Do you suffer from pain?   A little Pain?   A lot of Pain?

Pain that stops you from playing, working, sleeping….movement in general?

Do you feel chained to your pain?

Let Back In Motion Free you!

Chiropractic is all about freedom. People who choose regular Chiropracticcare enjoy the Freedom of Movement, and even the freedom from medication.

Chiropractic frees immobile joints, compressed or pinched nerves, frees the spine of subluxation providing a Healthy Spine, Healthy Nervous system and Healthy Immune system.

As your health improves the quality of your life improves allowing you to resume normal activities.  Such as playing with your children or Grandchildren, Golfing, Gardening, Walking, Moving…..Life!

Chiropractic breaks your chains to pain. Regular Maintenance is the key to a Healthy Life outside the doctors’ office. 

We crash our cars, our bikes, our boats, our ATV’s to name a few.

We bang our ankles, knees, hips, toes, fingers, elbows, shoulders and head.

We fall, we trip, we slip, and we hurt ourselves.

All of these accidents and other traumatic incidents can break bones, do soft tissue damage and cause nerve interference know as Subluxation.

From our bumps, crashes, slips, trips and falls bones and their joints may become misaligned and nerves can become irritated, pinched, stretched or compressed. When this happens it causes interference in the flow of information and energy from the Central Nervous System I. e. your Brain. When this energy is blocked or interrupted it will cause a variety of symptoms including extreme pain. Sometimes you will experience new pain or worse pain 3 to 6 months to a year following an accident. This is normal and why most car accident victims seek legal help with their bills.

SO – you experienced an accident; you are “Out of Whack” and your muscles hurt because you have soft tissue damage. Get out the ice to stop the swelling and call your Chiropractor. He will open the channels that are compromised, increasing the information and blood flow to the area bringing relief from the pain and speeding the healing process. Soft tissue injuries often require significant rehabilitation. Small adjustments to help with Subluxation and therapies along with Massage for the muscles will bring about a full recovery.

You will find the combination will put you back on your feet and ready to go!

What are you waiting for??? Get out of Pain and Back In Motion

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A family affair?    You mean you can bring children to the Chiropractor?      The answer is yes and you absolutely should bring your children to the Chiropractor.

Parents bring children to Dr. Ken Smith DCMS for the typical headaches and back trouble; However children are also getting relief from earaches, colds, sinusitis, colic, asthma, bed wetting, allergies, pains and falls; plus all the little things that happen to us as we grow.

UNDERSTAND:

Chiropractors Do Not treat disease. Chiropractors treat Spinal Nerve Stress. Ok,What is that and how does that help with all those different problems?

Spinal Nerve Stress interferes with the Normal functioning of the Nervous System. The Nervous System as you know controls the Circulatory system, Respiratory System, Digestive System, Muscular System, Skeletal System, Hormonal, Eliminative and Immune Systems. It can weaken Internal Organs and Organ systems, lower resistance, reduce healing capabilities and set the stage for sickness and disorders of all kinds when compromised.

When the Chiropractor frees the Nervous System from Spinal Nerve Stress the healing power of the body is unleashed.  The Immune System functions properly and efficiently, your resistance to disease increases and your body functions on a much more efficient level. Now your body can respond to environmental stress such as germs, changes in temperature, toxins, pollen etc.

Since the Nervous System controls all functions of the body any interference to it can have a wide range of effects.

So how do babies and small children have spinal nerve stress? Physical Nerve Stress can start in the womb. Well for instance lying in a distorted or twisted manor, a traumatic or difficult birth which can traumatize an infant’s skull, spinal column and pelvis.  All through a child’s life they fall, they bump, they twist and even though the pain goes away the damage or misalignment, or nerve stress continues as the child grows. This affects the child’s Nervous System.

All children and adults function better with 100% nerve function.

Chiropractic for kids is safe, natural, gentle effective and it does not MASK symptoms allowing more damage to be done.

Our “Chiro Kids” Love their adjustments and even look forward to them.

Help your body to move for efficiently and effectively. You tune up your car…Tune up your Child.

Make Chiropractic a Family Affair!

