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		<title>How to get over your Sciatica faster</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Besides chiropractic adjustments, there are several things you can do to speed up your healing process from sciatica. First, get the low back pain handout and follow all of those recommendations even if you don’t have low back pain. The source of sciatica is the low back. 1. Take a high quality multi-vitamin/mineral like our Active Nutrients or our Twice Daily Essentials. Sciatica is a pinched nerve. When you are low in B vitamins your nerves become very sensitive to pressure. Our Active Nutrients have very absorbable types of B vitamins in them and will help speed your healing process tremendously. Our Twice Daily Essentials are a multi-vitamin/mineral pack with a calcium pill, a magnesium pill and an essential fatty acid pill in each pack for convenience. The calcium and magnesium relieve muscle spasm and the essential fatty acids reduce inflammation. 2. Take additional B 12. This is in Vessel Care or Intrinsi B12 with Folate. 3. Disc problems are often the cause of sciatica. Amino acids heal discs. Amino acids are digested proteins. If you don’t eat enough protein or you can’t digest protein, you may need to supplement with amino acids. Eat at least 60mg of protein per day. Take amino acids to heal the disc or discs. Platinum Plus is the amino acid formula we carry. 4. Taking acid lowering drugs will keep you from absorbing both B vitamins and protein/amino acids. Long term use of acid lowering drugs can cause back problems because of this. 5. If you are not already on decompression, please ask about Non-Surgical Spinal Decompression in our office for your sciatica. This even works for people who have had surgery before or have hardware in their spine. 6. March gently on a mini trampoline for 5 minutes per day. You can get these for $30 at Walmart. 7. Bounce gently on an exercise ball for 5 minutes per day if it doesn’t cause pain to do this. 8. An inversion table can be very helpful for sciatica. Do not hang upside down 100%. Invert only 45 degrees for only 30 seconds to start. Work up to 30 minutes. Even 5 minutes per day twice a day is helpful.]]></description>
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		<title>How to get over your Low Back Pain faster</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[1. Besides chiropractic adjustments, there are several things you can do to speed up your healing process from low back pain. 2. Do not bend at the waist while standing, bend at your knees. 3. If you can’t bend at your knees use your hand to support your weight or broaden your base of support by moving your legs farther apart in the direction you are bending. 4. Take Epsom salts baths or showers. 4 cups of Epsom Salts in a hot bath for 20 minutes at least once per week, or 2 cups of Epsom Salts in the bottom of the shower with the shower drain closed at least 3 times per week. 5. Use ice on your back over the area of pain or wherever your doctor told you to. 20-30 minutes of icing with the thickness of a T-shirt between your skin and the ice, then 30 minutes with the ice in the freezer and then put it back on your back. Repeat this as many times as you possibly can. 6. Let the hot shower hit your back wherever the pain is. 7. Most people’s back problems are worsened by adding a heating pad to the area of pain, but there are some people it will help. Unless you know ice aggravates your back, try ice first and see how it feels an hour or two after the ice is off. Heat always feels better at the time of application, but ice is usually preferred and will make your back feel better an hour or two after its application. Everyone is an individual case though. 8. If you are cold natured, put a heating pad on your lap or stomach while the ice is on your back. We have really nice heat/cold packs made of cherry pits available for purchase. They can be put in the freezer or microwave. 9. Take 400-800mg of magnesium. Magnesium is nature’s muscle relaxer. There is a handout with questions on it to determine if you are low in magnesium. Magnesium is also nature’s beta blocker, nature’s calcium channel blocker and nature’s insomnia cure. We carry several types of magnesium in our office. 10. Glucosamine Sulfate is a supplement that helps with joint pain. We carry Arthrosoothe that has glucosamine sulfate, and anti-inflammatory herbs. 4 per day is the recommended dosage. 11. Topical BioFreeze is an all natural anti-inflammatory to apply to the low back. We carry BioFreeze.]]></description>
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