It is possible, and even common, for the victim of a low-speed automobile accident to walk away from the crash and feel only “shaken up,” sensing only relief that nothing is broken.  Attention goes immediately to any damage done to property, filing insurance claims and getting on the road again.

Odd that we often check out the condition of our autos more thoroughly than the state of our own bodies.

Bodies are wonderful things.  They work hard to adjust to shocks and shake off trauma.  They may go for days before finally warning, through pain, that the impact suffered has caused an injury with lasting effects, something the body has tried to, but cannot fully handle on its own.

Obviously, no one but the most foolish stoic would ignore severe pain once it shows.  However, it can be just as dangerous to ignore a body that has just suffered an accident, whether pain is present or not.  Potential neck, shoulder and spine problems can arise as a result of delaying rehabilitation that should have been started immediately after an impact.  Even crashing at a speed of 15 miles an hour can put traumatic stress on muscles and ligaments.

You may have heard conflicting advice regarding how much movement is okay for an accident victim.  You may know someone who seemed to do just fine for a few days, and then suddenly was stopped by severe pain.

How do you know, under those circumstances, what you should do?

The obvious answer is to seek advice and help from someone who understands what your body has been through.  A person walking away from an accident is not necessarily in a position to accurately assess his condition.  There is no need to take the chance that an untreated condition will grow into chronic pain.

Your chiropractor understands personal injury, and can teach you what you need to know to make the safest and most responsible decisions about your body.  You can learn what combinations of adjustment, exercise and therapy will aid healing, and help avoid unnecessary complications.

You’d do as much for your automobile.  You’d better do as much for your body.

If you or a loved one has recently been involved in even a minor accident, don’t put off calling us.  We understand personal injury, and we’re here to help.

You are wise to ask a doctor about any limiting pain.  There are medical conditions that warn with pain, and need to be diagnosed and treated urgently.

Imagine how relieved you would feel if you discovered the source of your neck and back pain was something as innocent as how you are sitting while you work at your computer all day, or lounging with your touch screen tablet at night.

You are probably reading this right now on a computer or a tablet.  Notice how you are sitting.  Are you hunched at all?  In other words, is gravity pulling you down into your chair or over towards your desk or screen?  Is one arm extended, touching a mouse that you move in the same movements hour after hour, day after day?

Or if you are reading this on a tablet, are you “relaxing” in a favorite position, supporting the device with an unnatural hand position that puts strain on your shoulders and neck?

Now, notice if you are experiencing any stiffness in your neck or spine.  Are you feeling any pain?

When you do get up to exercise or just move around, do you have any stiffness?

Let’s assume you fit into the category of people who are experiencing strain on the back, or pain and stiffness in the neck and shoulders from what we’ve been describing.

Hopefully, you haven’t made things worse by trying inappropriate or incorrectly done exercises that put further strain on muscles and nerves.

A chiropractor is the best person to coordinate an exercise program that will prevent strain and strengthen back and neck muscles.  Additionally, a doctor of chiropractic understands the skeletal and muscular connections that will determine which muscles need relaxing, through adjustment and massage, or strengthening, through correct exercise.

You will also want to review your posture, and get expert advice on the changes you can make in your environment and routine that will help your spine stay properly aligned and stop putting unnecessary demand on muscles.

Not every pain is from something as easily addressed as your relationship with your computer screens.  So don’t take any chances, and don’t suffer needlessly.  Come in and see us and get advice that can change the way you see your world.

When you see a chiropractor for a single visit or you embark on a treatment program, there is an important framework from which to project your progress and the overall value of your program.  Some of the important elements of this framework can be illustrated in this way.  Are you going for “pain management”?  Pain maintenance?  Learning to adjust?  Or are you going for a trend of better health and fitness?

For someone in severe pain, possibly having had a personal injury, a physical betterment trend may be too much to consider.  But even a riveted focus on pain can be graduated from, allowing fresh eyes to look toward the goal of optimal health.

More on this, is there a point where the value of a pain medication in certain circumstances crosses a line? A line between a valid if temporary aid in a medical situation, and an ongoing treatment item which is no longer truly helping to improve matters?  Is there a point for a patient with an injury where things will get worse if the “pain management” approach is carried on too long?  Can this be adjudicated by a health professional?

