Cold Laser Therapy

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How It Works When Cold Laser is placed over sick or injured cells, the light energy is absorbed. This stimulates the damaged cells to increase their energy production which is used to transform the damaged cells into healthy active cells. When an injury occurs, the sharp pain usually eases off and one can be left with a constant dull ache. The damaged cells are then replaced with scar tissue. If left untreated, the damaged tissue becomes harder and can ‘choke off’ the blood and lymph vessels. If the nerve tissue is damaged, wasting of the brain’s grey matter can occur (5-11% with patients with chronic back pain equivalent to 10-20 years of natural brain ageing).

Targeting Cold Laser  on scar tissue ‘softens’ fibriotic nodules of the scar tissue. This restores normal local circulation, allowing nerves to regenerate. Using Cold Laser over blood vessels has been shown to release more oxygen to damaged tissues. Cold Laser Therapy can stimulate parts of the brain to produce natural pain relievers (endorphins) and may activate the relaxation response improving total body blood flow. Applying Cold Laser therapy to your body’s lymphatic drainage system may move inflammation out and into the circulation. Not only can Cold Laser Therapy soften already formed scar tissue, it can reduce the formation of scar tissue!!

If you have only read the blue highlighted field of this article, you can understand how this is such an amazing advance in healing available and you could possibly understand why professional sports teams in the United States use Cold Laser as their ‘go to’ treatment. Also, when a small device can increase blood flow by 10%, many athletes are using it to enhance sports performance and it is drug free!

6000 research papers have already been submitted to PubMed and approximately 200 a year are added. Many of those research papers are a result of over 48 000 patient treatment cases. Research shows that a certain treatment plan/protocol has a greater treatment outcome. The treatment plan is the one we apply here at LRCC.

Catherine has been trained in the treatment protocol and use of Cold Laser. The decade rule usually applies for pain relief, in other words, if you are in your 50’s five treatments will be generally required. Tissue repair treatments follow this and will vary in treatment numbers according to the level of tissue injury.

Some Examples of What Cold Laser Therapy can do for You

  • Reduction of scar tissue in old and recent scars
  • Prevention of scar tissue formation in new injuries and post operatively
  • Reduces neck pain in acute and chronic cases
  • Significant relief and recovery from muscle soreness
  • Soothes knee osteoarthritis
  • Reduces swelling from ankle sprain
  • Relief from back and leg pain
  • Prevents Oral Muscositis (following effects of chemotherapy)

The laser we use is the Multi Radiance Medical MR4. Multi Radiance Medical is an international corporation with a presence in over 30 countries. It has been serving customers for 20 years with leading edge therapeutic laser technology. Yes, it seems Australia has been left behind on the benefits of Cold Laser Therapy for some time now.

Book an appointment now so you can benefit from Cold Laser Therapy.  Phone 9418 3930

Scar tissue prevention and reduction, pain relief, faster healing…. getting you back on your feet quicker.

Coconut Oil – the amazing benefits!

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If any of you have looked on our Longueville Road Chiropractic Facebook site you would have stumbled across many articles on the benefits of coconut oil.
Firstly, for any high temperature cooking, this is the oil you use as others will degrade. Olive oil is fantastic for low temperatures and salad dressings but does break down at high heat.
Coconut oil is made up of predominantly Medium Chain Fatty Acids (MCFA’s). These are made up of Caprylic, Capric, Lauric and Myristic acids. All these demonstrate anti-viral, anti-fungal and anti-microbial properties. Lauric acid has the greatest anti-viral activity. Caprylic acid the most potent yeast-fighting. Quality coconut oil made from mature coconuts, organic virgin and raw will have the higher MCFA. A study in the journal “Neurobiology of Ageing” determined that coconut oil MCFA’s improved cognitive function among older folks with memory problems and even Alzheimer’s disease. So a teaspoon a day…..

Proposed benefits: Increase your energy, detox your body, eliminate food cravings, assist in thyroid function, increase metabolism, antioxidant, enhance your immunity, beautify your skin and hair, hormone balance, support weight loss, whiten teeth… (Quite a list don’t you think?)

Neurology and The Chiropractic Adjustment

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90% of the information we receive into the body from the outside world (proprioception) we receive as a result of muscle spindles (the tiny little nerve measurements of movement in our muscles). The chiropractic adjustment primarily affects these muscle spindles .The treatment switches on the nerves in these spindles that then send information to the brain (mid brain to be more specific) for postural stability, that is, keeping you in the upright position .

