Posts by Gregory Lind
Overtraining
Summer is the “no pain, no gain,” season of athletic endeavor: the onset of warm weather in the Bay Area inspires many people to let their inner beach body shine. At Family Chiropractic & Natural Healing Center, we support any athletic enterprise that contributes to a healthier, more resilient body. But there are limits!
Here is a friendly reminder from your Milpitas chiropractor: getting into swimsuit shape should not be sufficient cause to overstrain yourself into a condition of fatigue and weakness.
The recipe for muscle and stamina building relies on a delicate balance between training and rest. Training breaks down the muscle fibers, precipitating a period of hypertrophy: the cellular process by which the muscles repair and rebuild. For muscles to grow back stronger, a proper amount of rest is required during which the following equation must be in place: muscle protein synthesis>muscle protein breakdown.
Overtraining occurs when you surpass the outer limit of your body’s ability to recover and rebuild. In other words, you are not giving your body enough rest before training is resumed. This can be counterproductive to your muscle building efforts, not to mention detrimental to your overall quality of life. Furthermore, it often leads to injury.
To this end, we provide expertise and support for the recovery period of strengthening. There are ways we can influence a quicker rebound, including hydration and proper nutrition. Chiropractic treatment focuses on correcting muscular imbalance, making your body less vulnerable to injury.
Life is about balance: a productive workout depends on solid foundations. Often times all it takes is a conversation with an expert to add that missing ingredient to your repertoire.
We urge you to benefit from our expertise by calling our office at (408) 263-8025 to schedule an appointment today.
Dr. Gregory Lind, D.C.
Breathing for Better Performance
The more you demand from your body, the more support it needs.
In a world determined by split seconds, inches gained and lost, or an extra degree of torsion, your body can use every advantage we have to offer at our practice in Milpitas. Ensuring the alignment of your vertebrae means that your spine, and consequently your nervous system, is supporting your endeavors fully. One area we impact is the respiratory system: boosting lung capacity and helping you breathe more efficiently, to circulate more oxygen throughout your body.
Phrenic nerve functioning: nerves exiting from the cervical spine power the phrenic nerve, which in turn passes motor information to the diaphragm, a large sheet of muscle that separates the chest cavity from the abdomen. This is the primary muscle involved in breathing, as it contracts to expand the lungs during inspiration. Unrestricted diaphragm functioning depends on these nerves being free of subluxation.
At Family Chiropractic & Natural Healing Center, we channel the power of chiropractic to you, helping to fine-tune your anatomical standards and give you a competitive edge. Every breath is a potential boon for your performance.
Call our office at (408) 263-8025 and schedule an appointment today
Dr. Gregory Lind, D.C.
Growing Muscle
The muscle building process begins when our motor neurons send a signal to the muscle, telling it to contract.
The key to successful muscle building is to improve your brain to body communication: the better your motor neurons are at signaling to the muscle to contract, the stronger you grow. Subluxation gets in the way of this process by interfering with the communication of nerves that exit from the spinal column and communicate with muscles throughout the body.
Hypertrophy, the cellular process by which muscle fibers repair themselves and grow back thicker, occurs during rest after exercise. This is a process that depends on muscle protein synthesis being greater than muscle protein breakdown. Without the proper attention to nutrition and resting, the body can go into an catabolic, unproductive state. We provide athletes with hands on therapy that enhances blood circulation and speeds the rebuilding process.
At our office in Milpitas, we offer athletes the support and knowledge they need to push their bodies further. After your workout, call us at (408) 263-8025 to schedule an appointment. Together, we can make sure that the proper systems are in place to ensure the efficiency of your muscle growth.
Dr. Gregory Lind, D.C
Sports Hernia
Athletic pubalgia is the correct name for what many people call sports hernia. This is an injury that is sustained by the tissues in the lower abdomen and adductor muscles.
The location makes them particularly painful and many people seek aggressive forms of care such as surgery to relieve the pain and let them get on with their athletic pursuits. At Family Chiropractic & Natural Healing Center, we believe that with a little bit of chiropractic and some patience, you can rehabilitate a sports hernia injury and return to action stronger than before.
We offer a variety of treatment options that can reduce your pain while the body heals its injury, and then strengthen the region to prevent recurrence of the injury. Athletic pubalgia generally occurs when the muscles in the low abdomen and thigh are exposed to high-degree shearing forces, causing generally stable muscles to strain past their breaking point. This can be achieved with a direct trauma to the area or from repeated actions such as the shearing force involved in kicking a soccer ball.
We use chiropractic adjustments to restore joint mobility and range of motion. With gentle massaging, we introduce enhanced blood flow to the region which brings oxygen and other nutrients and heals the strain back to normal. Once you have established a level where no pain is experienced, we introduce core exercise until the region is stronger than before. Together we can heal your sports hernia. Call our office in Milpitas at (408) 263-8025.
