SHOULDER PAINChiropractic Help newsletter # 18 (October 2010)(Keywords: SHOULDER PAIN, chiropractic help, frozen shoulder, rotator cuff syndrome, AcromioClavicular Joint)Greetings once again from Chiropractic Help, and the search for better health. As I've stressed many times before, better health is not rocket science. It's about the little things that make up the healthy life style. Like eating more fibre, particularly water soluble fibre for a healthy bowel. Adding an apple a day to your diet and regularly using hummus or tofu for vegetable protein isn't that difficult, huh! Taking a walk in the sun every day, adding the coloured salads to your lunch... and attending to subluxations before they turn a joint into Immobilisation Arthritis, of course... it's these little things that provide the foundation of the healthy life.
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Shoulder painShoulder pain usually starts after minor trauma or an unaccustomed activity. Using a heavy drill, painting the ceiling... the key is prevention. Firstly a few exercises for the neck and shoulders before beginning your drilling. At the moment, as you may know I've just returned to my native South Africa to discover the jungle has returned to our large garden. Every morning begins with two hours using a chainsaw. It's heavy, demanding and unaccustomed work. Just the sort of activity that could set up shoulder pain. So, a few warm-up rotator cuff strengthening exercises, just as if one was preparing for a baseball match. ROTATOR CUFF STRENGTHENING ...The shoulder joint is very shallow to allow for greater range of motion, but this also creates more difficulties for the shoulder. The arm bone, the humerus, is tightly held in place by ligaments and the rotator cuff muscles. These muscles work together in harmony to enable one, for example, to bounce a flat pebble across a pond ...
ROTATOR CUFF SYNDROME ... The AC joint is a vital pivot in the shoulder, located right at the tip of the shoulder. Injured frequently in falls on the outstretched arm, it has the dubious distinction for being the second most arthritic joint in the body (after the thumb). Mobilising and adjusting this joint is one of the reasons why chiropractic treats shoulder joint injuries so successfully. It's a good idea to rotate the abducted (raised sideways) shoulders in both directions every morning, and again before strenuous exercise such as cleaning the windows, painting the ceilings and using the chainsaw! Prevention of shoulder pain, far better than a cure... Talking of prevention of shoulder pain, think too of workstation ergonomics if you are a computerholic...
WORKSTATION ERGONOMICS ... A walk in the sunHaving just spent seven long winters in the Netherlands, around 50 degrees north of the equator, I know full well how feeling down, even truly depressed can knock one in the long nights of December and January. Going to work in the dark, returning home in the dark, yes it's not pleasant, and has profound knock-on health effects. The declining natural light entering the eyes as the sun takes his annual hibernation in the sunny southern hemisphere means less stimulation of the pineal gland, the source of the feel-good hormones.The solution? Start now taking a walk every lunch time, apple and hummus sandwich in hand BEFORE your brain goes into the hibernation response due to a lack of light. Start BEFORE the mood swings. Start today. Simple, profound, it's not rocket science. If everyone did it, you'd put the psychiatrist, the gastro-enterologist, the orthopaedic surgeon and the chiropractor out of business! And the drug companies. Just don't slip on the ice come December... North or South, wear a hat. A melanoma aint fun. IMMOBILISATION ARTHRITIS ... what's that?Scientists have discovered that any joint that is immobilised, whether by being put in a cast for a prolonged period or fixated by a subluxation, quite rapidly becomes arthritic. It's the most common cause of an arthritic neck or back and prevention of Immobilisation Arthritis lies at the heart of Chiropractic care. IMMOBILISATION ARTHRITIS ...CHIROPRACTIC BOOKSA Mood ApartDr Peter WhybrowTalking of mood swings, this month we feature not a Chiropractic book, but a Psychiatric book. Truly this is one of the most profound books I have ever read. Absolutely intriguing. Dr Whybrow is a neurophysiologist and describes using case histories the chemical changes involved with mood that occur deep within our brains. A Mood Apart Whybrow ...CHIROPRACTIC BOOKS ... A good massage for your shoulder pain can be very beneficial. What can you expect at your first massage? FIRST MASSAGE ... BETTER HEALTHSo, those little things that WILL improve your health. Consider today starting with an apple-a-day. It really does keep the doctor away. At APPLE DIET I show the strong research from the scientific literature proving how apples lower cholesterol, improve lung and bowel function, reduce cancer and much much more. The humble chickpea and our easy four-minute CHICKPEA GARBANZO BEAN DIP is the cheapest protein dish imaginable. Rich in cancer-preventing phytosterols and fibre, it's so easy to make. We eat it virtually every day... with salads, on bread. No more 11 o'clock hunger pangs. Our other favourite vegetable protein, one that reduces hot flushes you read about at
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"The brachial plexus is a network of nerves that originates from the spinal cord and controls muscle movements and sensation in the shoulder, arm and hand."
Mayo Clinic
Shoulder anatomy ...
Frozen shoulder ...
"My thumb, forefinger and middle finger went weak after cuff surgery."
"Hello,I take it you've been back to the surgeon.
It's probably temporary inflammation of the median nerve, but of course could be worse... I'm afraid I don't think chiropractic has anything to offer at this stage.
Once everything has healed up, if you don't get the strength back, or your fingers remain numb and tingly, then I'd consult a local chiro to see if there is also a problem in your neck or the first rib.
Dr B"
Letter from reader looking for advice.
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