What is Ion Therapy?
April 23rd, 2012The world is always looking for the next great miracle to help balance our bodies, detoxify us, and help us recover quickly. People rave about certain vitamin supplements, sauna sessions, controlled diets, or even pharmaceutical drugs; but none is as effective as an ion therapy system.
Ionic therapy employs negative ions to draw the abundance of toxins out of your body, helping to facilitate your body’s natural homeostasis. Everything you eat, breath, and touch probably has some harmful toxins that can negatively affect your health and well-being. After years of ingesting numerous types of toxins, people can become extremely fatigued and suffer from a long list of issues. Ion therapy reverses the effects of toxins on your body, leaving you fresh, energetic, and hopefully pain-free. Everything from joint pain to depression can be treated with an ion therapy system.
Negative ion therapy is an alternative form of health treatment that is based on the idea of using negative ions to drain the body of toxins that lead to a number of different health problems. While this pseudoscience is not generally accepted by the established medical community, many people report improvements in specific health ailments after undergoing the therapy, or making use of specially designed equipment to ride the home of irritants and toxins that inhibit the action of the negative ion charge in the space
The basis for negative ion therapy as a health care alternative rests in the idea that the atmosphere is loaded with negatively charged electrons or ions. By using those electrons to remove elements that have an adverse effect on the physical and emotional well being of the individual, the body’s natural defense system can begin to make the necessary repairs and bring the individual back to a healthy state. Because the purpose of negative ion therapy is to drain the toxins from the environment and the body, any condition that is interfering with the natural function of the muscles and nervous system are isolated and reduced through continued administrations of the therapy.
There are three types of ion therapy systems, one emitting ions through light, the second releasing negatively charged molecules into the air, and the third using an electrically charged footbath. The footbath method is becoming more popular because the ions detoxify the body by expelling the toxins from the thousands of pores on the feet. People can simply dip their feet into a Detox footbath for a half an hour and achieve the great level of detoxification.
What Ion Therapy Can Do
- Detoxification: The main purpose is to detoxify the body, which often results in improvements in multiple areas of a person’s body including physical and mental health. Your body’s natural detoxification process releases the toxins through your pores, usually induced by sweating. Now it can be done while you are sitting at work or at home with a footbath or air conditioning machine.
- Chronic Fatigue and Low Energy: Toxins can drain the energy out of your body and is often the culprit for people with chronic fatigue. If you are constantly tired at work and never feel energetic, ion therapy could help you by drawing toxins from your body, making you feel more energized and capable of taking on the day’s challenges.
- Mild Depression and Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD): Ion therapy has been known to help reduce the effects of SAD, resulting in positive mood changes and decreased depression.
- Joint Pain Relief: Knees, hips, wrists, or whatever it is that is constantly bothering you, can all be at least slightly relieved by eliminating the bad toxins from your body.
- Headaches: Even though the pores expelling the toxins are way down on your feet, ion therapy can make a big difference if you are suffering from headaches. Many headaches are caused by the ingestion of toxins in your diet or the air and will linger around until your body is able to detoxify. You can speed that process up through a footbath or some ion light therapy and get back to your daily pain-free life.
Phyto-Sauna (Cedar Phyto Barrel)
March 20th, 2012Healthy lifestyle is not just a trendy combination of words; it is a set of healthy habits, which can make not only your life long and happy, but also your children’s life. In fact, childhood is exactly the period for social principals’ foundation – balanced nutrition, health criteria abidance and physical exercises.
However, neither wisely chosen nutrition nor regular vitamins intake and even no sport trainings will give you the expected result if you do not look after your organism clearing, after your health to the full extent. Useful micro-elements are not digested purely if your organism is poisoned too much; sport exercises are not properly done and if you are worn out by everyday stress.
We want to tell you about this unique healthy treatment – phyto-sauna.
Phyto-Sauna
Phyto-Sauna or Cedar barrel is a chamber with open upper part where the special selection of herb mixture steam is directed.
Your body dives to the aromatic vapor, your head stays outside that is necessary for removing excess load from blood vessels.
You will be in the cedar barrel for 15-20 minutes, depending on how you feeling. Temperature is around of 45-55 degrees. During and after the procedure, you will drink herbal tea that helps maximize healing effects. After phyto sauna, you will enjoy light rubbing with herbal oils.
Use of cedar barrel with massage enables to achieve maximum result! When massage is performed to warmed up muscles, it is better received. The use of phyto-sauna favors thinning of hypodermic fat layer, improvement of blood circulation, removal of excess liquid and toxins from the body, nourishing and moisturizing of the skin.
