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May 11 2020

Freehold NJ Chiropractor Reviews for Low Back Pain and overall Health

Many people experience the benefits of chiropractic in different ways. Most make the call to the chiropractor for low back pain, neck pain, migraines, sciatica and numbness or tingling, but more people are realizing the total overall body health and wellness benefits of chiropractic.

Freehold NJ Chiropractor Reviews the Benefits of Chiropractic

Watch one of our patients explain how he injured his back playing softball and after helping him with his back pain he continued to maintain his health with chiropractic, and lose weight with our full body cleanse and detox program:

Whether you are suffering with low back pain, neck pain, sciatica, Fibromyalgia, headaches or looking for optimal health and wellness without drugs and surgery, give our office a call to have a consultation to see how chiropractic is the answer to allow you to once again be healthy and enjoy a normal, active lifestyle. Our chiropractic office, Hometown Family Wellness Center is located in Freehold, NJ. Dr. Russell Brokstein has been helping patients for over 14 years. To find out more about him and his practice go to www.chiropractorfreehold.com or call 732-780-0044. Watch more patient video testimonials and read reviews by going to Freehold Chiropractor Reviews

May 11 2020

Freehold NJ Chiropractor Reviews How Stress Affects Your Health and Body

Do you experience stress? Do you know how stress affects your body? Do you know stress comes in multiple forms: physical or trauma, chemical and mental?

Stress is listed by the American Medical Association as the leading basic cause of more than 60% of all illness and disease. It is known to be the cause of many illnesses and symptoms ranging from high blood pressure, stroke, diabetes, anxiety, ADD or ADHD, digestive problems like Chron’s, Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) and acid reflux, immune deficiency, allergies, headaches, musculoskeletal disorders, fibromyalgia, weight gain, sexual dysfunction, insomnia, breathing problems and much more.

Stress can also lead to many addictions like smoking and alcohol and even lead to suicide.

Many people reach for different medications to fight many of these conditions and symptoms that result from stress. Unfortunately most don’t realize the drugs are just covering up the symptoms and resulting in other symptoms due to side effects. This is a vicious cycle currently used by most medical doctors in treating their patients.

Chiropractic takes a natural approach at addressing the cause of all of these conditions: STRESS!

The nervous system coordinates all functions of the body and when under stress, the body has a difficult time regulating the organs, tissues and cells of the body. The best method of correcting the problem is addressing the nervous system to bring it back to balance. This is what chiropractic does for you!

Chiropractors work with your nervous system because it is like a circuit breaker system through which the spinal cord and nerves send their messages. Messages from the brain go to all parts of your body via the spinal cord and at every level of your spine between the vertebra, nerves go to their destination either a muscle, organ or other tissue of the body. If the messages from the brain are uninterrupted, the body can handle stress more easily and function optimally to bring you natural health and wellness. But due to the different daily stresses we experience from birth til death, the spinal bones that protect the nervous system can move out of place therefore interfering with the nerve messages and causing dysfunction, disease and symptoms.

Chiropractors detect and correct the misalignments (subluxations) of the spine by adjusting the vertebra to remove the nerve irritation which helps release muscular tension, increase circulation and improve function of the body.

Everybody experiences stress! You have to learn to manage stress including exercise, proper nutrition, do activities you enjoy, meditate, get adequate sleep and most importantly get your spine checked and adjusted by a chiropractor. Don’t wait for symptoms like headaches, digestive problems, daily aches and pains, high blood pressure, weight gain or other issues to show up as the symptoms are the last sign to show up. Prevention and maintenance with chiropractic care helps keep stress at bay and your body functioning optimally to maintain your health and wellness so you can enjoy your family and normal daily activities.

In our Freehold NJ office, Hometown Family Wellness Center, we take a multi-pronged natural approach to reducing your stress and improving your health naturally. Freehold NJ Chiropractor reviews stress with state of the art technology we will measure how your nervous system is functioning, what sensitivities you are experiencing due to stressors, and analyze how your adrenal glands are functioning. Your adrenal glads are also called the stress glands as they regulate the 4 main hormones that help the body deal with stress.

To find out more information about our practice go to www.ChiropractorFreehold.com. Call our office at 732-780-0044 to have your spine and nervous system checked.

