Is Sports Chiropractic Right For You?

Whether you’re a weekend warrior or a professional athlete, you need to optimize your body. When you feel as good as possible, you can focus on your game. Similarly, a body that works with your mind can help you turn powerful strategies into winning moves.

How a Sports Chiropractor Is Different From a Regular Chiropractor

If sports are your priority, chiropractic care is probably very attractive to you. After all, chiropractic care focuses on achieving proper alignment. When the body’s components work together properly, performance is enhanced, allowing you to play longer and get stronger.

While it may be tempting to go to your family chiropractor, you need to see a sports chiropractor for sports-related issues. This is because someone providing sports chiropractic care has specialized training in how muscles, joints, and nerves work together to fuel athletic performance. Someone with training in sports rehabilitation can also spot issues and keep an educated eye on any problems as they develop.

Benefits of Seeing a Sports Chiropractor

At East Bank Wellness, Dr. John Zrelak plays hockey, surfs, and skis. As a result, he is personally familiar with many of the physical demands you also place on your body in the name of faster times and increased accuracy. He is also a Certified Chiropractic Sports Physician who is passionate about his work and its impact on the athletic community as a whole.

Dr. Kamal Vaid has specialized training and experience in Functional Neurology, so he has an exceptional interest in priming the neurological system for maximum performance. Since so many sports require careful coordination of your brain, body, and eyes, optimizing your neurological system can ensure clear communication between these components.

Both of our sports chiropractors combine the latest in research-based interventions with careful assessment. They're experienced in doing the detective work needed to create a comprehensive care program that’s right for you.

Sports Rehabilitation Explained

Injuries are one of the major reasons athletes come to our office. Nearly half of recreational golfers, for example, are injured during their time on the green. This hugely popular chiropractic medicine specialty is known as sports rehabilitation and is used to treat a variety of conditions including:

• Shoulder impingement
  
• Elbow tendonitis
  
• Quadriceps strain
  
• ACL sprain
  
• Plantar fasciitis
  

Sports rehabilitation, however, involves more than helping you feel better. It consists of resolving the underlying issues that are causing your symptoms after a sports injury.

Concussion management is an excellent example of this kind of thinking. Recently, a 17-year-old football player with a concussion injury received sports chiropractic treatment. After a month of treatment, his neurocognitive function scores returned to normal, and his symptoms resolved. As a result, he was able to resume his high school football career.

Of course, the best injuries are the ones that never happen. Sports chiropractic care can help you spot and correct patterns of misuse before they cause an injury. Our team can also help you improve your nutrition, sleep, and other factors to make the most of the body you have so you can play the game you love.

When you’re ready for more from your game, come for a consultation with us. Our East Bank Wellness team is waiting to provide you with the sports chiropractic care you need to succeed on and off of your preferred sporting venue. Joining the ranks of our satisfied clients is as easy as giving us a call or booking an appointment through our online appointment scheduler.

Is it Safe for Pregnant Patients to Have Chiropractic Care?

Pregnancy is such an exciting time. Your world is full of discoveries and ripe with possibilities. At East Bank Wellness, we want to help you optimize your health and that of your pre-born children.

Our chiropractors have the experience and skills needed to help you navigate pregnancy's many challenges. Whether you're expecting your first or fifth child, congratulations. We're happy for you and would love to partner with you to give your baby the best possible welcome to the world.

Benefits of Prenatal Chiropractic Care

Prenatal chiropractic care begins before you ever decide to become pregnant. Vibrant good health before you're pregnant ensures your baby is surrounded by good health from the time they're conceived until the day they're born.

Chiropractic care has several benefits for expectant moms. Some of these include:

• Reduced nausea or other morning sickness symptoms
  
• Relief from hip, neck, and other joint pain
  
• Eased muscle aches and spasms
  
• Comprehensive labor preparation plan
  

Back Pain During Pregnancy

Research studies have revealed that as many as 90% of women experience low back pain during pregnancy. When you consider how weight gain and carrying a child shifts your center of gravity, this is not a surprise. Such pain can make it hard to rest, take care of any other children you may have, and complete various other daily activities you need to feel your best.

By the time you get to your third trimester, a hormone called relaxin further complicates any back issues. Relaxin is a beautiful hormone for loosening your pelvis in preparation for childbirth. Unfortunately, it also loosens ligaments in your back, causing more misalignment in this already painful region.