This procedure helps to clear your organism and to overcome different diseases. We can bring some of them from this list: stress, hypertonia, cellulite, chronic tiredness, fatigue, potency disturbance, dermatitis, obesity, rheumatic disease, children’s diathesis. Cedar Phyto Sauna works effectively for the precaution of catarrhal diseases, and thanks to the ability of clearing the organism on the cellular level is used as precaution of oncology disease.
The effect of the cedar barrel reached by interaction of three components:
• Curative qualities of the Siberian cedar wood (the cedar wood is famous for its ability to disinfect the air and to create healthy micro-climate in the room);
• Steam (generated by the vapor generator), that open the skin pores, produces sweat and help to absorb healthy elements from herbs;
• Unique remedial herbal blend in the steam.
Phyto-Sauna can be used by those who do not tolerate high temperatures in a sauna, because the head remains outside of the barrel, and not exposed to heat. That means you can easily breathe, and there is no load on the blood vessels of the head.
But there are some warnings: you should not use cedar phyto barrel by the sharp inflammation, bleeding, malignant new formations, thrombophlebitis, and hypertension; and for half a year after a heart attack. Women also should not use mini sauna in the second term of pregnancy.
Contraindications:
Pregnancy,
Communicable disease,
Active tuberculosis,
All acute escalating blood diseases with repetitive bleeding and tendency to cough blood.
Malignant tumors. Developing benign tumors.
Acute inflammatory process or escalating of chronic disease.
Chronic diseases of cardiac, respiratory tract and other systems in acute stage.
BENEFICIAL EFFECTS
The hot steam that enters the “Cedar barrel” expands blood vessels, blood rushes to the skin, muscles, joints, all the internal organs. This starts profuse sweating, the body is getting rid of toxins, metabolism normalizes, skin clears and rejuvenates.
CURE THROUGH THE SKIN
The herbs absorbed by the body through the skin by 40 percent more efficient than if you drink the herb infusion. Heated skin easily absorbs herbs, and they continue to have effect after you leave the cedar barrels. Therapeutic herbs left on the skin continue to penetrate into the body.
PROVED RESULTS
The results of numerous tests made at the Scientific Center for Restorative Medicine of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation, have surpassed all expectations. It turned out that the “Cedar barrel” could cure diseases of the nervous system, musculoskeletal system, blood vessels, help reduce weight, “work” as beautician.
CEDAR BARREL FOR ALL
“Cedar barrel” can be used by anyone, seniors and even children. Cedar Phyto-Sauna produces phytoncides that destroy pathogens, have antimicrobial action and give vapor healing, health-restoring properties.
But this is more than just a pleasant getaway. Research shows that phyto-sauna bathing actually prompts physiological changes in your body that do more than help you relax, they actually empower your immune system and undo the harmful effects of stress.
A LITTLE HISTORY
The cedar barrel come to us from the ancient times from Siberia and Altai (Russia), when it was made from whole cedar tree, stones are heated in an open fire, placed under the barrel and pour with the herbal water, which produced steam. This way Slavic medicine treated fever, lumbago, joint pain, angina pectoris, dorsal and cervical disease.
Something similar to a cedar barrel can be found in different ancient cultures as a ritual for healing, cleansing, and reaching higher consciousness. One of the early occurrences can be found in the fifth century BC, when Scythians constructed pole and woolen cloth sweat baths.
Vapor baths were in use among the Celtic tribes, and the sweat-house was in general use in Ireland down to the 18th, and even survived into the 19th century. It was of beehive shape and was covered with clay. It was often used as a cure for rheumatism.
Native Americans in many regions employed the sweat lodge. For example, Chumash peoples of the central coast of California built sweat lodges in coastal areas in association with habitation sites.
The sweat lodge (also called purification ceremony, sweat-house, medicine lodge, medicine house, or simply sweat) is a ceremonial sauna and is an important way of life for some North American First Nations or Native American cultures. Stones are typically heated in an exterior fire and then placed in a central pit in the ground.
Today Native Americans in many regions employ the sweat lodge.
Guidelines To Take Care Of Your Skin
October 15th, 2011Skin types differ from person to person. It can also depend upon the seasons or even hormonal change; and as you get older; your skin cell turnover process slows down. Also, external factors such as pollutions, smoke and sunlight etc. causes skin sagging and wrinkles. However, if you can give your skin its proper daily attention, you will be able to see changes in your skins texture and form.
