by admin | Jul 11, 2024 | Uncategorized
Neck pain is an all too common occurrence caused by factors such as poor posture, muscle strain, or injuries. Neck pain affects persons from all walks of life, whether resulting from years hunched over a desk or an acute on the job physical injury. Unfortunately, traditional medicine has relied heavily on the prescription opioids in treating neck pain. Hands for Life was established at the recognition of the fact that opiate overprescription and addiction, for common and resolvable conditions like neck pain, has torn apart and ended the lives of millions of Americans. Opiate addiction very often results from a person’s sincere attempt to manage their chronic pain, like neck pain, through traditional medical routes and opioid medications. However, it’s well-known now that these medications can be and often are highly addictive, leading to dependence, withdrawal, life disruptions, even death. The worst part is that all the while the source of your neck pain, the mechanical injury itself, remains unresolved. Chiropractic care can offer a solution to neck pain that does not put the patient at risk of opiate addiction. Chiropractic care treats neck pain through manual adjustments and manipulations of the spine. These realign the spine, alleviate pressure on nerves in the neck, and improve the function of the musculoskeletal system. By resolving the underlying musculoskeletal issues that cause neck pain, chiropractic care can reduce the need for opiate medications and support our community and country at large in overcoming addiction. Our holistic approach to care addresses the whole person. Our non-profit mission sees the person, their pain and needs, not the contents of their wallet or the...
by admin | Jul 11, 2024 | Uncategorized
Whiplash occurs when the neck is suddenly jerked forward and then backwards, causing strain on the muscles and ligaments in the neck. It is often caused by car accidents or physical trauma, and can result in symptoms such as neck pain, headaches, dizziness, and stiffness in the neck. Any individual who has suffered some whiplash could tell you: It’s a painful condition. Unfortunately, however, persons seeking out traditional treatment for the pain and impairment associated whiplash are often prescribed opiates to manage their pain. Even though these medications may very well reduce and even entirely eliminate the pain of Whiplash, there are two essential problems: First, opiates treat symptom alone. That is, they silence the pain signal effectively, while the vertebral and muscle damage remains. Second, it is now an accomplished fact that opioids are no longer a viable or medically responsible long-term option for the injured American, considering the havoc that opiate addiction has wrought throughout our nation. Chiropractic care offers a different option for persons suffering from Whiplash: Drug -free treatment that treats the muscular-skeletal injury directly, not just the pain signals sent therefrom. The doors to Hands for Life are left open to anyone in the community suffering from Whiplash, opiate addiction, or both. Through the Advanced Back and Neck Pain Center, Hands for Life offers treatment to persons in pain—no matter their position in society, their insurance coverage, or the balance of their bank account. Hands for Life is here to help individuals suffering from Whiplash in a holistic, accessible, and sustainable way—to persons from all walks of...
by admin | Jul 11, 2024 | Uncategorized
Carpal Tunnel Syndrome (CTS) is a common condition that causes pain, tingling, and numbness in the hand and arm. It occurs when the median nerve, which runs from the forearm into the hand, becomes compressed or squeezed at the wrist. This compression can be caused by repetitive motions, such as typing or using a computer mouse, or by certain underlying health conditions, such as arthritis or diabetes. One common treatment for CTS is surgery. This involves cutting the ligament that is pressing on the median nerve to relieve the symptoms. However, surgery is not always effective and can come with risks and complications. One of these complications is, of course, the risk of post-surgical intervention opiate dependence and addiction. Chiropractic care offers a non-invasive, non-surgical, and drug-free alternative for managing CTS symptoms. The Chiropractic option also offers a path upon which individuals might manage their chronic without prescription painkillers or the risk of opiate addiction. In the case of CTS, chiropractors may focus on adjusting the wrist, elbow, and spine to relieve pressure on the median nerve and restore normal nerve function. For persons suffering from CTS who have already undergone surgical intervention and/or are struggling with a resultant opioid addiction, it’s never too late. Chiropractic care can help individuals with opiate addiction manage the withdrawal symptoms and cravings associated with drug dependence. Chiropractors can provide supportive care to help individuals detox from opiates safely and comfortably, using drug-free techniques such as nutritional counseling, massage therapy, and acupuncture. By tapping into the body’s innate healing system, chiropractic care offers a holistic and natural approach to treating not only Carpal...
