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.
The older you get, the more important strength training becomes
No matter how much we fight it, strength is harder to come by in old age. We are no longer enjoy the resilience of our strapping young bodies, which means that we are more vulnerable to injury; when injury does strike, it takes more out of us. That is why we believe, in accordance with general health guidelines, that strength training is essential to well-being in old age. By focusing on strengthening muscles in all the important areas of your body, you remain more able to function and more resilient to injury. Read on for more information about the importance of strength training for over-50s.
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Sleep is rejuvenation for your spine
Whether you live with no back pain, chronic back pain or a degenerative spinal condition, sleep offers the same opportunity for all of us: rest and restoration. It should be a time when cells in the muscles, joints, discs and bones are able to find a brief reprieve; time to repair in an extended position. The problem for many people with back pain is that the very condition prevents them from sleeping: with no distractions, all they have left is to focus on the pain. A vicious cycle is created that prevents you from getting the rest your spine needs to repair. At Community Chiropractic & Acupuncture in Park Slope, we prioritize sleep in the lives of all our patients. Here are some tips for sleeping with certain spinal conditions.
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Sleep should help, not hurt, your sciatica symptoms
The reason for this is that sciatica is caused by compression of the sciatic nerve, the largest in the human body. For some people, lying down and sleeping is the only part of a 24-hour cycle that offers relief from their symptoms; for others, laying down can actually increase the level of compression and make the condition worse. The latter includes people who feel that the pain is sharpest in the morning time, upon waking. No one deserves to dread sleeping because of a painful spinal condition, but this is exactly what can happen with sciatica.
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We understand you have a busy schedule
Every minute matters in the morning time. Whether you like to hit the snooze button and reap those extra minutes in bed, or hop straight into a shower for your wake up call, there is one crucial step that no one should forget- at least no one who worries about back pain. It’s the (at least) three-minute stretch routine of yoga poses that start your spine off on the right foot.
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Flexibility of the hips is of signal importance to spinal health
Tight hips are implicated in so much 21st century biomechanical dysfunction. As we sit more than ever, our hips are tighter than ever; combine this with weak glutes and anterior pelvic tilt and you have the perfect recipe for instability and pain in the lower back. Furthermore, tight hips make it even more difficult for us to maintain good posture throughout our daily activities because it is actively pulling our bodies out of alignment. So we can see that hip mobility is of utmost importance, but how do we reverse the cycle of tension that got our hips to this tightness in the first place?
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Has your neck been aching lately?
Let’s call it what it is and replace the word “aching,” with “screaming”; it is actually your neck telling you that you are letting it down. So many of our daily actions train our neck muscles into holding patterns that are actually extremely harmful to our spinal health. At Community Chiropractic and Acupuncture of Park Slope, it is our responsibility to use our expertise to help people train their neck muscles out of these unhealthy holding patterns and replace them with patterns that promote balance and reduce tension.
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The pelvis rarely gets its moment in the spotlight
As anyone who has read our blog knows, we are big fans of core stability. Improving your body’s ability to stabilize movements and effectively transfer forces is of essential importance for people concerned with spinal health. But the same could be said for your pelvis- one of the most crucial junctions in the entire body rarely comes in for the attention it deserves and truly needs. This blog will argue that establishing pelvic stability should become a priority in your life.
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What is cervical traction
To give it a technical definition, traction applies a distracting force to the ends of a given spinal segment in order to relieve pressure and compression from the vertebrae. In our office, we use a specialized table to provide computerized traction that gently stretches the spine and contributes to negative intradiscal pressure. Many people with conditions like hernitated discs, spinal stenosis or degenerative disc disease find that traction helps alleviate pressure on the nerve roots and enhance the healing process. Traction is often used on the cervical segment of the spine to help people suffering from chronic neck pain.
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Where is this dizziness coming from??
Cervicogenic vertigo is defined as dizziness caused by dysfunction or degeneration of the cervical vertebrae. Primary causative factors include:
- Acute injury
- Cervical disc degeneration
- Cervical disc disease
- Irritation of cervical nerves and blood vessels
The muscles and joints in your neck contain a complex network of sensors that seek to keep you in balance by communicating sensory information about head movement and its orientation to the brain and vesitbular apparatus, located in the inner ear. This system works as a small piece of a larger puzzle to coordinate balance throughout the body. When the system doesn’t function, sensory confusion, including dizziness, is a frequent result. Cervicogenic vertigo is often accompanied by other symptoms including neck pain, headaches, nausea and vomiting.
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Acupuncture is an alternative form of pain management
Chronic pain is fickle. In some cases, we can pick out indicators such as an acute injury that forms the point where the pain started. In other cases, the source is less clear- chronic back aching, or the chronic pain associated with autoimmune disorders, is lifechanging. Certainly, our understanding of the causative factors of chronic pain is always changing; that means that our treatment for chronic pain is also evolving. And in some cases, evolving means looking to what has worked in the past. This is the case for acupuncture: milleniums in the making, it is only now seeing the light of dedicated studies by western medicine. While there is no clear consensus in the medical community regarding the efficacy of acupuncuture, many studies are starting to validate acupuncture as an alternative form of pain management.
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
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Additionally, we have disinfected all surfaces and implemented recommended strategies to keep safe distances between all customers and employees to prevent any transmission.
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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