Acute Neck Pain Case
This is neat! Once again chiropractic care made the news as one of the three best ways to treat acute neck pain. The other two treatment options were exercise and medication, but I have to think looking at this young lady that chiropractic was the best way to go!
I found this while digging around for info on an assignment. Enjoy!
Found this fun diagram for the sites of anastamoses of the Portal and Systemic Venous Systems… Good stuff!
I recently started watching Acland’s Anatomy Atlas. This DVD series is fantastic for learning human anatomy in a step by step, easy to understand way. Dr. Acland walks you through the various bones and soft tissue structures, identifying them and offering an explaination of their function. I think this is an awesome tool for anyone learning anatomy or that might need a refresher.
The three things that I like about it best are:
1) The specimens are expertly dissected and because it is filmed, there are clear shots of each structure. You don’t always get this in lab.
2) You can put it on your computer and watch it at school, at the office or at home at your convenience.
3) You can pause, work and review at your own pace.
I give Acland’s two enthusiastic thumbs up! Check out the link to watch a few demos and learn more about the series.
Earlier this year I did a little post on “Docs That Rock” for Dr. John Ogden in Ruidoso, NM. I found this awesome interactive chart on his site. It explains the spine and the routes that nerves travel as they innervate all the different tissues in the body! It’s awesome, check it out!!
I was practicing taking Blood Pressure for a practical exam that I have this week and found this cool chart. Check it out to learn more about low, normal and high blood pressure ranges!!
Handy Dandy Adjusting Tool!
Chiropractors all over the place are familiar with anterior adjusting. It is a safe and easy way to correct a fixation in the thoracic region of the spine. But for any chiropractor or student of chiropractic that has ever tried one of these adjustments on a patient, you will appreciate that sometimes it can hurt the doctor’s fingers. Fortunatley there is a solution… two, actually.
The first you might have heard about is the TepperWedge. This is a great tool! It works like a champ. It saves the doctor’s fingers by sliding over them and providing support, while also securing a comfortable adjustment for the patient. I love it! And, it costs $139.95. Ummm, wait… That’s a shade steep. Though I love it, and it does save the fingers, I want to share this pearl with you.
Finger Savers!! These beauties do the same thing but cost, wait for it, $2. The other thing that I like about this option, beside the price, is the fact that the doc’s hand is on the segment and can feel the adjustment happen. It’s a pretty cool thing. So, if you were wanting an easy way to help save your fingers on your A-P adjustments, the Finger Saver gets my vote. Check out the site below and happy adjusting!
Prossage Heat
This product I absolutely love! My husband and I get muscle aches and pains from being over confident in ourselves at the gym, as well as from being torn up by old age (we’re 30 :)
Anyway, he likes BioFreeze to give his sore muscles some relief. I am allergic to it, so I have to use another good hot/cold therapy ointment called CryoDerm. Both work great for helping the muscles to relax (the heat), and also numbing the pain (the cold). Both are also good because they dry quickly.
But this is about Prossage. This is why we love it. It is a warming OIL with the cooling properties you find in products like BioFreeze and Cryoderm… You can work it into the soft tissues without it drying up too quickly. Us chiropractic students feel a lot of fibrous buildup under the skin, most folks refer to them as “knots.” One of the best things you can do for tender muscles is to find the knot and message it for a few minutes. This breaks down the fibrous tissue and just flat makes you feel better. Prossage is a fantastic product for just this scenario.
To make a short story long… Prossage rocks! I give it two enthusiastic thumbs up!
Inkling is an application for the iPad that allows you to purchase certain textbooks. They are constantly coming out with new textbooks, and have a large selection already. There are quite a few textbooks for medical and chiropractic students already. You have the choice to purchase the entire textbook or just purchase each chapter separately. It is very interactive, it allows you to take self-assesment quizes to test your knowledge, zoom in on the images and much more. Check out their website and get the application at www.inkling.com.
For all you Chiropractic Studs out there: Check out this link to find videos that review the tracts of the spinal cord!
