Wellness Choice Center – Newport Beach Chiropractor

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Chiropractic physicians at Wellness Choice Center incorporate corrective rehabilitation therapy into their practice using a technique that only a handful of chiropractors in Orange County have had post-doctoral studies in.

This is the only technique to have published clinical trials of scientifically proven structural based spinal alignment correction without surgery.

This advanced form of chiropractic goes well beyond the relief of pain by focusing on the restoration and rehabilitation of the spine. The ultimate goal is to return the spine to its normal structural alignment, which in turn will also result in reduced muscular tension, improved muscular balance, inhibition of early degenerative joint disease, and a noticeable improvement in optimal nervous system function and overall performance.

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Hippocrates has said ‘look well to the spine for the cause of disease’ and every day in my practice I see how global and segmental misalignments of the spine, weak muscles, and poor posture will not only cause musculokeletal and spinal pain, but also dis-eased organs.  It’s true that Chiropractors specialize in the spine and can help various spine related conditions, but it’s important to know what controls every single vital organ in your body actually sits inside of your spine. The brain controls everything and the way it does that is by sending energy/signals down the spine through the nervous system like a river to all the organs and cells in the body. Sometimes because of stresses in our lives, the spine will shift out of place and create a weak/poor posture. This can cause dis-ease. I see how chiropractic care is helping patients with migraine headaches, sinusitis, allergies, and much more every day. I just came across a study that proves just that.

This is a 2009 study involving 83 patients with symptoms of digestive pain in the central chest or epigastric area of more than 2 years’ duration and it was published in the European Journal of Gastroenterology & Hepatology.
“Patients were managed conservatively using spinal manipulative therapy and soft tissue techniques. Exercise and other home-based treatment elements were not included in treatment protocols.”

71% of the patients reported an improvement in the average severity of their symptoms.
29% of the patients remained unchanged.
No patients reported any worsening of symptoms.
45% reduced their use of dyspepsia drugs.

Chiropractic Manual Therapy has been the most natural and non-invasive therapy that can restore your body’s natural ability to heal itself. The nervous system is a highly specialized system and an interference with the nervous system can start the dis-ease process. Stop it before it’s too late.

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Pain or dis-ease whether it’s in your spine or vital organs can turn into more than what you’re ready for. It can really effect the quality of your life. Most patients who come into my office and complain of back pain (for example) it’s not the mild pain in their back that gets them to do something about it and seek care, but it’s the fact that they can’t play with their kids, or it interferes with their sleep and therefore they lack energy during the day. At times it will even influences their relationships negatively, their time with their kids, their mood when it comes to significant others, and much more.

Of course, it’s important to be and live free of pain, drugs and degenerative diseases, but it is even more important to prevent these aches and pains before it starts to effect the quality of your life. Everyday I help patients with pain, but most importantly everyday I help people achieve their goals of being able to finish that marathon, be able to play with their kids on the weekends, be a better mom, sleep better and have more energy and develop better relationships. This is by far the most rewarding part of my job as a chiropractor.

Get your spine checked today before its too late.

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Your brain controls every function in your body. Every single cell in your body depends completely and 100 percent on the energy it gets from the brain. By that I mean your organs are in constant communication with your brain, and the way they do that is through your spinal chord.  Your posture is a representation of your spine and if you have a poor posutre with weak muscles and lack of support, it can create kinks in your spine and therefore damage the nerve flow or effectiveness of communication between the brain and your vital organs.

Sometimes because of the stresses in our lives, physical, emotional or chemical, our body gets weak negatively influencing the structure of your spine, your posture and therefore the health of your vital organs.

If you suffer from poor posture and it’s creating aches and pains in your back, be sure that it is also effecting your overall health. Get your spine checked by a chiropractor who specializes in correcting and rebuilding your spine.