by admin | Jul 10, 2024 | Uncategorized
Carpal Tunnel Syndrome (CTS) is a common condition that causes pain, tingling, and numbness in the hand and arm. It occurs when the median nerve, which runs from the forearm into the hand, becomes compressed or squeezed at the wrist. This compression can be caused by repetitive motions, such as typing or using a computer mouse, or by certain underlying health conditions, such as arthritis or diabetes. One common treatment for CTS is surgery. This involves cutting the ligament that is pressing on the median nerve to relieve the symptoms. However, surgery is not always effective and can come with risks and complications. One of these complications is, of course, the risk of post-surgical intervention opiate dependence and addiction. Chiropractic care offers a non-invasive, non-surgical, and drug-free alternative for managing CTS symptoms. The Chiropractic option also offers a path upon which individuals might manage their chronic without prescription painkillers or the risk of opiate addiction. In the case of CTS, chiropractors may focus on adjusting the wrist, elbow, and spine to relieve pressure on the median nerve and restore normal nerve function. For persons suffering from CTS who have already undergone surgical intervention and/or are struggling with a resultant opioid addiction, it’s never too late. Chiropractic care can help individuals with opiate addiction manage the withdrawal symptoms and cravings associated with drug dependence. Chiropractors can provide supportive care to help individuals detox from opiates safely and comfortably, using drug-free techniques such as nutritional counseling, massage therapy, and acupuncture. By tapping into the body’s innate healing system, chiropractic care offers a holistic and natural approach to treating not only Carpal...
by admin | Jul 10, 2024 | Uncategorized
At Hands For Life, we see only your pain and your humanity. The contents of your bank account or wallet are concerns that can be left at the door. Unfortunately, Hands for Life is somewhat unique in this capacity. The mass of American workers are hemmed in by insurance plans that fail to cover the specialized approach to low-back pain that Chiropractic care offers. Instead, most persons suffering with low-back pain are forwarded through the traditional medical settings for which their insurance offers coverage. What’s worse, of course, is that the traditional medical setting has rendered millions of Americans, once hobbled by low back pain alone, into opioid addicts—or expired opiate addicts—whose lives inhere a great deal more pain than that for which they originally sought treatment. Research has revealed that physicians still, despite the resounding death toll rung every day in our country, prescribe opiates at an increasing rate for the long-term management of low-back pain. More than half of our population saddled with opiate addiction reports back-pain, as well. Medical research has revealed that there is very little evidence for the use of opiates in chronic back pain. Chiropractic philosophy and care begins with a specialized consideration of the spine. The chiropractic community considers back pain as a natural result of even the slightest incongruence in a patient’s vertebrae, and seeks to correct the error mechanically, once and for all. Research has for years produced evidence that chiropractic care, with or without a medical auxiliary, is an effective treatment for chronic back pain. What’s most essential here, besides relieving any and all of our worker’s pain, is that...
by admin | Jul 10, 2024 | Uncategorized
If there is anything certain whatsoever that might be said about pain, perhaps it is the notion that bodily pain does not discriminate. Americans working in the highest strata of the professional world very often end up managing the same, or some similar, lower-back pain as an hourly-pay manual-laborer. Finance executives, brain surgeons, attorneys, Fortune 500 CEOs, all develop various low-back pain from years hunched over keyboards, papers, patients representing often the entire span of a professional life. This low back pain is undifferentiated from the millions of Americans whose pain comes from a career requiring immense physical effort: That is, those persons who not only set in stone, but keep in place, as well, the nobility and endurance of the physical structures constituting the American market and residence. Whether it manifest in a construction-worker accepting hourly pay, a mother or father overburdened with childcare, or in a wealthy executive in a corner office, low back pain does not discriminate. Hands for Life has something of the same mission as low-back pain, and pain in general: That is, to not discriminate among patients based on their means or access to insurance coverage. That person whose work has literally set in stone the structures of the country, although for less pay, has the same right to relief through Hands for Life as anyone employed in a capacity where wealth and status has rendered affording care for low back-pain a non-issue. Hands for Life, in collaboration with The Advanced Back and Neck Pain Center, offers treatment for patients lacking the traditional means or insurance coverage often necessary for specialized care. At...
