The flu, swine flu, H1N1, vaccinations..the list goes on and on and it’s taking over the news and other media forms the past couple of months. Freehold Chiropractor, Dr. Russell Brokstein, educates the community and surrounding towns of Marlboro, Manalapan, Howell and Jackson, NJ about what the shots contain, many health risks and that there are healthier alternatives. Many people don’t know the importance of chiropractic and how it can actually boost the immune system and allows the body to function optimally. Dr. Brokstein of Hometown Family Wellness Center discusses these topics in the following video:
10 Reasons Why Chiropractic Is REAL Health Care!
Do you know chiropractic is more than just pain relief? It is great many people get natural relief of pain when going to the chiropractor without risks of medications or surgery. BUT… many people are missing out on the true impact of what chiropractic is all about: HEALTH and WELLNESS!
Your entire body functions because of your nervous system. Your brain sends messages down the spinal cord and out through all the nerves to control every muscle, organ and tissue in the body. You can move your joints and muscles because messages pass through your nerves. You can feel sensations because messages go up to your brain. Your heart beats, lungs breathe, stomachs digest all without you having to think as messages go from the brain to these organs and back to the brain.
Chiropractic is about restoring your nervous system so it functions optimally allowing your body to be healthy and active. Chiropractic is REAL Health and Prevention!
Every day you subject your body to stress that causes the spinal bones to move out of place putting pressure on the spinal cord and nerves. What stress? Think of the accumulation of traumas: from when you learned how to walk how many times did you fall, sitting at desks at schools and carrying heavy books for years, poor postures, playing sports, sleeping in bad positions or even car accidents (just a small 3 MPH bumper hit causes whiplash!) Even poor nutrition, being overweight and chemical toxicity can cause the spine to misalign. The chiropractic adjustments realign the vertebra to remove interference from the nervous system so your body is optimally functioning.
Check out the research that shows chiropractic can help you improve your health naturally!
1 – Chiropractic Improves Immune Function
Studies show that chiropractic patients have a 200% stronger immune response than people who don’t receive chiropractic care, and a 400% stronger immune response than people with cancer or serious diseases. Read the full article: Chiropractic Boosts Immunity
Another study from 2010 found there is a boost in blood serum levels of some important antibodies in patients that get adjusted. These antibodies help fight off infection and disease. A strong immune system improves your health.
2 – Chiropractic Reduces Inflammation
A 2010 study in the Journal of Chiropractic Medicine shows short term chiropractic treatment of chronic low back pain sufferers can help reduce inflammation naturally.
3 – Chiropractic Can Help Hypertension
High blood pressure is suffered by approximately 30% of adults. The Journal of Human Hypertension did a 2007 study of patients with hypertension. During the 8 week study, half of the patients received upper cervical adjustments while the other half received fake adjustments. There were marked and sustained reductions in high blood pressure equivalent to the use of 2 drug combination therapy commonly used. 85% of the patients that received the adjustment treatment showed improvement after just one adjustment. Even better this improvement is without the harmful side effects of the medications usually prescribed for high blood pressure.
Good Morning America even did a feature segment on the positive affects of chiropractic on hypertension. This is a subject more people have to be made aware of!
4 – Chiropractic Helps Stress Reduction
A small study in 2011 done by Japanese scientists was to examine the effects of chiropractic on the autonomic nervous system. Your brain shows altered activity when under stress. This affects pain processing and reactions to stress. Cortisol levels also increase when stress, which can cause weight gain, increased allergies, diabetes, joint problems, decreased immune responses and sleep problems.
PET scans and blood tests showed that those patients that got adjusted showed improvement in brain activity in areas associated with pain processing and stress reactions. Corstisol levels also significantly reduced indicating decreased stress. Added bonus was lower pain scores and improved quality of life reported by the chiropractic patients. You improve your health by reducing stress.
5 – Chiropractic Improves Balance
As we get older, we are more likely to have serious injuries from falls due to loss of balance. One of the many roles of your spine and nervous system is balance. Nerves in your body relay information for balance to your brain. If there is pressure on these nerves there can be dizziness and a loss of balance.
A 2009 study showed patients who get adjusted had a reduction in dizziness, balance and neck pain. Another study in 2015 provides evidence that adjusting the neck improves balance which can help prevent falls and injuries.
