And most likely, these people also complain from having headaches once they suddenlySTOP getting the said stimulants in their body. Withdrawing stimulants like caffeine from the system triggers “rebound headaches” which can cause you chronic and long-time problems. Aside from caffeine in coffee, theophylline in tea, nicotine in cigarettes, sudden withdrawal of the medications you are taking may also cause rebound headaches.

Rebound headaches are a sign that the substances you are ingesting frequently are doing your body more harm than good.  When suffering from chronic severe headaches, people often find some relief in pain killers. Little do they know that these pain killers are just similar with the stimulants that when withdrawn, can cause rebound headaches.

In the past, headaches like this were blamed on stress or tension. But generally, rebound headaches occur about 12-24 hours after the last intake of the stimulant.

One study found that 52% of patients who were deprived of their regular intake of coffee came down with a headache, while 13% got such bad headaches that they broke from the study and resumed consumption of coffee.

Common characteristics: generalized headache, steady jolts of pain, can be similar to migraine, throbbing. The person may also suffer from anxiety, restlessness, nervousness, irritability, depression, fatigue, mood swings, nausea, intolerance for light, noise, or movement; tender scalp; insomnia

Duration: 1 hour to 1 day

Frequency: usually occurs in the morning after waking; rarely or continuously.

Suggested Care Plan: Detoxification Therapy

The liver is the organ that metabolizes (or breaks down) drugs and substances like caffeine. Overworking the liver for years can cause it to weaken and get overburdened with toxic substances. Detox therapy plus taking supplements that support the liver are probably the biggest thing that you can do to gradually get rid of rebound headaches. The following are especially helpful:

• Colon Cleanse
• Enemas
• Fasting
• Herbal Bowel Cleansers
• Special Detoxification Diets

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Gradually decreasing your coffee (or other stimulant) intake is most beneficial in getting rid of rebound headaches in the long run. It is like retraining your body to function properly without the addictive substances. Gradual decrease is emphasized so you don’t have to suffer from terrible headaches during the process.

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As for your diet, increase intake of food rich in

• calcium- tofu, hard cheese, milk, and almonds are good sources of calcium
  
• magnesium- examples of food rich in magnesium are broccoli, nuts, black beans, and spinach
  
• vitamin C- citrus foods like oranges and lemons are great sources of vitamin C. and
  
• vitamin B complex (especially vitamin B6)- examples of food rich in B complex are liver, beef, tuna, and avocados.

If you suspect that you have headaches related to withdrawal from caffeine or other stimulants, the recommendations above would help you.

However, the most common headaches are associated with misalignments in the spine (especially in the neck). So if you are suffering from terrible headaches and some neck discomfort (especially neck pain WITH back pain), you may need to have your neck checked for “subluxations” or mis-alignments.

If you have neck pain or back pain and are suffering from headaches, you can let us know if you can be helped by chiropractic though our FREE ONLINE CHIROPRACTIC CONSULTATION FORM.

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However, most people don’t take their pain seriously until it gets REALLY serious.

If you are currently in the SEVERE state, where you can’t even turn or bend without suffering from too much pain, then you need to continue reading below:

Chiropractic can help back pain. No question about that. But for some people who can’t even get in and out of the table because they are in so much pain may wonder: how a Chiropractor can “adjust” them painlessly.

Great question! As a nurse in a Chiropractic office, I ALWAYS see people in terrible pain. Some of them could not even open the door, some could not sit or stand or turn to their sides without exclaiming! For a chiropractor to manually adjust the spine, the patient needs to be in a chiropractic table and has to turn to  2 or 3 different positions. You can only imagine the pain if it’s the only way to adjust the spine.

Thanks to technology today, though, we have ways to adjust the spine without causing discomfort. Chiropractic instruments like the adjustor, percussor, and cold lasers are definitely helpful in cases of severe back pains.

• The Adjustor- helps get the spine re-aligned using simple percussing movements up and down the spine. For more information on the Adjustor, click here.
• The Percussor- vibrates to loosen the tight muscles in the back. Muscle spasms make it hard to re-align the bone so the Percussor is one of the most important tools every chiropractor should have. For more information on the Percussor, click here.
• Cold Lasers- helps the body heal a lot quicker. FDA approved Cold Lasers are also proven effective on decreasing inflammation and pain. For more information on cold lasers, click here.

You may be wondering… So, what can a patient with severe back pain expect on their first visit?

All these instruments and other tools our Chiropractor has in the office are so cool that our clients need not dread getting in and out of the table and shifting to different positions while they are still hurting big time. What we do is decrease the pain first using chiropractic instruments… Afterwards, when the client is ready for manual adjustments, the they are adjusted manually. (Just so we’re in the same page, manual adjustments are when you usually hear the “popping” or “cracking” of the back, followed by some  instantaneous relief from pain.)

Related posts: The Truth About the Popping Sounds in Your Back

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Even a minor car accident can have major ill effects on your health. For some, it may be weeks, or months, or even years before the problems show up. And by then, it may be too late to prevent your greatest loss– your health.

