Chiropractic has become an increasingly popular option for drug-free pain relief. It’s well-known that chiropractors can help with neck, back, spine, and leg pain, but we’re only scratching the surface in figuring out the multitude of health benefits that chiropractic brings to the table when it comes to your brain and even your heart.

Chiropractic care has been shown to drive a heart-healthy lifestyle and has been utilized in the treatment of heart disease in a variety of patients.

Chiropractic Brings a Host of Health Benefits with It

Regular chiropractic adjustments have far wider-reaching benefits that just been good for your back, neck, and spine. Seeing a chiropractor regularly may prevent heart attacks and lower your blood pressure, reduce your overall heart rate, and relieve chest pain, not to mention support your cardiovascular system.

Consider One Case Study

A case study done with a male patient of 54 years of age yielded some promising results. The patient began getting regular chiropractic treatments as a means to his lipid panel back to a regular, healthy state of being. After just 6 months of chiropractic adjustments for subluxation reduced the patient’s lipid levels back down to normal levels — and no other lifestyle changes were made on the patients part regarding diet or exercise.

Chiropractic, A Drug-Free Solution 

Another staggering finding was that the man was on several heart medications before he received his chiropractic treatment. After only 6 months of chiropractic therapy the patient’s LD, , HDL and triglycerides levels were actually healthy and stable enough for him to get off his several heart medication prescriptions.

If you’d like to know more about the possibilities of chiropractic care, contact Barton Chiropractic Clinic today to schedule your consultation.

At Barton Chiropractic Clinic we see a lot of patients throughout the year who suffer from back pain that results from the daily wear and tear and everyday living puts us through.

It doesn’t matter if you sit at a desk for 40 hours a week or spend your work week on your feet and on the move, your back, neck, and spine need a little TLC year-round. Read on for a few resolutions you can make that will also be good for your back.

1.) Take Up Yoga

Taking a yoga class will be one of the best things you ever did for yourself. Many yoga poses are designed to stretch and strengthen your spine, not to mention increase your range of motion and flexibility. If you live an active lifestyle, you can take a yoga class during one of your off days to engage in a little active recovery. You won’t be sorry!

2.) Strengthen Your Back and Your Core

At the gym it might be a popular choice to work on the arms or see how much you can do on the bench press, but investing some to strengthen your back and your core will help you avoid injury. Making sure to incorporate strength training will also help with posture and increase self-confidence.

3.) See Your Local Chiropractor Near You!

One common misconception is that one should only see a chiropractor after experiencing an injury, but chiropractic care also helps patients avoid injury and to relieve the wear and tear of daily life.

Contact Barton Chiropractic Clinic if you’re experiencing neck or back pain. Here’s to a happy and healthy 2019!

As more and more of us spend significantly more amounts of time staring at computer screens as well as our smartphone screens, more and more people will suffer from what some people refer to as “tech neck,” but, also (for our intent and purpose) “text neck.”

First, text and tech neck are generally caused by poor posture and by staring at your computer or phone screen from an odd angle. You want to be staring straight forward, if not slightly upward while maintaining good posture in your back.

Looking down at your phone or your tablet or laptop also puts a significant amount of unnecessary pressure on your cervical spine, which promotes more wear and tear, which can cause costly problems down the road. Nerves also get compressed and misaligned as a result of staring at your phone or computer can be putting your head, neck, and spine at risk — all at once!

Keep in mind that text and tech neck is also being reported more and more among young people.

One way to reduce and diminish tech and text neck is to get up form your position every 15-30 minutes, if not at the very least once an hour and try to incorporate some stretches, maybe even a few yoga moves that remedy sitting in a chair or staring at a device.

Both tech and text neck and the lifestyle they promote cause a one-two punch that is bad for an active lifestyle. Minimizing your time on your devices is always a good choice. We know you have to do it for work, but you can try to do it less while you play.

Maintaining an active lifestyle will also help you avoid getting neck and back problems. If you have pain in your head, back, neck, spine, or even your legs, chiropractic care might be the drug-free solution for you. Contact Barton Chiropractic Clinic today to schedule your consultation.

