by admin | Jul 10, 2024 | Uncategorized
It feels wrong to blame a person for seeking out the relief of a substantial pain-source, like the headache can be, can you? Very often, Americans in pain are happy to defer to their treating physician’s assumed expertise and considered treatment. After all, it is the physicians of this country that we have collectively and primarily tasked with the proper and virtuous treatment of our medical needs, like chronic headaches. Rarely does a patient sit in an office with a doctor and consider the personal, societal, and financial effects at work that may work not only to convolute their diagnosis and treatment, but could very well saddle them with an unnecessary and comprehensively damaging opiate addiction. Hands for Life presents to the headache or migraine patient an alternative in chiropractic treatment: In fact, recent research has revealed that chiropractic care can alleviate up to 50% of clinical headaches without the use of pharmaceuticals or opiate intervention. Writ large, opiates—particularly considering the now well-documented risks—are still overprescribed for headaches and migraines. Hands for Life, in collaboration with Advanced Back and Neck Pain Center, offers hope to the community: whether you are someone now suffering with headaches, migraines, or opiate addiction associated with these conditions—to find a therapeutic setting where patients can treat theses pains without opiates, have their voice heard by their treatment professional, and have their unique input directly informing a personalized treatment plan. Hands for Life is a non-profit organization, meaning that patients without the means or insurance generally necessary to receive chiropractic care may be seen and cared for at the Advanced Back & Neck Pain Center...
by admin | Jul 10, 2024 | Uncategorized
Since the turn of the millennium, the rate of death by opiate overdose in America has increased by eight times. In the United States, the opiate epidemic—that most citizens are now very likely either familiar with or in some capacity victims of—began its now staggering rise in the mid 1990s. As of 2024, more than 130 Americans lose their life everyday to opiate overdose. I’ll state that again for effect: Everyday, we lose 130 Americans—most of whom are in their physical or intellectual prime—to opiate abuse and misuse. Eighty-one thousand Americans—the very same strangers you pass in the grocery store, with whom you share this country, or perhaps attended school with—met their end from the ingestion of opioids: synthetic, prescription, or otherwise. Persons unaffected by, unsympathetic to, or uninformed about the escalating opiate crisis likely rarely consider that the epidemic finds its origins more so in the work of distinguished but irresponsible physicians and avaricious pharmaceutical companies than it does in the image in the common street drug-dealer. For instance, many Americans originally seeking out care for the suffering of chronic headaches, or migraines, find themselves later suffering not only under the selfsame headaches, but now the danger and hobbling of opiate addiction, as well. Even in 2024, where pharmaceutical treatments for migraines have advanced well beyond any need for prescribing the temporary palliative of opiates, physicians continue to overprescribe these drugs. Hands for Life was founded with this vision in mind: that the escalating opiate crisis is primarily medical in its origins, that more and more citizens were losing and continue to lose their lives, family, careers, and...
by admin | Dec 17, 2019 | Uncategorized
Here are our upcoming holiday hours, please take note! Tuesday December 24th: Open 10AM-12PM Wednesday December 25th: CLOSED Tuesday December 31st: Open 10AM-12PM Wednesday January 1st: CLOSED All other dates and times will have normal hours. Happy Holidays...
by admin | Nov 19, 2019 | Uncategorized
Thanksgiving Holiday Hours Wednesday November 27th: Open 10AM – 12PM Closed for afternoon shift Thursday November 28th: Closed Friday November 29th: Open 10AM – 12PM Saturday November 30th: Open 9AM-11AM (Dr. Travis McKay adjusting) Just a reminder that we are still accepting new patients during the holiday week, so if you know anyone who is dealing a spine pain issue and you want to help make their Thanksgiving a lot better, please send them our way! Happy Thanksgiving!!...
by admin | Jul 16, 2019 | Uncategorized
The diet landscape these days is confusing. Should I eat Paleo? Keto? Should I avoid gluten? What are the ‘good’ fats? What if you could shift your focus from losing weight and instead focus on gaining health? Join Dr. McKay as he discusses the true way to improve your diet with real food, and easy to implement steps and choices. No pills, powders, or meal replacements necessary! Come learn how to get the most out of your diet without starving yourself and make smarter choices, not harder ones! If you or someone you know is interested in getting 15 pounds healthier in the next 15 weeks, join us on July 23rd at 1PM ! Even if you’re currently a patient, please feel free to attend this workshop as a supplement to your...