Impact and Your Spine

A person’s head weighs about 7 to 11 lbs and it sits on the most flexible (and fragile) part of the spine, the neck. Although the neck looks short, it actually contains 32 joints that stretch to move our head in different directions.  If overstretched (Figure 1) after the head is thrown at certain directions during impact, the neck joints can easily get injured.

Figure 1.

If these joints are stretched or strained beyond their normal limits, they can lose their ability to return to their original length. It’s like a rubber band that has been stretched too far.

When a cars collide or hit each other, thousands of pounds of force are exerted upon the neck and spine of the passengers.

The head, which is very heavy as compared to the neck, is thrust toward the hitting vehicle. Then the muscles stretch and react with a violent spasm in the opposite direction. The painful results are injuries to the muscles, ligaments, nerves, and sometimes bones.

A survivor of the wreck is not necessarily alright if he or she doesn’t have any broken bones. Painless chiropractic care is necessary to realign bones of the spine and restore the integrity of the ligaments, joints, and muscles.

How About If You Break a Bone?

When a bone is broken, it heals with a bone and becomes stronger than before. But when soft tissue heals, scar tissues are formed (which are a lot weaker and less resistant than soft tissue). You can compare it to a bruised apple, it never returns to its original state.

The Consequences of Minor Car Accidents?

Minor injuries to the joints, muscles, and ligaments in the neck which are not corrected can cause problems like whiplash, neck pain, shoulder pain, low back pain (as your neck greatly affects your low back!), headaches, neurological problems, and a lot more.

How to get your spine checked after an accident:

As mentioned earlier, even minor car accidents should never be ignored because they can cause long term spinal problems (especially in the neck). So before you suffer from terrible consequences, right after your injury, get your spine checked. Chiropractors will usually provide rapid relief from the symptoms of accident distress and eliminate the cause of the problem by employing comfortable corrective measures.

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a. Lie down or sit in a comfortable chair. Get your whole body relaxed… Inhale in and out slowly 3 times.

b. Slowly clench your right hand and forearm or tighten the muscles. Hold it tight for 5 seconds.

c. After 5 seconds, slowly relax your arm and let it go limp.

d. Do this on the same on the other hand.

e. Notice the contrast between the sensations of tension and relaxation in those muscles.

f. Next: Bend your right elbow, tense your biceps and hold the tension for 5 seconds. Then release it.

g. Feel the sensation of your muscles relaxing…

h. Repeat the exercise on the other arm.

i. Continue this sequence of tensing and releasing different muscle groups throughout your body. We suggest the following sequence: hands and forearm, biceps (upper arm), shoulders, back muscles, abdomen, buttocks, thighs, legs, feet, and toes.

j. Take time to enjoy the sensations of the contrast between tenses and relaxed muscles.

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Our website, www.chiropracticinthephilippines.com has undergone serious changes.

Something related to the upcoming New Year.

And part of our SERIOUS effort to inform people that they should not treat their

back problems lightly…

Did you know that simple back pain can end up bad if you hold on to it for a long time?

At first… you will feel just the pain… some muscle cramps…

maybe something you would describe as discomfort.

Then as time goes on.. it gets a little bit worse.

Especially on a cold, rainy morning.. or in women, during their menstrual period.

Then… headaches start to appear… shoulder pain… leg cramps…

All because of a simple back pain that was not corrected.

And here’s the kicker: IT CAN STILL GET WORSE!

If terrible migraines are not bad enough, believe me it can get worse (back pain can be deadly!)

Because of the fact that when your back hurts,

it’s not actually your bones or muscles that are complaining.

It’s your NERVOUS SYSTEM.

The nervous system signals you that in that certain area of your back, it is irritated, pinched, compressed.

It’s trying to grab your attention. Just like when you burn your finger and it hurts,

same signal is honked out from your back as pain when your nerve is in danger.

But the good news is:

A One-Minute Back Pain Fix CAN BE DONE!

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Aspartame is an artificial sweetener: a processed food classified as an excitotoxin. Excitotoxins excite the body at a toxic level that causes damage to the neurons. Aspartame has similar effects to Monosodium Glutamate (MSG).

We have all probably heard some kind of information related to the BAD effects of aspartame. But still, millions of people drink diet sodas, eat ice creams, and use the “sugar substitute” for household consumption…

Despite the fact that these “diet” products don’t really work to help anybody lose weight! Have you ever wondered why despite all these “diet” products, the world population get fatter and fatter as time goes by?

Here are some short facts about “diet” products:

1. Companies who make “diet” products needed a zero-calorie sweetener that wouldn’t really make anybody lose weight. Here’s why: the fatter the people are, the more buyers they would have! It’s all about the market and the money.
2. Aspartame is chemically addicting. Thus, ensuring their sales.
3. These products have long shelf life. Meaning, they don’t spoil quickly. The longer the shelf life, the bigger their profits would be.
4. The chemicals needed to make these “artificial” sweetener almost cost nothing! They are really cheap that manufacturers are making huge money off of using them instead of real sugar.

Having read all those short facts may not totally convince you to eliminate (or decrease bigtime) your consumption of products with artificial sweetener… But, next time you take a sip of your diet soda, hope you’ll think about your odds.

