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July 29, 2011

Effective Relief for Back Pain: Melbourne Chiropractor

Are you looking for help with your back pain? Are you looking for a natural and effective approach, without the need for drugs and surgery? Do you know where to begin?

Before you have any treatment, the first thing to determine is, why you have back pain, by identifying what is causing your back pain to begin with. Only then can you begin to pursue any solutions.

Why do you have back pain? Consider it may not be from one incident, rather an accumulation of sources over time. The three causes of any pain or distress are physical, chemical and emotional.

There are two categories of physical causes. These include the big incidents, like major accidents and traumas- sport and work injuries, car accidents and other memorable events. The second physical source includes the small physical stresses on your body, often repeated over time, like poor sitting posture, twisted sleeping position, how balanced you carry out your work duties. Did you know sitting puts the most pressure and stress on your lower back, more so when you lean forward? These don’t seem like much, however, they accumulate over time, and can become major issues over their extended lives.

Chemical stresses develop from exposure to toxic chemicals, drugs and bad food. When your brain registers a foreign toxic chemical in your body, it may cause you to adapt, to this stress response, in a way that creates back pain.

The third cause of back pain is emotional stress. Remember how you felt the last time you got upset? We have observed a relationship between peoples’ moods and state of mind, with the onset of back pain. Men seem to develop back pain with concerns over stability, most commonly financial issues. Women seem to develop back pain when concerned about relationships.

By recognizing and identifying the cause of your back pain, you can then consider possible solutions. What are the possibilities? This depends on whether you are just concerned with treating the end result of your health issues being the back pain, or more concerned to address it wholistically, closer to its cause. Amongst your many options, there are two categories. Do you want to have you pain “treated” as an unrelated entity to the rest of your body? This can be done with a drug or procedure to go to the site of pain and try to fix it there and then. Your other option is a more wholistic natural, measurable and sustainable approach?

You can have the back pain “treated” by needles, drugs, hot or cold packs, rubbing it, stretching it, as well as many forms of hands on therapies. These are primarily aimed at the area of pain, considering this to be where the problems starts and ends. What if the back pain is only the end result of a series of other issues? It could be coming from your organs, like kidneys, or referred pain from another body area. It could be referred from other body parts. It could be your back pain is the result of your lifestyle the needs to be modified.

Do you know what is scarier than back pain? What if you have a back problem and DON’T feel it? Without being able to feel it, the condition can worsen, so by the time you do feel it, you are in the more advanced stages of the condition. What if your back pain was a way your body used to communicate that you need to make some changes in you r life?.

We use a contemporary uniquely natural, measurable and sustainable approach to back pain. Our system does not “treat” the back pain. Here the person is looked at as a whole, considering many lifestyle factors. After using our comprehensive assessment procedures, our approach is not to treat anything, rather to help the body to better become aware of itself, and adapt in a more healthy manner. Here the pain is considered in context of your whole life. Using a wholistic approach like this, can lead to more sustainable changes.

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Poor Slumping Ugly Posture! It’s more than just a bad look!

Filed under: Blog — Tags: forward head posture, forward head posture melbourne, head posture, how does poor posture develop, poor posture, poor posture develop, poor posture melbourne, poor slumping ugly posture its more than just a bad look, posture, slumping posture, ugly posture — DrDiskin @ 11:09 pm

What is YOUR posture? Do you think it’s good and healthy? Have you ever noticed how you look side-on? You may think you are gorgeous in the mirror, until you see your profile. Warning! This may scare you, so approach checking this out carefully.

Your posture is more than just how you look on the outside. According to the American Journal of Pain Management 1994, “Posture affects and moderates every physiologic function from breathing to hormonal production. Spinal pain, headache, mood, blood pressure, pulse, and lung capacity are among the functions most easily influenced by posture.”

How does poor posture develop, and more importantly what are some practical and sustainable solutions?

Your posture is a result of how you have adapted to all the physical, mental and emotional stresses in your life. It is where your body has found the least resistance to hold you. Remember how you have performed certain activities repeatedly, like carrying a bag (unevenly) on one side, sitting (slumped) a certain way, or even how you lie (twisted) in bed. These repetitive activities and positions force your body to twist, bend and contort, in order to try to adapt and cope with those repeated physical forces on your body. Emotional and mental stress, including your moods, can also trigger a defence (stress) posture response, which brings your head forward, and creates tension build-up along your spine and nerve system. Over time these patterns can become more lasting.

