Cedar Crest Chiropractic - May/June 2022

Cedar Crest Chiropractic - May/June 2022

CEDAR CREST CHIROPRACTIC

May/June 2022

Dr. Paul Braadt

1028 S. Cedar Crest Blvd., Allentown, PA 18103 • 610-776-2005 • CedarCrestChiropractic.com

CHIROPRACTORS TREAT SO MUCH MORE Beyond Back, Neck, and Spine Pain

When people go to the dentist, they think Teeth . When people go to a chiropractor, they think Back, Neck, and Spine Pain . However, chiropractors, depending on their advanced training, can treat many other bone, joint, muscle, and nerve problems. Over the past 42 years, I’ve successfully treated many “other problems” beyond what’s commonly thought of as traditional chiropractic care. The benefit to you is that treating these other problems with a safe, effective treatment can prevent drug dependence for pain and many unnecessary surgeries. Here’s a bit of my training background: I’ve completed the board certification program for Chiropractic Orthopedics (conservative treatment for bones, muscles, joints, tendons, ligaments, and nerves, excluding broken bones and bone disease). This is a three-year post-graduate program after eight years of required chiropractic education. I’ve also completed a one-year board certification program in Chiropractic Rehabilitation. This additional training helps me provide you with alternatives to unnecessary drugs and surgeries. And then there’s the 42 years (whew!) of experience.

Often, many of you will mention other problems you’re having involving muscles and joints and are surprised to discover there are alternatives to steroid injections, endless stretching, drug dependence, and loss of ability to perform daily tasks without restrictions. Instead of being told, “It’s just your age,” I can often help you. Here are a few examples of other problems I’ve helped: Recently, I thought a patient was taking too long for her low back to feel better. I asked if there was any other problem she forgot to tell me about. She replied that she sprained her ankle badly 10 years before and still limped for an hour after she got up each morning. Over the years, she had done stretches, had injections, wore custom orthotics for her feet and still limped in the morning. I replied that it’s like knocking dominos down: The foot can affect the knee and hip causing back and neck pain. After examining her foot , I found that the bones were not working properly and were jammed, like gears in a machine. She was also on her feet all day at work. After safely and comfortably correcting the alignment of her foot bones, her foot felt much better, she stopped limping in the morning, and her low back problem cleared up as expected. She was thrilled and was surprised that her foot problem could be treated with chiropractic care. Had she not had her foot corrected, she would have continued to limp and her back pain would not have improved as expected. Another example: Years ago, a young teenage boy, who was a chiropractic patient, came in with his parents. He was unable to close his jaw. The teen had taken a large bite of

a hoagie, then something clicked and he couldn’t close his mouth. After he went to a “specialist” who wanted to inject his jaw and operate, his parents brought him in to ask if I could help. With the Activator instrument, I was able to reset his jaw so it moved freely. The teen and his parents were relieved that he didn’t require injections and surgery. I’ve also treated many of you with knee problems preventing unnecessary knee replacement and steroid injections as well as hip problems , shoulder problems causing persistent neck pain, carpal tunnel syndrome causing numbness in the hands, and jaw problems producing facial pain and headaches, and I have even reset ribs . Many of you initially came in with back and neck problems, and identifying these underlying and unreported problems were a major hidden factor that contributed to your original problem. Chiropractors with advanced training are able to discover and treat these hidden factors that prevent normal recovery. Patients don’t often mention these other problems because they don’t think chiropractors can treat them, or they didn’t think they are relevant. Lesson learned: If you have other problems that arise, or if you are medicating a problem and want to know if an effective non-drug alternative can help, please let me know right away. You never know if help is available unless you ask!

–Dr. Paul Braadt

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DR. BRAADT’S WELLNESS COLUMN

SOLVING THE CALORIE CONFUSION Burn Energy vs. Store Fat!

Carbohydrates They stimulate a rise in blood sugar spiking the hormone insulin. Refined carbohydrates, like hidden sugar in processed foods, candy, pastry, and sweets in general, are like a match to gasoline. A boom is created and makes energy, BUT it’s fast and you burn out quickly, making you hungry, AND any excess is converted directly into fat around your belly and organs by the hormone insulin. Think “belly fat.” That’s not good. The minimum daily requirement for carbohydrates in human nutrition is essentially ZERO! This does not include “heart-healthy grains.” Consuming a lot of non-starchy vegetables (carbs) is the best way to get an abundance of nutrients as they contain “net carbs” reduced by the fiber they contain. Proteins They are necessary for a million reasons, but not as many as you might think. Unless you are training for the Olympics or are a teenage football player, 3–4 ounces per meal is really all that is necessary for tissue repair and general good health. Too much protein will elevate insulin levels, which increases fat storage where you don’t want it. Yes, belly fat again! A “fist-size” portion is adequate. Fats Since the early 1960s, everyone has known that fat will make you fat and kill you slowly or give you a heart attack, right? FALSE! Ancel Keys, a nutrition researcher with drug company funding, linked fat to heart disease with skewed >Page 1 Page 2 Page 3 Page 4

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