A small study from 2009 found that people who received chiropractic adjustments had reduced dizziness and improved balance. A 2015 review of the literature suggests that chiropractic care might be an effective, natural way to help prevent falls in elderly patients.
6 – Chiropractic Provides Relief of Colic
From October 2007 to November 2009, 104 infants suffering with colic were split into 3 treatment groups at a chiropractic clinic in the UK. Findings showed chiropractic adjustments provided relief of colic. Reducing crying helps a baby sleep better and improve their health.
7 – Chiropractic Relieves Asthma and Bronchial Conditions
A 2013 preliminary study reported an improvement in moderate COPD following a course of chiropractic treatment for 4 weeks. Another study in the Journal of Manipulative and Physiological Therapeutics reviewed research which shows there is benefits of manual therapy for childhood respiratory disease like asthma. Health relies heavily on lung capacity.
Our Freehold chiropractor, Dr. Russell Brokstein, suffered with a bronchial condition for 10 years. As a competitive soccer player it made it difficult at times to breathe while playing. Medical doctors prescribed one inhaler after another with no relief. Upon entering chiropractic college at the age of 24, Dr. Brokstein started to get adjusted. Since that time he has not had one incident of a bronchial attack. This is not uncommon as your nervous system has control of all functions including your lungs. By removing pressure to the nerves that control lung function, it is possible to get natural relief of asthma-like conditions.
8 – Chiropractic Benefits Wellness Programs
Some chiropractors implement wellness programs to include diet, exercise, nutritional supplementation, and one-on-one coaching. Patients that participate in a chiropractic 18 weeks wellness program show improvements in weight loss, heart rate, blood pressure, strength, body-mass index, and forced vital capacity.
9 – Chiropractic Reduces Missed Work Days and Disability
Back pain is one of the leading causes of missed days at work. This costs not only the companies money, but the
employee too if they are missing work. Research shows that chiropractic patients have fewer disability incidents than those under conventional care. Those who aren’t under chiropractic care are twice as likely to miss work. Access to chiropractic care is important to decrease disability claims and lost productivity.
10 – Chiropractic Reduces Medical Costs and Utilization
High Blood Pressure? Chiropractor in Freehold NJ Shares Research You Need to Read!
Over the past couple of years, the media is starting to share important information that the public needs to hear. Your medical doctors will rarely share this material with you.
Just a couple of years ago, it was released that chiropractic adjustments can help lower blood pressure naturally. Those patients in one study had a dramatic drop in their high blood pressure by an average of 17 points. That’s an equivalent of giving a patient 2 blood pressure medications at once….oh, and that’s WITHOUT all the side effects of medications!
Watch one of the many news reports here:
I must admit I laugh at the MD who says they have seen MIRACULOUS changes but to stick to proven methods for now, that it’s not available to everybody, that’s it’s still investigational? Proven methods? Prescribing medications that just cover up the symptoms and you need to stay on forever, with many side effects? The medical way of treating conditions is a vicious cycle of treating one symptom with a drug that causes other problems so they can prescribe more for the new symptoms that will show up.
Another study done in 1988 took 75 patients in a double blind study. In this study, one group of patients with high blood 
pressure received adjustments to the thoracic spine area. Another group received placebos (movements that seemed to be adjustments but were not), and a final group received no treatment. The adjusted group experienced decreases in both systolic and diastolic blood pressure while no change was noted in either the control or placebo group.
Chiropractors have been stating this information for well over 100 years and have explained why it works:
Chiropractic is more than just neck or back pain! It is about the optimal functioning of your body by removing nerve interference. When the brain can communicate with the rest of the body, the signals are unimpeded, and the messages can get to all the organs, muscles, tissues and cells. The medical profession will admit that if you have a “pinched” nerve in the neck or lower back, that you can experience numbness and or tingling of the hands or feet. Well what about the nerves that go to your heart, lungs, kidneys, bladder, stomach, ears, thyroid gland, pancreas and every other organ in your body? You are not going to get numbness and tingling, but you will get decreased functioning of these organs and that will decrease your overall health. Chiropractors detect and correct the spinal vertebra that are misaligned and putting pressure on the nerves. By getting to the cause of the problem, chiropractic helps correct dysfunction and return optimal health to your body.
