If you have fibromyalgia, you are not alone. According to the Centers for Disease Control, up to 4 million Americans have fibromyalgia [i]. It can affect people of all ages, including children, but is primarily diagnosed in middle-aged patients and older. Women are twice as likely to contrive fibromyalgia than men. In addition, people with auto-immune disorders like rheumatoid arthritis, osteoarthritis, and Lupus have a higher likelihood of developing fibromyalgia [ii].
Fibromyalgia
Do you have widespread, unexplainable pain throughout your body? Has your sensitivity to pain increased dramatically? Do you have trouble sleeping and staying awake? Do you have difficulty concentrating? If you have any or more of these symptoms, you may have fibromyalgia. If so, you do not have to face this condition alone. Allow the team at Wilbeck Chiropractic the opportunity to help you find relief, and get your fibromyalgia under control, today!
Cryotherapy
Pediatric Care
Primary Care
Frequently, many patients struggle to seek the care they need while living in pain and discomfort. Many of our patients sought traditional medical treatment with hospitals, their primary care physicians, and worker’s compensation health professionals. Regardless of these medical interventions, many of our patients find that they are still experiencing ongoing pain and discomfort after their ‘treatment.’ Sometimes they find they are experiencing adverse reactions to their treatment by traditional medicine. Pharmaceutical medications can be addicting and only mask their pain. While invasive surgical interventions is not without its own adverse risks and severe side effects.
Ear Infections
Sleep Disorders
What is known is that fibromyalgia is a condition that causes widespread pain and increased hypersensitivity to pain. Research has shown that people with fibromyalgia have an increased amount of the chemicals in the brain that signal pain. Their nerve endings also become oversensitive and overreact to painful and nonpainful stimulation, intensifying a person’s perception of pain. It is believed that these changes in the brain chemicals contribute to symptoms of fatigue, sleep disorders, and cognitive problems that many people with fibromyalgia experience [iii].
The doctors at Wilbeck Chiropractic are experts at the Webster Technique, a disc decompression therapy specially designed for prenatal patients. Our chiropractors can safely and effectively realign our pregnant patient’s misalignments using both direct spinal manipulation and the Webster Technique. The Webster Technique, developed by Dr. Larry Webster, specifically focuses on adjusting the muscular and ligament imbalances around a mother’s pelvic region [ii]. After witnessing how difficult his wife’s labor was, Dr. Webster designed this prenatal technique to relieve pregnancy-related pain and help alleviate other difficulties associated with pregnancy and childbirth. Studies have shown that the Webster Technique has an 82 percent affective rate at reducing pregnancy-related pain [iii].
Labor and Delivery
Pregnancy impacts a mother’s body in many ways. Expectant mothers experience a significant surge in the production of hormones like progesterone and estrogen, which enables a mother’s body to better care for her growing baby. In fact, a mother’s estrogen production is higher during pregnancy than it is throughout their entire non-pregnant lifetime [i]. Estrogen improves a mother’s vascularization, or efficiency of their blood flow, to better help the baby’s growth and development in the womb. It also enhances the transfer of nutrients through the placenta into her baby. Both progesterone and estrogen also prepare a mother’s body for childbirth.
Injuries at work can be both painful and financially devastating. Whether you work long hours on your feet as a food server, grueling labor as a construction worker, or long hours hunched over a keyboard doing clerical work, you can be susceptible to a workplace injury. Acute injuries like a sudden onset of back pain are the most commonly reported injuries. However, factors like chronic poor posture and continuous repetitive motions can contribute to painful conditions like neck strain, carpal tunnel syndrome, and tendonitis. Regardless of whether they are acute or chronic in nature, workplace injuries can be highly debilitating to both your ability to work and your lifestyle at home.
Autism
Children and teenagers diagnosed with ADHD and Autism Spectrum Disorders often struggle to focus on activities at school and home. Studies have shown that chiropractic care helps patients with these conditions, by improving the mind/body signals along the spinal column. Patients with either ADHD and/or Autism Spectrum Disorders, who receive regular chiropractic treatments, generally have a better ability to focus, experience decreased hyperactivity, and engage in less stimming behaviors [ii].
