Some potential causes for swelling of one hand (asymmetric swelling): Systemic causes include early-onset RA (Rheumatoid Arthritis), OA (osteoarthritis), polymyalgia rheumatica, sarcoidosis, Kawasaki and Takayasu diseases, and psoriatic and juvenile arthritis. Rheumatoid factor-seronegative disease is associated with inflammatory bowel disease, ankylosing spondylitis (AS), lupus, scleroderma, and dermatomyositis. Infectious arthritis can result from surgical or gastrointestinal infection, rheumatic fever, gonorrhea, tuberculosis, endocarditis, Lyme disease, intravenous drug use, or RA (Rheumatoid Arthritis) …Read More
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Maitland Chiropractor: 28 Deaths Now Linked to Steroid Shots for Back or Neck Pain; 356cases
An outbreak of fungal meningitis linked to steroid shots for back pain has now killed 28 people, with 356 confirmed cases, according to the latest numbers from the CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention). And most of the cases have been caused by a mold that’s never been known to cause meningitis before. Cases have been identified in 19 states including: Florida (23 cases), Indiana, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, New Jersey, North …Read More
Maitland Chiropractor: Is Your Car Making You Sick?
Most people can readily recognize the aroma of a new car. Some call it, the new car smell, but did you know that this new car smell is a toxic cocktail of harmful chemical? That all familiar smell emanates largely from chemicals known as volatile organic compounds, or VOCs, that leach from glues, paints, vinyls and plastics in the passenger compartment. The fumes from VOC’s can trigger headaches, sore throats, …Read More
20 Probiotic Benefits for Children
1. There is evidence to suggest probiotics are safe and effective in treating persistent diarrhea in children. 2. Lactic acid bacteria as probiotics reduce the risk for infantile eczema. 3. Probiotic and prebiotic supplementation improves the symptoms of children with atopic dermatitis. 4. Probiotics and prebiotics significantly prevent eczema and atopic eczema in infants. 5. A probiotic mixture has positive effects on symptoms of constipation in children. 6. Lactobacillus acidophilus …Read More
Maitland Chiropractor Many Neck Injuries Go Undetected
Occult Ligament Tears are complete tears or ruptures of the ligament (ligaments connect bone to bone). Neck trauma, such as whiplash from a car accident, the ligaments are severely compromised and often rupture from overstretching, as a result of the trauma (like whiplash in an auto accident). Often, patients present clinically with severe symptoms, yet are both neurologically and structurally intact. Frequently with occult ligament tears, the structure stays in …Read More
Maitland Chiropractor: Opportunity to Reduce NSAID Pain Meds at Home
Would you like to reduce or eliminate your consumption of NSAID pain medications like ibuprofen, naproxen, aspirin and various prescription NSAID’s? A 2006 study published in “Surgical Neurology” by where Maroon treated 250 patients who had been seen by a neurosurgeon and were found to have non-surgical neck or back pain with 1,200 mg per day of omega-3 fatty acid (FA). After taking the omega-3 FA for 30 days, 59% …Read More
Maitland Chiropractor Functional Diagnostic Medicine
Functional Diagnostic Medicine or FDM is an organized system to assess and treat the underlying cause of many chronic diseases that people commonly suffer with. FDM is patient focused and NOT disease focused model. Example: A FMD practitioner encounters a patient who presents with Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) they don’t “treat” the patient’s RA, but instead assess the weaknesses and imbalances in that patient’s physiology to try to understand why the …Read More
Maitland Chiropractor Overlooked & Often Misdiagnosed in Whiplash Victims
Thoracic Outlet Syndrome (TOS) is the result of pressure of a nerve bundle in the neck between the collar bone and a rib caused by a spasm of the scalenus muscle or a congenital misplacement of the muscle into the first rib. Symptoms of TOS are weakness, tingling, numbness of the arm and portion of the hand as well as heaviness of the upper extremities and headaches. In many patients …Read More
Maitland Chiropractor Spinal Cord Compression vs. Spinal Cord Abutment
When a space occupying lesion (something that doesn’t belong in a space, i.e. splinter, bullet or tumor) or in the form of a herniated disc (by definition always from trauma), goes beyond the borders of the disc/vertebrate into the spinal canal, it can touch and/or push the spinal cord. If it pushes the spinal cord against the back of the spinal canal in a “pincer” fashion, with pressure both in …Read More