A study published in the Journal of Manipulative and Physiological Therapeutic (JMPT) shows that care for low back pain initially seen by a Doctor of Chiropractic (DC) saves 40% on health care costs when compared with care initiated through a Medical Doctor (MD)

Low back pain is a serious public health problem. 85% of Americans have back pain of one kind or another at some point in their lives.

Results show that if Insurances companies (BCBS of Tennessee was the Insurance Company tested) would not put restrictions on Chiropractic care they themselves would save $2.3 million dollars. This is the amount saved by BCBS of Tennessee.

We know first hand that our care often helps patients avoid or reduce more costly interventions such as drugs and surgery.

This demonstrates first hand the value of Chiropractic care at a critical time, when our Nation is attempting to reform its health care system and contain Runaway Costs! 

 But here's where Chiropractic and Asprin differ - in a very big way. Doctors and scientists had no clue how asprin worked - but it was hailed by the medical community as a wonder drug and mass-produced. Doctors and scientists were not sure how Chiropractic worked - so it was branded "unscientific." Seems a little unfair - don't you think? Thank goodness in many areas, research has finally caught up with Chiropractic! For example, Chiropractic's ability to help relieve back pain is well researched. It is a safe, effective and cost-effective way to relieve back pain.

You may wonder how Chiropractic works. Many times when you have back pain it is caused by a spinal joint sprain - or "subluxation." Ligaments hold two bones together to form a joint and a sprain occurs when a ligament is injured by over stretching. This can happen due to small micro traumas over several years or one acute event like a car accident, sports injury or slip and fall. When the ligament becomes stretched and injured joints do not function properly, delicate nerve fibers can be injured. Over time, even if untreated, pain can go away even though the spinal joint is not functioning properly. This can lead to flare-ups in the future degeneration as the joint moves improperly and wears out. This is why something so small - like bending over to pick up a pencil - can cause severe back pain. Chiropractic adjustments and treatments are designed to normalize spine motion as much as possible. This allows the spinal joints to heal better. 

At our office, we specialize in athletic injuries and work on area high school athletes from Spanish Fort to Fairhope. The techniques used to treat common knee, shoulder and elbow conditions can also be applied to the general population. 

As of 2006 Jimmy is a college freshman and enjoys playing basketball, managing the baseball team and swimming competitively in the summer. IM has come a long way since Jimmy helped us take our first steps too.

The Interactive Metronome was first used in the music industry. The inventor, James Cassily, wanted to help musicians improve their rythem in order to become better performers. The traditional mettronome has been used for decades but it could only offer passive guidance. It provided no feedback therefore it had limitations. Jim's idea was to provide a metronome beat and measure how far off the beat (in milliseconds) the performers were, and whether they were ahead of or behind the beat, and to give the musician auditory feedback that would help them improve. 

Little did Jim know the startling ramifications his Interactive Metronome would have. Today IM is used in settings as varied as schools, hospitials, clinics, universities, the military and large coorporations to improve the brain's efficieancy and performance.

It gave Jim great pleasure to know that his music industry device was used to help children with learning and development deficits and patients who suffered a stroke, brain injury or Parkinson's Disease. Sadly, Jim passed away in March 2005. But he got to see his dream adopted by thousands of clinicians around the world.

"All were superior to usual care," said Daniel Cherkin, lead author of a report published in the May 11 issue of the Archives of Internal Medicine." "Acupuncture is an effective treatment for chronic back pain. People receiving acupuncture are more likely to get better."

But the unusual finding that non-penetrating acupuncture did as well as acupuncture that used standard needles will raise questions about how this works, added Cherkin, who is a senior investigator with the Group Health Center for Health Studies in Seattle.

Janet Konefal, a licensed acupuncturist and assistant dean for complementary and integrative medicine at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, said she was not suprised that non-puncture stimulation had equal effects.

"You can stimulate a point with pressure, needle, electricity, even now with laser light and different frequencies of laser light," she said. '''Pecking' on a point is a Japanese technique for stimulation. You might use that with someone who is older or weak in their constitution. That could explain why two different methods of stimulation work equally well."

Acupuncture of all types is "well on its way to the mainstream," Konefal said. "When we understand that different stimulations may be effective rather than doing deep-needle stimulation which, for some people when in pain can be painful, we can now use laser or light needling or even just electric stimulation on the points; I think that part is great."