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Stress

Let’s first look at one method to relieve stress and repair joints that may have lost their flexibility or are causing you pain.  When an injury occurs, the surrounding muscles tighten up to prevent movement and to allow the area to heal.  This is called physical stress.  Unfortunately, long-term muscle spasms can create other problems.  When there is long-term spasm, specific points in the muscle build up toxins.  These toxins make the muscles sore, irritate the nerves and refer pain to other parts of the body.  They are called Trigger Points.  Trigger points can cause severe pain, restrict muscle contraction, reduce normal joint motion, increase the risk of other injuries and slow injury repair.  Trigger Point Therapy gives an instant reduction in pain, increases your range of motion, accelerates injury repair and improves athletic performance.  You are welcome to attend one of our Trigger Point Workshops and learn to locate and treat trigger points by applying pressure directly into the spasm.

Flexibility

To improve flexibility, you need to stretch ligaments, tendons and muscles before physical activity because, like plastic, they are stiff until heated up.  So even before you stretch you must warm up.  This can be done with a brisk walk or an easy jog.  The idea is that you should raise your body temperature by doing easy exercises before stretching. 

There are numerous stretches that are available for you to learn, but the key point is that stretches should be done before any athletic performance. Flexibility can be tested by measuring what is called “Range of Motion.”  Each joint has an ideal range of motion, which is the distance it should normally move.  If a joint does not have its full range of motion, then it is not possible for the muscles that move that joint to fully contract.  Decreased joint motion results in decreased muscle function. 

Automobile accidents, sports and work injuries, and other traumas can all cause a loss of normal joint motion.  Even after the pain goes away, a person can be left with reduced motion and a loss of normal function. 

A loss of full range of motion is the primary cause of joint degeneration and is directly related to your ability to play a sport, exercise or work out effectively. A reduced range of motion can also lead to joint pain, headaches, numbness, or tingling and pain in the arms or legs. 

There are two types of range of motion:  Passive and Active.

• Passive range of motion

is the motion of the joint as moved by someone else.  It is the stretch of the ligaments holding two bones together. Chiropractors are specially trained to find and treat losses in passive range of joint motion.



• Active range of motion

is when you contract a muscle yourself, as in turning your head or touching your toes.  Active range of motion is improved by stretching after properly warming up.

Body Fat

The next area involved with improving sports performance and reducing injury is removing body fat. 

In August 2008, Research Scientists at Johns Hopkins University reported that 65 percent of American adults and 33 percent of school age children are overweight or obese.  They predict that 90 percent of Americans will be obese (more than 30 pounds overweight) within the next 20 years!  This means the average American carries more weight than they should.  This extra fat makes the body work harder, which in turn, reduces performance, increases the risk of injuries and slows down recovery. 

More importantly, excess fat has been found to be a major cause of heart disease, diabetes, cancer, arthritis and numerous other health problems.  Exercise and dieting are the most common, yet difficult ways to reduce body fat.  However, now there is a revolutionary and easy way to get results.  It’s called The Doctor Supervised Detoxification Program.

Our Detoxification Program is based on the fact that the average person comes into contact with more than 82,000 chemical on a weekly basis.  These chemicals are found in our food, water, air and cosmetics.  Many of these chemicals cannot be filtered out by the organs of the body, so they stay in the blood stream creating damage.

To protect you from these harmful chemicals the body surrounds them in fat, keeping them away from vital organs and glands.  If you remove the toxins from the body, then the excess fat will be flushed out too! 

Our Detoxification Program consists of taking specific food based ingredients within the program guidelines, which then flush the toxic chemical out of your body.  The result is often an increase in energy and a rapid and sustained loss of body fat.