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Atherogenic Inhibition: A Chiropractic Approach to Healing
Atherogenic muscle inhibition is common after a joint injury
As you move through the rehabilitation process after a joint injury, it is common to notice dysfunction in the muscles which surround the joint capsule. While there is no actual damage to these muscles, they are often unable to contract fully. This is a purposeful reaction by the body, which aims to prevent further damage to the joint by limiting the degree of movement and muscular contraction that can occur surrounding the injury. However, it is problematic because it further limits the range of motion, which is a crucial factor in the successful rehabilitation of any joint injury.
Addressing atherogenic muscle inhibition
This is a neuromuscular condition in which the joint provides the brain with information by way of sensory nerves and the spinal cord. As the inputs from the joint are changed because of injury, the change in the activity of signaling between joint and brain causes inhibition in the muscles. Therefore, the main problem with atherogenic muscle inhibition is its subsequent effect on the range of movement. Because the muscles cannot activate fully, a common result is muscle wasting and inequality in strength between the two joints.
At our office, we focus on mitigating the symptoms of atherogenic muscle inhibition by improving joint mobility through targeted adjustments. We focus on improving neurological function between muscle and brain to allow for the proper activation and sustained contraction of muscles surrounding the joint, allowing strength to be retained and rehabilitation to go faster. If you are interested in finding out more about how we can contribute to the rehabilitation of your joint injury, give our office a call to schedule an appointment today.
Notice:
Dear Patients:
We just want to let you know, Dr. Lind will be out of the office from July 14th thru August 1st, with his first day back in the office being August 2nd. If you’d like to schedule a visit prior to his departure, he will have regular hours through July 13th. Please call Monday through Friday between 9:00 AM and 6:00 PM if you’d like to schedule an appointment prior to his absence.
We hope this message finds you well and look forward to being of service to you when you need us.
Thank you,
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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.
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.
About Us
Dr. Gregory Lind, DC is a wellness expert with 34 years of experience in the San Francisco Bay Area. He operates Family Chiropractic & Natural Healing Center in Milpitas, California. His philosophy of integrating body, mind, and spirit allows him to achieve optimal performance, well being, and health with his patients. This approach is restorative and utilizes natural methods to revitalize body systems that are run down and in a state of degeneration. Dr. Lind believes there are two important systems that get little attention in a traditional medical model: the nervous system (communication for the body) and the immune system (keeping the body running cleanly with toxic load reduction). When these systems get overloaded, stress can build up in the body leading to a breakdown in health and ultimately poor performance or disease.
Dr. Lind specializes in alternative medicine and wellness treatments including chiropractic, diet, homeopathy, massage, nutrition, acupressure reflex work, neuro-emotional techniques, mind-body alignment, light therapy, and energy medicine. Conditions such as poor body performance, chronic pain and fatigue, degenerative disease, allergies, infections, hormonal problems, digestive and respiratory disorders, terrain alterations, toxin accumulation, pH imbalances, and energy blockages are being successfully treated.
One of Dr. Lind’s areas of expertise is Energetic Medicine. His analysis and treatment methods are based on the principles of energetic medicine outlined by the work of Dr. Fritz A. Popp, PhD, Dr. Dietrich Klinghardt, MD, and Dr. Y. Omura, MD.
In Germany during the 1970s, Dr. Popp discovered and studied the light emissions of cells of living organisms. He concluded that healthy cells emit a stream of light around them, the wavelength of which is just under the violet range. This light is coherent and well-organized, similar to laser rays (meaning that all the waves are oriented in the same direction and in phase with one another). When the cells of an organism are not functioning properly, the light emission is absent or chaotic—that is, the waves are disorganized, oriented in all different directions, and not in phase with one another, similar to the white light coming from a light bulb. Our cells use this light to communicate with one another and also to program and organize every cell, organ, and body function. Through a technique taught by Dr. Klinghardt, it is possible to assess the quantity and quality of light emitted by any organ or systemic tissue in the body (such as blood), and thereby determine how healthy our organs are. In 1960, Dr. Omura discovered an interesting phenomenon. When a substance is inside the body and a similar substance is also put outside the body in the same location, the autonomic nervous system is stimulated and the body undergoes a deep state of relaxation, which in turn produces a temporary change in muscle tension. Dr. Omura postulated that the body elicits a “resonance phenomenon.” Based on this discovery, Dr. Omura created a new technique to quickly detect the presence of chemicals, toxins, and pathological tissues in the body. All of these diagnostic techniques give quick feedback to the physician where problems may lie, their causes, and what modalities may be therapeutic for patients.
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What to Expect
Patient Forms
When you first walk into our office, our receptionist will warmly greet you and ask that you complete our patient form located in the New Patient Center on this website. This form provides us with a history of your health and any other information on your current condition.
Consultation
After filling out the patient forms, you will have a consultation. During this consultation, you and the chiropractor will discuss your health, symptoms, concerns, and potential options for treatment. This purpose of the consultation is for us to learn more about you, your condition, and your expectations in order to determine how chiropractic care can assist in helping you meet those goals.
Examination
A complete chiropractic examination testing your reflexes and flexibility will be performed after your consultation. Standard neurological, orthopedic, postural, and physical tests will also be performed. All testing will only be done at the patient’s consent.
X-Ray Studies
Specific conditions may require X-rays. X-Rays can assist in the development of the most beneficial treatment plan for your condition. In some cases the X-rays alone can identify misalignments and degeneration that may be occurring. Please alert us first if you have any serious spinal conditions.
Report of Findings
Once all patient information has been collected and examinations finished, you will be provided with a detailed report of all findings. Any questions you have about how we can help you, how often you should visit, and expected cost of your treatment, will be answered. You will be notified if your condition requires treatment from any other providers and provided with the best treatment and wellness program we have to offer for your individual needs.
