Work and Sport Injuries

No matter what disease or condition you have, you can benefit from a healthy spine.

Spinal health can be as important for your overall healing as proper nutrition.

Are you and your family carrying the vertebral subluxation complex in your spines?
Only a chiropractic spinal checkup can tell.

Work Injuries

Hurt on the job?

You’re not alone millions of people are suffering from all types of job injuries ranging from the stress of working in a bad position to improper lifting or carrying to falls and other trauma.

Among the most common on-the-job injuries is spinal injury. Chiropractic has been a blessing to millions problems, often saving them pain, disability, drugs and surgery.

The chiropractor’s job is to make the spine healthier by correcting the vertebral subluxations and relieving spinal nerve damage.

This may make the difference between health and disability, comfort and pain.

Ohio Workmens Compensation Form
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First Report Form

Carpal Tunnel Syndrome

Do you have Carpal Tunnel Syndrome (CTS)?

You may if you have one or more of the following:
tingling and numbness in the hand, fingers and wrist; pain
so intense that it awakens you at night and
similar symptoms in the upper arm,
elbow, shoulder or neck.

People who do repetitive tasks --housewives, secretaries, meat cutters, assembly line workers, carpenters, musicians, computer users, etc. are prone to getting CTS.

Also, fractures or a fall on the hand, and poorly designed and/or vibrating hand tools many damage the palm of the hand and cause CTS.

Other causes are rheumatoid or osteoarthritis, Paget’s bone disease, multiple myeloma,acromegaly, gout and in some instances women who use birth control pills or individuals who have an under active thyroid.

The relationship between spinal health and carpal tunnel has been documented by a number of individuals who found spinal nerve root irritation in patients who had carpal tunnel or ulnar neuro-pathy.

Others have found that nerve compression in the neck can block the flow of nutrients to the nerves in the wrist, making it more susceptible to injury. (This is called the double crush syndrome.)

Anyone suffering from CTS should see a Chiropractor to ensure that his/her spinal column is free from nerve pressure between the arms, wrists and the nerves in the neck.

Altered spinal movements may be creating strain on the neck to cause or aggravate the condition.

For over a hundred years doctors have been adjusting patients spines to better balance their vertebral columns.

During this period, chiropractors have observed that some patients have been relieved of classic carpal tunnel symptoms after spinal adjustments.

Sports Injuries

Chiropractic can give your athletic endeavors an edge, improve your athletic ability by helping keep you healthy and in top form by keeping minor injuries from becoming major ones.

Athletes under chiropractic care were compared with a control group that received no care for agility, balance, power, speed reaction and hand reaction time. After six weeks, the chiropractic group had a 10.7% improvement while the control group has a 4.5% improvement.

After 12 weeks, the chiropractic group’s improvement was 16.7%!

Take, for example, golf, tennis, racquetball and handball.

Swinging a club or racquet or throwing a ball are all one-sided activities which can cause the spinal column to lose its natural balance.

Dr. Hakes balances your spinal column and relieves stress on your muscles, ligaments, tendons and nerves.

Sports injuries nearly always jar and misalign your spine and the structures near it.

A trauma to anywhere in the body can damage your spine a blow to the ribs, legs, feet, head, shoulder or torso can radiate to it.

If you play any sport you should receive a chiropractic spinal checkup to ensure that your spine is balanced and free from misaligned vertebrae causing pinched nerves (spinal subluxations).

Chiropractic care may give you the winning edge.

That is why there are many amateur and professional athletes who wouldn’t dream of entering competition without a chiropractic spinal checkup.

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