Matthews Chiropractic Center

Holiday Hours

Matthew Leibman — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 03:39:33 +0000

Matthews Chiropractic Center will have abbreviated hours on the upcoming holiday week Wednesdays, December 24 and 31. Wednesday, December 24th, the office will be open from 8am to 1pm and Wednesday, December 31st, the office will be open from noon until 6pm. Both weeks will have the usual schedule on Monday (2pm-8pm) and Tuesday (8am-1pm). Please call to schedule.

All of us at Matthews Chiropractic Center would like to wish you and your family Happy Holidays as well as Health and Happiness in the coming New Year!

Avoid OTC Cough & Cold Meds for Children Under 4

Matthew Leibman — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 14:45:35 +0000

This year at Matthews Chiropractic Center I’ve become a new parent. As a parent, I am acutely aware of the desire to make our children feel well ASAP. I am also cautious of everything that I give to my child to eat, drink and feel better. Readers to this space will remember an early September 2008 posting recommending alternative methods of relieving cough and cold in children under 2 years old (“Choose the spoonful of sugar, but not the medicine”). In that posting I highlighted the FDA’s recommendation to avoid use of OTC cough and cold remedies for children under 2 year of age.

Recent news recommends avoiding over-the-counter cough and cold remedies for children until 4 years of age. The Consumer Healthcare Products Association (CHPA) is an industry group representing the manufacturers and distributors of over-the-counter (OTC) medicines and nutritional supplements. On October 7, 2008, the CHPA announced that leading manufacturers are “voluntarily transitioning the labeling on oral OTC pediatric cough and cold medicines to state “do not use” in children under four years of age.”

If you are still using these remedies in question, please be very careful to follow your pediatrician’s instructions, measure doses correctly, and keep track of when doses are given. To learn about an alternative to OTC cough and cold medications, see the earlier article Choose the spoonful of sugar, but not the medicine.

Now In-Network with WellPath

Matthew Leibman — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 14:08:01 +0000

In our ongoing effort to make our services more accessible, I am happy to announce that Matthews Chiropractic Center is now a participating provider for WellPath, Coventry National Network, and First Health Network. If you have health insurance through one of these carriers, we are happy to provide in-network chiropractic services at Matthews Chiropractic Center.

Matthews Chiropractic Center is in network with health plans from the following carriers:

Aetna
Blue Cross Blue Shield
Cigna Healthcare
Coventry National Network
First Health Network
GHI
Great-West Healthcare
HealthCare Savings
Humana Health Care
Kanawha HealthCare Solutions
MedCost
Medicare
MultiPlan
Private Healthcare Systems (PHCS)
UNI-CARE
United Healthcare
WellPath

October is National Chiropractic Month

Matthew Leibman — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 21:03:06 +0000

Matthews Chiropractic Center wants you to stay well. With the upcoming cold season creeping closer you need to be at your best so your downtime is little and recovery swift. We welcome October and the spreading of National Chiropractic Month!

Staying Well is Staying in Flow

Chiropractic is an alternative health discipline which aims to remove interruptions to the flow of normal nerve transmission. The spinal cord is the main pathway for nerve messages to and from the brain. These signals allow our brain to perceive sensations, control our heart, lungs, and other organs and allow us to direct movements of our body. The nerve branches, which bring signals to all parts of the body, exit the spinal cord through holes on either side of the vertebral column. Each of the 26 bones of the vertebral column are separated by discs, which form joints with the vertebrae above and below. These joints are what connect the spine and give it flexibility. The vertebral column also surrounds and protects the spinal cord.

Inhibiting Your Wellness

Should a vertebra move out of alignment, say from trauma, emotional stress or another cause, it is likely that the nerve signals will be compromised. The chiropractic profession believes that this compromise negatively impacts the ability of nerves to carry messages and therefore a person’s health. Likewise, emotional stress, muscle tension, and poor ergonomics can stress the body/spine and also reduce the transmission of normal nerve messages. Chiropractic medicine is based on the belief that the body has an innate ability to heal itself. Chiropractors work to remove impediments to spinal motion and normal nerve transmission to aid the body in self-healing. Chiropractors primarily use adjustments to improve spinal motion. In this way, patients can be relieved of back, neck or joint pain, and headaches without drugs or surgery.

Recognizing Your Health through Chiropractic Care

National Chiropractic Month is a consolidation of two previous observances: Correct Posture Month and Spinal Health Month. Since good posture and proper ergonomics helps to eliminate stress on the body and spine, training to improve and maintain good posture is one of the things I usually stress during treatment. Considering how integral posture and spinal health are to chiropractic, it is very fitting that these endeavors be recognized this month. Poor ergonomics and lack of joint motion today could be the cause of your back pain or headache tomorrow… Call to make an appointment and have your spine checked today!