Below are a few tips in order to take care of your skin—maintaining your youthfulness:
1. Protect yourself from the sun.
2. Avoid smoking
3. Get the right amount of sleep
4. Eat healthy
5. Wash your face when you wake up and when you go to bed
6. Drink 8-10 glasses of water each day
7. Make sure you remove your make-up at the end of the day
8. Try to avoid alcohol when it is not necessary to consume it
If you are able to follow these guidelines, you should be able to maintain your youthfulness well into your thirties and even your forties!
How to treat Repetitive Strain Injury?
September 7th, 2011Repetitive Strain Injury (RSI) is an umbrella term, a shorthand to refer to various musculo-skeletal injuries which are normally related to some activity. The root cause of RSI is Tension Myositis Syndrome. Tension Myositis Syndrome (TMS) is a condition that is characterized by how the mind and body react to the stresses of everyday life. Pain from RSI is caused by a slight lack of oxygen in the area of the body that experiences the pain (note this isn’t the only cause of pain, just one of them). Physiotherapy and massage help the pain by pumping more blood to the area of the body that is being treated. More blood of course means more oxygen so this kind of treatment works really well for a few hours. But soon the extra blood flows away and you experience the pain as before. You have to perform a few simple exercises, to address the root cause of RSI and cure it for good.
Self help:
Take short breaks, they are better than a few long ones. Just let your arms relax in your lap or at your side for a few minutes. Every half-hour find an excuse to get up from your desk to loosen your neck and shoulder muscles. Gentle exercise such as swimming, walking and stretching and massage are good to maintain muscular condition which probably helps avoid tiredness. Massage is relaxing and may help to stretch muscles but also risks aggravating the injury. Stretching prior to every activity, whether it is work or play, is always recommended. Put ice or heat packs on affected areas. One reduces swelling, the other stimulates blood flow. Hot baths and saunas also stimulate blood flow which can aid recovery. You can apply a tubular bandage which may help, possibly by limiting the amount you can use your muscles. Yoga, meditation and other body-awareness exercises such as the Alexander Technique can be beneficial for the back, neck and shoulders.
Sources of help:
Primary health care workers Chiropractors and osteopaths, Sports injury specialists and physiotherapists, Equipment that reduces the need to use your hands.
June Is National Scoliosis Awareness Month
August 11th, 2011A recent study conducted by medical and healthcare professionals outside the chiropractic profession found that chiropractic care can be most effective in treating work-related lower back pain compared to care by a physical therapist or physician.
Overall, chiropractic patients had lower medical expenses, fewer disability recurrences and shorter initial periods of disability, the study showed.
The study was published in the Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine 2011. According to a statement by Foundation for Chiropractic Progress spokesperson Gerard Clum, DC, “A chiropractor provides an effective approach to maintain health, a key component in preventing episode recurrence. The trend revealed in this study shows chiropractic care resulting in the best outcomes.”
View the study abstract online.
Source: Northwestern Health Sciences University, www.nwhealth.edu/nwtoday/index.html
Chiropractic Care – Interesting Facts and Statistics.
July 9th, 2011- - The popularity of chiropractic is at an all-time high, 80% of Americans will suffer from back pain at some point in their lives.
- - Back symptoms are the most common cause of disability for individuals under the age of 45.
- - 20% of all American military medical discharges are due to low back pain.
- - More than 20 million Americans will seek chiropractic care this year.
- - Chiropractic has been around for more than 100 years.
- - Today there are approximately 50,000 chiropractors in the United States; 10,000 in Japan; 5,000 in Canada; 2,500 in Australia; 1,000 in the U.K.; and, 100-500 in each of: Belgium, Denmark, France, Italy, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, New Zealand, South Africa, The Netherlands.
- - In the western world 85% of people will be disabled by back pain at some point in their lives.
Spine 12(3):264-268. - - 1992 costs associated with low back pain in the U.S. were estimated to be $60 billion.
The Manga Report – 1993. - - Nearly 30% of the U.S. population aged 18 and older have used chiropractic.
The Gallup Organization – 1991. - - WCB studies indicate a 45-55% saving in overall costs when treatments are provided by a chiropractors instead of a medical doctors.
California, 1972 – Wisconsin, 1978 – Florida, 1988 – Utah, 1991 – State of Victoria, Australia, 1992. - - 9 out of 10 chiropractic users feel their treatment is effective.
The Gallup Organization – 1991. - - 58% of those using chiropractic considered it an essential part of their heath insurance package.