My name is Dr. Russell Brokstein, DC and my very first patient while in chiropractic college had severe hypertension. He was a 50 year old gentleman with blood pressure of 200/140. His medical doctors said it was genetically high because not one medication on the market lowered his blood pressure and it had been high for over 20 years. After a thorough evaluation, we found that several segments associated with high blood pressure were present. We took his blood pressure before his first adjustment and immediately after the adjustment took his blood pressure again to find it had dropped around 20 points. That’s an immediate response.. not taking medications over several weeks or months to determine if it’s going to work.
I have been in practice the last 13 years and helping patients at our Freehold, NJ office Hometown Family Wellness Center. While helping most patients that come in for aches and pains, I educate them about the full benefits of chiropractic and helping them be more healthy without drugs or surgery. I have many other patients who I have not only helped with high blood pressure, but other health problems. Does it help for everybody? No.. but isn’t it worth your health to try something that can return you to optimal health and wellness without the harmful affects of medications? One thing I can say, no matter what, your body will be more healthy and optimally functioning under chiropractic care by removing nerve interference.
If you are ready to experience health and wellness without medications, call our office to schedule a consultation. To find out more information about our practice go to www.chiropractorfreehold.com. We have been helping residents of Freehold and surrounding towns of Marlboro, Manalapan, Howell, Jackson, Morganville, Colts Neck and other communities in Monmouth and Ocean County, New Jersey.
References:
McKnight ME, DeBoer KF. Preliminary study of blood pressure changes in normotensive subjects undergoing chiropractic care. J Manipulative Physiol Ther. 1988 Aug;11(4):261-6.
G Bakris, M Dickholtz Sr, P M Meyer, G Kravitz, E Avery, M Miller, J Brown, C Woodfield, B Bell. Atlas vertebra realignment and achievement of arterial pressure goal in hypertensive patients: a pilot study. Journal of Human Hypertension. March 2, 2007.
Yates RG, Lamping DL, Abram NL, Wright C “Effects of Chiropractic Treatment on Blood Pressure and Anxiety: A Randomized, Controlled Trial” J Manipulative Physiol Ther 1988; 11(6): 484-488.
Chiropractor in Freehold NJ Provides Hope to People Suffering with Headaches and Migraines
So many people suffer unnecessarily with headaches of many types, including migraines. I have been treating headache patients for the past 13 years and unfortunately most people are pushed onto so many medications that if they are lucky, the meds cover the symptoms temporarily. There is a huge problem though: the medications all have side effects, usually do not give you your life back and doesn’t actually correct the cause of the problem.
My name is Dr. Russell Brokstein and as owner of Hometown Family Wellness Center in Freehold, NJ, I feel it is so important for people to be educated on many health problems, including headaches. For this reason I started a series of blogs about headaches for home care recommendations to take back control of your life.
In our last post, we went further into habits and diet that are commonly linked to headaches. You can read this post by clicking here: Headache and Migraine Sufferers Have Hope with Freehold Chiropractor.
There are many other factors that contribute to headaches and migraines. So, lets start to discuss these:
Food allergies can cause a headache or migraine and they will trigger the headache quickly. If you’re allergic to a food, whether it’s yeast, milk, peanuts, wheat, or sugar, it’s possible that you will have a headache after eating that food. In children suffering from migraines and epilepsy, eliminating offending foods will result in a reduction of seizures.
Food allergies are more complicated because food essentially stays in the body for four days so you could be reacting to a food eaten four days ago!
Food allergies can easily be tested, simply by sending a blood sample to the clinical lab for ELISA testing. Now it’s possible to test for allergies to 99 different foods by ordering a test kit online. Google “Meridian Valley Clinical Laboratory, Kent, WA” for the ELISA test and order one if you think there’s a possibility you may be allergic to foods. The laboratory will send out your kit, which you’ll take to a local lab that draws blood. The hospital outpatient lab may even draw the blood for you. T hen you’ll send the blood to Meridian Valley Clinical Laboratory and they will send you your results. You can find out for sure if you’re allergic to foods; there’s no point in eliminating foods from the diet if they aren’t causing you headaches.