Diagnosis of fibromyalgia is even more difficult because it doesn’t have a clearly defined origin. Generally, people develop fibromyalgia gradually over time. However, there are numerous cases where people have developed fibromyalgia after a traumatic event like a car accident or over a prolonged period of stress. In addition, people with mood disorders like PTSD, anxiety, and depression are more likely to develop fibromyalgia. Unfortunately, this has added to the stigmatization of fibromyalgia and mental health disorders.
Dr. Taylor Wilbeck is a Chiropractor in Wichita that focuses on the treatment of musculoskeletal disorders including headache, neck pain, low back pain, injuries from auto accidents, sciatica, pregnancy related low back pain and many more.
Whiplash
Whiplash Treatment can help with neck pain following an injury to the soft tissues of your neck. This isn’t limited to car accidents. Whiplash accidents are not limited to car accidents alone, roller coasters can cause whiplash accidents too. The term “
Pinched Nerve
Disc pain can be referred to by different terms, including a bulging disc, a pinched nerve, or a slipped disc. Regardless of the term, herniated or compressed disc refers to the onset of sudden pain that generally occurs in the lower back, however pain can occur anywhere along the spinal column. The beginning of pain may be accompanied by a popping sensation, sudden localized warmth, muscle spasms, and shooting or radiating pain.
If you are an athlete, you should consider adding chiropractic care as a regular part of your training regimen. Chiropractic care is an exceptional way to keep your body in top-notch shape. Its therapeutic treatment excels at helping athletes recover from strenuous workouts and prevent future sports injuries. Seeking preventative chiropractic care before you’re in crisis or in pain not only allows you to continue to perform at the highest level and prevent you from losing training time or even missing out on the big game.
Physical Therapy
Our clinics, conveniently located throughout the greater Wichita area, have helped countless patients, including those with scoliosis. Whenever a patient comes to our clinics with pain and symptoms related to scoliosis, our chiropractors carefully assess them physically and discuss their specific concerns. Although chiropractic treatments cannot cure a person of scoliosis, it can significantly improve symptoms, mitigate scoliosis-related pain and discomfort, and help them avoid any unnecessary, painful surgical intervention. Chiropractic, in conjunction with homeopathic and medically supervised treatments like physical therapy and back braces, can help mitigate abnormal sideways curvature of the spine.
Tennis Elbow
Sport-related injuries to the elbow are often caused by over-training the arm muscles. As a result, acute and chronic elbow joint pain frequently occurs in the athletic community. Student and young athletes often get repetitive motion injuries to their elbows from participating in sports like baseball and tennis. This is why elbow strains and elbow sprains are often called Little League Elbow or Tennis Elbow. Of course, pediatric patients are not the only ones who suffer from tennis elbow. Many adult patients get elbow sprains from overdoing it while weightlifting, playing Frisbee golf, or golfing. This occurs so frequently in the latter sport that these elbow injuries are also often referred to as Golfer’s Elbow.
Slipped Disc
Shoulder Pain
Neck Pain
Back Pain
Manual Therapy
Once our chiropractors finish their physical exam with x-rays, they begin their treatment. Focusing both on their patient’s acute areas of discomfort as well as their body as a whole, our doctors realign their patient’s neural pathways back to their proper positions. This is achieved by direct disc decompression therapy along the patient’s spine. Our chiropractors also apply gentle joint manipulation to the places where the patients body is out of alignment. Correcting the body’s neural pathways helps alleviate the patient’s pain and imporve their overall recovery time.
TMJ Dysfunction
A less common, but very debilitating disorder that results from whiplash is temporomandibular joint dysfunction (TMJ). TMJ usually begins as pain, clicking and popping noises in the jaw during movement. If not properly evaluated and treated, TMJ problems can continue to worsen and lead to headaches, facial pain, ear pain and difficulty eating. Many chiropractors are specially trained to treat TMJ problems, or can refer you to a TMJ specialist.
Do your feet hurt? Does walking cause you pain? Do your ankles have trouble supporting your weight when you stand? Do you roll your ankle often when you walk? Do you have a sprained ankle, or do you have a history of frequent ankle sprains?