition of weak posture, the literature indicates that up to 65% of adolescents aged 10-18 have postural weakness, which is believed to lead to neck and back pain as adults.

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Discover Better Posture: Chiropractic Care in Atlanta

Any Spine

This article will shed light on the integral role chiropractic care plays in improving posture and, consequently, your overall well-being. Detecting postural issues early can prevent a host of alignment-related health risks, including persistent back pain that might lead to insurance claims.

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