In our office we have another option that is only offered in around 100 offices in the country. We provide biofeedback and stress reduction therapy. Where the blood test previously mentioned can only test for around 100 items, our technology can test for over 50,000 foods, chemicals, stress, emotions, organ and system imbalances. We have had over an 80% success rate with many stress induced conditions like headaches, allergies, digestive problems, immune problems, skin conditions, anxiety, depression, ADD, ADHD, smoking cessation and weight loss.
Another issue that can cause headaches is faulty elimination. For a minute, think back to a time when you were constipated. How did you feel? Miserable! I must tell you how important it is to have a bowel movement at least twice daily. If you don’t, you are constipated!
What happens inside the body when you are constipated is not pretty! All that waste matter sitting inside your intestines is rotting! Forgive me for being so graphic, but I want you to understand this. There is a process in the body called diffusion that happens inside the cells that works like this: wherever you have a higher concentration of something, it will flow to an area of lower concentration. When you have a high concentration of wastes in the intestines, they start “polluting” the rest of the organs in your abdomen. This is part of the reason why so many men have prostate problems!
Those wastes in your colon are in such a high concentration that they start “flowing” to other places in the body. Countless patients have told me over the years that part of the reason why they got headaches was because they were constipated.
So stop carrying around those old meals as a suitcase in your colon and start feeling better. You will clearly have fewer headaches as a result. Some simple ways to do this:
a. When you get up in the morning, drink two to three 8-oz glasses of water within five minutes. This will result in a bowel movement within about 30 minutes.
b. Obtain slippery elm bark powder from the health food store and mix 1 to 2 tablespoons in 1/3 cup applesauce. Eat once or twice daily. This works for diarrhea or constipation and is gentle enough for babies.
c. Obtain a full body cellular cleanse program. Colon and liver cleanses only do a small portion of the job. In our office we use a full body cleanse that removes toxins down at the cellular level of the entire body. We test your body first for toxicity by measuring the acidity. The more acidic you are, the more toxic you are.
d. Start eating celery or carrot sticks with lunch and dinner, or add 1 cup cooked vegetables to every meal.
e. Add 3 oz. aloe vera juice to every meal. Our cleanse program includes the most pure form of aloe vera juice.
By now if you are making changes recommended in our home care blog series, you should be seeing changes in the intensity and frequency of your headaches to start being able to enjoy your family and social life again.
If you would like further information, make sure you watch for the last 2 posts on this topic. For a full headache elimination consultation, contact our office at 732-780-0044. We can test for your toxicity and perform the advanced biofeedback analysis to find what stressors your body is reacting to. You can be headache free without harmful drugs with our approach!
Chiropractor in Freehold Recommends Nutritional Support for Your Joints
Over the past month we have been discussing recommendations on being healthy without drugs and surgery. Today we are going to discuss nutritional support for your joints! Previously we talked about the other 4 key steps: proper sleep, stress reduction, dietary methods to reduce inflammation and pain, and posture. You can read about these other steps by clicking: Chiropractor Freehold NJ Blog.
As a chiropractor in Freehold, NJ I see thousands of people who are 
experiencing different types of joint pain. From degenerative joint disease, to arthritis to normal wear and tear from not taking care of the joints.
The most common nutritional supplements on the market for joint support are chondroitin sulfate and glucosamine. Research studies have proven that a lot of people can get relief from these two supplements and they usually see results in about 6 to 8 weeks.
I do recommend them to my patients, but I also know it doesn’t help everybody. Being an athlete myself, I played competitive soccer for 28 years, I have tried these supplements but unfortunately they do not work for me. They do not work for everybody but I still recommend on trying them. You do have to be patient to wait to see if it will work for you.
For everybody, what I do is ask my patients five questions. If they answer yes to at least two questions, then I can just about bet that they have a mineral deficiency without running a lab test.
The questions:
1) Do you have a repetitive injury like carpal tunnel or tennis elbow?
2) Do you notice you are pulling muscles and tendons more than usual? (Maybe you notice sore muscles and tendons after a short hike, or after working out in the gym, or some part of your body hurts more than before, as examples)
I’ve had many of my patients say that their knees hurt after kneeling in the garden after five minutes while working with her flowers. This is NOT normal!
3) How bad are your joints feeling on a scale of 1 to 10? A score of 5 or more is a bad answer and is too much pain and inflammation.
