Spinal Healthcare is an investment to your health as it promotes a healthy NERVOUS/INFLAMMATORY System which helps you to maintain a strong Immune/Inflammatory System; thereby, promoting many healthy years to your life!
The photo below reveals approximately 333 Red blood cells to 1 large inflammatory White blood cell normal ratio in the blood stream. If your joints are chronically inflamed, the joints are being attacked by the white cells, leaving your blood stream without proper white/red cell counts and at risk of bacterial/viral related infections, colds, viruses, 1.5 million plus per day cancer cells unresolved, cholesterol plaques un-monitored, etc... THE POINT is don't wait to get the CHOKING PRESSURE OFF your nerves, joints, arteries, and related tissues and get your therapy when you need it which helps keep your red blood cells delivering correct levels of oxygen and red cell and immune white cell counts correct in the blood stream as anti-inflammatory pain killer (anti-white blood cell) medication inhibits what little White blood cell count you have left, ADJUST your thinking and get in to stop your joint from robbing your blood stream of its normal counts of immune (inflammatory) cells! YOUR BODY IS YOUR BUSINESS, and with poor management, a business will fail. Proper business management is KEY to a successful business! Dr. Potter is an expert at helping you find the missing key ingredients to allow your business to thrive, metaphorically speaking! Your body is like a car where if you don't take care of it, the car doesn't perform very well. Dr. Potter has seen thousands of patients who've seen chiropractors in the past, yet they were still unaware of these key ingredients to their proper care and unaware of what is driving their problem. Very commonly, Dr. Potter, allows patients more relief then they've ever achieved with previous chiro care, TRUTH. Come in and see for yourself as your results speak for itself.
How does ChiroPractic help?
The spine has 24 freely moving vertebrae with nerves that exit between each vertebra and then travel to a muscle or organ, among all other related structures. The nerves control all functions of all cells and structures-where nerves if untreated begin to involuntarily lock up and will not best circulate with blood, organs, or muscles, and every time you use your muscle the nerve will fire pain signals and the brain will send messages to your inflammatory system to gear up and attack your joint structures that overtime leads to permanent (visible with imaging) damage to your joints. You see, muscles have sensory nerves where their job is to survey nerve signals on a constant basis, and if these sensory nerve cells in your muscles detect improper signals, an involuntary process will start up, and every time you try to use your muscle a pain signal will fire and not allow you to optimally use your muscle. The most common reason for this INVOLUNTARY nerve problem to begin is there has been TOO MUCH RESTRICTING PRESSURE on the nerve for too long AKA pinched nerve, nerve entrapment, strangulated nerve by the muscle(s) etc...
Many times, physicians misdiagnose this simple problem and diagnose the inflammatory problem as an AUTO IMMUNE problem where your immune system is attacking your body for some unknown reason, hmmmmm. Then medical doctors say there is no scientific evidence of nerve being irritated by malalignment, but they will diagnose a pinched nerve and prescribed a muscle relaxer, anti-inflammatory, and pain reliever to help the tight muscle stop pinching the nerve-HMMMMM! What's more, a radiologist M.D. doctor will describe MRI imaging findings of malalignment due to muscle spasms (e.g. loss of neck curve or straightening of the curvature of the neck suggesting evidence of acute muscle spasm). So, when a muscle is holding tight, it pulls the attached bones out of alignment, and will lock, resulting in a pinched painful nerve syndrome.
So, the GOAL with treatment is to restore proper circulation to the blood/oxygen deprived nerves, joints, muscles, and related tissues. This is best accomplished by providing effective scientifically validated forms of treatment not obtainable at home or over the counter to the specific problematic nerve/muscle/joint sites in order to REHABILITATE the nerve to voluntarily circulate best with blood, organs, and muscle(s) and this will help stop the INvoluntary pain/spasm response with movement from occurring which will usually facilitate satisfactory results. But without proper CLINICAL TREATMENT that Dr. Potter ENJOYS providing it is likely this involuntary nerve problem will worsen over time as nerves many times WILL REQUIRE CLINICAL LEVEL PROFESSIONAL GRADE treatment in order to rehabilitate the nerve to properly circulate with blood and muscle and allow normal function to return. Many people try to manage the restrictive pressure with medications, massage, exercise but their movement and strength problems don't seem to be resolved satisfactorily.