Whatever the state of your health, whatever the condition and age of your body, whatever the injury or stress circumstances, one can start and proactively gain something better, or one can learn to accept and live with it.  If you are working to gain something better, then we are the clinic for you.

With an aggregate of many decades of experience in our staff, we work to better our patients’ health and wellbeing.  So regardless of the state you start in when you enter our office, we look toward your overall health improvement and helping you gain the freedom of being physically fit.  Our many approaches include chiropractic adjustment, trigger point therapy, massage therapy, medical treatment and acupuncture.

Gaining and maintaining  your health is one of those important things in life which can add or subtract years.   But you may not notice the loss or gain until sometime in the future.  For someone proactive about their general betterment, it’s advisable to look ahead (in years) and do the things which maintain that fitness and strengthen it right now – not wait until later.

We are on the side of “ideal wellness” versus “pain suppression” and will gladly discuss and work with you on your own fitness and health goals.  You can always make progress.

When one studies up on headaches and what causes them, one will very likely find that there can be a variety of explanations for such pain.  But there is one very important fact which can sometimes be lost site of:  when you have a headache it is being caused at the time you feel the pain and it is coming from some real factors which are present at the time.  As an analogy, explaining reasons cars break down does not fix one’s broken car.  It requires looking, finding the cause of the trouble and resolving it.

When you come into our office for help with a headache or any other type of affliction, we go right to work on evaluating your circumstances and symptoms, related events and other information necessary to come to the cause of your ailment.  And we know we have it when it responds to standard treatment procedures and approaches.

If you have been told that “you have headaches because your mother had them.” – it is not likely that your headache will get better from discovery of this fact.  A bit closer to reality, if you have taken pain killers and they have not or are no longer alleviating your pain, then there are other things to look for.  If you “know” why you have headaches, yet they do not resolve, then it almost goes without saying that the true cause has not been discovered and resolved.

Another step closer to relevance, if you have condition which is generating headaches, the headache may be the obvious thing and the source out of sight.  Bone misalignment in the neck or spine can be related.  Injury, whether recent or long “healed” may be related.  Scar tissue in the neck from old injury may add difficulty to treatment, but nonetheless, if it is a significant factor, discovering it can help open the door to a resolution.

If you or someone you love suffer from headaches and don’t seem to have an adequate solution, we are willing to help.  We are dedicated to the idea that something can effective can be done about it.  Of course, reading this article will not likely resolve it for you, it is meant as a helpful way to look at the subject and find resolution.  Your case is unique even if “lots of people have headaches”.  Call, email or just come in and see us.

There are so many things to consider, it would be good if one had the key to this.  While consulting with a chiropractic office for the answer may be thought as a biased source, take a look and judge for yourself whether we can provide some valuable insight.

First, what is the purpose for being a chiropractic patient?  One who has had a car accident or other physically traumatic stress may have a readily seen reason to go onto a treatment program.  In this same category, an individual with scoliosis, chronic headaches or another condition could have an obvious purpose. On the other hand, pain from some soft tissue injuries has been known to not surface until sometime after the injury.  Thus, it may take a more informed individual to reach out for a treatment program.  Less obvious, someone just needing adjustment would still have a valid and strong reason to engage in a treatment regimen.  In any case, once the reason for treatment is established, one can look for the best doctor and most relevant credentials.

Second, does the doctor take the time and care to understand you and the condition?  This point has communication as its foundation and includes not only the doctor listening, but also the full battery of diagnostics to fully understand what is happening with one’s body.  Start with good, two-way communication and see if the doctor truly understands the condition and goal you have for seeing the chiropractor.

Third could be a realistic program with milestone of progress.  Does the doctor work out a program for you that is doable, with stated objectives to be achieved – and with the desired benefits noted?   This can apply whether one is progressing toward freedom from the pain and consequences of injury, or whether one is simply maintaining a higher state of health.
At our offices, we have treated and worked with patients from newborn and infant, through to almost any age group.  We are known for effective help for sports injuries and car injuries, physical conditions and general maintenance.  We have helped athletes whether amateur or professional, and even Olympians.

