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BalancedLifeChiropractic-EP153-Slippery · Back To The Basics In Healthcare

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  Time now for back to the basics and healthcare with Balance Life Chiropractic, and
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  we have doctor Harley joining us. How you doing, doctor Harley? Hey
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  John, I'm doing fantastic and unfortunately had another round of like winter, but
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  that makes things kind of slippery, and this time of year is probably a
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  busy time of year for you because people will slip and fall and things will
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  get kind of out of whack, won't they. Yeah, I'm definitely seeing
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  a lot more winter related aches and pains. A lot of it was due
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  to all the shoveling snow. You know, it's hard to shovel a couple
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  and just let alone a foot of snow. And then, like I said,
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  now that it's melting, it's starting to freeze at night. So people,
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  you know, when they come home from work or when they're going to
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  work, are slipping and sliding. Maybe hopefully they're not falling, but if
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  they do, let's talk about some tips that they can do to either help
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  prevent those falls or what they can do after the fact. So let's start
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  with the prevent because if we could prevent a fall, that's always best.
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  And how can you prevent a fall? A lot of people say, like
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  walk like a penguin, so you know, not taking your normal step,
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  but kind of shuffling a little bit, especially where it's really really slick out.
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  They're used to walking on ice. Those penguins right right, you could
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  put like bas because they're like traction things that you can put on the bottom
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  of your shoe. So if you're doing a lot of walking, especially in
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  an area that's really icy or snowpacked, having that extra tread will help prevent
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  some of those falls, you know, to trying to avoid some of those
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  dress shoes that have really smooth bottoms. I was actually just talking with a
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  patient earlier that was wearing kind of more smooth bottomed dress shoes. Like those
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  are going to be very slick. I'll be careful when you're walking around,
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  and I suppose putting some like some salt down to make it so the ice
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  breaks up. That probably wouldn't hurt either. Whenever, that's definitely the first
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  thing if you know it's going to be icy, make sure that you're salting
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  your sidewalks really well, because that salt helps to melt even when it's really
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  really cold. And there's some gas stations they have bags of it for free.
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  Right about the pumps, just oh that's not free, No, it's
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  not. Don't take those, they sell them inside, pay for them and
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  then yeah, right no, but it is a good idea and it's not
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  an expensive thing to get, and that if it prevents you from fallowing,
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  what a great thing to do. Definitely, Now what happens if somebody already
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  slipped and they already fell and now they're going, oh, I'm sore here
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  and I'm sore there, what kind of things can they do? Right?
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  You? Definitely, you know, take the stock of yourself, like,
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  is it serious enough where you need to go to like urgent care or something
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  like that. You see a bone poking out, that's more. If you
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  have a bone poking out, that's definitely more emergency. But if you have
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  a very sore a pain that you might think you might have broke but don't
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  know for sure, that's more definitely an urgent care call. Unless you absolutely
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  can't walk, then maybe more r But and if at all, you know,
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  if they're just kind of sore and achy from that, I chiropractically be
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  a good way to come in and kind of get things snapped back into place,
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  too, Definitely, because you know, the area that you fell on
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  is going to be sore, achy, but that jolt is going to be
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  causing issues throughout the rest of your body that can cost some of that ache
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  and pain and things are stuck and then they're not moving. So then when
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  you are trying to get active and do things, you're getting more painful or
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  you're having injuries because things are having to work harder than other areas of the
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  body. So I said, I've been seeing a lot more like low back
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  type issues lately, between the snow moving and the slips and falls. As
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  a chiropractor, we're going to help realign your spine, getting things moving better,
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  helping to you know, improve that a campaign, but also help prevent
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  it in the future. That's one of the biggest thing people have noticed with
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  starting chiropractic care is recovery time. You know, after an injury or a
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  weekend warrior project or shoveling lots of snow, they're not as achy or sore
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  the next day, which definitely is great because you know, you always kind
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  of dread a big thing. You're like, oh, I didn't wall the
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  snow, I'm gonna hurt so bad tomorrow. But then It's always nice being
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  surprised. You're like, oh, I feel good is bad? Right?
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  I'm not a sore no, I can relate to that. So I'm a
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  big fan of Balance Life Chiropractic. For other folks who maybe haven't had a
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  chance to join you guys here yet, how do they get a hold of
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  you? They can reach out to us on our Facebook page at Balanced Life
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  Chiropractic, or they can give us a call at six zero five two one
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  five one seventy eight five. We'd love to chat and let them know how
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  we can help them. You can find them online as well at balanced Life
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