Although it's impossible to contain relaxin's effects on your pelvis, prenatal chiropractic adjustments can gently realign your aching back to a more optimal position. When your spine is in proper alignment, you can breathe, rest, and move with as much ease as possible during pregnancy. Chiropractic care encourages this alignment and provides pain relief for expectant moms, according to the research literature.

Benefits for Mom

In addition to pain relief, there are many other reasons to visit a chiropractor when you’re pregnant. At East Bank Wellness, we are proud of our knowledgeable and resourceful prenatal health team. We know the latest research and are confident we use research-backed interventions to support you throughout your pregnancy and parenting journey.

Expectant moms can rely on our team for compassionate and comprehensive healthcare. Since our team searches for the source of your symptoms, you can expect an approach that focuses on making healthier choices. This whole-body approach can help you with problems as diverse as bowel and bladder issues, emotional stress, and insomnia.

Benefits for Baby

Although a happier mom is good for her pre-born baby, there are several other benefits to seeking prenatal chiropractic care. Such care can provide your baby with a comfortable environment for development and a less stressful birth. After birth, visits to one of our expert chiropractors can help your newborn with concerns such as colic, breastfeeding issues, and constipation.

Benefits During Labor

Chiropractic care can help ease your baby into the world as gently as possible. When your pelvis is in proper alignment, nerve function is optimized so your contractions can help your baby emerge from the birth canal as quickly as possible. If you want to explore the possibilities of comprehensive prenatal chiropractic care, give our East Bank Wellness team a call or complete our online appointment request process to book your prenatal wellness visit today.

Five Great Reasons to Visit a Chiropractor

 

If you’re like most people, you probably think going to a chiropractor is suitable for recovering after a car accident or improving your posture. While these are valid reasons for seeking chiropractic care, they are not the only reasons to see a chiropractic specialist. The following five conditions are great reasons to see a chiropractor today.

Chronic Back Pain

Chronic back pain is back pain that lasts longer than six months. Whether your back pain is stabbing, burning, or squeezing, unrelenting back pain makes your days and nights miserable. Movement is strenuous, and sleep can be impossible.

Fortunately, chiropractic care can relieve back pain. A recent study revealed that U.S. Army members had reduced pain and stiffness after one month of chiropractic treatment. Although feeling better was good, moving better even better.

The 100 active service members in this study were able to pull 10 pounds more than they could at the beginning of the study. They were also able to more easily complete daily activities such as getting dressed, carrying groceries, and working. This is because chiropractic therapy treats underlying issues that cause pain and dysfunction.

Improve Posture

Chiropractic manipulation is not “straightening up” your back, although it can help you achieve healthier posture. When one of our chiropractic physicians adjusts you, they gently coax your spine and other joints into optimal alignment.

This focus on spinal alignment is critical for healthier posture. When the spine is not in proper alignment, it puts stress on nerves. Since nerves carry signals that help you feel sensation and move, nerve interference can cause pain and difficulty moving.

Restoring optimal nerve function helps your body feel and move with the ease and comfort nature intended. Your brain receives all of the sensory information available to it, and your muscles can respond by making the micro-adjustments needed to maintain healthy alignment. The result is a relaxed and confident posture.

Assistance With Car Crash Injury Recovery

Recovering from a car crash is difficult. This is because the injuries are throughout your body. Although you might feel you have just a touch of whiplash, your entire body is affected due to the interconnectivity of your body.

Chiropractic treatment focuses on reducing your immediate pain and improving your overall health. Although many people get relief from the adjustments we provide, the scientifically sound lifestyle counseling we offer gives you the tools to take charge of your health and make the journey towards wellness.

Sleep Better

Sometimes, we have clients who have an underlying issue that makes it difficult to sleep. An example is someone with obstructive sleep apnea, which is breathing that stops due to excess tissue that gets in the way. Although many dismissed this condition as merely snoring in the past, it is dangerous because it starves the body of oxygen. Fortunately, chiropractic adjustment has been shown to relieve such obstructions and restore healthier breathing patterns during sleep.

Wellness and Relaxation

Since chiropractic care takes a holistic approach, your overall health is enhanced. At our office, you can learn about better nutrition, efficient exercise, and effective mindfulness techniques. Many of our patients also report that adjustment sessions help them focus on self-care and give them a break from their stressful lives.

Rely on an Experienced Chiropractor for Back Pain Treatment

You have many options available for your back pain treatment. You can continue to mask the pain with pills, injections, and other temporary fixes. Alternatively, you can call us or use the online scheduling tool to make an appointment with one of our veteran chiropractors to discover and address the underlying cause of your pain.