May 11 2020

Pregnancy Back Pain Relief

A large number of women seek pregnancy back pain relief. Many women think they have to live with the pain throughout

Many women suffer with pregnancy back pain — Many women seek pregnancy back pain relief

pregnancy. During pregnancy, the mother is experiencing many body changes. As the baby grows, it is putting more pressure on the pelvis and lower back. The supporting structures of the spine are taking on more strain. As pregnancy is nearing the end, the ligaments are stretching and pelvis is expanding to prepare for delivery. Fortunately pain relief is attainable by going to a chiropractor.

More Obgyns are realizing they can’t recommend pain medications. They are recommending their patients to see a chiropractor for pregnancy back pain relief. During pregnancy women can’t take the medications most would take when they are in pain. The medications have many harmful side effects not only to the mother, but to the growing baby. Anything the mother ingests is passed on to the baby. Chiropractors analyze the cause of the pain and using gentle chiropractic adjusting techniques, as well as therapeutic stretching, can provide relief.

One of our patients recently was referred to us by her friend after her Obgyn recommended she try chiropractic. She was experiencing worsening pain and she came to our freehold chiropractic office for pregnancy back pain relief. Click below to watch her story on how she was helped:

Chiropractic is extremely safe during pregnancy. It is actually more safe than other treatments because there is no use of chemicals, medications, or surgery. Chiropractic works on the cause and therefore is a great option for pregnancy back pain relief. Pregnant Women LOVE CHIROPRACTIC!!!!
Don’t neglect your body during this exciting time!

If you or somebody you know is pregnant and experiencing back pain, share this article with them. If you are in the Freehold, NJ area, call Hometown Family Wellness Center or check out or website by clicking here: www.chiropractorfreehold.com

May 11 2020

Freehold NJ Chiropractor Helps Whiplash and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder

Many people suffer from chronic pain after an auto accident. Not only do you experience the injury but there is an experience of stress due to the pain and inactivity due to the pain and recovery. Leading whiplash researchers have recently released new information finding that you are at higher risk of developing long-term symptoms as a result of the stress experienced from a car accident. The more chronic a problem is, the more it will affect the quality of your daily living. It will affect the activities you do, ability to spend time with family and friends, and affect things as simple as work and sleep.

44 patients were evaluated in a research study. They had whiplash injuries from an accident in the month before. Each went thru a physical exam, an MRI to evaluate the structure of the muscles, and testing for post-traumatic stress disorder also known as PTSD.

The patients that had both high initial pain levels and signs of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder were most likely to develop chronic pain. The patients with PTSD didn’t only have injury to the spine but they also had obvious changes in the structure of the supporting muscles in the neck and upper back. The damage to the spine extended beyond just the bones, nerves and discs, but the reaction to the stress creates a pathological change in the muscles.

Early intervention is the key to prevent chronicity of the pain and scar tissue that develops with whiplash. Many times, accident victims don’t get evaluated after the accident due to the lack of or minimal amount of pain they are experiencing. As research proves, the earlier you get checked, you can avoid future problems that can show up weeks, months and even years down the road. Many times people come into our office with neck pain, numbness and tinglings, headaches or other symptoms that they don’t know how they started, but upon consultation and evaluation it is almost always related to a previous car accident, sports related, or other activity where the head is whipped quickly.

Many people seek medical care that just prescribe medications that temporarily cover up the symptoms of pain. These medications do not help heal the muscles, tendons and ligaments. If you take medicine for pain relief, you will have a false sense of security that you are better and will do activities that will further damage the tissues. On top of that you have to consider all of the side effects of the medications.

As a chiropractor in Freehold, NJ, we make sure your body heals optimally so we can restore your spine to it’s natural function. We fully evaluate your condition to find the cause of the problem and using chiropractic techniques, we correct the problem without the harmful effects of medication. Then you will be pain free and can enjoy your normal activities once again! Chiropractic has been found to have one of the highest success rates in treating whiplash and PTSD, which can help you reduce the possibility of having chronic pain in the future.