The Gallup Organization – 1991. - - “Chiropractic patients were 3 times more satisfied with their care than patients of family practice physicians.”
Western Journal of Medicine – 1989. - - “Chiropractors are now accepted as a legitimate healing profession by the public and by an increasing number of physicians.”
The Manga Report – 1993. - “Chiropractic is a growing component of the health care sector, and it is widely used by the population.”
The College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia, and Medical College of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia, January 1992. - - 94% of all spinal manipulations are performed by chiropractors.
RAND Corporation.
Neck and Shoulder Pain.
June 8th, 2011Our neck and shoulders are prone to developing pain due to the delicate alignment of the bones and muscles in these areas. The spine that makes up neck is made of delicately aligned vertebrae, while the shoulder is made of four bones. All the muscles and tendons of this area form a complex system running in many directions, making it possible for the shoulder and neck to move in many different directions. This allows us to twist, turn and rotate our arms, head and upper back in many different ways. However, strain on them can affect the alignment of these bones and muscles, leading to neck and shoulder pain.
Poor posture is also a big culprit when it comes to neck and shoulder pain. The ligaments and muscles may be strained too much, leading to neck and shoulder pain. Slouching, slumping, workings in an awkward position – all lead to neck and shoulder pain.
Chiropractic & Massage Center in Philadelphia will help you to treat neck and shoulder pain.
Neck Pain
The spine is made up of bones called vertebrae stacked on each other. Accidents and injuries can cause damage to the neck by stretching the neck too much, in an unnatural position, resulting in neck pain. Sometimes, neck pain is also caused by whiplash injuries often suffered in car collisions, when the neck “whips” backward or forward and the rest of the body is carried in the opposite direction due to momentum. Neck pain treatment includes painkillers, icepacks, anti-inflammatory drugs or surgery. The root cause of the neck pain, however, must be addressed before it can be successfully treated. Chiropractic & Massage Center seeks to treat neck pain arising out of strain or tear of muscles, ligaments etc. through massage and other therapies.
Shoulder Pain
Shoulder pains are also caused due to more or less similar reasons. Overexertion, tendonitis, shoulder joint mismatch, pinched nerves and dislocation cause shoulder pain. Chiropractic & Massage Center aims to remove the pressure exerted by the misaligned bone on the “pinched” nerve. In addition, chiropractic is highly useful when it comes to treating shoulder dislocations.
Chiropractic and Neck and Shoulder Pain
In almost all cases of neck and shoulder pain, chiropractic techniques can be useful. Chiropractic & Massage Center therapist will look into factors like your lifestyle, diet, and past problems before deciding on a course of treatment. Apart from realigning the problem vertebra, or other adjustments to relieve the pain and stiffness, the chiropractor may also recommend use of special pillows, sauna, ice packs and exercises to relieve the neck and shoulder pain.
The Chiropractic & Massage Center in Philadelphia aims not just to heal the pain symptoms, but also the root causes underlying them. They could be anything from pinched nerves to vertebrae dislocation. Neck and shoulder pains have a tendency to become a chronic problem if not treated early, so it is always a good idea to consult a chiropractor in the early stages. So if you feel throbbing pain, or a tingling pain extending from your shoulder upwards to the head, consult a chiropractor at Chiropractic & Massage Center of Philadelphia.
Benefits of Chiropractic Care (Philadelphia)
May 3rd, 2011There are many benefits of chiropractic care. If you are considering seeking out this type of treatment, there are many reasons why it could and should be done. We are at Chiropractic & Massage Center can help you.
Those that find themselves with problems with their body often do not realize that chiropractic care can often relieve these problems when other medicinal options will not. Often times, it is necessary to seek out the help of a chiropractor and relief will be found. Chiropractic & Massage Center is serving NE Philadelphia, Bucks County and Mongomery County.
What Chiropractic & Massage Center can Do For Me?
There are many physical benefits to chiropractic care. Here are just a few of the things that can be made better in your life through chiropractic care.
- - Decreased arthritis and pain in joints that have arthritis.
- - Pain relief from all areas of the body, virtually.
- - Reduction of pain in the back, legs, feet and knees through the relief of spinal pressure
- - Less stiffness in the areas that are treated
- - Less muscle spasms throughout the region
- - You will be able to move better and more if you were restricted to begin with.
- - Range of motion will increase.
- - You have better coordination from taking that step to throwing that baseball.