Dr. Gregory Lind, D.C.
Wellness Steps
Finding Relief
Often people visit their chiropractor because they are in pain. In this first step, the main goal is to reduce your pain symptoms. This can require frequent visits, typically anywhere from 2-3 times per week to daily visits.
People tend to think they are perfectly healthy if they are not experiencing any pain. In reality, lack of pain is a very poor indicator of health. Most diseases and other conditions don’t show signs of pain until they in their advanced stages. For example, a cavity doesn’t hurt while it is forming. A cavity causes pain only after it has already formed.
Visiting a chiropractor will cause most of the pain you may be experiencing to disappear. Although the pain may be gone, the underlying condition causing the pain is still there.
Achieving Optimal Health Together
Eliminating pain is the first step in chiropractic care, but is certainly does not stop there. Most chiropractors consider eliminating pain the easiest part of chiropractic. If a patient stops receiving care just because their pain has stopped, the likelihood of the pain causing condition to recur becomes greater. To prevent recurring conditions, it is important to make regularly scheduled trips to your chiropractor to ensure that the pain causing condition stays gone.
Visits to your chiropractor become much less frequent during the correction/restorative phase of care than in the initial phase. In most circumstances, stretches and exercises may be performed at the center or at home to help accelerate the healing process.
It is normal to occasionally experience flare ups of your symptoms, do not let this worry you if it happens. These flare ups are bound to occur until the body has been fully healed. This phase can last anywhere from a few months to a few years depending on the severity of your condition and how long you have been suffering from it.
Maintaining Your Health
Even after your condition has been fully healed, routine visits to your chiropractor will help ensure that the condition does not occur again as well as ensure that your body stays in optimal form. Routinely visiting your chiropractor helps ensure that your musculoskeletal system stays in top form just the same way as routine diet and exercise benefits your body.
Routine chiropractic care ensures that your joints last longer and that you don’t have to experience so much of the pain that many people go through. Live life to its fullest and engage in all of the activities that you love when you make routine chiropractic care part of your lifestyle.
Nutritional Consulting
Nutrition is an essential element to maintaining a healthy life. We believe that eating right at home as well regularly visiting your chiropractor are essential elements to maintaing good health. We offer nutritional consulting fit for your individual needs.
Rehabilitation
Through the use of various stretches and exercises, rehabilitation is used to strengthen the parts of body that influence posture and movement. It is through practicing rehabilitation that we aim to correct poor posture and imbalanced movements in a way the completely resolves the problem as well as minimizing the chance of their reoccurring in the future.
Exercise Programs
The practice of exercise, both cardiovascular and muscle strengthening, is, coupled with regular chiropractic care, an immensely important aid to managing lower back pain. Exercise promotes maintaining properly toned muscles, better circulation, and healthy digestion. There is strong evidence supporting that exercise is nearly as effective as all other non-surgical treatments in the relief and treatment of lower back pain.
Physiotherapy
Physiotherapy is primarily performed as a remedy for impairments and disabilities. The practice of physiotherapy promotes mobility, functional ability, quality of life, and movement through examination, evaluation, diagnosis and physical intervention. This involves working with individuals to prevent the loss of mobility before it occurs by developing fitness and wellness-oriented programs for healthier and more active lifestyles, providing services to individuals and populations to develop, maintain and restore maximum movement and functional ability throughout the lifespan. The effort to ensure this to our best ability includes includes providing therapeutic treatment in circumstances where movement and function are threatened by aging, injury, disease or environmental factors.
Payment Plans
Insurance
At our office, we accept most insurance plans (including medicare). In addition to cases of personal injury that may have resulted in back pain, neck pain, or headaches, we also accept cases of auto accidents and workers compensation. Because of the wide variety of chiropractic treatment and the numerous insurance plans that exist, we ask that you please call our office before making an appointment to see if your insurance is covered at our office. We are happy to answer any questions you may have as well as provide verification and explanation of our care plans to you for no charge.
No Insurance
We want everyone to be able to receive the benefits provided by chiropractic care. In cases where patients who have little or no chiropractic coverage, we can work with you to arrange a flexible payment that fits your financial needs. Chiropractic care is extremely cost affordable, with many patients paying directly for their visits. Choosing chiropractic care can often be cheaper than alternative methods such as invasive surgery or receiving pain medications.
Family Plans
It is important to us that proper steps be made for us to assist in helping you and your family take responsibility for your overall health and wellness. We will be sure to take our time in ensuring that your family receives the care they need. We can also create customized family plans specific to your family’s needs.
Chiropractic Care on a Budget
We believe that regular chiropractic care is one of the best avenues an individual can take to ensure a healthy and pain free life. If you feel you do not have the time or finances adequate for chiropractic care, please contact us at 408-263-8025, we want to help! Health is our top priority and we want to help you keep in control with as little stress as possible.