December 2020 Healthy News from Apple Country Chiropractic Help for Depression and Calf Cramps
“It’s the most wonderful time of the year…” or so the song goes. Whether it’s due to being 2020 or experiencing normal holiday stress, the wonderful-ness of this time of year may not be so much for you. Symptoms of depression like high cortisol and adrenalin, agitation, anxiety and insomnia are reportedly owing to an overactive sympathetic nervous system. A recent study on the effects of chiropractic, spinal manipulation and vagal nerve stimulation presented some optimistic news. These approaches may well be positive treatment options for depression via regulation of the autonomic nervous system which chiropractic care and spinal manipulation do at the peripheral nervous system level and spread to the central nervous system. The parasympathetic system thereby can counterbalance the sympathetic system while vagal stimulation releases neurotrophines known to be essential for anti-depressive therapies’ effectiveness. (1) What does all this really mean? Come in for a Williamson chiropractic visit for Williamson back pain and neck pain relief and other spine related issues. Head home with a little more cheer. During this wonderful time of year, we want a happy Santa…and a happy you!
Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. James Cox, chiropractic back pain specialist and developer of the Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management, on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he detailed effects of spinal manipulation on the immune system and other conditions it influences like depression.
Williamson CHIROPRACTIC TIP OF THE MONTH: Electrical Stimulation for Calf Cramps
Calf cramps are painful! Back pain sufferers with lumbar spinal stenosis or lumbar disc herniation often get calf cramps, interrupting good sleep and daily lives. Neuromuscular electrical stimulation of the calf muscles prone to cramps reduced cramping. Just 25% of patient maximum tolerated stimulation intensity was helpful! It doesn’t take much. 55% and 85% were effective, too. The reduction in cramps was linked to a boost in cramp threshold frequency, too. A bonus! (2) This new study confirmed what a 2018 study discovered as well. (3) If calf cramps bother you, let us know at your next chiropractic visit. Apple Country Chiropractic will work on them!
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Schedule your next Williamson chiropractic appointment today with Apple Country Chiropractic. Gratefully, we wish you a most wonderful holiday season!