Chapel Hill Chiropractic Centre Opens Back Care Class to Public

Dr. Ryan Fox and Dr. Christian Werness teach a bi-monthly back care class as a public service to the Chapel Hill community. Classes begin promptly at 6:00 PM and last approximately 45 minutes. Both doctors encourage those attending to bring a friend or family member for one-on-one instruction on Trigger Point Therapy, a method of releasing muscle pain.

During the 45 minute session. Dr. Fox and Dr. Werness discuss the reasons for premature aging, degenerative changes of the spine and nervous system, as well as the intricate relationship between the nervous system and every organ, tissue, and gland of the body. During the back care class, specific guidance is focused on how to sit, stand, move, and avoid common injuries. Additional information is presented on diet, nutrition, and lifestyle factors which contribute to back pain & other joint related dysfunction.

Call Chapel Hill Chiropractic Centre to reserve a seat in the back care class...919-968-4417

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Chiropractic Chapel Hill NC

Chapel Hill Chiropractic Centre is proud to announce its 3rd consecutive year of growth! Due to the popularity and effectiveness of Chiropractic treatment, we have made many changes and upgrades to fit our patients' needs!

Our office now has a full physical therapy bay for muscle rehabilitation, post-surgical rehab and recovery, as well as pre-surgery preparation. We offer full rehab for spine and extremity problems, including foot/ankle, shoulder, wrist, elbow, knee, and hips. Chiropractic treatment is the #1 choice according to the May 2009 Consumer Report for effectiveness & cost, compared to physical therapy and traditional pharaceutical approach used by most primary care physicians.

Since January, we have also added a full x-ray suite as another benefit to our patients, saving time and additional costs of using an outside x-ray facility. Our office has also expanded another 1400 sq foot to include 2 massage therapists and an additional teaching facility. Our doctors frequently conduct spinal care classes as well as a quarterly nutritional class aimed at getting our patients better quicker, keeping them better longer, and avoiding set-backs.

For more information, please call our office at 919-968-4417

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Chiropractic and Reducing Stress

We certainly live in stressful times. It's not easy to assess whether our era is the most stressful, but we do have plenty of daily stress. The job, the home, the kids, the relatives, and the economy - all these stresses add up and yet we wonder why we have so many aches and pains.

So many ailments are stress-related. Americans are notoriously overweight. Overeating is a stress-coping mechanism.1 Headaches and backaches are often associated with increased stress. There's a strong correlation between high blood pressure and stress, ulcers and stress, and even cancer and stress. What can we do? The external stresses in our lives aren't going away. Our activity-filled lives are busy and complex - there's always going to be stress. The key is to help avoid or ease the physical effects of stress. Interestingly, chiropractic treatment can be of great assistance in reducing the effects of stress on the body.

In general, stress causes muscles to tighten. This is an unconscious reaction. Tight muscles cause a cascade of further muscle tightening, shortening of muscles and ligaments, and a resulting decrease of mobility in joints, particularly shoulder joints, hip joints, and joints of the spine.2,3

This overall mechanical effect of stress has a number of additional consequences. All the extra unconscious muscle activity wastes precious nutritional resources and uses up energy needed for critical body functions. Lactic acid accumulates, irritating nerve endings and further increasing muscular tightness. And, importantly, the losses in spinal joint mobility lead directly to increased levels of pain. This, of course, leads to more stress.

This vicious circle of stress, muscular tightness, and pain can be relieved and reduced by chiropractic treatment.4 Chiropractic therapy is specially designed to improve joint mobility of the spine and pelvis. This gentle, effective treatment gradually restores maximal spinal motion. Muscle tightness is alleviated, metabolic processes begin to return to normal, and nutrients become more available to help maintain healthy functioning. Levels of pain are reduced, and we become better able to withstand the physical effects of stress.

Your chiropractor will explain the many benefits of treatment, and will provide instruction in stretching techniques and specific exercises that help maintain the positive results of therapy.

There will always be stress. We can learn how to reduce the physical effects of stress, and become stronger, healthier, and happier in the process.

Take a Break!
Pop quiz - how long have you

been sitting in that chair?

Half-an-hour? An hour?

Two hours? More?!!!

Or, basically, how long have

you been working at the same

task without taking a break?

Most likely, the answer is "too long"!

Everybody's in the same boat. There's

so much to do and so little time. That

may not be the real reality, but it

certainly is our experience.

