May 11 2020

Freehold NJ Chiropractor Explains the Best way to Prevent Back Pain

Our office, Hometown Family Wellness Center located in Freehold, NJ sees many patients that suffer with lower back pain. Over 80% of the population experiences back pain and many wonder how to prevent their pain from worsening or reoccurring. A recent literature review revealed that exercise may be the most effective way to prevent pain.

Previous 20 scientific studies were reviewed that tested various interventions for preventing back pain including exercise, patient education, training in safe lifting methods, stress management, and more.

The only intervention which tested consistently producing substantial relief was exercise. In one study, active patients had 127 fewer sick days than inactive patients. Most exercises focused on strengthening back and abdominal muscles.

It’s important that before starting any exercise program to be evaluated by a chiropractor that specializes in sports and exercise therapy. Many people exercise, but they don’t realize they have joint and muscle imbalances. When you exercise with these imbalances, your joints and muscles aren’t functioning optimally and you are further enhancing the misalignments or at best splinting the unstable areas.

Exercise is a critical component of chiropractic care. A combination of chiropractic adjustments and exercise not only significantly relieves back pain for many patients but also helps preventing future problems from occurring. The adjustments bring the joints to improved alignment and allow for optimal range of motion and more equal contraction of the muscles for best stabilization.

Dr. Russell Brokstein, Chiropractor and owner of Hometown Family Wellness Center helps his patients develop a safe, effective exercise program to prevent and reduce pain. We start off with chiropractic adjustments and therapeutic stretching to provide for full range of motion before beginning strengthening exercises. Here is a video of the basics in our home stretching routine for the low back:

This is just the starting point to preventing low back pain and helping those already suffering. To learn more about natural back pain relief, go to our website www.chiropractorfreehold.com or contact our office at 732-780-0044 to get a full evaluation for spinal problems.

Bigos S, Holland J, Holland C, Webster J, Battie, Malmgren J. High-quality controlled trials on preventing episodes of back problems: systematic literature review in working-age adults. The Spine Journal 2009; 9: 147-168.

May 11 2020

Eczema and Allergies in 6 Year Old Patient Helped by Chiropractor in Freehold, NJ Using Biofeedback Stress Reduction

Many people suffer with sensitivities that lead to symptoms of a broad spectrum: allergies, skin conditions like eczema and psoriasis, migraines, Fibromyalgia, ADD/ADHD, stress and anxiety, arthritis, depression, digestive issues like acid reflux and irritable bowel syndrome, frequent colds, heart and organ disease and many more.

It is scientifically proven that internal and external stressors lead to these sensitivities. Biofeedback stress reduction therapy is able to analyze your body for these stressors and sensitivities then through positive reconditioning it reduces the symptomatic response. All of this without any medications and their harmful side effects. Click here to find out more: Biofeedback Stress Reduction Therapy

My name is Dr. Russell Brokstein, Chiropractor and Owner of Hometown Family Wellness Center in Freehold, NJ. We began incorporating biofeedback stress reduction therapy in our practice 2 years ago and have experienced over 80% success rate in helping our patients with this state of the art technology. I want to share with you one of our successful cases in helping a 6 year old male patient who had suffered with severe eczema since he was born.

He had been seeing Dermatologists all these years with no change using cortisone and other steroid type treatments. After just 8 treatments using biofeedback, his skin is crystal clear. (See the pictures below) The parents reported that he was able to swim in the ocean for the first time without a wetsuit and showering is no longer painful.

Added bonus the parents never reported before treatment about his peanut sensitivity and before going back to school, they tested him by rubbing peanut butter on his skin and he had no reaction to it. (Note his allergy was not the anaphylaxis type)

Following are the before pictures!

After Just 8 Visits with the NRG Immune Enhancement System

Click this link if you would like to watch the father discuss the results: 6 Year old Suffering with Eczema and Allergies Helped by Freehold Chiropractor

If you or somebody you know suffers with allergies, headaches, digestive issues, arthritis, stress, anxiety, ADD or ADHD, Fibromyalgia, skin conditions, frequently fighting colds, depression or other symptoms share this article with them. Most symptoms are related to stress and sensitivities and biofeedback stress reduction can be the answer! Contact our office to receive your complimentary biofeedback stress assessment. This 6 year old patient has gained his life back by using this form of treatment. We have been helping patients from Freehold and the surrounding towns of Marlboro, Howell, Colts Neck, Jackson, Morganville and Manalapan, NJ as well as other communities in Monmouth and Ocean Counties in New Jersey. Some have driven as far as New York City and Philadelphia to experience biofeedback stress reduction therapy.