Treatment
At this point of your initial visit, you will be given the option of receiving your first chiropractic treatment. Spinal adjustments, soft tissues massage, and/or physical therapy may be included as part of this treatment session. Feel free to express any concerns you may have about the different styles of treatment at anytime. Chiropractic treatment should be an interactive experience.
Wellness Program
Before you leave, you will be asked if you would like to incorporate a wellness plan to assist you outside of your treatment. Ice and Heat application may be recommended if you have been experiencing pain prior to your first visit. Certain stretches may be recommended and certain activities or positions to avoid will be identified. If you would like, we can also assist you with creating healthy habits and routines in your lifestyle to assist you with maintaining good spinal alignment, exercise, diet, and to help you maintain a positive mental state. Every person is unique, requiring a custom wellness plan specifically for you.
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We implement a variety of security measures to maintain the safety of your personal information when you enter, submit, or access your personal information.
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Services & Techniques
Here is some information on the different chiropractic services offered at Family Chiropractic and Natural Healing Center. Please feel free to call us at (408) 263-8025 if you have any questions!
Chiropractic CareAt Family Chiropractic and Natural Healing Center, we use state of the art chiropractic techniques to provide our patient with advanced spinal correction and adjustments. Chiropractic care is more effective today than it has ever been before, it is more effective and even safer as a result in the advancements of chiropractic techniques. Professional chiropractic care can help prevent you from getting injuries and will assist you in achieving optimal health. |
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Corrective ExercisesIf a patient desires, we can assist them in outlining an exercise plan specially designed for their personal needs. These exercise plans will help correct irregularities in their body that may be a source of their pain. These exercises assist in spinal alignment as well as help relieve pain being caused by displaced muscle and connective tissues. Even back pain, neck pain, and headaches can be caused by improperly used tissues. We will assist you in choosing an exercise plan specially designed to target your needs. |
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Lifestyle AdviceLifestyle advice is used to further aid the patient beyond the chiropractic care they will attain at the office. Addressing different pain symptoms such as neck pain, back pain, and headaches, we can help advise you what activities you should avoid or do differently a well as recommend activities that may be beneficial to your wellness. The goal of lifestyle advice is to ensure that the patient receives a chiropractic care plan that specifically helps them achieve a healthier lifestyle in which they can do the activities they love most. |
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Nutritional CounselingMaking healthy food choices is an important part of achieving optimal health and maintaining balance in your body. Nutritional supplements may also be a necessary part of your diet. At Family Chiropractic and Natural Healing Center we recommend specific dietary patterns as well as vitamins and nutritional supplements as part of a nutritional program specially designed for the individual patient’s needs. |
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Massage TherapyMassage therapy helps relieve musculoskeletal pain in many patients. It does not only feel great, it also helps your body achieve balance and health. Massage therapy is a complementary aspect of chiropractic care at our office. Various benefits such as relaxing of muscles, increased blood circulation, and reduction of muscle swelling. In addition to aiding the patients recovery, massage therapy also reduces muscle spasms as we as increasing range of motion. The immune system can also be boosted through just one sessional of massage therapy according to various studies. |
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Spinal & Postural Screenings“An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.” Your spinal health is no exception. Posture and spinal screenings by a professionally trained chiropractor can help reveal important health information, helping patients find the path to improved health and well-being. In order to help the Family Chiropractic and Natural Healing Center community, we provide screenings at area malls, community events, health fairs and places of employment. |
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Your First Visit
Patient FormsWhen you first walk into our office, our receptionist will warmly greet you and ask that you complete our patient form located in the New Patient Center on this website. This form provides us with a history of your health and any other information on your current condition. | |
ConsultationAfter filling out the patient forms, you will have a consultation with Dr. Lind. During this consultation, you and Dr. Lind will discuss your health, symptoms, concerns, and potential options for treatment. This purpose of the consultation is for Dr. Lind to learn more about you, your condition, and your expectations in order to determine how chiropractic care can assist in helping you meet those goals. |  |
ExaminationA complete chiropractic examination testing your reflexes and flexibility will be performed after your consultation. Standard neurological, orthopedic, postural, and physical tests will also be performed. All testing will only be done at the patient’s consent. | |
X-Ray StudiesSpecific conditions may require X-rays. X-Rays can assist in the development of the most beneficial treatment plan for your condition. In some cases the X-rays alone can identify misalignments and degeneration that may be occurring. Please alert us first if you have any serious spinal conditions. |  |
Report of FindingsOnce all patient information has been collected and examinations finished, you will be provided with a detailed report of all findings. Any questions you have about how we can help you, how often you should visit, and expected cost of your treatment, will be answered. You will be notified if your condition requires treatment from any other providers and provided with the best treatment and wellness program we have to offer for your individual needs. |  |
TreatmentAt this point of your initial visit, you will be given the option of receiving your first chiropractic treatment. Spinal adjustments, soft tissues massage, and/or physical therapy may be included as part of this treatment session. Feel free to express any concerns you may have about the different styles of treatment at anytime. Chiropractic treatment should be an interactive experience. |  |
Wellness ProgramBefore you leave, you will be asked if you would like to incorporate a wellness plan to assist you outside of your treatment. Ice and Heat application may be recommended if you have been experiencing pain prior to your first visit. Certain stretches may be recommended and certain activities or positions to avoid will be identified. If you would like, we can also assist you with creating healthy habits and routines in your lifestyle to assist you with maintaining good spinal alignment, exercise, diet, and to help you maintain a positive mental state. Every person is unique, requiring a custom wellness plan specifically for you. |  |