As a healthcare center for both traditional and alternative arts, we have a wide range of services and are willing to consult with any individual in their quest to find the ideal chiropractor or other healthcare professional.  Call us, email us, come in and see us.

On the subject of pain, one can wish to be free of it – and then take actions to bring that about.  This can “win” or lose resulting in change for the better, no change or change for the worse.  One then can reduce to unreal wishes to be relieved of pain.  In virtually every case, we can do something about this kind of scenario.  Working out a treatment program, then getting all the way through it step by step, can make a significant difference where called for.

For anyone with back pain, headache, sore muscles, feeling rundown or overworked the past several weeks, chiropractic treatment and massage therapy can be among the most memorable reliefs from the body stress and tension.  Treatment as the holidays wind down has not only a “comfort” or “feel good” benefit, it is very important to boost an immune system and achieve or maintain overall balance.  If you want your body to carry through to the spring in top immunity system shape, it is important to be proactive and look ahead on the calendar enough to plan for those things which keep you well.  We can provide you with nutritional consultation as needed to maintain a healthy frame and keep your body pain free and comfortable.  If you have come down with something, we can give you guidance on traveling the quickest road to “well”.

In perspective, having a healthy and strong body which has no distracting pains or discomforts is a single, important ingredient to having your life set up and working in an ideal manner.  It is much easier to make and tackle those resolutions for the new year when one is “fit as a fiddle”.   It is our mission to help you and all our patients achieve a healthy physique.  We don’t provide the resolutions for the new year – that will be up to you.  We will then help you as best we can to make them stick and to achieve them.  Happy New Year!

In a society that has been “burned out” on the subject of helping others, where it seems everyone may be suspicious of helping each other or receiving help, it is good to remind ourselves that plain old help is just that – helpful.  It doesn’t hurt, it is not dangerous, it just helps.

Have you ever helped someone and it was really worth the trouble?  Have you ever been a friend to someone and they appreciated it?  Have you ever worked for a reward, a prize or money and got paid well?  Even that exchange (two-way help) benefited you and the other.

Is it better to help or receive?  What if you went and helped someone today?  Just get up and go and help someone.  Then see how you feel.  Even if, in the excitement the receiver loses touch with the etiquette of expressing thanks, just their interest alone can communicate their appreciation for the help.  Beyond that, no one can take away the pride of accomplishment – the fact that you did exactly what you intended to do and it did some good.

So do you think help is there to give and receive?  Then go and help someone.  We do it all day every day and we are among the most privileged because of it.

Having dedicated a full professional career to helping others restore and maintain their health, it is easy to keep doing so.  It is natural.  It takes dedication and willingness to influence another, to guide them to a better condition.  Keeping in mind that to help someone who needs it means you have to provide them with positive direction – with “good control” and realize as well that controlling others is not always horrible if it is done gently and toward their own good.  When someone comes into our office, we have no hesitation on telling them what to do – where to sit, what forms to fill out what their appointed times are, etc.  In fact, if a clinic did not provide positive control in the service of their patients, they would not have a professional reputation and very likely no one would want their service.  So don’t hesitate to take control of a situation in order to give help.

We have found that when people trust your help, and are willing to receive it, and they accept the positive control of the guidance we give them, they feel cared for and will open up to express their worries so that we can give them the needed treatment programs for them.  With our dedication to their health and fitness, we make great team with those patients in achieving that end.

Best of the season to all our patients and anyone who deserves to receive or give help.  Some of the greatest blessings of the season are contained right in the word “help”.  So go ahead and splurge on helping!

Have you ever noticed that a solution which later becomes a problem is not really a helpful solution?  If you begin a course of pain management which involves drugs that impair your perceptions, ability to think or get things done, it cannot be considered a very helpful solution.  Conversely, have you ever had health help that really helped?  Or reverse-wise, have you ever helped someone in your field of skill — and it was worth it?  As your friendly neighborhood Chiropractor Minneapolis MN, we are proud to give real help.  Nutritional help, physical adjustment help, medical help, massage therapy and acupuncture.