We drive ahead, force ourselves to

keep going, and forget to

"stop and smell the roses". But

"smelling the roses" is critical to our

health and well-being. Taking a break,

relaxing for just five minutes every

hour, makes all the difference.

1Marchesini G, et al: Psychiatric distress and health-related quality of life in obesity. Diabetes Nutr Metab 16(3):145-154, 2003 2Weickgenant AL, et al: Coping activities in chronic low back pain: relationship with depression. Pain 53(1):95-103, 1993 3Burns JW: Arousal of negative emotions and symptom-specific reactivity in chronic low back pain patients. Emotion 6(2):309-319, 2006 4Hurwitz EL, et al. A randomized trial of chiropractic and medical care for patients with low back pain. Spine 31(6):611-621, 2006

Plantar Fascitis Commonly Caused by Long Term Foot Imbalance and Pronation

The first step out of bed in the morning can be a painful one, particularly if you have plantar fascitis.

Plantar means 'bottom of the foot', Fasciae means the 'connective tissue', and (Fasc) "itis" tells us that the tissue is inflammed ("-itis"). That's where Plantar Fascitis is derived.

Common foot imbalances, included dropped or fallen arches contribute greatly to the development of plantar fascitis due to long-term strain that is created in the muscle and surrounding tissues. Not only does your body need to send minerals, vitamins, proteins and other factors to the tissue to allow it to repair, the tissue also needs to be able to flush itself out. In other words, you need materials to repair the inflammed tissue, meanwhile get rid of toxic by-products created by normal muscle and connective tissue metabolism.

This essentially opens a can of worms when it comes to treating plantar fascitis because it allows us to recognize that their are structural components (muscles, joints, tendons, tissues, etc.) as well as chemical components (b-vitamins, hormones, antioxidants, omega 3 and 6 fats, etc.) that need to be addressed to completely correct a case of plantar fascitis.

The best first approach is to seek the consult of an Applied Kinesiologist. This type of doctor, usually trained in Chiropractic, has the ability to evaluate the structural as well as the chemical factors preventing your healing.

In many instances, a properly fitted CUSTOM orthotic will help to maintain any imbalances of the foot after the foot has been evaluated and treated. This process doesn't occur overnight, but it typically relieves pain and discomfort within a short period of time, meanwhile allowing the muscles and tendons a chance to recover from their previously strained state.

The occurrence of plantar fascitis commonly affects women more than men. The reasons can be multiple, but the underlying difference probably lies in the sensitivity of the female hormone system, diet, nutrition, and susceptibility to stress.

Common signs of a foot imbalance include foot, ankle, knee, hip, and low back pain. The development of a bunion on the Great Toe is also a clear sign of a foot imbalance, generally due to a fallen meta-tarsal arch or fallen medial longitudinal arch of the foot. Once a bunion has formed, an orthotic is unlikely to correct it, but it will certainly keep the bunion from getting significantly worse.

Adherence to a semi-strict nutrition program and eating style provides a lot of relief to fatigued muscles and other joints that are not repairing or healing well. See my list of food ingredients to avoid to get yourself pointed in the right direction to eating better. It is also reccommendation to follow the Standard Process 21 Day Purification Cleanse as a method of initiating a change in diet. This process helps curb cravings and other poor food habits, meanwhile allowing you to eat all you want, lose weight, and gently cleanse the bowels, liver, gallbladder, and other organs of detoxification.

In order to provide fast relief of Plantar Fascitis, a combination of chiropractic techniques have been developed in our office, including chiropractic manipulation, myofascial release, reflexology, and acupuncture. A combination of one or all of these techniques usually offers significant relief of pain in the plantar (bottom) surface of the foot. These results will often be permanent if the proper lifestyle modifications can be made. Please call our office to speak with our physician about your individual needs.

Blue Cross Blue Shield Insurance Accepted for Chiropractic Care at Chapel Hill Chiropractic Centre

If you are looking for a Chapel Hill Chiropractor, the Chapel Hill Chiropractic Centre is proud to offer extended services and coverage to Blue Cross Blue Shield Customers and Blue Cross Blue Shield State Employees Plans! Please visit our website to see other insurances that we cover at Chapel Hill Chiropractic Centre's website.

Starting October 30, 2007 Chapel Hill Chiropractic Centre will begin submitting insurance claims as an in-network Preferred Provider for Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina (BCBS). This plan covers most Blue Cross Blue Shield policies for Chiropractic care.