Basically, the adjustment amplifies the proprioceptive/information feedback of body position. The adjustment also has an analgesic effect by blocking the pain pathways, which is of course why most people come to see us.

We utilize a lot of postural correction techniques including traction particularly to the cervical/neck spine because the neck muscles are a massive “organ’ to balance..

For example, there are 242 muscle spindles per gram of muscle fibre in one of the upper neck muscles attached to the skull versus 2 muscle spindles per gram in the trapezius muscle (that muscle that sits on top of the shoulders). This becomes a great issue for the elderly because as the midbrain area declines with age as does the vision centre, the neck is relied upon for postural control and stability. If the neck has degenerated/worn, it becomes a great problem.

Symptoms of dizziness, unsteadiness and visual disturbances can result of abnormal eye-neck coordination.

Even slightly enriching information/muscle spindle activity in the neck by way of a chiropractic adjustment can prevent a lot of elderly injuries. All procedures performed are modified to age and body type. A lot of elderly adjustments are by instrumentation only utilising a low amplitude adjusting instrument.

Basically, the adjustment increases the responsiveness of the neurological system. Which is of course Good for all ages!

O.K, now about the limbic system..the “feel good” section of the brain. The limbic system is thought to have connections with the above mentioned balance centre of the brain. Have you ever felt a greater sense of wellbeing after treatment to your spine (especially the neck)? A research paper by Balaban and Thayer are looking at the association of how neck dysfunction could produce anxiety.

Cholesterol ..the truth

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If you ever get blood work done to check out cholesterol, make sure the GP orders LDL as overall cholesterol is meaningless. Please refer to the attached article at the bottom of the page for a thorough explanation. The article will tell you about the side effects of taking statin drugs including muscle aches, diabetes risk, sexual dysfunction ..etc…

Dr Ross Walker, Cardiologist even suggests that instead of taking statin drugs, take Vitamin B3 instead, as well as lose weight, eat better and be happy!  Of course!

It is also important to know that if you do take statin drugs, supplementation of Coenzyme Q10 is very important. Statins block the pathway that is involved in the biosynthesis of cholesterol and coenzyme Q10, an important co-factor involved in cellular energy production. In another word, statins deplete your body of CoQ10.

There are suggestions that coenzyme Q10 depletion may play a central role in the muscle pains and dysfunction of statin users. There is research coming about that statins cause diabetes. Statins also impair the function of all sterols, including cholesterol and Vitamin D, all your sex hormones, cortisone and dolichols (keeps the inside of your cell coatings/membranes healthy..Odds are greater than 100 to 1 that if you’re taking a statin, you don’t really need it. The subgroup that needs it is those who have a genetic defect called familial hypercholesterolemia.

Other research suggests that red rice yeast (guggulipids), in addition to reducing both total and LDL cholesterol also lowers triglyceride levels. It works like a conventional lipid-lowering statin drug (but it is NATURAL). Metagenic ( lipoplex product) and Bio-ceuticals practitioner supplements we stock have Red Rice and CoQ10 products.

I recently posted an article on our LRCC Facebook site by Dr Dwight Lundell, a past Chief of Surgery of the Cardiac Care Centre Arizona. He is the founder of Healthy Humans Foundation. He says the problem isn’t cholesterol but inflammation causing a change in blood vessel walls enabling cholesterol to lodge. So, get rid of the inflammation and you will get rid of the cholesterol problem.

“Since we now know that cholesterol is not the cause of heart disease, the concern about saturated fat is even more absurb today”. “The cholesterol theory led to the no-fat, low-fat recommendations that in turn created the very foods now causing an epidemic of inflammation…mainstream medicine made a terrible mistake when it advised people to avoid saturated fat in favour of foods high in omega-6 fats. What you can do is choose whole foods your grandmother served and not those from the grocery aisles filled with manufactured foods..return to foods closer to their natural state..animal fats contain less than 20% omega-6 and are much less likely to cause inflammation than the supposedly healthy oils labelled polyunsaturated..forget the “science” that has been drummed into your head for decades….That science is weak..”

Please go to our Facebook page for more information from Dr Lundell or visit his website.

REFERENCES

www.drrosswalker.com

http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2010/07/20/the-truth-about-statin-drugs-revealed.aspx

https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2013/02/21/omega-6-dangers.aspx