Your posture is more than just how you LOOK!

Your posture is the window to your spine, and is a reflection of your health and life.

What is YOUR posture?

First you need to be aware that it is even an issue. You can try to look at your self in the mirror, or have your profile photo taken, to see how you look, particularly from the side. Many people have a forward head posture, which means their head is in front of where it should be? There are some very clever and scientific ways to measure this, like finding out what your posture number is. This is the identifying measurement of your posture. It is an indicator, like a blood pressure result or cholesterol result, that further testing may be necessary. There is approximately one extra kilo of load/stress on your spine, for every 2mm of forward head posture.

The shape, tension, tone and patterns in your spine represents the shape, tension, tone and patterns of your life.

What can you do about poor posture?

There are many approaches. You can force your posture to be more straight and even, with belts, braces, awkward exercises, and nagging and ongoing vigilance. Does that ever last? You can change your posture more sustainably, without any force or discomfort, by increasing your awareness and considering what you do that causes your poor posture to develop in the first place.

At Diskin Life Melbourne, our Uniquely Natural, Measurable and Sustainable™ approach includes a comprehensive state-of-the-art physical assessment, followed by a clear description of your condition, and how we plan to assist you to achieve your health and well-being goals and objectives. This approach, is designed to help your body to reprogram its awareness, so you INSTINCTIVELY, AUTOMATICALLY and SUSTAINABLY assume more appropriate and upright posture WITHOUT EVEN TRYING.

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July 20, 2011

I am in pain! What should I do? Can Chiropractic help me?

Filed under: Blog — Tags: back pain, body warning signals, effective wellness approach, healthy life doctor, help me, i am in pain what should i do can chiropractic help me, little conscious awareness, warning sign, warning signs, when was the last time — DrDiskin @ 11:33 pm

Help For Back Pain - Melbourne Chiropractor

What if you were told the pain you feel is not something you want to get rid of or stop, but actually pay attention to?

What if the pain you are experiencing is a warning sign of something serious?

What if you were able to find something good from something that seemed to be bad?

There are many reasons your body gives you pain signals. Doesn’t it make sense to respect the intelligence of your body, so if it does give you pain messages, you at least try to determine what is the reason, instead of just ignoring or trying to stop your body’s communication?

Is your body really intelligent? When was the last time you reminded you heart to beat, your liver to make more enzymes (and which ones), show your body how to heal a cut, or keep track of your thyroid, to properly regulate your metabolism?

If you are reasonably healthy, these functions should be happening automatically, under the control and coordination of your nerve system, with little conscious awareness on your behalf. Just as well, since we are so forgetful, we would likely not be able to keep up with these activities taking place simultaneously if we tried.

Since there are some four billion of activities like these every second, you can count yourself lucky that your body has the ability to communicate at least some warning signs- if it’s able. These warning signs can show up anywhere. When you have a headache, it could be from many varied causes, such as too much caffeine or sugar, not enough rest, maybe you hit your head or twisted your neck, and that’s only a few of the many. The same type of possibilities are there for other pains like back pain, which could be from accumulated bad sitting, sleeping and working postural habits repeated over the years. Many pains are the last signs that something is actually wrong.

: Listen to your body’s warning signs!

Think about the leading causes of death, like cancer, diabetes and heart disease. Unfortunately they do not offer early warning signs either. If you are “lucky” to catch one of these conditions earlier in the piece, you certainly have a better change for recovery. How can you become aware earlier? If you are better able to feel and recognise your body warning signals, you may notice that your body isn’t working right, and make the all important and necessary CHANGES to how you live. These are all mostly lifestyle conditions, so changing how you live is an intelligent way to be one of the fortunate ones to make the changes before its too late.

Maybe now you may consider pain or other body signals as “opportunities” to listen, and heed the warnings.

Discover how our Uniquely Natural, Measurable and Sustainable™ system, an evolutionary gentle and effective wellness approach to healthier living, can help you learn how to better hear and understand your body’s warning signs in perspective, and also learn how to respond with the appropriate changes of behaviour.

Dr Ari Diskin

The Healthy Life Doctor of Chiropractic

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