Chiropractic Care for Fast Concussion Recovery | Chiropractor for Brain Health in Manahawkin, NJ
Hey everybody, it’s Dr. Nicole with Healing Hands Manahawkin. Did you guys know that Chiropractic care significantly helps people in the recovery process of their bodies after a concussion.
Finding The Root Cause of Pain
So I have a patient and he came in to see me with all kinds of things that were going wrong with his body. He was only in his 40s, and he had all these weird, strange things happening from his head down to his toe. Nobody could figure it out as he went to all kinds of medical doctors that just wanted to medicate him. He really wasn’t interested in that road, he really wanted to find out the root issues. I mean, this guy is an exceptional individual.He’s a mover and a shaker of the world. You know, he lives up in Manhattan, right? So he’s moving and shaken.Halfway through His 40s his body is breaking down and nobody can understand why. They all want to medicate him, but this guy really wants to know the underlying cause to all these seemingly little things have been breaking down in his body over the last 20 years.
Our Thorough Examinations of Patient History
So in our office, we take a very thorough examination and history with our patients. If they’re warranted, we even take X rays, we don’t we don’t ever fool around with anyone’s spine and nervous system and health. So when we we’re taking history, I said to my patient, “Well, you’re you’re you’re halfway through your 40s, and things have been gradually breaking down since your 20s, what happened in your 20s?” And he said, “Well, the only thing that I could think of that really happened was I was driving down the parkway on my motorcycle, doing a wheelie”. And he goes, “I fell backward and I hit my head”. So I was like, Aha! Obviously, he had a traumatic brain injury. Even if you’re wearing a helmet, you’re still getting damage if you crash on the parkway doing a wheelie and you fall off your motorcycle.
Concussions & Traumatic Brain Injuries
So a concussion is a type of traumatic brain injury that usually occur from a blow to the head. But it can also occur from a violent shaking of the head or the violent shaking of the body. Okay, so concussions have a variety of symptoms. They can include anything from headaches, dizziness, confusion, sensitivity to light and noise. Do any of these sound familiar? These sound like symptoms that the majority of the world’s population suffer from? Right? So these are all symptoms of a concussion. So while concussions are a serious injury, Chiropractic care can be very effective in helping patient’s recovery from a concussion. And here’s the reason why. The reason is we have to understand something called Cranial Nerves. Have you guys ever heard of your Cranial Nerves? I know yes, we have nerves all through the cranium. So these nerves are a set of 12 pairs of nerves and they originate from your brainstem.
Cranial Nerves
So your brainstem is at the bottom of the brain and it actually hits down right below the skull. It runs right into this area right here to the C one or the top of the neck where the brainstem actually hangs down into the top of the neck. The cranial nerves have numerous functions. Everything from hearing, to taste, to smell and to facial movements. Vision is controlled by cranial nerves. inflammation in the head and neck, and even things below the neck like your heart rate, your breathing rates. Your digestion is even controlled by some of these cranial nerves. So because these nerves are involved in so many vital functions of the body, when they’re damaged, they can create problems or symptoms. Okay, so how does chiropractic come into play? Well, Chiropractic adjustments can be a really effective way in helping to restore function to the cranial nerves.
Chiropractic Care for Concussions
So especially upper neck adjustments, right? So how do we find out if a person has these problems in their upper neck? Well, of course, with a thorough exam, a thorough history, but especially X ray. X ray is probably one of the best ways that we’re able to see inside of a person’s body. We’re actually able to measure those bones. So just like when you go to your medical doctor, and you have parameters, like the range of your blood pressure is supposed to be in, or the range that your cholesterol is supposed to be. If you go outside of that range, then there could be a problem. Well, we have a range of where your spinal bones and that position your spinal bones are supposed to be in. An unnatural, abnormal position may be affecting the nervous system. If we measure them outside of that range on X ray, then we know that the bones are causing stress to some part of the nervous system. And when the nervous system is under stress, the nervous system cannot function properly. Then we end up with all of these different kinds of problems.
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