Clairpointe Family Chiropractic

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  ⛳Whether you're teeing off in a league or enjoying a casual round with friends, did you know that golf offers unique health benefits when walking the course? This low-impact aerobic exercise not only boosts heart health, blood circulation, and cardiovascular fitness but also aids in lowering blood pressure, reducing the risk of heart disease, and enhancing the body's oxygen utilization. These health benefits are specific to golf, making it a sport that not only entertains but also improves overall well-being. 🤕When enjoying sports, sometimes injuries can happen. Physical activities like golf can significantly strain your spinal column and joints. At Clairpointe Family Chiropractic, we specialize in working with athletes and preventing injuries through chiropractic adjustments. We may also recommend stretching, strengthening, and supplements to improve your game. Common injuries in golfers are back pain, tendonitis, knee pain, rotator cuff, and wrist injuries. While injuries

Snow shoveling has inherent risks that need to be respected. One, if it’s snowing, it’s cold and slippery outside. Two, it rapidly accelerates your heart rate, and three, it puts a strain on your spine, especially your lower back.             Here are some tips for making it a safe winter by managing the snow on your home’s driveway and sidewalks. If the snow is deeper and you are physically fit to use a snow shovel, start by lifting with your legs. Be sure to switch hands to even out the pressure on your back. Never underestimate how your heart rate will rise when shoveling, so go slow and take breaks. If you have any physical limitations, hire someone to shovel for you.  If the snow is light, you can use a leaf blower, broom, or ergonomically correct snow shovel to push the snow aside. Use a snow blower or thrower to move the snow. These machines can be a great tool to save both your heart and your back. After shoveling, if you are sore, follow these tips below:  Ice your back like

Plantar Fasciitis typically causes a stabbing pain in the bottom of your foot near the heel and is caused by inflammation or tears to the long, flat ligament along the bottom of the foot, called the plantar fascia, and also in the Achilles tendon just above the heel.           T here are certain risk factors associated with this condition, most likely occurring for individuals between the ages of 40-60. If ignored, it can lead to more serious long-term problems than just foot pain, such as chronic pain and possible knee, hip, or back issues, and worse yet, a torn Achilles tendon. One of the problems with Plantar Fasciitis is that it causes the ligaments and tendons in the foot to be inflamed and shortened. As you rest at night, your body heals, and if your foot is flexed down like it normally is, those soft tissues start to heal in the shortened length. When you stand up in the morning, you re-tear those tissues, and they cannot heal completely. The doctors at Clairpointe Family Chirop

Did you know the weight of a dime is 2.268 grams? That’s all it takes to decrease normal nerve transmission by 70%! These nerve transmissions are communicating vital instructions like “how your immune system responds to pre-cancerous lesions” or “how many times your heart needs to beat.”    You want those messages traveling at the highest possible speeds with NO interference from a subluxation.   So how do you remove these interferences? Regular chiropractic care. Watch Dr. Gary Shoemker explain how the weight of a dime can interfere with normal nerve transmission. Become A Patient Don't let your good health stop on a dime; call Clairpointe Family Chiropractic at (313) 886-8030 to see how we can remove any spinal interference (subluxations), keeping your nervous system working at its fullest! Clairpointe Family Chiropractic 18720 Mack Ave Suite 120, Grosse Pointe Farms, MI 48236 (313) 886-8030 | www.clairpointe.com

  Sports Injuries Here at Clairpointe Family Chiropractic, we have many active patients who exercise regularly and play sports like tennis, pickleball, golf, hockey, and running.  Once in a while, a patient will have an injury from their activity and will need an extra hand in recovery. When a sports injury occurs, after the patient ices and rests, we suggest coming in to have the doctors look at the injury from a chiropractic standpoint. The doctors can show you proper conditioning, warm-up, and cool-down techniques for each sport or exercise activity to prevent future injuries. We treat these injuries by showing you proper stretching, strengthening exercises and recommending pharmaceutical-grade supplements. Common Sports Injuries Treated At Clairpointe: • Back strains • Tendonitis • Herniated disks in the lower back • Plantar fasciitis • Hamstring strains • Foot Numbness and Tingling • IT band syndrome Dr. Nathan has first-hand experience in recovering from sports injuries. He playe

Knee Pain Not only will knee pain prevent you from doing your normal day-to-day activities, but it can also throw the rest of your body’s alignment off. Our ankles, knees, and hips are kinetic chains where one can affect the others.       Adjusting Knees Did you know that the knees can get subluxated just like your spine?  The doctors can adjust your knee to correct any misalignments. A simple misstep or stumble can be enough to subluxate your lower extremities or pelvis, which will affect the rest of your spine. With any acute pain, start with icing, and at your next adjustment, bring it to the doctor's attention. The doctors may also suggest taking Glucosamine Sulfate, Chondro-Flx, and/or CollaGEN supplements to help the soft tissues heal.  Foot Levelers A poor foundation can lead to knee pain, so the next time you have knee pain, look at your shoes. Your shoes may look good on the outside, but the soles can wear out sooner than the tread.  As part of your first new patient appoi

One of the simplest ways to understand chiropractic care is to look at a safety pin.  The large end represents your brain, and the smaller end represents a body part (i.e., your stomach or lungs).  The thin piece of metal represents the messages going from the brain. The other thin piece of metal represents the message from your body back to the brain. We all know that the brain communicates with every part of the body. As long as that message gets through freely, that body part will work.  There's A Problem With Safety Pins Even though the safety pins can hold a lot, they occasionally open up. When that happens, there is a disconnect within your body and possible pai n. Your nervous system works a lot like that safety pin. As long as the connection is intact, the brain controls and coordinates every function in the body. Unfortunately, like that safety pin, that message can be broken or interrupted.         In our bodies, the loss of that full connection can be devastating. This l

  Welcome to Clairpointe's new blog! We look forward to sharing information about the benefits of chiropractic care, symptoms chiropractic care can help with, Pharmaceutical-grade supplements, and more with our readers. We hope that our blog will be a place where people will come to learn how chiropractic care can help reduce pain, enhance your and your family's health, and learn natural ways to heal. Our blog will also have articles on topics such as sciatica, whiplash, plantar fasciitis, TMJ, migraine and headache relief, sports injuries, joint pain, and many more.  As we continue to build our blog, we’ll also create content related to upcoming events at Clairpointe so our readers will always have access to timely information. We invite you to subscribe to our blog, bookmark us, and/or sign up for our quarterly newsletter, which will list all of the blog topics we cover. We look forward to teaching you about the benefits of chiropractic care and hope you learn something new t