Dr. Knows Alot: Blogging For Multiple Sclerosis

Today, I want to talk about a very serious and common condition throughout the world and the United States, Multiple Sclerosis. Multiple Sclerosis, more commonly referred to as MS, is a chronic and often disabling disease that can attack the body's Central Nervous System. Our CNS is composed of the brain, spinal cord and optic nerves. MS is thought to be an Autoimmune disease, which means the body's own defense system attacks its own myelin, which is the fatty substance that surrounds and protects the nerve fibers throughout our whole Central Nervous System.... Pretty scary isn't it? Just think of that for a few minutes... Part of your body's defense system goes haywire and attacks all of its structures its supposed to support!!!! You can not wish this upon anyone. So, once this myelin material is damaged or destroyed, the nerve impulses that travel to and from the brain and spinal cord are interfered with, producing a variety of symptoms. Does this nerve interference sound like anything we have talked to you about before???? HINT:its another term for a spinal misalignment that we treat? The most common symptoms that occur with MS are: fatigue, numbeness,balance/coordination problems, bowel/bladder problems, vision problems, vertigo, pain, emotional changes, and depression. All of these symptoms are quite common in a lot of people and MS is quite common as well throughout the United States. Approximately 400,000 Americans have MS and over 200 NEW people are diagnosed every week. So, you are probably wondering by now what to do if you catch MS in time or what can you do for a friend or family member? Well, normal manual adjustments appear to be responsible for the dramatic symptomatic relief in people with MS. Also, chiropractic care has recently been successfully integrated into a chronic care facility dealing with MS patients within a private university medical school!!Which is a great move in the right direction. Simply because, we as doctors of chiropractic, specialize in dealing with ALL of these types of symptoms. But more importantly, correct the nerve interfernce in the nervous system producing these tiring symptoms!!! Here at Heuser Chiropractic, we have cutting edge therapies that have all been used in helping MS patients deal with their chronic pain symptoms and disease. Our Pneumex Unweighting Treadmill has been a "gods send" to us and our patients. The concept of unweighting is to apply support to the patient in order to lessen their weight bearing stress. This allows all patients to exercise in a functional matter-lessening stress to their symptomatic body. So not only we will help with your symptoms, we will also help you function better thru life. So, what I am trying to say is if you know someone who is dealing with this chronic and often disabling disease, give chiropractic a try as an alternative approach to relieving symptoms and enabling the function of an MS patient to get back towards normalcy. Thanks for tuning in to my DR BLOG and if you have any questions on MS or chiropractic, please feel free to email me at drknowsalot@hotmail.com and we will get you the answers. Thanks and have a great day DR Knows Alot get well,live well,stay well ps-the answer to the question in the BLOG is SUBLUXATION. But I know you all knew that!!!!