Rosa Family Chiropractic Fairfax Kids Health Corner

Rosa Family Chiropractic Fairfax Treatment Can Aid in the Relief of Many Childhood Ailments

When kids enter daycare or school for the first time, many seem to constantly be sick. Germs are everywhere, from toys to desks, to other kids. However, allowing your child to be adjusted by a chiropractor regularly can help ease the symptoms or even prevent the onset of many upper respiratory infections.

Fairfax Chiropractic Treatment Slows Drainage

Cervical spine dysfunctions prevent proper lymphatic drainage through the deep cervical lymph nodes. By slowing this drainage, bacteria cannot be rapidly cleared and predisposes kids to common childhood illnesses such as tonsillitis, sinus infections, otitis media (ear infection), common colds, and bronchitis.

Cervical adjustments help restore this drainage allowing the lymphatic system to filter bacteria and viruses from our kids’ bodies, keeping them healthier. Give your children the gift of better health!

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Rosa Family Chiropractor Fairfax Treats Piriformis Syndrome

Rosa Family Chiropractor Fairfax Treats Piriformis Syndrome

At Rosa Family Chiropractic our Fairfax Chiropractors treat piriformis syndrome. For most people the sciatic nerve passes right beneath the piriformis muscle, but in approximately 15% of the population, part of the sciatic nerve goes through the piriformis muscle.

The piriformis muscle is located in the buttocks and reaches from the pelvis (sacrum) all the way to the upper thigh-bone (femur). Piriformis syndrome occurs when the piriformis muscle spasms due to issues in the spine or sacroiliac joints, or from overuse.  The symptoms of piriformis syndrome can be very painful and disabling. Fortunately, for the majority, chiropractic treatment at Rosa Family Chiropractic Fairfax  has proven to be very effective in relieving these symptoms.

Rosa Family Chiropractor Fairfax Treats Lower Body Pain Caused by Piriformis Syndrome

Sympotoms of Piriformis Syndrome include pain to the lower back, groin, perineum, buttock and hip. Piriformis syndrome can also cause dyspareunia (painful intercourse) and pain in the rectum during defecation. The most common symptom of piriformis syndrome is lower back pain that travels through the buttocks and down the leg.

Rosa Family Chiropractor Fairfax Provides Proper Diagnosis of Piriformis Syndrome

Other pains are often mistaken to be piriformis syndrome. One underlying difference between piriformis syndrome and other ailments is piriformis syndrome has neurological symptoms associated with it such as pain, numbness, pins and needles feeling, tingling and weakness. If you or a loved one is suffering from symptoms of piriformis symptoms please visit www.rosachiropracticfairfax.com to learn more about treatments options available.

Blood clot risk higher in heavy women

Blood clot risk higher in heavy women

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Middle-aged women who are overweight or obese run a higher risk of potentially dangerous blood clots, especially after surgery, a large new study finds.

The research, which followed more than one million UK women, confirms a link between obesity and the risk of venous thromboembolism (VTE) -- blood clots in the veins, usually in the legs. If one of those clots breaks free and travels to the lungs, causing what's called a pulmonary embolism, it can prove fatal.

The findings also show that heavier women are more likely to end up needing surgery -- which is itself a major risk for VTE.

That's "not entirely unexpected," since obesity raises the risk of some medical conditions that could lead to surgery, said lead researcher Lianne Parkin, of the University of Otago in New Zealand.

"But as far as we know, our study is the first to directly examine the relationship between being overweight or obese and the likelihood of having an operation," Parkin told Reuters Health in an email.

The researchers found that for every 1,000 normal-weight women who had inpatient surgery over six years, about five developed a clot in a deep vein or a pulmonary embolism within 12 weeks of the operation.

Among overweight and obese women, that rate was seven per 1,000.

The risk of suffering a clot without surgery was far lower, but still relatively higher among heavier women.

Of normal-weight women, 0.1 out of every 1,000 developed a VTE during any 12-week period in which no surgery was done. The rate was 0.2 for every 1,000 overweight or obese women.

Overall, Parkin said, the risk of clots climbed in tandem with a woman's weight. "That suggests that the loss of even small amounts of weight is likely to be beneficial (in terms of reducing VTE risk) for women who are overweight or obese," she said.

The findings, which appear in the journal Circulation, are based on more than 1.1 million UK women who were 56 years old, on average, at the study's start. The researchers used hospital records and death certificates to track cases of VTE over six years.

During that time, 6,438 women were hospitalized for, or died from, a VTE -- with almost 1,900 forming a clot within 12 weeks of an operation. (That was out of more than 641,000 women who had at least one operation during the study period.)

Women who were overweight or obese were 22 percent more likely to need inpatient surgery versus their thinner peers.

That means more overweight women will face the chance of a surgery-related VTE, and their risk with any given surgery will be relatively higher compared with thin women.

According to Parkin's team, their figures probably underestimate the actual number of women who developed a VTE -- since clots in the leg veins may be detected and treated by a primary care doctor.

Those clots are almost always diagnosed because of symptoms, like pain in the calf, swelling in the ankle and foot and warmth over the affected area.

Treatment can include medication to keep a clot from growing or prevent new ones. Wearing compression stockings around the lower leg can also help prevent new clots.

According to Parkin, the best way for an overweight woman to cut the risk of a non-surgery-related VTE is to lose some weight. And that would come with "many other important health benefits," she pointed out.

"In addition to weight loss, though," Parkin added, "it is important to increase physical activity. Immobility is a risk factor for VTE, and overweight and obese people are often less physically active."

If you're facing surgery and have enough advance warning of it, shedding some weight is, again, a good idea, Parkin noted. In addition, you can ask your doctor what will be done to minimize any risk of post-surgery VTE.

There are different recommendations on how to help prevent surgery-related VTE, including the use of "blood-thinning" drugs. And those vary based on the type and duration of the surgery, Parkin said.

SOURCE: http://bit.ly/H2Xn9C Circulation, online March 6, 2012.

Dr. Joshua Brooks

Chiropractor Fairfax VA 22031