WHATS more, when there are untreated MISALIGNED vertebral joints caused from many problems such as inherited scoliosis, post injury, lack of exercise, prolong sitting, poor inflammatory causing saturated fatty ACIDIC diet, etc.. or any joint that is misaligned for too long, a medical health condition called INTERVERTEBRAL (SPINAL VERTEBRAE) SUBLUXATION (MALALIGNMENT) COMPLEX can occur, driving muscles to naturally tighten and lock up which restricts the circulation of blood/oxygen, and pinch the nerves within the muscles and related joints which can cause many complex reactions and symptoms to occur, such as muscle spasms i.e. pinched nerve by the tight muscle, muscle imbalance, chronic tight muscles restricting blood flow reducing vital oxygen/nutrient counts overtime which causes the nervous system to inflame more, muscle fatigue & weakness, damaging ongoing inflammatory attacks visible by x-ray or special imaging, loss of range of motion associated with pain, and or sharp pain with certain movements of your neck, back, and any joint. It is best to correct subluxations or misaligned vertebrae or joints early before allowing damage to occur from improper weight loads to your spine which leads to the ongoing damaging chronic inflammatory attacks day after day.
If subluxations (joints mal-aligned) are left untreated this can lead to permanent damage from the ongoing inflammatory attacks caused from lack of proper circulation of blood/oxygen for too long. Proper regular spinal checkups help maintain proper circulation which keeps toxins from building up in your joints and associated muscles which promotes better function and long-term wellness. Proper spinal care helps remove the restrictive forces and allows normal blood/oxygen circulation to be restored which promotes normal non-inflaming nerve signals to continue to supply all cells, structures, and organs and establishes proper alignment which promotes the natural healing response to begin and heal up from your spinal problem. By maintaining proper alignment helps slow down the progression of degenerative diseases such as osteoarthritis which promotes a healthy immune system which is your inflammatory system to stay at an optimal state of wellness as chronic inflammatory reactions caused by un-treated spinal subluxations overworks the immune/inflammatory system, putting you at high risk of becoming ill to bacteria, viruses, among many other disorders that attack a weakened immune/inflammatory system.
Professional chiropractic physical medicine healthcare promotes a healthy immune system, fewer needs for anti-inflammatory medications that can inhibit your immune system from keeping you well from bacterial, viral, or even cancer, and helps maintain normal physiology by reducing the ongoing chronic inflammatory attacks; therefore, minimizing the need to be on prescription medication. Spinal, or axial skeletal, and the arms and legs, or appendicular skeletal ChiroPractic adjustments, help to correct the malalignment of your spine and associated muscle imbalance which allows the force to be reduced from your subluxated spinal joint; thereby, allowing proper blood flow to the pinched nerves, tight muscles, and associated tissues which helps the nerves to re-establish proper non-irritating nerve signals and normal levels of oxygen and nutrient counts to reach the spinal tissues which ultimately promotes proper circulation to be recovered by your inflamed spinal joint or any joint, help move out the inflammatory toxins, and help restore PROPER FUNCTION (range of motion with little to no more pain, stronger muscles for longer standing/sitting hours with less pain for endurance during the workday, more flexibility, better sleep experience, etc...) and wellness to your problem and your overall health which is key to living an extended healthy life.
Many people have it in their mind self-care is ample for malalignment conditions, when yes it helps, but it does not establish ample blood/oxygen circulation to the "LOCKED" joint and associated tissues in order to correct the malalignment problem from sustaining the damaging effects of the ongoing inflammatory attacks as a result of the restrictive forces. This is why there is the graduate doctorate degree "Doctor of Chiropractic".
It is critical that you see a licensed expert that is trained in treating subluxations as chiropractors are. Physical therapy does help the function to be restored but doesn't address the impending force that binds up inside the misaligned "SUBLUXATED" spinal joint as ChiroPractic care does. Dr. Potter has provided ChiroPractic and Physiotherapeutic healthcare to many in need for many years, helping most of his patients to return to a reasonable level of normalcy, allowing most to avoid radical levels of risky healthcare such as surgery, steroid injection treatment, or addictive types of prescription drugs for the symptoms. He also helps many who have had spine surgery find alternative care in order to help reduce the need for prescription medications.
