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BalancedLifeChiropractic-EP161-Similar but Different · Back To The Basics In Healthcare

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  Time out or back to the basics in healthcare with balanced life chiropractic. I
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  have doctor Harley joining us. How you know, doctor Harley, Hey John,
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  I'm doing fantastic. It's been a good start to the week. Yeah,
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  and you know, the weather's kind of feeling pretty nice, which is
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  good. One of the things we're going to chat about this week is there
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  are people who maybe sometimes get chiropractic mixed up with some other things because there's
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  some similar bit different things. So I know people who do massage, and
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  there's like massage therapists, but there's also like physical therapists who do similar but
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  that's all different than chiropractic. So let's talk a little bit about what the
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  differences are in those things. Right, We've talked so much about hey go
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  see a chiropract drilling these things. But you know, there's a lot of
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  other options on the market for when you have you know, say, back
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  pain. What are some of the steps you could do? Right? Typically,
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  you might think, oh, I'm gonna take some IV profen some over
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  the counter stuff help with some of the aches and pains. I'll do a
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  little bit stretching, you know, use some heat or ice. Those are
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  all really good things you can be doing at home. But if things aren't
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  getting better by that point, now you're starting to look okaye, where should
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  I turn to next? So I could get a massage that'd feel good,
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  But then lot's always nice, right, you know, massages are great,
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  but sometimes you feel like it didn't do anything, or you felt worse afterwards,
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  or everything just came right back. So massage can be kind of temporary
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  unless you're going repetitively, but a lot of people don't do that. So
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  then you look at well PT. My primary says, go see a PT,
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  and that's physical therapist, right, physical therapist. I just want to
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  break that down. I use a lot of acronyms, so good to say
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  that, which PTS a really great option to for that back pain. You
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  know, they're focusing more on the muscles, the muscles are really tight,
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  or they're not tight enough, they're not working enough in another area. They'll
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  show you some stretches and exercises you can be doing, you know, so
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  there's some options there with PT, where chiropractic we're looking more at, you
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  know, what's causing this back problem and how do we keep it from coming
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  back? All the time. That's not saying your PT and your massage therapists
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  aren't doing that, but they're focusing more on the muscle systems, where chiropractic
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  we're focusing more on the structural your spot, making sure that's improper alignment and
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  moving like it's supposed to, because that's what your muscles connect to. So
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  if your spine is stuck, your muscles are going to keep having to work
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  harder. So then when you get a massage, the problems still there.
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  So chiropractic we're trying to fix the underlying problem, so then the other things
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  like PT and massage can advance you even farther. So ideally everything all together
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  is really great. Obviously the chiropracticm I say you should start at chiropractic,
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  but then that's because we're really trying to find the root cause of the problem
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  and the others they're going to help with a lot of the symptoms. And
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  one of the things I like about the way you do chiropractic because even in
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  just that one category, there's a bunch of different ways people do it.
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  One of the things I really like is it's more of a scientific method because
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  when I come in it's not just laid out I'm going to jump on you
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  and snap some things. There are some places to do that, and again
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  more power too, that's what you're into, but I'm not into that.
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  I like that you do X rays, that you do a ton of different
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  tests and make sure that you're fixing what is actually the problem. And I
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  think that's a really smart thing to do, right. You know, you're
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  telling you us you have pain problems in one spot, but the problem really
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  could be stemming from somewhere else. There's things called referred pain. So we're
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  making sure that your body is moving like it's supposed to, your nervous system
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  is functioning like it's supposed to, and all of those things are going to
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  help with the better health and healing process versus if we just did massage and
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  stretching. You know, if there's still a nerve problem or a skeletal problem,
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  something that's out of alignment, right, those muscles are still having to
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  overwork or maybe they're not working enough. So chiropract is going to help with
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  all of those other things as well. Like I said, ideally it's best
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  if you can get a chiropractor PT and massage like have all of those on
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  hand. Everydy on speed dial right. You know, we're all helping our
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  patient to get better. If somebody listening is going you know what, I've
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  tried some other things and it hasn't donehen I needed or if there's gone,
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  I haven't tried anything. I need some help though. What is the best
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  way for them to connect with you? Practic is a great way to start
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  on your health journeying, sitting down talking with us, finding out what's going
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  on and how we can help you or direct you in the right area that
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  you need to go. But you can reach out to us at our Facebook
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  page at Balanced Life Chiropractic. Showt us a message, give us a call
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  at six zero five two one five one seven eighty five. We're here to
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  help. Very nice. You can find them online as well, and on
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  the website you'll find their phone number, you'll find their Facebook page link all
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  of that at Balancedlife sd dot com