Carpal Tunnel Syndrome (or CTS) might start out as a burning and tingling sensation in the palm of the hand or thumb (or both). Fingers might start to feel somewhat dysfunctional or even useless. Eventually, CTS will develop into stronger tingling sensations and loss of grip, affecting a person’s ability to perform even the most basic everyday tasks.

The American Chiropractic Association asserts that CTS generally shows up in adults and that it appears 3 times more frequently in women. Most generally, a patient’s dominant hand is most likely to be affected first. People who work jobs on the assembly line, plumbers, cleaners, data entry positions, even meat packers are more likely to experience carpal tunnel.

How Chiropractic Can Help Carpal Tunnel

Multiple studies have shown encouraging results when it comes to the effectiveness of chiropractic on carpal tunnel syndrome. A majority of patients studied show vast improvements in aspects affected by CTS, like increased range of motion, increased finger sensation, not to mention a reduction in overall pain.

Chiropractic: A Non-Invasive Treatment for Carpal Tunnel

While most advanced cases of CTS will need to be treated with surgery, chiropractic care makes that option a final resort. When patients who live with CTS schedule regular visits to their neighborhood chiropractor they can often show incredibly positive results when it comes to reducing and controlling CTS pain and symptoms.

If you’d like to know more about how Barton Chiropractic Clinic can help treat carpal tunnel, contact our office today. We have a long, demonstrated history of treating pain and discomfort the holistic, drug-free way.

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For some strange reason chiropractic care is somewhat synonymous for treating those who experience injury. Chiropractic care is also attributed to those who are more advanced in age, but, in reality, chiropractic care can benefit patients of all ages.

Barton Chiropractic Clinic is your family-friendly chiropractor in Homewood, IL and we help patients ranging in age from babies to seniors, from injured workers to pregnant women.

Employees

It doesn’t matter if you have a job where you’re staring at a computer all day or on your feet and on the move for 40 hours a week — your back is constantly experiencing wear and tear. If you have poor posture, this can be putting even more stress on your back, neck and spine. That’s where expert chiropractic care comes through in the clutch. Chiropractic care is a great supplement to a heavy work week. 

Babies and Children

Chiropractic care can benefit babies and children — even newborns! Gentle and precise manipulations performed by a chiropractic care specialist can help to ease tension, strain, not to mention stress that can come along after natural birth or C-section. Chiropractic can also help correct nerve problems that come about from childbirth as well. Children of school age can also benefit — it puts a lot of strain on the back lugging around those book bags.

Men, Women, and Seniors

It doesn’t matter if you’re a young professional on the go, or a retired senior citizen, chiropractic care has many health benefits that extend beyond the spine. Even chronic conditions like fibromyalgia and arthritis can be treated with chiropractic care.

Contact Barton Chiropractic Clinic today to schedule your appointment. We have a long history of keeping our patients healthy and well — no matter their age!

Even thought Chiropractic has been around since 1895, we are still only scratching the surface as far as identifying its countless benefits to human health, wellness, and optimization.

Gallup poll after Gallup poll continues to find a majority of Americans believe chiropractic care helps effectively treat neck and back pain, not to mention controlled trial after controlled trial finding that spinal manipulation is beneficial in the treatment of conditions like chronic low back pain, knee osteoarthritis, not to mention neck pain. The many benefits of chiropractic care go beyond the back, even improving the relationship between the nervous system and the spine, have been shown to benefit functionality of many organs and systems throughout the body.

A Myriad of Techniques

Did you know that chiropractors utilize over 150 techniques that can manually adjust the joints, the neck, the spine, even muscles — all with varying degrees of force, which provides 360 degrees of treatment!

Experts Getting Onboard with Chiropractic Care for Chronic Conditions

Even medical industry leaders and medical doctors are showing their support for chiropractic care as first-line treatments that help relieve low back pain and arthritis — before resorting to using medication.

If you’d like to learn more about how chiropractic care can benefit your arthritis, contact Barton Chiropractic Clinic today. We’re here to help you get healthy and well.

At Barton Chiropractic Clinic we like to take the time during the holidays to recommend some gift ideas that are friendly for your back, neck, and spine — these are problem areas for a lot of people, our diverse patient base included.