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The book-movie The Secret by Rhonda Byrnes talked about how our thoughts become our reality. If you think your life is great, then it is. If you think otherwise, then it is so too!

Here’s a good quotation to ponder on today:

“Atoms or elementary particles themselves are not real; they form a world or potentialities rather than one of things or facts.” -Werner Heisenberg (Nobel Prize Winning Quantum Physicist)

Use your imagination to create thoughts that make you feel good.

Whatever you imagine is waiting for you.

“Through your ability to think and feel, you have dominion all over creation.” - Neville Goddard (New Thought Author)

Choose your thoughts wisely.

In Rhonda Byrnes book called The Power, she listed some points of power that every person should learn to master to be able to grasp better the reality of one’s imagination. These are:

• Everyone is surrounded by a magnetic field. Wherever you go, the magnetic field goes with you.
• You attract everything through magnetism of your field. Your feelings determine whether your field is positive or negative at anytime.
• Every single time you give love, through your feelings, words, or actions, you add more love to the field around you.
• The more love in your field, the more power you have to attract the things you love.
• You do not have to turn the negative to positive. Just give love for what you want because the creation of what you want replaces the negativity.
• Change what you give, and you will always, without exception, change what you receive, because that is the law of attraction. That is the law of love.

And this is not only applicable in your job, financial aspirations, and romantic relationships… Your mind is a very important tool for wellness. There is no question about the power of positive thinking. AND the EQUALLY POWERFUL negative thinking!

Remember: Your life. Your story.

Reference:

Byrne, R. (2010). The Power. New York: Making Good LLC.

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Fact: There are more than 500 different species of organisms (good and bad) in the colon.

The book “Allergies: Disease in Disguise” calls the colon microflora the garden within. And how we cultivate this garden can mean the difference between radiant health and chronic debilitating conditions.

Some authorities estimate that the intestine makes up 80% of the immune system. According to the book “Human Intestinal Flora”, “The intestine is one of the major sites of immunological activity. The metabolic activity of the gut flora is potentially equal to that of the liver.”

The diet directly affects the type and quantity of the beneficial microorganisms. Remember that what you is also what they eat. If your diet is not diversified, meaning you consume more of a certain food group, the type of bacteria that proliferate is also those that eat that certain food group. For example, when you eat a high protein diet, proteolytic (protein-eating) bacteria proliferate in the intestine.

The Good and Bad Bacteria in the Colon

Why do we want the good bacteria to multiply in the colon? Because they hold the pathogens or disease-causing bacteria in check. What we want is balance of the microorganisms. If certain types of bacteria proliferate in the colon more than others, it can cause harm in the body. And this balance or imbalance vastly affects one’s quality of health.

An imbalance in the intestinal flora is called dysbiosis.

WHAT ARE THE MAIN CAUSES OF DYSBIOSIS?

• Drugs- especially antibiotics (which kill colon bacteria), steroid drugs such as cortisone and birth control pills, and pain killers such as aspirin, ibuprofen, advil, motrin, etc.
• Poor or imbalanced diet, i.e. too much sugar
• Poor digestion of food and/or elimination of wastes
• Using chlorinated water for drinking on a regular basis
• Ongoing negative stress
• And too much radiation

WHAT ARE THE WARNING SIGNS OF DYSBIOSIS?

When the intestinal flora is disrupted, important immune functions are diminished and some health conditions start to appear. Here are a few of them:

• acne
• arthritis
• asthma
• ear infection
• fatigue
• headaches
• hormonal disturbances
• intestinal symptoms
• irregular heartbeat
• low back pain
• nervousness
• rashes

HOW DO YOU BRING BALANCE BACK TO YOUR INTESTINAL FLORA?

If the intestinal flora has been disrupted, Probiotics can help replace the lost organisms and aid the intestine back to healthy balance. Probiotics (meaning pro-life), are live good bacteria in supplement form.

The recommended therapeutic dose of probiotics is around 18-20 billion organisms per day, and about 3 – 7 billion organisms per day as maintenance dose.

Since these bacteria should be kept alive, here are some important guidelines in choosing probiotics supplement:

• Most of them should be refrigerated both from the store where you bought them and when you store them at home (or refer to the label of your supplement bottle for instructions).
• You should also choose a strain of bacteria that can survive stomach acids. Some strains of L. acidophilus are popular for this.
• For healing purposes, the powdered form is preferable, it is an easy way to consume the required large doses. However, capsules are also acceptable.

Reference:

Bateson-Koch, C. (1994). Allergies: Disease in disguise. Burnaby, Canada: Alive Books.

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Holism is the way to wellness.

All for one major side effect: If you are overweight, you will probably lose weight!

In the book More Natural Cures Revealed by Kevin Trudeau (2006), he recommends taking one (1) tablespoonful of pure, organic, unrefined virgin coconut oil in the morning and one (1) in the afternoon. Accordint to his personal testimonial, this oil has given him startling and overwhelming benefits (especially in losing weight).

There are a lot of organic virgin coconut oil siold even in the super markets today. Consult with your licensed and select which one  is best for you.

Reference:

Trudeau, K. (2006). More Natural Cures Revealed.

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