- - You have increased energy, self esteem and you just overall feel better
There are additional benefits of chiropractic care as well. When you realign the body, as it should be, you relieve pressure throughout it. This often allows you body to begin to heal, as it should again. For example, it can help your joints to heal, your tissues to heal and your pains to leave.
Some relief through chiropractic care is actually immediate. Often times, when you lay on a chiropractic table and the doctor works his magic you will get up feeling better. This is because the doctor has the ability to realign joints and limbs that are not in the right position now. That means that when he puts them back into place he can and he will provide you with a lot of immediate relief.
Other times, a chiropractic care treatment can leave you a bit sore and aching. This is due to the very same reasons. Consider the fact that your body has been out of line for so long that it is going to feel different and it may hurt a bit to fix it. Although your doctor will tell you what to expect from the chiropractic care treatment, and what benefits your body will get.
Ideally, everyone should seek out a chiropractic care for this type of insures. The benefits of chiropractic care should push more people into doing it because it can be so overwhelmingly beneficial to your body and your mind’s well being.
To find lower back pain treatment and low back pain relief call Chiropractic & Massage Center to schedule your appointment at 215-677-3733.
Chiropractic & Massage Center located in the Somerton section of NorthEast Philadelphia.
Chiropractic & Massage Center 13050 Bustleton AvePhiladelphia, PA, 19116
Headaches Affect Nearly Half Of All Adults
April 7th, 2011The World Health Organization (WHO) has reported that headaches have enormous costs to society and are hugely widespread throughout the world. According to the report, 47 percent of all adults have some sort of headache disorder. In the European Union (EU) alone, it’s estimated that 190 million days are lost from work annually, solely due to migraine headaches. One in six women and one in twelve men are affected by migraines making it the most expensive brain disorder in the United States and EU with an estimated total annual cost of $229 billion. Doctors of chiropractic are highly trained to diagnose and treat a number of headache related disorders. In fact, many causes of headaches are soft-tissue based and can be successfully managed with safe, natural chiropractic procedures. If you experience headaches, no matter how severe or subtle, don’t continue to suffer. Call your licensed doctor of chiropractic today for a professional, thorough consultation and/or examination.
Author: ChiroPlanet.com
Source: Reuters. May 3, 2011.
Copyright: ProfessionalPlanets.com LLC 2011
Doctors of Chiropractic Commend Injury Prevention Awareness
March 5th, 2011Arlington, Va. – The American Chiropractic Association (ACA) reminds everyone that doctors of chiropractic can help play an important role in the prevention and treatment of many common injuries.
This reminder comes as communities across the country are observing National Public Health Week 2011 (NPHW). The theme of this year’s observance – “Safety is NO Accident” – focuses on preventing injury at home, work or play.
In general, doctors of chiropractic promote the value of prevention as a key component of health and wellness. They routinely provide recommendations to patients on topics such as proper lifting techniques, improving balance through exercise, workstation ergonomics and using mobile technology safely - all of which can prevent injury.
This week, ACA is highlighting its library of patient information and videos offering tips on how to prevent injuries at home, work and play. Should injury occur, doctors of chiropractic offer expert examination and treatment that gets patients back to work, in the game and able to enjoy their activities of daily living. ”Injuries happen in a split second, but have lasting consequences,” said ACA Vice President Keith Overland, DC. “However, simple preventative measures, a healthy lifestyle and appropriate health care will reduce the number of injuries a person experiences and minimize the impact of any injuries that do occur.”
Since 1995, when the first full week of April was declared NPHW, communities across the country have celebrated and recognized the contributions of public health and highlighted issues that are important to improving the public’s health. The American Public Health Association (APHA) serves as the organizer of NPHW and develops a national campaign to educate the public, policy-makers and practitioners about issues related to that year’s theme. APHA creates comprehensive planning, organizing and outreach materials that can be used during and after the week to raise awareness. APHA has featured a section devoted to chiropractic and its role in public health since 1995.
For more information about how doctors of chiropractic can help prevent and treat common injuries, visit http://www.acatoday.org/prevention.
For general information about this year’s NPHW observance, visit http://www.nphw.org/nphw11/first1.htm.
The American Chiropractic Association (ACA), based in Arlington, Va., is the largest professional association in the United States representing doctors of chiropractic. ACA promotes the highest standards of patient care and ethics, and supports research that contributes to the health and well-being of millions of chiropractic patients. Visit www.acatoday.org.
Author: American Chiropractic Association.
Source: American Chiropractic Association. Online April 5, 2011.
Copyright: American Chiropractic Association. 2011