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Date published: February 5, 2008 |
 Nationally there are about 400,000 tendinitis cases per month! However, many of these are repeat cases, because they are not achieving lasting relief anywhere. Thousands, perhaps millions of dollars are being spent on temporary relief.
In the average chiropractic practice, at least two tendinitis cases per month present themselves. In larger practices, of course, it is more. This means that over one hundred cases per year are literally slipping through the fingers of every chiropractor in America.
If you agree with me that spinal manipulation does nothing for tendinitis, you are already at a point where you know that this condition requires "something different" to achieve lasting results.
Please don't misunderstand me. I know that chiropractic attains marvelous results with many other conditions including neuritis. But in order to treat any condition, we must determine the nature of that disease. The nature of tendinitis is that it is brought on through over-use of the muscles and tendons (except in the elderly). The muscles become stiff and tight, then the tendons inflame and become sore (natures defense against further insult), whether acute or chronic. All this may have nothing to do with the spine. More recent thinking says that the tendons are not necessarily inflamed. Thus, the term tendinosis.
In my opinion the tendons are inflamed in most cases.
Don't assume that the patient has only one condition causing the pain because very often this is not true. First, determine how many other conditions that might exist in the shoulder, elbow, acetabular or heel area. Does he or she have a true neuritis, rotator cuff strain (or tear) shoulder joint separation, clavicular dislocation, pulled or torn muscles or tendons (as in severe strains), calcium deposit, heart problem, etc...
Once the nature of the disease has been determined and other health problems addressed, the treatment may begin.
The second of eight exercises features the patient in the standing position, arm extended at shoulder level, out to the side. The arm is briskly thrust across the front or the body, then back in the opposite direction to its fullest extent. Then back across the body again for and eight count total. I call this the "French Karate Chop.
Then there are the supplements. There are two. Now I realize that some chiropractors are adverse to supplements. So be it. But, if there was ever a golden opportunity to try supplements, this is it. There is a definite difference in the degree of results when using the supplements as opposed to not using them (about 40%-60% better results) depending on what the patient needs most.
Because of FDA rules regarding claims, I cannot say what the supplements are, but I can tell you what they do without mentioning the supplement. The main supplement contains three natural anti-inflammatories and one natural muscle relaxant. The second supplement is a natural muscle relaxant. But, isn't this better than drugs with their side affects?
I think you can see from this people can get well. Even so, it takes time. Between the proper application of heat, cold, vibrator, and transverse friction massage, special range of motion exercises, and proper use of supplements, the patient will soon overcome the problems and find tendon health restored.
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