After what I saw on the roads and the number of after hours phone calls I have gotten I figured I would email some important information about the snow storms.

1. Lift with your legs when shoveling, this snow is HEAVY.
2. Stay hydrated.  That means drink WATER not anything else!
3. Stretch your hamstrings before and after shoveling
4. Take frequent breaks, whether you think you need them or not.
5. Take smaller shovel loads.
6. If you over do it, and strain your back,  use ice on it.  AND STOP SHOVELING for a while.  Stretch your hamstrings again, if you have been taught exercises yet, please do them.
   

If you are unfortunately in a car accident or no some one who is a couple of facts to keep in mind.

1. The emergency room is not equipped to test you for whip lash.  If they take an x-ray they are ruling out a FRACTURE.  But as many have found out they don’t look for or even worn you about in some cases HIDDEN injuries.
2. A whip lash can take weeks even months to show symptoms.
3. Whip lash is detectable prior to any sort of pain showing up.
4. Whiplash is easily preventable.
5. Most of us have a section in our car insurance that we can use, whether we are at fault or not, called the MEDICAL PAYMENTS portion or MEDPAY of your policy.  You do not increase your rates by using it, even though you may be dissuaded by the adjuster to make any claim.  You don’t need a lawyer to use it, you are actually paying extra for this policy.  In NH you usually have $1000 or $500o worth of coverage.
6. If you use your MEDPAY it does not require a co-pay or coinsurance
7. Using MEDPAY does not go against your regular health insurance coverage for chiropractic.
8. If you don’t have MEDPAY do yourself and get it, if you don’t have an agent I know a great broker here in Portsmouth that offers a free rate quote and evaluation of your current policy.
   

I know some of you  will think this is some kind of spam, or be angry that I don’t have an opt out button on the email.  But I wanted to make sure I got this info out to you asap and I don’t have access to my constant contact account. I promise not to do it again.   We will be open regular hours tomorrow, and look forward to seeing everyone(preferrably healthy)  very soon.

Car Accident Neck Injuries

Winter storms….Slippery roads….Black ice….   the ultimate test to Portsmouth and NH seacoast drivers each season.  Inevitably,accidents occur on our winter roads.  While most often the crashed carsare repaired or replaced, many people who experience a crash ignore theeffects the impact has had on themselves and their body.

Pain from an injury can be sudden and severe, but most commonly itarises slowly even days and weeks after the accident.  Car accidentinjuries can effect various parts of the body.  Head, neck and backinjuries are the most common experienced by those in an auto crash. Neck injuries, however, like whiplash tend to be the most annoyinginjury associated with rear end impacts.  Whiplash injures the softtissues in your neck which consist of muscles, ligaments, and nerves. It causes neck pain and limitation of head movement.  Muscle strainfrom whiplash can cause aches and stiffness that spread to your upperarm, shoulder, or back.  Pinched nerves from the injury can causeshooting pain to travel down the hand into the fingers.  Headaches,feeling dizzy or sick to your stomach may signal herniated disc that’spressuring your spinal cord.  Yikes!  These injuries can horriblyaffect your quality of life!  This is no way to live. 

If you have experienced any of these symptoms after an accident, Irecommend getting treatment for your injury.  At Port City Chiropractic, we offer free consultations which use an Electronic MuscleScan to first identify areas of soft tissue damage.  If damage isrecognized, we recommend taking an full Dr.’s exam and x-rays toidentify structural traumas.  Then, our team of Spinal RehabSpecialists design an individual treatment plan to  get the patientfirst out of pain, reduce inflammation and spasm, and then move tovarious passive and active treatments to help the patient restoremobility and strength.  We offer Physical Therapy, Massage, Chiropractic and Accupuncture treatments to help patients recover from injuries in anatural way rather than using medicine or surgery.  If you areinterested in learning more about how to treat neck pain or whiplash,or are interested in scheduling a free consultation and muscle scan,call us today at 603-433-2447 or contact us at  www.portcitychiro.com
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Please please, stop the madness about H1N1, and the flu in general.  I used to think that the general population would think chiropractors were crazy to do screenings in public places.  I knew there were other reasons we were crazy, but I can't get over the places I see signs for Flu vaccines, Shaw's Supermarket on Tuesday and today at Sam's Club in Seabrook. 

Personally, you couldn't pay me enough money to be vaccinated, I just think it's silly.  The research shows that the only one who has benefited from vaccines, are the institutions that sell them.  Please do the research before you subject yourself to this kind of poisoning. 

