by admin | Jul 15, 2024 | Uncategorized
The opioid epidemic is a public health crisis that has swept across the United States in recent years. Opioids are a class of drugs that include both prescription painkillers like oxycodone, hydrocodone, and fentanyl, as well as illegal drugs like heroin. These drugs are highly addictive and can have devastating consequences for individuals and their families. What’s worse is that traditionally-trained physicians continue to prescribe opioids to patients for pain that could be easily resolved through chiropractic care. Patients who were prescribed opioids for legitimate medical reasons often became addicted to the drugs, leading them to seek out illegal opioids like heroin when their prescriptions ran out. The impact of the opioid epidemic has been widespread. According to the CDC, over 70,000 people died from drug overdoses in the United States in 2019, with opioids being involved in 70% of these deaths. This represents a significant increase from previous years, highlighting the severity of the crisis. In addition to the staggering number of overdose deaths, there has been a rise in opioid-related hospitalizations, emergency room visits, and criminal activity. Addressing the opioid epidemic requires a multifaceted approach that includes increasing access to addiction treatment and recovery services, implementing stricter regulations on prescribing opioids, and raising awareness about the dangers of opioid use. It is also crucial to address the social and economic factors that contribute to substance abuse, such as poverty, unemployment, and lack of access to healthcare. While progress has been made in combating the opioid epidemic, there is still much work to be done. By understanding the essential facts about the opioid crisis and working together to...
by admin | Jul 15, 2024 | Uncategorized
A non-profit healthcare center is a healthcare facility that provides medical services to underserved communities without the intention of making a profit. Hands for Life is one such non-profit healthcare center: That is, the main focus is on providing affordable and accessible healthcare to those in need who might not otherwise have the funds or insurance coverage necessary for Chiropractic Care. Unlike for-profit healthcare facilities, non-profit centers prioritize patient care and community service over financial gain. This means that the focus is on providing high-quality, comprehensive medical services that meet the needs of the population. Hands for Life was established with this aim in mind: To provide comprehensive chiropractic treatment to the community, no matter their means. In addition to providing affordable healthcare services, non-profit healthcare centers often engage in advocacy and public health initiatives to address systemic health disparities and promote health equity. For Hands for Life, this means providing care and health education to persons suffering from opioid addiction, injury, chronic pain, poverty, or some combination of these. Overall, non-profit healthcare centers play a vital role in ensuring that all individuals have access to high-quality healthcare services, regardless of their socioeconomic status or insurance coverage. By prioritizing patient care and community service over profit, Hands for Life’s mission is to build a healthier, more equitable community, and improve the overall well-being of community members in the Tri-State Area. Reach out today, or come into the...
by admin | Jul 12, 2024 | Uncategorized
When an individual experiences an injury in the workplace, the body’s natural response is to compensate for the pain or discomfort by altering its movement patterns. This can lead to imbalances in the muscles and joints, which further exacerbate the original injury or even create new problems. Chiropractic care can help address these imbalances by realigning the spine and joints, reducing inflammation, and restoring proper movement patterns. The on-the-job injury is unique in that not only brings a great deal of pain, but often forces a worker into undesirable unemployment. Now, the injured worker has not only to grapple with the injury itself, but the difficulty of potentially not being able to provide for oneself and others. Faced with these stressors and in a great deal of pain, injured workers often find themselves with another severe problem: Becoming dependent on opioids after suffering an injury on the job, taking the traditional medical route, and managing their pain with prescription painkillers. Chiropractic care can help alleviate these issues by resolving the injury itself, reducing your pain, and getting you back on the job. Chiropractic care can also help prevent future work-related injuries by promoting proper alignment and reducing muscle tension. In addition to the physical benefits of chiropractic care, many individuals suffering the stress of being out of work and injured also experience improvements in their mental and emotional well-being. This is precisely what we here at Hands for Life are able to provide for the injured worker, and as a non-profit, we can provide this to anyone in the community suffering from an on-the-job injury, opiate addiction, or some...
