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How Can You Make Your Cold Go Away Faster?

By Edward Camp - San Francisco Chiropractor Most uncomplicated colds last between eight and nine days, but about 25 percent last two weeks, and 5-10 percent last three weeks. Even the most stubborn colds will typically resolve in a few weeks' time. A cold will last, at most, a few weeks, but allergy symptoms can last all season. Recovery rate varies by individual and can clearly be affected by lifestyle. Typical things people do include taking over-the-counter cough and cold remedies or fever reducers. This is not actually necessary as long as your temperature remains below 102 degrees Fahrenheit (38.9 degrees Celsius) Actually, Cold viruses don’t reproduce at higher body temperatures, so a slight fever can actually help you get rid of the virus quicker. Another common thing people do is, take over-the-counter pain-relief medications. Studies have shown that people who take aspirin and Tylenol (acetaminophen) suppress their body's ability to produce antibodies to destroy the cold virus. Aspirin has even been linked to Lung complications including pulmonary edema. You should only use these medications when absolutely necessary, such as if you have a temperature greater than 105 degrees F (40.5 degrees C), severe muscle aches or weakness. Increasing vitamin C, D and E are helpful as is rest and stress reduction. Lets hope you have a cold free season but if not try a less is more approach and you’ll recover faster.

What does it mean when I see letters after a doctors name beyond DC ?

If you ask a Chiropractor do you help people with sports injuries, invariably they will say yes. If you ask them do they help people with extremity issues (Sprained ankles, wrists, knees or shoulders) again you’ll get the answer yes.

Truth be told, all Chiropractors have some exposure to these types of conditions. Many see enough of them that they have a real proficiency in how to deal with them. Sadly they told us in school we knew enough to deal with every problem of this nature that walks through our doors and many of us believed that.

 

When you see letters such as “C.C.E.P.” (Chiropractic Certified Extremity Practitioner) or “C.C.S.P.” (Chiropractic Certified Sports Physician) what you are getting is a practitioner who has put a priority on this type of work. This means that he or she has expended a lot of time and energy to gain extra experience in these areas.

 

To attain these post doctoral designates takes between one hundred fifty and three hundred hours to attain usually with field work to cement the skills in place and often an exam with written, oral and practical components. Not easy to do and demonstrative of a real determination to deliver better care to our patients.

 

Does that mean Chiropractors who don’t have these are not capable of dealing with these issues. No not really it’s a matter of time and exposure.

 

What it does mean is that people with these designates have put in a lot more time and energy into the areas of expertise for which they were awarded them than those who haven’t. This should point to a particular motivation to work with a certain type of problems that many practitioners are less prepared to deal with.

by H. Edward Camp DC  Chiropractor in San Francisco  Healing San Francisco One Spine at a Time!

Phil Golinsky

After a life changing chiropractic adjustment in 1988, I knew I wanted to give to people, what my chiropractor, Dr. McLaren, had given to me.  I came in scared as a 20 year old, but knew I needed to receive treatment, because my neck was literally stuck and could not be moved.  I was taking Music Industry as a major at the State University of New York at Oneonta.  While playing the piano for sometimes 4 hours a day I remembered having to rub my tingling neck to keep playing.  Well, one day my body shut down and my roommate recommended I see a chiropractor, and I was like, “oh yea…of course.”

I did graduate undergraduate school at Oneonta in 1991 and then immediately moved down to Marietta, Georgia to begin Life University, at the time, the largest chiropractic school in the United States. I can look back at those years while as a graduate student as one of my most fulfilling years in my life.  I can also admit they were also the most challenging years since acquiring a Doctor of Chiropractic degree took another 4 years of schooling and learning every aspect of the human body did not come easy for me (or for most people I would venture to say).   

As soon as I graduated from Life University, I did go into private practice due to the confidence   my mentors had in me.  These past 15 years have been a blessing.  I’ve been given the ability to care for many people some of whom have had life changing events due to the chiropractic adjustment.  I should also mention that along the way I married my college girlfriend and together, we now have two daughters who are 9 and 11.