To find out more about our office, Hometown Family Wellness Center and Dr. Russell Brokstein, go to www.ChiropractorFreehold.com. We have been helping patients for over 13 years with injuries sustained in auto accidents. If you live in Freehold, NJ, or the surrounding towns of Marlboro, Manalapan, Howell, Colts Neck, Jackson, Morganville and other communities in Monmouth County New Jersey share this information with others and make sure you get your spine checked immediately after any injury to prevent chronic problems.

References:

Elliott, James, and Ashley Pedler, Justin Kenardy, Graham Galloway, Gwendolen Jull, Michele Sterling. The Temporal Development of Fatty Infiltrates in the Neck Muscles Following Whiplash Injury: An Association with Pain and Posttraumatic Stress. PLoS ONE. 2011; 6 (6): e21194. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0021194.

Ogura, Takeshi and Manabu Tashiro, Mehedi,Shoichi Watanuki, Katsuhiko Shibuya, Keiichiro Yamaguchi, Masatoshi Itoh, Hiroshi Fukuda, Kazuhiko Yanai. Cerebral Metabolic Changes in Men After Chiropractic Spinal Manipulation for Neck Pain. Alternative Therapies. 2011, November/December; 17 (6): 12-17

May 11 2020

Whiplash Leads to Referred Pain Explains Chiropractor in Freehold NJ

Many people experience whiplash injuries after an auto accident or other trauma where the head and neck experiences a sudden abnormal motion or force that causes it to go beyond it’s normal range of motion. The muscles, tendon and ligaments become damaged. Car accidents are a common cause of whiplash but it can be a result of playing sports and accidental falls. Other terms used to describe whiplash are acceleration flexion-extension neck injury and soft tissue cervical hyperextension injury. Many doctors simply explain it to a patient as cervical sprain or cervical strain.

Neck pain and headaches are just 2 of the common symptoms people experience when they have a whiplash injury. Whiplash can also result in arm pain, numbness and tingling, shoulder pain, neck pain, dizziness, nauseousness and even TMJ.

One of the difficult aspects of whiplash is that the symptoms don’t present immediately after the trauma. A lot of times it comes on days, weeks, months to even years down the road. This is one reason why it’s very important to get evaluated after any trauma.

In 2008 a study was done that showed these symptoms are related to the injury to the neck thru referred pain. Referred pain originates in one area but is felt in another area. The pain signals from the injured tissues activate other nerves in the spinal cord and brain. These nerves cause the brain to perceive pain in other areas that these nerves control.

In a Swedish study, researchers induced referred pain in whiplash patients and pain free people to see if they had a different referred pain response. 12 of the subjects were experiencing whiplash while the other 12 had no pain and were the control group. The test subjects controlled the electrical stimulation levels that were used on the shoulder and upper arm to elicit referred pain. There was a dramatic difference between the whiplash patients and the control group:

a) The pain free control group needed 3 times the amount of stimulation to reach the pain levels the whiplash patients experienced. The whiplash group was more sensitive.

b) The whiplash patients experienced a significantly wider area of referred pain than the pain free group which reported limited amounts of referred pain.

c) The type of referred pain was different in both groups. The control group experienced referred pain that was always distal to the point of stimulation while the whiplash group experienced referred pain that was more proximal to the stimulation closer to the center of the body.

This study helps us further understand the whiplash injury as other studies have also shown that the central nervous system becomes sensitive and over stimulated because of the injury to the spine. More recent research is showing patients who are experiencing central sensitivity are more likely to experience chronic long term pain and symptoms.

As a chiropractor in Freehold, NJ, I have been treating whiplash patients for 14 years. These studies are proof that early treatment after an auto accident or other trauma is extremely important to prevent chronic, long term problems. In our office, Hometown Family Wellness Center, we use state of the art computerized technology to help examine the spine, nerves and surrounding muscles to show how severe the underlying condition is and whether it is acute or chronic. The earlier you are treated for the injury, we can correct the problem so you can continue to enjoy a normal, healthy active lifestyle and prevent further problems down the road. Chiropractic finds the cause and treats it so you can be pain free once again without drugs and surgery.

For more information go to www.ChiropractorFreehold.com or call our office at 732-780-0044.
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European Journal of Pain 2008;12:650-660.
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testing demonstrates predictive ability in people with acute whiplash. Journal of Orthopedic & Sports
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