Chapel Hill Chiropractic Centre is also an in-network provider for Cigna, United, Medco, and Medicare beneficiaries.

Utilizing insurance, a typical visit to a Chiropractor will result in a copay or a co-insurance, ranging from $10-$50. Some plans require that you meet a yearly deductible, which can range from $150-$1500, depending on the plan you have chosen.

Chiropractors have the ability to treat a wide range of health symptoms much beyond the common neck and back pains. Please visit our link of commonly treated symptoms to see how Chiropractic can best serve you.

The Chapel Hill Chiropractic Centre Serves the entire Triangle, RTP region including: Raleigh, Chapel Hill, Durham, Pittsboro, Carrboro, Morrisville, and Burlington.

The Shoulder and Rotator Cuff

I would like to give thanks to my brother, Dr. Greg Fox, clinic director of Heritage Family Chiropractic in Portland, Maine for introducing me to such a wonderful treatment tool as Applied Kinesiology.

I don't know how I or my patients would fare without the diagnostic ability that Applied Kinesiology muscle testing adds to standard methods of diagnosis taught in traditional medicine, combined with the treatment options gained through Chiropractic, Physical Therapy, and Osteopathy.

With that in mind, I would like to offer some insight to pain symptoms that affect the Shoulder and Rotator Cuff, a commonly mis-diagnosed joint problem

With the increasing numbers of rotator cuff surgeries performed today, it seems prudent to offer a treatment choice that may help people to avoid a costly surgery or permanent impairment. Either way, the least invasive treatments should be sought-after first before ever considering an irreversible surgical procedure. Any doctor, regardless of degree, should follow this philosophy.

The typical diagnosis for a rotator cuff tear, using ranges of motion, orthopedic tests, and MRI results is often not enough to rule-in or rule-out a surgical procedure. MRI results are often the conclusive evidence used to determine if a surgical repair is necessary. The disturbing news is that potential tears in the shoulder are often imperceivable on MRI, leading to an educated "guess", at best.

Physical therapy is normally very successful in rehabilitating a shoulder that has experienced muscle or ligamentous damage. Fortunately, most muscular tears are hardly ever "full tears" and can be improved with proper exercises, manipulation, and manual treatment.

Chiropractic and Applied Kinesiology methods of treatment strengthen the standard approach of Physical Therapy and should always be considered together to offer a patient the maximum benefit and recovery time.

Why choose Chiropractic and Applied Kinesiology?

Diagnosis using Applied Kinesiology gives the patient the added benefit of combining safe chiropractic adjustments with the rehabilitative efforts of manual medicine...Essentially, Applied Kinesiology give patients more treatment options that cover a wide-array of professions...including Physical Therapy, Massage, Chiropractic, Naturopathy, Osteopathy, and Acupuncture. A doctor trained in Applied Kinesiology (AK), has the ability to use muscle testing to determine which treatment option will allow the patient to recover the fastest depending on an individual's response to the test. This is functional neurology which tests the body's own muscles and nervous system responses to arrive at the proper diagnosis and treatment.

There are four muscles that comprise the rotator cuff: Supraspinatus, Infraspinatus, Teres Minor, and Subscapularis. Upon inspection of a shoulder diagnosed with rotator cuff tear, I become fascinated by one of the most complex joints in the human body (second to the Jaw and TMJ). The rotator cuff is not able to act on it's own accord, it relies heavily upon other core-stablizing muscles of the shoulder girdle, including Pectoralis Major and Clavicular, Serratus Anterior, Upper Trapezius, Rhomboids, Teres Major, and Deltoids.

The idea to take from this list of stabilizing muscles is that the Rotator Cuff muscles are Second in Command to other more important muscles. Applied Kinesiology offers one of the only techniques available that can isolate and identify which muscles are responsible for the Rotator Cuff imbalance. Furthermore, Applied Kinesiology also helps your doctor decided what needs to be done after determining what is wrong.

Significant pain relief can often be obtained within several visits, depending on the initial underlying cause of the Rotator Cuff imbalance. Beyond direct shoulder involvement and thoracic outlet symptoms of , many cases of Rotator Cuff Pain can also be produced from pinching of nerves in the spine, where the nerves exit your spinal cord. This is called a Radiculopathy, a form of nerve compression that has been treated in Chiropractic for over a hundred years.