Call 732-780-0044 and find out more about our office by going to www.chiropractorfreehold.com

May 11 2020

Are You Getting the Full Benefits of Chiropractic Care?

Not many people know the full benefits of chiropractic care. Unfortunately, most people just go to a chiropractor for neck or back pain, sciatica or other types of pain. Then when the symptoms are gone, they stop care. If that is you, you are not receiving the all of the benefits of chiropractic care: getting pressure off your nervous system to allow your body to function at its best and to stay health naturally.

This morning I saw a post on FB by a future chiropractor, Dean Peters. I want to share it with you and the picture he posted below. I hope this helps you get the real idea of what we are doing when you come to the chiropractor:

“Holy 💩! ⚡️

THOUGHT FLASH ⚡️
What do you do when a light goes out in your house…I flipped the switch on and off a few times! Did that work?
❌NOPE! Still didn’t come on”!

What next you ask?
I changed the light bulb 💡in hopes that I’d see the light! Did that work?
❌NOPE!

What next?
So I tried another lightbulb💡! Did that work?
❌NOPE!

Chiropractic care is to correct the cause of the symptoms — Chiropractors correct the cause of the problem.

What next?!
I went to the Master Control Center and discovered it was a simple breaker that had tripped!
I toggled the switch back on and God said, “Let there be light☀️!”

Let me land the plane for you🛬…when your body is suffering from symptoms such as fever, numbness, tingling, coughing, sneezing, hypertension etc….at what point are you going to make the decision to 🛑STOP living in the dark, and go straight to the circuit breaker AKA your Master Control Center 🧠 (YOUR BRAIN AND NERVOUS SYSTEM) and discover if the breaker has tripped?!

Quit thinking you need more lightbulbs(AKA-medications that mask symptoms) and get to the root cause of the issue! Go to the doctor that knows how to get to the root cause, not the one that wants to simply suppress symptoms. Medication cannot create health, removing interference within your nervous system does. One life to live in this vessel, treat it well.

This. Is. Chiropractic! Doctors of chiropractic are specifically trained to locate, analyze, and annihilate vertebral subluxations that are preventing you from living at 100%. If there was pressure on your nervous system, how soon would you want to know about it?!”

Are you ready now to experience all the amazing benefits of chiropractic care?

In our society, people wait until they have symptoms, yet the symptoms are the last sign of a problem. These problems have been building over time, many times from the time you are born! They won’t go away over night. To make it more difficult, patients come in thinking one chiropractic visit is going to fix the years of abuse to the spine and nervous system. Then patients stop coming in when the symptoms are gone rather than do maintenance visits.

I bet you bring your car in for maintenance so it doesn’t break down, or have HVAC come in once or twice a year to make sure your heater and AC are working, or most of you surely go to the dentist once or twice a year to make sure your teeth are healthy yet at least your teeth can be replaced. You are born with one spine and nervous system so why not take care of it?

It is your body and your choice to choose how you follow treatment, but why wouldn’t you want the best for your body and health? Why wouldn’t you want the best for your spouse, children, family and friends? Chiropractic is the leading natural healthcare provider in the world. Optimizing your body’s ability to function the way it is meant to.

The nerves innervate different organs and tissues and when compressed can lead to many symptoms — Pressure on nerves affect different organs and tissues which can lead to the symptoms listed

On your first visit in our office, we do a computerized spinal exam that shows each level of the spine and where there is pressure on the nerves. I always use the analogy of the circuit breaker system in your house and how it relates to your nervous system.

Pressure on nerves at any level can affect function and lead to different symptoms. Chiropractors adjust your spine to get pressure off those nerves. It’s that simple 🙂

Share what chiropractic is really about! People need to know it’s not about pain relief. We can change the US health system by getting more people to choose chiropractic over popping medications that just mask symptoms and have a snowballing effect of side effects. We have been educating and helping people in Freehold and neighboring towns of Marlboro, Manalapan, Colts Neck, Jackson, Howell and many other nearby cities for over 15 years.

