Chiropractor Corrects Posture, Back Pain, Fibromyalgia, Sciatica for Cardiff by the Sea and Encinitas Communities

Poor posture can do more than give you back pain – it can lead to a premature death. If that fact is not enough to make you stand up straight, a visit to Gold Coast Chiropractic certainly can be. Chiropractors, Dr. David Melendez and Dr. Lorraine Melendez have been serving the Cardiff by the Sea and Encinitas communities since 1990, treating fibromyalgia, sciatica, herniated disc and other spinal issues.

Our chiropractors’ successful techniques include spinal decompression, manipulation, massage therapy, and one of the most basic cornerstones for spinal and overall health: spine and posture correction.

Posture Correction Just One of Chiropractic Services that Includes Decompression, Herniated Disk Treatment

When you are consistently hunched over, bent or your posture is otherwise distorted in any way, your spine and nervous system are suffering accordingly. Postural distortions point to areas where your spine is bent or your spinal cord is kinked, both of which result in the shutting down of energy to your vital organs and tissue. Back pain is one of the early signals of problems due to a distorted posture that requires decompression of built-up pressure. Others include sickness, overall failing health and, in the worst case scenarios, an untimely death.

Four medical doctors and one doctor of public health led the study published in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society that linked proper posture to a longer lifespan. The five researchers observed and evaluated 1,300 older subjects over an average period of 4.2 years and found those with even a slight case of forward head posture, known as hyperkyphosis, had a 144 percent greater rate of untimely death. Those with the most severe hyperkyphosis had the greatest rate of death, with hyperkyphosis increasing the risk of hardening of the arteries by 240 percent and increasing the overall rate of physiological aging.

More evidence that backs up the power of posture comes from the September 15, 2005, issue of Journal-Spine and the 1994 edition of the American Journal of Physical Medicine. Key points from the former include evidence of increased pain and decreased function based on the increased magnitude of forward head posture; even mild forward head posture can be detrimental; and all general health status measures declined as the forward head deviation increased. The latter noted how posture affects everything from breathing to hormone production, although many physicians do not address the significant influence of posture on specific issues, such as fibromyalgia, sciatica or a herniated disc, or on overall health.

Chiropractors, Dr. David Melendez and Dr. Lorraine Melendez focus on posture as a key element in their chiropractic care with the Pettibon System. This series of specific chiropractic adjustments and rehabilitation targets and corrects forward head posture as it reduces abnormal tension on your brain and spinal cord, reverses the aging process and can bring relief to conditions such as fibromyalgia, sciatica, back pain, a herniated disc, and other issues that benefit from a decompression of pressure. Posture correction can add years to your life – as well as life to your years.