Teenage Acne

A lot of young women have acne problems. Often these are hormonal in their cause and as a result, many of these women/girls are put on the Birth Control Pill. And that is bad.

Being on the Pill is now linked to breast cancer and yet, the docs continue to put these girls on them.

So what do you do for acne that is hormonal in cause?

Try detoxing the liver with a homeopathic remedy like “Chelidoneum” and taking something like EstroFactors and Zinlori to combat the “bad” estrogen your body is making.

Ottawa Chiropractor

I was taking a look at the chiropractors in Ottawa the other day. There certainly is a wide choice in treatment modalities and other services being offered. So what are you supposed to do if you think you need a chiropractor?

Finding an Ottawa Chiropractor

When it comes to low back pain, neck pain and headaches, including migraine headaches, chiropractors do have a track record to show that they work. But who to choose for your chiropractor is another question altogether.

Finding someone nearby is great, as long as his or her way of practice is comfortable with you. I tell people, again and again, personal recommendations by a trusted friend or loved one is the way to go.

I had one new patient present himself to me for a low back problem. He said that he had chiropractic care for it before and it worked great. When asked why he just didn’t go back to that chiropractor this was his answer.

“I don’t want to sign another contract for long-term care”.

Not all chiropractors treat by getting you to sign treatment contracts, so phone around. It is your choice, make it a good one and get the help you need.

Chiropractic Services in Kanata

Chiropractic Services

  • Do you get shooting pain into your leg?
  • Do you have trouble bending down?
  • Is checking your blind spot a problem?

It is complaints like these that chiropractic care can have a positive effect on. You may not have considered that ache after gardening or household chores, or your shoulder or wrist problems, or that stiffness in the morning to be within the realm of chiropractic but they often are!

We all grow up with the idea that optometrists work on the eyes, dentists work on the teeth, etc., and people often think of chiropractors as back doctors because they work on the spine. However, with respect to chiropractic, that perspective is absolutely wrong! Chiropractors can diagnose and treat any joint, muscle, tendon and nerve impingement problem wherever it occurs. The spine becomes an important focal point because all nerves travel in and out of this important moving structure. Hence, irritation at the spinal level can have a profound effect at many levels of the human body.

The Chiropractor’s Role

By definition, health is the optimal state of physical, mental and social well-being not just the absence of disease or infirmity. The dictating factor of health is 100% co-ordinated functioning of all the systems and tissues of the body. The controller of the functioning is the nervous system. The purpose of the spine and nervous system is to control and co-ordinate the function of every tissue, every organ and every system in your body and to adapt you to your environment and to fully express your life force. Therefore, if there is any interference affecting the nerve system, whatever is at the other end of those nerves that have been affected is simply not going to function normally.

The role of the chiropractor is to find that interference and to reduce or eliminate it if possible, so your body can function as optimally as possible and so that you can be as healthy as possible.

If you want to be 100% alive then you have to find out what is stopping you from getting there. That is what chiropractic is all about — restoring your life force — this is what makes chiropractic different from medicine.

Treating the Underlying Cause

As you already may know, chiropractors never prescribe drugs, perform surgery, or use any medical procedures, because these measures only treat symptoms. One of the major tenets in chiropractic philosophy is that of the innate potential of the body to heal itself, if the nervous system is functioning optimally. The purpose in chiropractic is not to treat or cover up symptoms, bur rather to detect, reduce and even correct the underlying cause of why the body is not functioning properly.

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Insurance Coverage for Chiropractic in Kanata

OHIP insurance coverage for chiropractic has been eliminated sometime ago by the Ontario government. But that doesn’t mean that there is no insurance coverage for your Kanata Chiropractor.

The majority of people who work for the federal or provincial governments have insurance coverage for chiropractic care. As do most high-tech personel and many others employed in various industries.

Check out your company for the coverage rates, and then give a call.

1-613-592-8100

Deal Find, Groupon and Chiropractic

Saw a deal for chiropractic care yesterday. Get an initial visit and 3 treatments for only $29.00. Wow, what a deal!