by admin | Jul 12, 2024 | Uncategorized
Chiropractic care has been gaining recognition as a safe and effective treatment option for various health conditions, including opiate addiction. Opiate addiction is a serious issue that affects millions of people around the world, and that detriment is in no shortage in our community. As sad as it is to say, likely the largest pathway through which our now opiate-dependent population have found themselves in that condition has been the traditional medical setting, a physician’s office. Chiropractic care can help with opiate addiction by solving the very cause of pain itself, not through a muting of the pain signals alone associated with legitimate use or misuse prescription painkillers. Chiropractors are specialized in the musculoskeletal system and can therefore provide drug-free pain relief through spinal adjustments, manual therapy, and other non-invasive techniques. Chiropractic care can help individuals with opiate addiction by improving overall physical and mental well-being. Opiate addiction can take a toll on the body and mind, leading to symptoms such as anxiety, depression, fatigue, and insomnia. Chiropractic adjustments and therapies can help restore proper alignment in the spine and nervous system, which can improve mood, sleep, and energy levels. Additionally, chiropractors can provide valuable lifestyle advice and support to help individuals make healthier choices and establish positive habits that support recovery from addiction. This is our exact mission at Hands for Life: To provide treatment to persons suffering from pain and/or opiate addiction for the profit that the charity will bring to our community alone. No matter what your insurance plan might be, no matter what the balance of your bank account might be, we are here at...
by admin | Jul 12, 2024 | Uncategorized
Slipped discs, also known as herniated discs, are a common and painful condition that occurs when the soft inner core of a spinal disc pushes through a tear in the disc’s tough outer layer. This can cause severe pain, numbness, and tingling in the affected area, often leading to difficulty in performing daily activities and affecting the overall quality of life. Traditionally, slipped discs are treated within the medical community using invasive procedures: surgery and the use of powerful prescription pain medications, including dangerous and potentially addictive opioids. Fortunately, chiropractors are trained to treat to treat herniated or “slipped” discs. Using manual adjustments, soft tissue therapies, and the prescription of various corrective exercises, chiropractic care addresses and resolves the essential disruption of the slipped disk at its source. Persons suffering from a herniated disk can therefore receive long-lasting relief without surgery, without using addictive painkillers, without having to suffer the long convalescence associated with invasive spinal surgery. In conclusion, chiropractic care can be a valuable tool in the management of slipped discs, offering a safe and effective alternative to traditional medicine. By promoting the body’s natural healing abilities through adjustments, chiropractors can help patients—either suffering now with the pain of an untreated slipped disk, or dealing with post-surgical complications from a prior herniated disk operation—find lasting relief from pain, get back to their ordinary lives, and carry on without the burden of a herniated disk, surgical complications, or the risks associated with long-term opiate pain-management. As we continue to grapple with the opioid epidemic, chiropractic care offers a promising solution for those seeking a safer and more holistic approach...
by admin | Jul 12, 2024 | Uncategorized
Sports injuries are all too common among athletes: whether you’re a child or adult, professional or amateur. Ranging from sprains and strains to serious fractures, breaks, and torn ligaments, these injuries are often painful. Unfortunately, traditional medicine tends to manage the discomfort of sports injury through opioid pain medication. Unfortunately, the use of opioids to treat sports injuries can lead to a dangerous cycle of addiction. In fact, many individuals who become addicted to opioids started using them to manage pain after a sports injury. Opioids are highly addictive drugs that can quickly take hold of a person’s life and lead to devastating consequences. Hands for Life understands that opioid addiction is a serious problem that affects millions of people around the world. Chiropractic care offers an alternative to treating sports injuries and managing pain without opiates. Chiropractors manipulate the spine and other mechanical disruptions to relieve pain and improve function. By addressing the sports injury, the mechanical damage itself, chiropractors can help patients heal quickly and effectively without the need for prescription pain medication. Hands for Life offers a holistic approach that treats sports injuries directly—whether you are arriving in the office, fresh off the field or court, with a new injury; still struggling with the pain of an unresolved sports injury; or the demands of a resultant opiate addiction. Hands for Life makes treatment available to persons in the community who might not have the means or traditional insurance coverage generally necessary to access Chiropractic treatment. That is, Hands for Life’s mission is to provide treatment for injured athletes from all Walks of...