Muscle imbalance will typically, cause a chain of muscles to lock up and can lead to excruciating pinched nerve-type pain. Many Emergency Room visits each year occur due to pinched nerve syndrome, but the ER with CT imaging misses the underlying problem of muscle imbalance and reports to the patient that there is nothing wrong, when in fact there is something terribly wrong and can lead to more damage if not quickly resolved. ChiroPractic doctors are trained to find these types of problems and treat these conditions very effectively, where medication brings approximately only up to 26% temporary relief where 75% relief is ideal and by seeking proper treatment with a knowledgeable ChiroPractor that has many years of experience, successful outcomes are typical for the majority of patients. Dr. Potter concentrates on your daily habits and learns what is the underlying cause of your health problem. He looks at the "kinetic Chains" of your musculoskeletal system in order to determine what type of treatment would best help your condition.
Many times, severe pain can develop in our extremities (shoulder, knee, etc...) where there is confusion about how the pain developed. Understanding what has caused the pain to develop, is key to providing successful treatment. Most musculoskeletal problems require clinical physical therapy/rehabilitative care along with other forms of medical care in order to achieve as much normalcy as possible. Dr. Potter, D.C., and his clinical experience is ready to intervene if necessary in order to get you back to wellness. Providing professional healthcare is about knowing when and how to clinically intervene based on valid researched methodologies and when other types of physicians should also intervene in order to bring you to your deserved wellness.
KINETIC CHAINS Associated with Malalignment
Determining the kinetic chain of muscles involved in your condition is "key" in order to effectively help you resolve your health problem. Anatomically, the kinetic chain describes the interrelated groups of body segments, connecting joints, and muscles working together to perform movements and the portion of the spine to which they connect. This fixed position alters the movement of the joints and surrounding musculature up the chain. Most people are very unaware of these connections and if not treated, how they very commonly lead to back, pelvic, knee, foot, neck, etc. problems which eventually leads to damage to vital weight-bearing structures like your spinal disc, ligaments, and tendons, as well as constricts and limits blood flow to vital areas of your body, such as pelvis/hips where bone marrow creates White blood stem cells and Red blood cells as this is where bone marrow is extracted from bone marrow donors for cancer patient's who need more white blood cells to help kill the cancers cells and fight the normal day to day bacterial, fungal, and viral intruders in order to maintain wellness. Common sense will tell you ongoing tight hips associated with ongoing tight shoulders restricts the proper volume of blood flow day to day to your pelvis/hips (Vital Bone Marrow Site) that needs proper volume of blood consisting of nutrients and oxygen in order for the bone marrow to continue to produce healthy white blood stem cell counts to maintain wellness. Also it's not surprising to learn over time the hip cartilage is gone (BONE ON BONE needing hip replacement due to AVASCULAR NECROSIS-no blood leading to cartilage cell death and hip replacement) due to the ongoing hip muscle tightness that restricts blood flow, keeping the cartilage from vital nutrients in order to maintain proper cartilage counts-COMMON SENSE. It is no different from someone using their hands and strangling you as your muscles strangle the arteries (internal and external iliac/pelvic arteries) and nerves in your hips and shoulders which is classic for sciatica, pinched nerve syndrome, or numb hands which leads to an ongoing deficit of proper Blood/Oxygen/Nutrient counts from reaching the pelvic bone marrow or hip cartilage on a day to day basis, and then expect proper cartilage counts or bone marrow stem cell counts? This isn't rocket science folks.
THE KEY IS, SEEK TREATMENT FROM A DOCTOR WHO IS TRAINED TO IDENTIFY AND MOBILIZE THE RESTRICTED STRUCTURES TO HELP RESOLVE THE CONSTRICTING (STRANGLING) PRESSURE TO YOUR ARTERIES AND NERVES FROM YOUR SHOULDERS, HIPS, AND PELVIS AND HELP YOURSELF STRIVE FOR WELLNESS WHICH NATURALLY, HELPS MAINTAIN PROPER STEM CELL and HIP CARTILAGE COUNTS BY IMPROVING CIRCULATION OF BLOOD AND OXYGEN TO THE PELVIC BONE MARROW AND HIP REGIONS, INSTEAD OF PAYING FOR A STEM CELL INJECTION or living into a hip replacement-again PROPER CARE HELPS YOU AVOID COSTLY CARE and if a clinic is offering injection options they definitely aren't into correcting the problem with proper therapy as the big money is in the injection services. It's best before moving on to other options, if your therapy isn't helping, to get a second opinion from a different entity not related to the facility where you are doing therapy, in order to learn if you were receiving proper therapy in the first place.
