The chiropractor Brooklyn Blog at Community Chiropractic & Acupuncture located in Park Slope, Brooklyn 11215, was started to let you know how we apply both Eastern and Western medical theory to establish a diagnosis and treatment plan designed specifically for each patient.
Furthermore, our goal is to help our patients enjoy an optimal quality of life with improved physical health, mental well-being, and a sense of spiritual tranquility.
Take a look at some of our health tips below in our chiropractor Brooklyn blog for information about improving your life.
30+ years of trusted chiropractic and acupuncture services in Park Slope As one of Park Slope’s longest standing chiropractic and acupuncture practices, we are honored to continue our tradition of helping this community in our new office. This new, purpose-built space allows us to expand our services and staff to reach a greater portion of our great community. Between our senior staff members, we have over 100 years of collective…
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Chiropractic for the breech presentation
Pregnancy chiropractic is well known for its role in mitigating the discomforts of pregnancy including back pain and sciatica. But fewer people are aware that chiropractic is one of the foremost techniques for resolving problems with fetal positioning in the penultimate period before delivery. By focusing on balancing joints of the lower back and alignment of the pelvis, we are able to help women with pregnancies who are suffering from the breech presentation. Let’s find out more about how this works:
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Fertility acupuncture is an integral part of our practice
Having served the Park Slope community for over 30 years, we have been blessed to help many prospective mothers increase their chances of conception using acupuncture. Many couples come to us having tried seemingly everything else with no luck- the despair of struggling to conceive is a heart-rending scene and it motivates us to put all our services at their disposal. Read on to find out how acupuncture helps couples conceive.
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Why is sciatica so prevalent in pregnancy?
There is this idea that pregnancy causes sciatica; there are even strange theories out there which purport that the baby somehow presses directly on the sciatic nerve. And while we can assure you that this is not the case, we do agree that there is a strong correlation between pregnancy and sciatica, particularly in the third trimester. The fact is, pregnancy breeds a perfect set of conditions for nerve impingement:
- Shifting center of gravity
- Added weight of the child
- Less activity
- Loose ligaments in the pelvis which breeds instability in the lower back
- Poor posture.
In this scenario, there is a good chance that your muscles are becoming strained and pulling your body out of alignment; this is when nerve impingement happens. When this impingement happens to occur to the sciatic nerve, sciatica symptoms develop, including:
- Burning, shooting pain in the lower back, usually isolated on one side
- Pain in the buttocks and lower extremities
- Numbness and tingling in the back and lower extremities
After a workout, don’t leave your body short-handed
When it comes to reaching peak performance, recovery is just as important as training. The true athlete has to strike the finest of balances between pushing their body and giving it the time it needs to recover. Due to the intensity of exercise, an effective rest can be the difference between getting back on the horse the next day or having to take a day off because you are too sore. So where does sports massage come in? Sports massage is about maximizing the efficiency of your rest periods. Let’s take a look at how this works.
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Stress needs to be managed
Letting stress run unchecked in your life is a sure way to hurt yourself. While a certain level of stress is useful, many of us are operating at levels way above the threshold of manageability; stress is putting many of us on the road toward mental exhaustion and physical pain. Stress is linked to any number of physical ailments, and manifests itself in an entire spectrum of physical, emotional and cognitive symptoms. In the short term, these symptoms are enough to cause discomfort, but you may be able to compartmentalize them and move on with the task at hand. In the long run, however, stress can lead to mental health problems, cardiovascular diseases, digestive problems and musculoskeletal degeneration. In order to stop ourselves from reaching the end of this nasty road, we need to change tracks as early as possible and start taking a proactive approach to managing our stress.
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The many benefits of acupuncture for seniors
Let’s face it: old age is uncomfortable; we are lucky if we just get away with aches and pains. As our bodies age, we begin to slow down and spinal degeneration sets in: conditions like spinal stenosis and arthritis can cause debilitating pain and cause us to feel less able. At Community Chiropractic & Acupuncture of Park Slope, we believe in taking a proactive approach to aging. That means identifying the factors that slow us down and facing them head on. Acupuncture is a tool that helps you do just that. Read on to find out how.
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Arthritis demands serious relief
Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) is a debilitating autoimmune disorder in which the body attacks and destroys its own beneficial tissue, including the cartilage that supports your joints. The resulting loss of mobility and weakness creates a condition that breeds pain and discomfort. Autoimmune disorders are hard to come to grips with and even harder to treat effectively because we still don’t know what triggers the body’s immune system response to attack healthy tissue. At Community Chiropractic & Acupuncture of Park Slope, we have been using natural modalities to help RA sufferers manage their pain and live well despite their condition. Let’s take a look at how acupuncture helps manage RA symptoms.
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Work begets stress; acupuncture works to reverse this
Whether you are deskbound or work on your feet, working on the road or from home, your job is sure to cause some degree of stress. And whether your job is physically demanding or mentally exhausting (or both), it is important to remember that mental and physical stress go hand in hand. A stressed out, exhausted you means a less productive and efficient you and perhaps some companies are finally starting to realize this. Extracting the maximum amount of labor out of a given individual without looking out for their physical and mental and well-being is the best way to end up with an exhausted, stressed out workforce that benefits exactly no one. At Community Chiropractic & Acupuncture of Park Slope, we are guardians of workplace wellness. We seek to use our natural healing modalities to keep the stress of your job from negatively affecting the balance of your life. Read on to find out how.
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Acupuncture can help you fall and stay asleep
Difficulty sleeping is one of the most painful experiences in life; without regular, restorative sleep, our bodies are forced to work harder, under compromised conditions, and the results can be horrendous. Not getting enough rest has been linked to a host of serious health problems, from high blood pressure to heart disease, asthma to inflammation, the list seems to be endless. Indeed, lack of sleep weakens the immune system and decreases energy which leads to anxiety, depression and daytime sleepiness. Because lack of sleep affects almost every facet of daily life, humans have set store by solving it; unfortunately, it is not as simple as that. Primary insomnia has no identifiable underlying cause while secondary insomnia is a symptom of another condition. So successfuly treating insomnia depends on first having an accurate diagnosis and secondly selecting the righ treatment. Acupuncture is one of these treatments that shows great efficacy without the side effects that sleeping pills and other treatments have become infamous for.
Read MoreMoreover, at Community Chiropractic & Acupuncture we are committed to providing individualized and compassionate patient care.
Dr. Karen Thomas founded the practice over 30 years ago with the express purpose of providing leading-edge healthcare to the Park Slope community.
As a result, the practice has grown considerably since then, and moved from its original location at Lincoln Place and Sixth Avenue to Eighth Avenue at Union Street, to its present location at 182 8th Ave. Brooklyn, NY 11215
We want you to know that we are prepared for you.
Furthermore, for the protection of our customers and our employees, we’ve followed the guidance of the W.H.O. and the I.C.C. and their directions to business owners.
Additionally, we have disinfected all surfaces and implemented recommended strategies to keep safe distances between all customers and employees to prevent any transmission.
In conclusion, our team is on top of the most current information available to businesses.
Please feel free to contact us with any questions about your health at 718-398-3100
We all speak English and...
Dr. Gabe is fluent in Spanish and Portuguese
Dr. Thomas speaks some Spanish but is not fluent
Yolanda, our office manager is fluent in Spanish
Steve, our front office assistant speaks some Chinese but is not fluent
Sofia, our medical biller is fluent in Russian