4) Do you have scoliosis?
5) Does it feel as if your condition is worsening?
If I get two yes answers, chances are good that it’s a manganese deficiency.
Not only myself, but other doctors I know that also practice nutrition have seen magnificent changes in patients when we replace the manganese in their diet. I’ve seen people getting ready for hip replacement surgeries that didn’t need the surgery once they supplemented with manganese. There have been countless patients with carpal tunnel syndrome and tennis elbow, all deficient in manganese. A manganese deficiency can easily be confirmed by hair analysis!
A chiropractor I know who is also a nutritionist told me: One woman in her 40s was in tears because her knee pain was so great and she couldn’t walk anywhere for weeks. After three days on manganese replacement, she was able to do her normal routine again. Another woman in her 50s was able to jump up and down in aerobics class because her body “told her” through intuition that her knees were more stable after taking manganese for three days.”
Yes, our body gives us signals all the time about whether or not we’re ergonomically correct or if we are strong enough to do certain movements.
So what about the chondroitin sulfate and glucosamine?”
If you are already taking them, the supplements may be doing some good so you can continue. But what I’m looking for is the decrease in pain and inflammation that results from restoring the proper levels of manganese. It should occur in as little as three days and as long as two weeks. When it comes to muscles, joints, bones, tendons & ligaments, manganese is key to your health!
The previous chiropractor told me she starts patients on a level of 20 mg manganese two times daily for six months depending on how low their hair analysis test results are. “If we don’t have a hair analysis test, then I recommend 10 mg manganese daily for a week. If there’s no improvement in one week, then it’s probably not just manganese that the person needs. That person is probably very, very low in many minerals and needs a whole protocol of supplements to take to build up their body.”
She continues: “The reason why I don’t recommend chondroitin sulfate or glucosamine is that the active ingredient in it is manganese. You see, there’s so little manganese in the product that it takes two to three months to get relief using that chondroitin sulfate,” she said. “I want my patients to experience the quickest healing possible so I’ll use the real substance that they are missing – manganese. My patients who have been on manganese for awhile sometimes stop taking it but when they notice their joints start hurting again, it means their manganese levels are falling again. They get back on track and the joint pain disappears.”
Manganese can be a simple solution for a lot of people and help for nutritional support to reduce the pain and inflammation.
My friend shared her protocol with her patients and it’s what I currently use with my patients:
- A good multiple vitamin/mineral. I have one that I depend on exclusively because it contains 450 mg calcium, 200 mg magnesium and 350 mg phosphorus. These three have to be in the proper ratio for joint health. A joint without calcium is a weakened joint. Without the phosphorus, you can’t absorb calcium, and calcium and magnesium have to be present together.
• 10 mg manganese up to 50 mg manganese (50 mg is too much to guess on without a hair test; the mineral can be toxic in high amounts unless there is a deficiency.)
• 200 mcg selenium (another mineral most are deficient in)
• 150 –300 mg germanium (reduces pain, oxygenates the area thereby decreasing Inflammation)
• 400 to 800 IU vitamin E
• 3000 to 6000 mg vitamin C
• 100 mg CoQ 10 (this can be wonderful at decreasing pain and inflammation)
• 3000 to 5000 mg omega 3 oils
These are what I use generally speaking, but every case is a little different. Some-times my patients modify their protocol a little bit, like take more germanium or more coQ 10…
Oh, one more thing… it is utmost important for your joints to receive chiropractic care, too! Chiropractors find the joints that are restricted and are putting pressure on the nerves. These restricted joints not only cause neck pain, back pain, headaches and migraines, sciatica and disc problems but can also cause many other healthy problems. There is also research that shows joints that are misaligned for just 2 weeks start forming arthritic changes. Your chiropractor will get the joint moving again and help prevent the progression of arthritic changes and help save your joints, but also improve your health, wellness and ability to enjoy your family, friends and normal daily activities.
You can see from my discussion with my colleague how much of a difference something as simple as eating right and taking your nutritional supplements can make in people’s lives. Using nutritional supplements can speed your progress and even prevent further injury and surgery. Don’t be afraid of them.
The best news is that approaching your health from a natural standpoint can only improve whatever health issue you are experiencing right now.
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