How Chiropractic Care Helps Seniors | Chiropractor for Seniors in Oxnard, CA
Hello, everyone, I’m Dr. Tom Johnson with Kalani Total Health Center. Today we are continuing our discussion on chiropractic care for senior citizens. Let’s start with common conditions we treat with our seniors.
Osteoarthritis Pain Relief With Chiropractic Care
First and foremost, osteoarthritic or degenerative joint disease is probably the most common condition we see chronic pain due to these degenerative arthritic conditions. What is arthritis? Well, arthritis is a disease of the bone joint of soft tissues. It can manifest itself with stiffness, tightness, reduction of range of motion, functional deficits, weakness, it can progress into neurological disorders and neuropathies. The list goes on and on and on. But at the core a common result is inability to move well and ability to to enjoy your life to the fullest changes in activities of daily living. These are the key determinants that result in a diminished quality of life and a life that is harder to perform. This can also affect your immune system, your overall health, it can accelerate your aging. So what are some other conditions chronic pain, chronic degenerative pain is the other most common condition we see with our senior citizens. Typically, our senior citizens are under medication for conditions maybe thyroid or heart or high blood pressure or cholesterol or other disorders, pain management as well. What we want to do is help our senior citizens get off of the pain medication as much as possible. We don’t need to give more medications. When we’re already taking multiple medications for different conditions. We need something more natural, holistic, that’s targeting the cause of our pain, targeting that joint pain, that joint arthritis.
Chiropractic Care for Non-Arthritic Conditions
Other conditions we see where seniors citizens are falls trips and falls slips and falls, acute trauma, acute injuries, lifting injuries, so forth. Car accidents. So again, we are certified we are board certified to care for senior citizens and Medicare as well. We are specialists in acute care chronic care for our senior citizen conditions and pain management as well. Joint Pain. Joint Pain is another condition whether it’s knee pain, hip pain, neck or back shoulder, joint pain, degenerative joint conditions, osteoarthritis of the joints is another key factor that typical conditions we see here in the clinic. Now I’ve got great news. Medicare does cover chiropractic services. Our clinic is one of the only clinics in our area that actually is a Medicare provider. We are board certified and provide medical services for chiropractic services. The process starts with simple the patient make an appointment coming in to see one of our best doctors and sitting down for a consultation and evaluation. Then we’ll proceed into physical examination as well and we’ll determine if we are a right fit for you and if your pain is actually coming from conditions that we can actually help you with or if we need to refer you to a specialist or maybe back to your primary care provider.
Again, it all starts with making an appointment. Just call the clinic we’re looking for to seeing you at the clinic. I’m Dr. Tom Johnson from Kalani Total Health Center, your one stop holistic health shop. mahalo Aloha