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I read the transcripts of Mr. Obama's speech this afternoon to the AMA.  I am not really sure why people are so surprised by it. I thought that there were two good lines from the speech in particular:  lecturing Americans to stop smoking and to seek mammograms and colon-cancer screening. Health care reform, he said, means going for a run, going to the gym, and staying away from video games. It also, he said, means laying off junk food.  Did someone actually say that our health care crisis was the fault of the American People?  That we had to take responsibility for our own affairs, that just because someone has a lot of school and a lot of letters after their name, that they might not always be working in our best interests?  Hmmm sounds like Obama's original call to be "our brother's keeper"  meant giving him a swift kick in the butt as well. Because ultimately it's the truth, your doctor is only as good as you are at listening to him or her.  That if you put bad stuff into your body, or lay dormant your body will deteriorate and that is your(the patients) fault.  Not your genes you inherited, not your bosses inability to cut you some slack.  Just you and whatever it is you are doing to your body. "health care reform is going for a run"  never has there been a truer statement about health care reform in this country!

Good job Mr President!


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From the beginning, chiropractic has been the target of misrepresentation and illegal discrimination.

Colorful Personalities

The Palmers of Davenport, Iowa discovered and developed many of the principles of chiropractic. Both D.D. Palmer and son B.J. Palmer were flamboyant and charismatic. Their personalities and dogmatism produced vehement detractors.

Medical Monopoly

To hamstring the fledgling chiropractic profession, the American Medical Association prevented medical doctors from working with or referring to chiropractors. This illegal tactic ended in 1990 when the A.M.A. was found guilty in federal court. Nevertheless, the damage was done.

Increasing Acceptance

Today, the profession of chiropractic is recognized and licensed worldwide. Currently 22 colleges graduate educated, compassionate and talented healers. Insurance companies and many government programs reimburse for chiropractic care. Chiropractic has come a long way since 1895.

Blood vs. Nerves

Traditional medical treatment relies on putting drugs into the bloodstream. Chiropractic care helps restore nervous system integrity by reducing subluxations. Two very different approaches:

Medical Treatment
Blood-based
Treats symptoms
Renders sickness care
Prescribes drugs
Sees body as parts
Removes organs
Kills germs
Causes side effects
Artificial
Risky


Chiropractic Care
Nerve-based
Corrects cause
Offers health care
Makes adjustments
Sees whole person
Revives organs
Helps resist germs
Produces positive effects
Natural
Safe

We are pleased to announce the addition of a new staff member to our massage team.  Ms.  Kelly Clifford.  Kelly is originally from Vermont and is  a graduate of UNH, with a Bachelors Degree in Exercise Science.  She is a Nationally Certified massage therapist and is expert at both deep tissue and relaxing therapeutic massage..  As a kick off to Kelli's practice here at Port City Chiropractic, we are offering a great special you will want to take advantage of ASAP. 

 For the next two weeks only, you can purchase massages with Kelli for  only $39 for an hour, and only $54 for 90 minute, There are only  12 of these appointments available, once they are gone, massages with Kelly will be the normal price of $70 per hour and $90 dollars for  the 90 minute.

Call us today to book.  (603) 433-2447
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There is a growing movement, with all the talk about a new national health care policy to exclude chiropractic. So of the same old propaganda is surfacing again, even though in the past 30 yrs chiropractic has proven its efficacy time and time again in the research. Having an MD or any other practitioner adjust you and your families, is like handing your life savings over to your teenager after they took a weekend seminar on day trading.

Years ago they said what we chiropractors were doing was unscientific and voodoo. Today they want to be the providers of what we do(adjustments) because they have run out of answers for an ever more disgruntled patient population, and what we do seems to work, so they as the professionals should do it.

If you have come to my office, you know that what we do here, is not like what you get at any other office, because, our intent is different, and that's what makes the biggest difference. The health care practitioners intent is directly related to their results. Which means the reason I adjust is different than someone who has followed a different career path, because my intention is to add as little to the body as possible in the way of external energy, so that the body can do the healing. Not to remove the pain. Not hide the symptom, but to elicit the body's already present innate ability to heal itself.

In the coming months I will be writing more about this, as the focus comes of the financial and industrial sectors and the Obama administration starts focusing on health care reform. Because even if I just educate the few people on face book or my blog that read it, it could make difference when the battle actually begins and it is time to call the lawmakers to remind them that chiropractors and more importantly chiropractic patients have earned a place at the table of National Health Care Reform, because lets face it, the people who have run it so far have run it into the ground. 

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