Have you tried everything to resolve your lower back pain with no relief. Or, temporary relief with recurring episodes of pain. It may not be your lower back causing the pain, even though your lower back is where you are feeling your pain. The primary area may not even be in your spine. If you keep trying the same thing over and over again and expect different results, that is the definition of insanity.

You need to try something different. You may need to seek professional help or if you have sought professional help, you may need to have someone else look at you with a fresh set of eyes. There may be other things that need to be treated other than your lower back. You actually might have problems with your femurs(hips) or possibly your knees, ankles or feet. If you have not had someone look at you and consider your whole lower kinetic chain, from your feet all the way up your leg and the whole spine.

Then you may need to seek the expertise of a sports and extremity chiropractor. They will consider all of your lower kinetic chain from your feet all the way up to and including your spine. They should be able to determine where you are having some biomechanical breakdowns and outline a course of treatment to resolve your problem.

Most every person I know, as well as myself would want there problem resolved. Nobody want to have a condition that needs constant maintenance. So if you have lower back pain and are not getting the results you would like with your current treatment, SEEK A NEW SET OF EYES to give you a new possibility for possibly resolving your lower back pain.

Most foot  problems, if not all foot problems, have a mechanical component that can be corrected by adjusting fixated joints or by stabilizing hypermobile joints.  So, can a sports or extremity chiropractor help fix the problem?  The short answer is YES.  Other contraindications would need to be ruled out first, but more than likely you could have significant relief or full resolution of your condition by a discerning evaluation by a sports or extremity chiropractor.   However, some foot conditions may have been neglected too long or are not of a mechanical nature to be resolved by adjusting or supporting(usually via orthotics).   Don’t forget to take a conservative approach to treating you feet first by having a thorough biomechanical evaluation.  Your foot condition could be resolved by natural means rather than jumping into more extreme measures. Also, making sure your foot wear fits you properly.  Footwear today is inconsistent,  you can find inexpensive footwear that will work just fine and you can find very expensive footwear that isn’t the best choice for the biomechanics of your feet.  Choose your footwear wisely. As for orthotics, some people will need them and some peolpe won’t need them, just like glasses.  Some can get by with cheap over the counter orthotics and others will need custom fiitted functional orthotics.  Make sure you have your feet adjusted in the areas of fixation before you get your foot biomechanics measured.  This will assure you will get an orthotic that will match your functional foot position.  If this is not being done, you chances are 50/50 at best that the orthotics will be tolerated by you. I will post more on this in the following posts, hopefully with video so you can get a better visual idea of what I am talking about.  I will also expand on foot problems in the following posts.

Chiropractic not working for you? Maybe you need to see a different chiropractor. Sometimes it’s not chiropractic that is not working for you it’s the individual chiropractor. Different chiropractors have different sets of knowledge. You may just need a fresh set of eyes to assess your condition to see if something else could be done to correct your problem.

Too many people try chiropractic and don’t even consider trying another chiropractor. If you tried a dentist and you had a less than optimum experience, you wouldn’t give up on dentistry. No, you would more than likely just find another dentist. And the same would go for any other profession.

So, if you are not getting the results you want from chiropractic, now is the time to maybe consider another chiropractor.

Ask some friends who they see for chiropractic care and if they would recommended them to you. Call the office and ask to speak with the doctor so you can ask what ever questions you want to have answered. If the doctor doesn’t speak with you or call you back, then you need to make a decision if you want to make an appointment or not.

If you see the doctor, you need to let them know your past experience and your expectations. This will give the doctor a better idea of what may have been missed, then they will be able to assess your situation and let you know if chiropractic can help your situation or if you need to be referred to a specialist.

Extremity chiropractic is used in treating the whole neuromusculoskeletal system with focus on restoring normal biomechanics and proper neuromuscular control.  If joints are fixated they are mobilized.  If joints are hypermobile they are stabilized.

Extremity adjusting is all about mechanoreceptors, when mechanoreceptors are activated under stress by subluxations, misalignments, sprains, strains, they inhibit adjacent muscle activity.  The only exception happens when there is plastic deformation that has permanently stretched adjacent tissue, then there will be no inhibition of adjacent muscular activity.

There are six types of mechanoreceptors; pain receptors, muscle spindle, golgi tendon organs, ligaments, cartilage and synovium of your joints.

Extremity chiropractors assess the integrity of your biomechanical system as well as your neuromuscular system to make sure they are working together in harmony.  Patients that have recurring subluxation patterns should have their extremities evaluated to see if there are possible problems with their extremities that could help resolve and actually fix their recurring subluxations.

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What is a sports and extremity chiropractor?

In brief a sports and extremity chiropractor is a chiropractor that not only looks at the nervous system and spine, but also the whole skeletal system to make sure the body is in proper alignment. If you are only having your spine checked and you are still having problems. You should have your extremities checked to make sure they are in proper alignment and to make sure they aren’t the root of your problem.

This is what I specialize in, the detection and correction of spinal and extremity joint misalignment. I check everything from your toes up to your jaw and also down to your fingers.

If you would like to have your extremities checked out, please call 701-492-0696 and ask for an appointment with Dr. Bekkum to get your extremities assessed.

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