Help Friends and Family Roll their Way into Wellness

Read on for one gift idea that you can get for family and friends that won’t kill your bank account and will at the same time relieve back pain: The Foam Roller!

Depending on which foam roller you decide to go with (there are several models), a decent one can help relieve chronic back conditions. Think of a properly-used foam roller as an at home deep tissue massage therapy session. Whoever you decide to give this excellent gift to can relieve damaged and achy muscles. Foam rollers are also excellent companions to injury rehabilitation. It’s also a great complement to a yoga practice.

Foam rollers can also help reduce shin splint pain and help increase oxygenated blood flow to the muscles, which will help with back pain and increase performance and energy. 

We would say that foam rollers would make a great stocking stuffer, but we doubt many of the models offered would fit.

Contact Barton Chiropractic Clinic for More Information Regarding Chiropractic Care in Homewood, IL

If you’d like any more chiropractic care advice, contact Barton Chiropractic Clinic to schedule your consultation. We combine innovative chiropractic care approaches with good old-fashioned comprehensive care.

Fibromyalgia happens to be one of the most common chronic pain conditions in the United States. The American College of Rheumatology asserts that about 1 out of 50 Americans live with fibromyalgia on a daily basis. Fibromyalgia is characterized by pain felt in the body (throughout the body) that ends up creating areas that are incredibly tender — even to the slightest amount of pressure.

Fibromyalgia is difficult to diagnose. Pains can last for weeks, months, years — Fibromyalgia is chronic in nature. Chiropractic Care is an alternative treatment that can help your fibromyalgia. Read on for a few ways we help our patients living with this chronic condition.

Chiropractic Care Helps with Pain Management

Those who live with fibromyalgia live with constant pain, and chiropractic care is one way to treat such pain. Chiropractic care can help with pain and also helps restore the body to better overall health. The body self-heals as a result.

Particularly, improving alignment and doing some soft tissue work, chiropractors help treat fibromyalgia patients in lowering the pain levels of their pressure points, creating a decrease in tenderness.

Chiropractic Care Boosts Range of Motion

By loosening the body’s joints, chiropractors can make adjustments and leave the body more flexible in the process.

Chiropractic Care is Good for Your Quality of Sleep

Patients find that one of the many byproducts of chiropractic care can help you enjoy a more fulfilling, deeper sleep. You’ll also stay asleep longer, experiencing less pain.

Contact Barton Chiropractic Clinic for more information if you’re living with fibromyalgia. We’ll schedule your initial consultation and give you the comprehensive care you need.

As millions of people head out in droves today to get some serious savings in, shrewd shoppers everywhere should take some time to take care of their bodies. A good way to perform a little bit of maintenance and remedy the everyday wear and tear we put on ourselves through work, activities, and even strenuous holiday weekends is to stretch it out. Here are 5 stretches that will serve you well before and after a heavy day of shopping.

1.) Cat-Camel Back Stretch

This is a popular yoga move that is well worth a mention. As far as technique goes, get down on your hands and your knees, then slowly alternate between arching and rounding your back, basically making a “C” with your spine, like a scared cat, then try to make a reverse “C” by bringing your neck up and arching your back. : This will stretch all 3 sections of your spine (the lower lumbar, the middle thoracic, and the upper cervical area).  Do this stretch gently. Don’t force it.

2.) Supine Cross-Legged Twist

Lie flat on your back with your arms outstretched, then cross one knee over the other (kind of like you’re crossing your legs and sitting in a chair). The next step is to shift your hips to the side (left side if you crossed your right leg, right side if you crossed your left leg), and softly allow your knees to drop. Breathe in deeply. Switch sides and enjoy!

3.) Standing Forward Bend

Save this for last. This stretch works best right after you do a downward dog yoga stretch. Stand straight, bring your feet together, then bend down while slightly bending the knees. Let your hands touch the ground. For extra leverage, you can cradle your elbows.

Make sure to breathe deeply in and out for each stretch. Conscious breathing will give you the added bonus of mental clarity and peace of mind, which seems to come in such small doses on Black Friday. Take care of yourself, and take care of others while you’re out there. And contact Barton Chiropractic Clinic today if you’re experiencing any lingering back pain that is resistant to stretching.