To consult a Chiropractor trained in Applied Kinesiology or to find an AK doctor near your home, please visit the website for the International College of Applied Kinesiology at http://www.icakusa.com/ or contact the Chapel Hill Chiropractic Centre at http://www.chapelhillchiropracticcentre.com/ for more information.

WHAT IS CHIROPRACTIC

Interestingly, I have found that many Chiropractic patients do not know why Chiropractic works, they just know that it does. If you had experience with Chiropractic and were asked to describe it to someone else, what would you say?

Unfortunately, we often hear the word "snap", "crack", or "pop"...

Kellog's Rice Krispies may begin to think that Chiropractic is encroaching upon their marketing campaign. This description also does not leave a good mental image to others who are considering Chiropractic care, much less describe what actually happens during a Chiropractic Adjustment/Manipulation.

The sound that is typically heard during a Chiropractic manipulation is merely a release of several gase, including Nitrogen, oxygen, and carbon dioxide, which are released from an air-tight capsule...

Fortunately, nothing is being damaged during this type of treatment and the capsule containing the gases reforms very quickly. This is why individuals are able to continuously "pop" their knuckles...Arthritis is not a concern unless inflammation remains in a joint. This is the reason that COLD should always be considered over HEAT when a joint hurts. HEAT will reduce pain for a short while, yet always cause further inflammation several hours after application. COLD Packs reduce inflammation and promote healing after the first 24 hours.



The Chiropractic Manipulation is meant to relieve nerve interference, often called Subluxation, and restore your body's natural ability to heal itself. This natural ability to heal is called Innate Intelligence. Innate means "born-with", so it literally means that your body was born with an intelligent design to heal itself.



Nerve interference can come in many forms, often as misaligned vertebrae. The causes of these misalignments can be extensive. In the most basic form, misalignments in the spine are due to muscle and ligament failure, which are responsible for maintaining the body's structural integrity.

The muscles and ligaments can be affected by 3 things: Chemical Stressors, Physical Stressors, and Emotional Stressors...

Doctors of Chiropractic have been trained to assess all three of these components of a person's health and determine the proper treatment protocol. At times, the proper treatment may be a referral to another healthcare professional.

Chiropractors are a good first-choice when seeking care for a health ailment...

The goal is to "first do no harm", which Chiropractic successfully accomplishes through safe, manual methods of treatment using a combination of Chiropractic, Physical Therapy, and Osteopathic techniques. If Chiropractic treatment is not well-suited for a particular health problem, Chiropractors are trained to make a proper diagnosis and refer their patients to the correct health provider.

Despite having a vast knowledge of the spinal column and nervous system, Chiropractors have the ability to treat many different bodily ailments other than Back Pain, Neck Pain, and Headaches. The Reason?

Chiropractors are trained to identify nerve interference...

Nerves control absolutely every function in the entire body, including the air we breathe, the pain we feel, the tightening and relaxing of blood vessels, the production of chemicals & hormones, circulation throughout all tissues, the rate at which our heart beats, and hundreds of other functions that allow our body's to heal.

There's no mystery in science properly Applied...

Welcome to the Chapel Hill Chiropractic Centre

Dr. Ryan E. Fox has announced the Grand Opening of Chapel Hill Chiropractic Centre, located in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Dr. Fox is an Integrative Chiropractic physician and certified Applied Kinesiologist.

Dr. Fox says, “Applied Kinesiology and Chiropractic combine the traditional benefits of Chiropractic plus Acupuncture, Nutrition, Body Detoxification/Cleansing, and Hormone Balancing. This approach is very beneficial to our patients because it often allows us to relieve their pain quickly, as well as identify the underlying “cause” so symptoms will not return quickly.”

This powerful combination of evaluation and treatment options gives Chiropractors trained in Applied Kinesiology a unique ability to identify dysfunctions in the muscle and skeletal systems, providing quick pain relief. For a list of symptoms that Dr. Fox commonly treats, please follow this link to the Chapel Hill Chiropractic Centre

Dr. Fox is one amongst several Chiropractors in Chapel Hill and the Triangle Region that practice the comprehensive approach of Applied Kinesiology.

Chapel Hill Chiropractic Centre is located at 1717 Legion Road in Chapel Hill, only minutes from Interstate 40 at Exit 270. You can learn more about Dr. Fox and the services he provides at his family chiropractic practice by visiting http://www.chapelhillchiropracticcentre.com/ or by contacting his office for further info 919-968-4417