HOW CAN CHIROPRACTIC HELP YOU OR SOMEONE YOU LOVE WITH THESE WOMEN’S HEALTH CHALLENGES?

It’s not easy owning the complex body of a woman. Our hormonal systems, and functions that our bodies handle through our lifetimes are much more complicated than a man’s. Through teenage and child bearing years there are menstrual cycles to deal with that require a well choreographed interplay of hormones from many different glands throughout our bodies. When a woman is pregnant, there are structural changes that her body goes through just to walk around not to mention what is required to deliver the baby. Our whole lives we deal with the stresses of our modern age. And then when we hit middle age, there are the hormonal changes as we go through menopause.

The good news is that when a woman is healthy,

her body can handle all of this with little to no problem

or discomfort. Here at Blomerth Chiropractic, Dr. Ellen

is well versed in helping her patients gain and maintain

healthy functions. Here are just a few areas we can help with…

PMS?... Dr. Ellen uses a combination of nutrition and chiropractic to help balance your hormonal cycles. She can suggest what foods to avoid just before your period, what vitamins you may need for a healthier life, what nutrient helps with a heavy flow, or what can help with bloating. And if you suffer from cramping, there are nice treatments that can ease that discomfort as well. Just because you are a woman does not mean that you should be suffering every month.

Pregnancy care entails gentle adjustments to ease back pains and sciatic pains, nutritional suggestions and adjustments to ease morning sickness, and regular adjustments to encourage an easier delivery.

Stress reduction? Well anyone can use that. Adjustments help your body handle daily stress as and special nutrients help balance your body’s stress hormones.

Menopausal problems? Nutritional approaches can help ease us through this time of our lives. Menopause is a natural function and if the woman is healthy, it does not cause discomforts.

So why suffer? Let us help you. If you or someone you love is dealing with any of these issues, from May 6 to May 18, we are offering a mother’s day gift of health. For anyone beginning care or returning for care after an absence of a year or more, receive a free bottle of high quality, all natural vitamins specially chosen to help your individual health needs. (a $30 to $40 value). Call 978-535-6155 today to schedule your Mother’s Day of Health check up.

WE’RE HAVING A COW!

COME JOIN US FOR

COW – CHIROPRACTIC OPTIMAL WELLNESS- WEEK

Join us for our Annual Chiropractic Optimal Wellness Fair!

Select that one person in your life most motivated to improve their health, and we will provide them with a private health risk analysis and a muscle balance and postural balance analysis as our gift to you. Also, schedule a visit during COW week and receive:

1.  A complimentary health risk analysis

2.  A free muscle and postural balance analysis

3.  Free surprise give aways all week

Call us now at 978-535-6155 while spots are still open!

WHAT WOULD YOUR LIFE BE LIKE IF YOU WERE TOTALLY HEALTHY?

Would you have more energy to enjoy those things you enjoy doing?

Would you be able to spend more time with people you care about? Would you be able to go on that trip you always wanted? Would you have more money to spend on yourself and your family rather than on doctor visits and medications? Would life be more enjoyable? Do you think this can’t be done? Maybe you simply have not tried or considered a different approach to health care for yourself or your family.

What might this different approach be?  A chiropractic lifestyle. If you have only used our services to fix an ache or a pain in the past, you know that we can often readily ease your discomfort. But there is so much more to chiropractic.

Our patients who have used the full range of our services to include: exercises just for them, nutritional supplements chosen for their unique health challenges, and dietary changes based on their personal needs, as well as ongoing chiropractic adjustments, have found that often even long standing health issues can be reversed. These people have attained levels of health that they never thought they would see again.   

Would you like to take fewer medications? Or be able to enjoy time with your family or grandchildren, or to have more fun in life? Are you sick and tired of being sick and tired, why suffer? You can call us today at 978-535-6155 or join us for our upcoming COW week! If you are not sure if we can help, there is no charge for speaking with Dr. Ellen.

ARE YOU MAKING THIS COMMON EXERCISE MISTAKE THAT
COULD LEAD TO SERIOUS INJURIES?

Tendinitis, bursitis, rotator cuff injuries, upper back pains, neck pains, lower
back pains, are just a few conditions that can be due to a person’s exercise
routine, even though they were not experiencing pain at the time they were
exercising!

The exercises most people do are very common in a gym.
However, we often find on examination that the pains these
people are coming in with are due to an imbalance in their
muscles that was caused by their exercise program. How
does this happen? Here is one example…

Chest vs Back exercises: People at gyms generally do a lot of push
ups and bench presses and “flies” that work the chest muscles to
improve the look and strength of the “pects”. The pectoralis muscles
are the big chest muscles. However they tend to be strong because we
use them all the time in day to day activities.

If the pectoralis muscles become over-developed, they pull
the shoulders forward into a round shoulder posture. This
causes a misalignment of the rotator cuff muscles of the
shoulders leading to tendonitis and eventually bursitis and
can even lead to the need for shoulder surgery in extreme cases.