We want you to know that when you come into our offices, we will guide you each step of the way.  All you have to do is bring your body in through our clinic doors, let us know you are here, and we will take it from there.  We will arrange examination and treatment scheduling, working out the program to address your needs to the best of our technical skill and ability.  We will help you to understand the processes you go through, answer your questions and make any appropriate adjustments to your treatment regimen.  We know you will feel at ease with a smoothly guided regimen.

We will listen to your worries and help you with anything that maybe a sensitive issue with your health or that of your family.  Keep in mind that your health can be the ruin of your life, or it can be the foundation for living a happy, energetic lifestyle.  We are dedicated to making it the latter for every patient we serve.  We have an extensive record of successful treatment programs for car accident injuries, chronic headache sufferers, sports injury sufferers, back and joint pain sufferers and many other types of patients.  These are people start out loving nothing more than getting rid of their pain and restoring their lifestyle.  We work with that goal in mind – your health is our objective.

Get to know about us here on our website.  Schedule a time to come in.  You may be amazed at how much improvement is possible.  It is your health and life, and it is for your future and family.  Make the most out of it.

The Office Team of Your Friendly Chiropractor

Advanced Medical of Twin Cities

Beyond the purpose one may have for seeing a health professional, there are the specific requirements and functions the professional fulfills.  And of course, for someone seeking increased good health, restoration of health or stability of health, it is logical that “the best” is what is desired.  An absurd illustration which makes this obvious, might be someone needing a heart transplant but looking for the “best deal” or the lowest price – possibly asking to have a first year intern because it would be “less expensive”.  One angle of the absurdity can be spotlighted by the fact that a life is much more precious than dollars.

Thus, such a person logically seeks the best nutritionist, the best physician, the best chiropractor and massage therapist or whatever field of pro is most appropriate for the circumstance.

Here at Advanced Medial of Twin Cities, we pride ourselves, not only on the diversity of our services, but on the fact that we genuinely care and have built a strong and lasting relationship with our patients and clients.  We feel that the winning combination between patient and healing arts professional is abundant service and a high interchange of information between patient and health care provider.

Our services not only include general medical and physical healing arts, we cover acupuncture, chiropractic and massage therapy and nutrition.  We strive to be a complete health center for our patients.  Even in our injury rehabilitation programs, our focus is always on health achievement and restoration.  We never say, “it can’t be done,” and we work with our patients with all the state-of-the-art healing techniques available to us.

We are dedicated to helping any of our patients at any point on the spectrum of health, from the lowest, such as car accidents or major health issues, to the highest who are the most pro-active in health and fitness and maintaining their physique.  We are willing to speak with anyone on any health related issue and will do our very best for every client or patient.  Give us a call and see.

Have you ever heard anyone say their bones, joints or body comfort gets affected by the weather?  Moreover, you may not have to ask very far around to find someone whose relative would give weather predictions by the condition and pain level of their bones and joints.  There are a variety of factors which can bring these types of statements about.  And although it can be interesting and fun, the weather is going to happen and so it is good practice to maximize one’s fitness for new season.

For example, far beyond the obvious feeling of being cold when the weather drops, you may notice that some people get cold quicker and more thoroughly than others – and some even have cold noses, fingers and toes in warm conditions.  Then there are others who seem to stay warm in virtually any weather condition.  Some can feel overheated in hot months and even when temperatures are cool enough for most to put on a sweater.  Regardless of the condition, there are numerous approaches which can greatly influence the health and comfort of one’s body.  Whether circulation problems, tense muscles, nutritional imbalances or other issues, we can help to identify the condition and work closely with you to improve it.  All with the goal of a healthy and comfortable autumn season.  In fact, getting onto a correct medical, chiropractic or nutritional program can carry right on through to healthy and fit winter season as well.

So how about the individual who specifically says their joints are affected by the weather dropping in temperature?  Well, when reduced circulation to a local area in the body occurs and one becomes cold and miserable, the consequences should be addressed as a matter of personal health.  When such a condition is allowed to also reduce the strength and power of the immune system, one has a greater incidence of illness.  Any damage from arthritic or rheumatic conditions can be exacerbated by the temp and humidity changing to the new season.

But, with a consultation at our office, we can determine a course of treatment and nutrition to help make your body healthy and comfortable – all year long!