Austin Chiropractic Studies Low Back Surgery

After surgery on your lower back, you may feel like you've lost the ability to do much of anything.  Well, often that is not the case, especially now with the widespread use of chiropractic and acupuncture therapies that can be so beneficial both prior to and post surgery.

Let's briefly go over suggested post surgery chiropractic therapy by Dr Bary, who practices Chiropractic and Acupuncture in Austin, TX.  For this example patient, we have a low back surgery (one month post), he is deconditioned and has marked lower extremity weakness, bilaterally.  Chiropractic adjustments, muscle stim, mild exercise ball work, until ready for next level.

Step two encompasses daily extension exercises (superman, and cross crawl), also cross trainer 45 minutes daily within Heart Rate parameters.  Focus should be on full range of motion and pushing with arms (not pulling, or propping up on them).

Progress through extension exercises stages and let patient exercises on their own as well as altering to avoid problems (gazelle, run, bike)  and use 60% rule for strength training. doing 60% of weight when dystaxia is noted.

Continued chiropractic adjustments will ensure proper rehabilitation.  Couple this with acupuncture specific to the patients needs to get better, faster.  For more on either of these therapies or for more information on specific exercises, such as the "superman" or the "neck fixer" just ask Dr Bary on your next office visit, and he would be happy to show you them.

If you are considering chiropractic and/or acupuncture therapy, give us a call and set up a consultation with Dr Bary.

Austin Chiropractic Studies "Baby Slider"

Parents bring in baby with concern of development as noted in babies abnormal "sliding" crawl.
Upon further evaluation, the following was noted and treatment was started.

CNS disorder, CP noted, differential diagnosis autism, spinal cord hemisection

Treatment:  Halt use of stroller, work on cross-crawling with parents and child crawling.  Chiropractic adjustments to Right extremities invoking proper afferentation for neural rehab.  Mother feeds and interacts with child in Left visual field.  Nutritional support - B Vitamin complex, Co Q10, Diet (fruits/vegetables)

Monitor for seizure activity (due to prior hypoxia)
Visual monitor of crawling and then walking and Right Extremity usage
Measure cognitive skill improvement through toys, colored blocks, and instruction following.

As always, if you or a loved one would like to know if chiropractic and/or acupuncture could be of help to you, call and schedule an appointment to talk with Dr Bary and start improving today.

Austin Chiropractic Studies

Diagnosis:

Lumbalgia, Muscle Spasms, Lumbar Segmental Dysfunction, Nervous System Disorder (NOS)

Patient presents with with headaches, neck and low back pain, and general fatigue.  Altered CNS as treated.

Differential Diagnosis: 

IVD Disorder, Disc Degeneration, Facet Dysfunction, Anterior Head 2 Degree to Deafferentation

Treatment:  

Run 7 day food diary - target other disorders (diabetes, hypertension, impotence,etc) and alter diet / nutrition accordingly.

Alter work ergonomics to include moving computer into Right visual field and alter hand used for mouse.

Enlarged Right blind spot causing patient to rotate head Right and subsequent somatic tonus in order for the patient to bring in more Left visual field.  Do Right eye exercises (including "pen push-ups", etc.) and chiropractic adjustments Left side extremity to feed appropriate afferentation.

Chiropractic Physio Therapy -  intersegmental traction, moist heat, muscle stimulation for 2 weeks.

Chiropractic adjustments accordingly and muscle rehab later if wedging is noted.  After joint dysfunction is resolved, then start extension dominant exercises and cross trainer 45 minutes/daily kept within heart rate parameters (for this patient <112-130>).  Chiropractic Austin, Dr Bary, shows chiropractic care to be most beneficial in this and similar cases.  Monitor heart rate, blind spot, mittlemyers, pupils, and palpation, and exercises rehab progress.

-  Neuroplasticity is the ability of the brain to reorganize structurally and functionally as it responds to stimuli and to injury.  Clinically, an application of this can be seen with a stroke patient.  Damage to the Right cortex giving paresis on the Left arm and leg.  The PNS system will maintain and the cortex will reorganize so as the "learn" to fire the Left side pathways.

-  Excitotoxins are substances added to foods and beverages that stimulate neurons to death, causing brain damage of varying degrees.  

Example of Excitotoxicity:  Eating foods with MSG - when ingested, it raises glutamate levels above the normal 8-12 mg's which is what open the channels to let Na+ in, and continues filling the cell until the cell lysis and dumps its contents extracellularly and this same process happens to its neighboring cells, and so on.