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A few days ago an article came out on Science News about the direct relationship between patients who have short leg and their likelihood of developing Osteoarthritis in the hip and knee.  This study shows that early preventative strategies may be possible. “Most pediatricians adopt a ‘wait and see’ attitude for children with limb misalignment when they’re growing” says Dr. Cooke. “If we can spot factors creating changes in alignment early in bone development, theoretically we could stop or slow down the progression of osteoarthritis.”  At a recent seminar I attended last month, a study was presented on leg lenth inequalities that discussed early correction is more beneficial than ‘wait and see’ protocol.

Leg Lenfth Inequalities are not easy to detect, only an expert eye or x-rays can determine the exact measurements of the inequality. A small leg length differential can be corrected with a shoe insert, while a bigger one can be corrected with surgery. This condition most often gets ignored unless you or your children are being seen by an expert chiropractic physician.  Here in my Newport Beach practice, I often see adults with Osteoporosis who have significant Osteoarthritis. As an older adult a heel lift can help prevent the Osteoarthritis from getting worse or help with symptoms, but it is always better to get your spine checked and correct the leg length in younger kids to prevent arthritis to begin with.

William F Harvey from Boston University, currently at Tufts Medical Center, was the lead author on the paper, which was recently published in the journal Annals of Internal Medicine. Queen’s University was the only Canadian university involved in this international study.

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MSG is Monosoduim Glutamate which is food additive and flavor enhancer that is harmful to your health. MSG has no flvaor in itself, it neurologically causes you to experience more flavors of the food that contains it.

MSG is commonly added to Chinese food, canned veggies, soups and processed meats. FDA has classified MSG as ‘generally safe’, but due to its controversial nature, it also requires that the products containing MSG have it listed on the label. The FDA has been reciving many reports on adverse reactions to food that contain MSG. These reactions (MSG symptom complex) include:

Headaches
Sweating
Lethargy
Loss of memory
Numbness, tingling or burning in face, neck and other areas
Rapid, fluttering heartbeats (heart palpitations)
Chest pain
Nausea
Weakness

the list goes on and on. An older study that the FDA forgot about, linked MSG to obesity. Dr. John Olney conducted a study on mice using MSG.  As the experiment progressed, he noticed that the mice fed with MSG became morbidly obese.  Another study discovered that animals fed MSG soon after birth preferred foods that were high in carbohydrates and low in nutritional value.

Researchers also found that this fat could not be exercised off and was extremely difficult to remove through dieting, no matter how astringent. Again, this is reminiscent of the problem in our population. Today, most processed foods contain signifcant amounts of glutamate, enough to produce injuries to our children’s brains similar to those seen in experiemental animals.

Stay away from foods that come in boxes and cans (check this website for a list of food items) and stick to natural and raw ingredients.  Together with exercise, and a clean diet you can stay healthy and disease free.

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Yet another success story from our long time patients. Enjoy!

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Journal of Toxicology and Environmental health did a recent study on mice to determine the negative effects of Splenda (sorry PETA). Splenda is a high-potency artificial sweetener sucralose and the fillers maltodextrin and glucose. This study involved mice and consumption of equivalent dosage of Splenda in their daily diet.  Here are just some of the negative effects of Splenda on these poor animals:

1. Reduction of Beneficial Fecal microflora

2. Increased fecal pH which means an increase in pH of gut flora

3. Enhanced expression genes which reduce the absorption of drugs.

4. Gastrointestinal DNA damage was discovered in the animals

5. Low immune system

As for humans, consider all the above and more. Splenda suppresses beneficial bacteria and directly interferes with the bioavailability of nutrients at doses that are approved by the FDA for use in the food supply! Sucralose ingestion might have clinical significance for humans in the management of many medical conditions such as irritable bowel syndrome, inflammatory bowel disease, cardiovascular disease, obesity, and cancer, in which gut flora play an important role.

There are no substitutes for real and sweet fruits and veggies!

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Interesting! Lowering population & Co2 by means of ‘health care’ and introduction of new vaccines.

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