by admin | Apr 23, 2019 | Uncategorized
At some point growing up, most of us have our eyes checked, our teeth checked, our ears checked, and more. How many of us though can truly say that we’ve had our spine checked and have done so since a young age? Aside from the usual in-school scoliosis screening performed by the school nurse or the physical education teacher, the majority of us have never had a regular thorough and complete examination of our spine. As a result, most of us don’t know whether or not our spine is even in alignment. Due to the relationship between your spine and your nervous system, changes in your spinal alignment can have significant adverse effects on your health. Obviously, symptoms like low back pain and neck pain are the two big ones, but even in the absence of regular pain there could be abnormal changes that should be addressed. In our office for example, we’ve had patients who appear completely healthy and have no history of back pain, until a simple action, like a sneeze or picking up a child, causes their back to spasm and their pain levels to shoot through the roof. These sort of seemingly innocent actions creating this type of pain are all too common, and are usually indicative of some sort of increased spinal stress resulting from abnormal alignment. Although pain is a common symptom of spinal problems, it shouldn’t be the only focus. The presence or absence of pain is not a true indicator of health, and the other issues resulting from problems with spinal alignment are numerous. They include headaches, sciatica, pinched nerve pain,...
by admin | Mar 20, 2019 | Uncategorized
Lower back pain is one of the most costly and prevalent health conditions affecting our population today, resulting in nearly $50 billion in annual medical expenses and countless visits to the doctor’s office. Despite it’s prevalence, many of the traditional approaches for treating lower back issues are flawed, usually overlooking the underlying structural issues and also potentially exposing patients to dangerous or addictive pain medications. Join Dr. Travis McKay as he discusses the anatomy and physiology of lower back pain, the problems with popular treatment approaches, and how to naturally and effectively reduce your pain, improve your mobility, and bulletproof your low back! If you, or someone you know, suffers from sciatica, arthritis, disc pain, or any other low back problem, please join us at the Newark Senior Center on March 26th at 1PM! Even if you’re currently a patient, please feel free to attend this workshop as a supplement to your...
by admin | Mar 21, 2018 | Uncategorized
Due to the worsening weather, we will be CLOSED this afternoon during our 3-6 shift! Our plan is to be back open tomorrow afternoon for normal hours. Please call us if you have any questions about rescheduling. Stay safe!
by admin | Feb 17, 2018 | Uncategorized
How the influenza pandemic of 1917-1918 saved the chiropractic profession. At the beginning of 1917, chiropractic was on the verge of extinction as a profession. Not one chiropractor on the planet was licensed by any state or federal authority to practice chiropractic as chiropractic was not recognized by regulatory authorities as a profession to be licensed. All over the country, doctors of chiropractic were being arrested for practicing medicine without a license. Imagine how difficult it must have been to try to build a practice after being on the front page of the local newspaper being led away in handcuffs. Then came the influenza pandemic, which killed more people than any illness before or since, more than all wars. Conventional medicine was virtually useless against it. People started to notice that those under chiropractic care, getting adjusted, were not dying at nearly the average rate, in fact hardly any seemed to be dying at all. Soon chiropractors were seeing patients for 12 hours per day in their offices and then going to make house calls to those too ill to come into their offices. By the end of the pandemic most state legislators throughout the nation knew of someone who seemed to have had their life saved by a chiropractor. Chiropractic was licensed in most states within a few years and for decades, the most common reason for a visit to a chiropractor was immune related: to help get over infections, to help have fewer infections or to lesson allergies. Yet chiropractic is not a treatment for any of these conditions. The purpose of chiropractic is to remove interference...
by admin | Jan 16, 2018 | Uncategorized
How often do you see your child in this posture? More than ever, children, teens and young adults are spending hours every day in this abnormal posture, creating a syndrome known as Text Neck. Because of the increased strain on the muscles and joints, children are now reporting chronic neck pain, headaches, mid back pain, and even low back pain; conditions that generally are not seen until middle age. Additionally, abnormal posture like this has been linked to increases in fatigue, allergies, asthma, depression and negative mood as well as the development of arthritis. If you feel like your child is suffering from any of these issues, and that their screen time is a causative factor, call our office at 302-368-1300 or go to handsforlifeomega.org now to schedule a complimentary digital posture evaluation and consultation with one of our doctors. We can help to reverse any potential damage, reduce the pain, and train your child in proper ergonomics and exercises to help rebuild and maintain a proper posture and head position. Our goal is always to treat these issues without pain medication, and our office can help you achieve that regardless of finances or...