Looks like you can pick up a chiropractic diploma on line and set yourself up in practice. That isn’t the case, but when a professional doesn’t put any value on their services, it makes you wonder what you are getting, doesn’t it?

The old expression, if it sounds too good to be true, it probably isn’t. What’s the catch?

Different Types of Headaches

Headaches
Headaches have become a social and economic burden in our country, as well as other parts of the world.

Scientists have identified over 300 causes for headaches.

Various pain-sensitive structures and tissues including the skin, subcutaneous tissue, muscles, arteries, periosteal bone covering, and the upper cervical and facial nerves produce headaches when irritated or injured. Fortunately, only a handful of causes are responsible for the majority of headaches.

The most common of these headaches include: Cervicogenic- problems within the neck Muscle-tension- neck and upper back muscular spasms Post-traumatic- following head/neck trauma, i.e. whiplash Drug-induced- from analgesic overuse Migraines Cluster Doctors of chiropractic successfully help thousands of individuals everyday obtain safe, effective, long-term relief from their headaches. This is because most headaches have a spinal, muscular, or habitual component which the chiropractor has been trained to identify and treat. In fact, surveys show that 10-25% of patients initiate chiropractic care for the relief of headaches.

At the Kanata Chiropractic Centre, we have been treating headaches for over 30 years. Give us a call at 613-592-8100 or click here to book online.

Chiropractic Care for Menstrual Cramps

Kanata ChiropractorChiropractic care isn’t just for back pain. Now that might surprise you but chiropractic is actually holistic form of healing based on the knowledge that the brain and nervous system control the body.

An interference with this flow of nervous energy can result in back pain, but it can also result in many other symptoms as well. It all depends on which nerves are being affect as to what a person experiences. And if the nerves to the uterus are the culprit, dysmennorhea, menstrual cramps can very well be the result.

Do you live in west Ottawa, or the Kanata region? If you do and you are experiencing problems and are looking for a drug free, natural alternative to health, give us a call, or find a chiropractor near you .

Dr. Marcelle Forget, D.C.
613-592-8100

Leg Pain and Low Back Pain

Had a patient come to my Kanata office the other day who had fallen and landed on his tail bone. OUCH! That hurts just to think about. Luckily the damage was confined to the pelvis and not a fractured tail bone.

The problem was a Sacroiliac joint that had been knocked out of alignment. This is called the “Great Imitator” in chiropractic circles as it can mimic a disc problem.

After living with this for 2 years now, the pain has moved from the leg and buttocks up into the hip area. Typical of a SI type problem.

The good news, it responds to chiropractic care! Woo Hoo!

Constipation Cure

Everyone thinks of chiropractic as a therapy for back pain. And truth be told, chiropractic works wonders for back pain. But chiropractic also helps the body in other ways .

Chiropractic was originally founded not as a back pain therapy but as a way to improve one’s health. When the nerves from your spine going to various organs of the body are not working properly, there can be many and quite severe consequences.

Constipation is the perfect example of how nerves that are being interfered with that go to the large intestine result in this problem. Babies that are constipated right to seniors can respond to chiropractic care. If the cause of your constipation is an interfered nerve, a chiropractic adjustment can make the world of difference.

And only a chiropractor is trained to be able to tell you if there is a spinal problem that would be interfering with the nerves. This is both a science and art that the chiropractors learn over many years in Chiropractic College and in practice.

So check out a chiropractor if you have bowel problems, digestive disorders or constipation.

Migraine Headaches

Nothing like the pain of a migraine headache to make someone want to try something new. And there is an answer. I have been using Chiropractic for years to treat migraine headaches to great effectiveness. So if you suffer from migraines, cluster headaches, tension headaches, consider chiropractic. For those of you in the Ottawa Ontario area, including Kanata, Stittsville and Nepean, Click Here for an appointment to check if you can benefit from chiropractic.