Learn more about chiropractic and health by following our Facebook page, just click here: Chiropractor Freehold NJ – Russell Brokstein

Let us know how chiropractic has helped you or a family member!

May 11 2020

The Frustrating Road Of Fibromyalgia Finally Helped by Freehold Chiropractor – Part I

I’m a chiropractor in Freehold, NJ and have helped many patients in Freehold, Marlboro, Manalapan, Howell, Colts Neck, Jackson and other neighboring towns of Monmouth County who suffer with Fibromyalgia.

If you’re like many other patients with fibromyalgia, you’ve had a rough road in life up until now. There may have been times when your family and friends didn’t understand how you were feeling and why you couldn’t keep up with the normal pace for housework chores and personal responsibilities. It’s been frustrating.

There were, no doubt, times when you turned down invitations because you weren’t up to all the walking, hiking, shopping, and camping that everyone expected you to do. After all, you know your body’s limitations; knowing that pain and fatigue would follow a seemingly fun excursion to the mall or camping trip was enough negative reinforcement to say no to these types of activities.

You probably have spent time and money on doctor hopping, with little solutions and another bag full of prescription medication that worries you when you think about side effects.

There were probably many nights when you did not get enough sleep, and then many days when you could barely get out of bed in the morning or experience chronic fatigue and restless leg syndrome. Your days may have included hours of feeling sad and depressed, experiencing brain fog where you didn’t think clearly, and pain and tenderness almost everywhere in your body. Greeting the new day didn’t seem too exciting during those times and may have almost seemed like you were the main character in the movie, Ground Hog Day, reliving the same day over and over again!

Things change when you get a diagnosis of fibromyalgia and use an alternative health practitioner who considers the whole body and uses natural methods to help you get well.

Your friends and family will start to believe that you haven’t been making up symptoms all along. After all, you were never a hypochondriac! Why couldn’t they believe in you before? The good news is that they believe you now and still want to help you as much as possible. They want to experience you – the whole you – and your total personality back in full force and have wanted to do so for a long time, since the start of your illness. Your family and friends love you and will feel relieved that now there is a strategy that can produce results. They feel grateful that someone finally discovered the reason behind how bad you’ve been feeling for so long and has a plan that works to bring out the real you again.

My name is Dr. Russell Brokstein, chiropractor in Freehold, NJ and I believe there is an innate intelligence that can be followed and will result in the fastest improvement. Your chiropractic care can only help you facilitate a faster recovery. Chiropractic manipulations of the spine are valuable because they restore the impulses in the nervous system in locations where there was a disruption before. One of the findings of research scientists is that there has been a head trauma that may be responsible for the disorder.

It’s As If Your Brain Cries Out, “Yippee!”

Once the brain and nervous system start feeling the restoration of the impulses in areas where there was a disruption before, the nervous system practically cries out in joy!

If your nerve cells could talk, they would say, ‘I’m alive again! I’m not like a dim bulb that puts out very little light anymore. See how much I shine! Tell everyone I’m back again and life is going to be great!’ After each chiropractic adjustment, there’s a little more hope, a little more brightness in life, and a little more vitality in each part of the body.

If you are ready to be pain free, relieve your fibromyalgia once and for all without the harmful side effects of Lyrica, Savella, or Cymbalta, and enjoy your normal active lifestyle… contact our office, Hometown Family Wellness Center by calling 732-780-0044 and make sure to look for our next parts to our Fibromyalgia series which includes home care recommendations.

May 11 2020

Migraine and other Headache Sufferers Respond Well to Chiropractic

Dr. Russell Brokstein, Chiropractor and owner of Hometown Family Wellness Center in Freehold, NJ, discusses the overwhelming “common” cause of 90+% of all headaches, including migraines and why chiropractic appears to result in immediate improvement in headache severity and frequency. Dr. Brokstein has been treating headache patients in Freehold, Marlboro, Manalapan, Jackson, Howell and Colts Neck, NJ for the past 11 years.

“Once patients know the cause of their headaches, it makes more sense to correct the cause, rather than just treat the symptoms with medications which produce many side effects.”

Watch the video to find out more and if you know anybody suffering needlessly with headaches/migraines, please share this information with them.

Following are the before pictures!

After Just 8 Visits with the NRG Immune Enhancement System

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