In my personal time I’ve become a competitive natural bodybuilder.  How did this happen?  Well, a few years back, I realized I did not like the way my body was sagging due to inactivity and poor eating habits.  I realized quickly that if I wanted to inspire people I took care of,  to care for their bodies properly, I needed to at least appear healthy…and in my opinion, I looked no different than any of my patients, which would not be too inspiring.   I hired a nutritionist and a personal trainer, and in 6 months time, I realized I had a new found hobby.  No, I’m not planning on becoming the next Arnold, but when I am  away from the office and from family, spending time in the gym is the place I like to be.  

By Phil Golinsky

Phil Golinsky

 

The different regions of the spine show decided differ- 

ences in structure, though all resemble each other. The 

Cervicals are smallest, the Dorsals next in size, and the 

Lumbars largest and strongest of the movable vertebrae. 

The Dorsals have facets and demi-facets for the articulation 

of the twelve pairs of ribs with their bodies and interverte- 

bral substance, as well as oval facets upon the anterior 

aspect of their transverses for articulation with the tubercles 

of the ribs. Presented by Phil Golinksy.

The spinous processes are smallest and usually bifur- 

cated down to and including the fifth. The sixth may show 

a plain bifurcation, or on any Cervical the bifurcation may 

be so small as to be imperceptible to touch. The spinous 

process of the second overlies that of the third so as to 

make the latter very difficult of detection. Indeed, all cer- 

vical spinous processes down to the sixth are harder to 

palpate than those in other regions, owing to the anterior 

cervical curve. The processes lie in a groove between 

prominent muscle ridges.

Alexandria Chiropractor

CHIROPRACTIC PROGNOSIS 

 Presented by: Alexandria Chiropractor 

Prognosis is the determining, in advance of the fact, 

of the probable course, duration, or outcome of a disease. 

A Chiropractic prognosis is a prediction as to the changes 

which will take place in a case during and after Chiro- 

practic adjustments. 

General Prognosis is an opinion expressed of a disease 

without reference to any particular case. It is based upon 

the experience of the profession and the average result 

obtained with the disease. It furnishes only a basis for 

consideration of the special prognosis of an individual 

case. This latter must be based upon the general prog- 

nosis of the disease and upon study of every modifying 

factor present in the case, as general vitality, living habits, 

facility of adjustment, apparent response to early adjust- 

ments, and especially an estimate of the amount and kind 

of damage done to tissue and the probability of its repair. 

Only general prognosis can be set down as a guide to 

others. To state even this with certainty and safety 

many precautions must be observed. All cases included 

as a basis of conclusions must be handled under standard 

test conditions (see index) as far as may be; in accept- 

ing the observations of others one must be sure that 

they are sufficiently trained and sufficiently careful and 

veracious to render their statements reliable. 

Fairfax Chiropractic

The Axis, or second Cervical, is distinguished by its 

large, strong spinous process, which is bifid at its tip, by its 

superior articular processes which rest upon body, pedicles, 

and transverses, and by its odontoid process, upreared from 

the body. 

The Seventh Cervical, or Vertebral Prominens, usually 

has a large spinous process, presents no foramina in its 

transverse processes, or only one, the left, and shows no 

facets on body or transverse for the rib articulation, as do 

the Dorsals. 

The Sacrum is the largest vertebra; is curved with its 

convexity backward; is commonly made up of five fused 

segments ; has only rudimentary spinous and transverse 

processes except the first ; and shows sixteen openings, eight 

anterior and eight posterior, or four on either side of the 

median line in front and the same number and arrangement 

behind. These openings permit the exit of the anterior and 

posterior primary divisions of the sacral nerves separately. 

The Coccyx, usually composed of four fused segments, 

is a triangular bone which articulates with the Sacrum 

above and is free at its distal extremity. Fairfax Chiropractic Its portion of the 

neural canal is open posteriorly and contains merely the 

thread-like termination of the cord membranes.

 

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