Over-developed pectoralis muscles also cause the head to come forward to
improve breathing which then leads to neck pains and upper back pains because
the weight of the head is not balanced properly.

Over-developed pectoralis muscles also cause upper back pain because they pull
against and weaken under-developed upper and mid back muscles.

How Do You Avoid Over-Developed Pectoralis Muscles?

To avoid muscle imbalances you must work out the upper back muscles

between the shoulder blades twice as much as the pectoralis muscles. At the
gym, seated rows where you stabilize your upper body and pull the weights back
with your arms, squeezing your shoulder blades together is one way to work your
upper back.

Wall angel exercises are also very good for balancing
your back and chest muscles. If you cannot do even one
wall angel properly your pectoralis muscles are too tight.
You need to strengthen the muscles between the shoulder
blades (the rhomboids) before you work on the pectoralis
group any more.

Pectoralis stretches also help. Resting your arms on each side
of a door frame, then stepping through is one pectoralis stretch.
There are other “low-tech” ways to strengthen the upper back
muscles while stretching the pectoralis muscles that we can
show you at our office.

The chest and back imbalance is one of the most common muscle imbalances we
see. But of course there are others. If you are exercising to lose weight or to stay
in shape, then finding out which of your muscle groups are weak and which
are overly tight will help you individualize your workout routine to what your
body needs. This way you will not be inadvertently causing yourself damage while
trying to get healthy or stay healthy.

It is also always a good idea when starting a new exercise program to get your
spine checked. Getting regular chiropractic adjustments keeps your joints
moving properly so you are less likely to hurt yourself during an exercise class
or session. Remember, muscles move joints. If a joint is stuck, it does not always
hurt. However, when a muscle tries to move a stuck joint, it can pull, strain or
spasm on you, and then the muscle will hurt.

Avoiding pain, staying healthy, keeping balanced… sounds like a good idea.
Why suffer? Call us today to get your spine checked. Ask Dr. Steve or Dr.
Ellen to check your muscle balance while you are at it. We can help you
individualize your exercise program for a healthier you!

The Truth About Exercise

It is okay to hate exercising. It can be tedious and boring and it takes up precious time. When we recommend and educate our patients with good exercises we know that exercise is about as much fun as brushing your teeth. And like brushing your teeth you won't drop dead if you don't exercise each day.

But over the long run it pays off in two big ways: Stability and endurance.

Day to day activity for most people involves certain muscles that get strong from working, taking care of the kids, house work, yard work and sports. Unfortunately these daily activities almost always leave out certain other muscles. the 'stabilization muscles'. So when we give exercises to you we give stabilization exercising, because that helps maintain muscle balance. We give you exercises to strengthen the unused muscles; the muscles that don't get used as much in all your daily work.

Many people have hard jobs, or their work keeps them busy and on their feet for hours each day. When they get home they feel tired and as if they have had a a long tiring 'work out' from their day. And they have. But even these people have not exercised all their important muscles. And this is also true of people who get home from work and then get involved in hobbies, sports, house work and yard work. The stabilization muscles still don't get involved. So we give you our exercises to strengthen your stabilization muscles, because they are the 'under-dogs' that just don't get used as much as our day-to-day muscle groups. And one of the best things about strengthening your stabilization muscles is that they not only help you have better posture and recover from your injury more quickly they also make it much harder to get re-injured.

Will your job, your sports, your housework, your yard work, or your hobbies ever be enough to let you have muscle balance and stabilization without doing these exercises? No. But if you think you are the exception can find out quickly enough. Just try our stabilization exercises, and if they all feel easy; you are one of the very few people whose job, sports, housework, yard work, or hobbies have resulted in great muscle balance, good posture and stable ability to avoid injury.

The second type of exercise we recommend is also important for our long term health, endurance exercise. Or aerobic exercises. We don't mean aerobic as you may think of it as wearing leotards or taking a special class. All we mean by aerobics is that you are doing something that makes you huff and puff and have to breathe through your mouth. If your 'aerobic' activity does not force you to breathe through your mouth it is not an aerobic exercise.

Aerobic exercise is anything that forces you to breathe through your mouth. It could be dancing, bicycling, running, or fast walking. And for best results you must do it for 30 minutes at least 4 times each week. Aerobic exercise helps you in so many ways including your heart and your ability to stay active as you get older. Here is why:

Your heart and your lungs have a measurement called 'maximum capacity'. This means what is the hardest activity that you can do and for how long. As we get older it is common for all of us to get weaker muscles including a weaker heart muscle. But aerobic exercises will slow this down and keep our heart and lungs stronger longer. If all you do each day is walk eventually that will be your 'maximum effort' and that will be your maximum capacity. And that means that just walking around will make you huff and puff and feel out of breath. How many older people have you seen breathing hard just to walk from one room to the next, or to walk up a flight of stairs.

Regular aerobic exercise will insure that you can walk room to room or climb the cellar stairs without huffing and puffing. You will stay be able to stay active and younger longer. Nothing else will do that.