Monthly Archives: March 2013

Chiropractic Care for Newborns and Children

Hi. I'm Dr. Steven Battaglino with Battaglino Chiropractic [now in Petaluma, California]. I want to encourage you to have your children checked by a qualified chiropractor. This includes infants and newborns as well. The reason is that infants and newborns often have birth trauma that distorts their spine, either their neck or lower down in the spine, and causes problems. Problems that can become more severe later on. In the
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Chiropractic Care | Pain Free vs. Healthy

I'm Dr. Steve Battaglino with Battaglino Chiropractic, and I want to talk about pain. A lot of people come into my office, as you can imagine, in some sort of pain, and they want chiropractic to get them out of pain. Chiropractic is fantastic at getting rid of pain, but essentially, chiropractic has a different aim, and I want to share that with you. The power that made the body,
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Chiropractic Care for Whiplash

Hi. Dr. Steve Battaglino here with Battaglino Chiropractic. Today, I want to talk a little bit about whiplash injuries. Whiplash usually occurs as a result of a motor vehicle accident, like a car accident.  If we analyze that, when you're sitting in a car driving or as a passenger, you're usually wearing a seat belt. Hopefully, you are. The seat belt is what makes you, what connects you essentially to
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Lower Back Pain

I'm Dr. Steven Battaglino with Battaglino Chiropractic. Today, I want to talk with you about lower back pain in chiropractic. Specifically, how is chiropractic so effective at getting rid of low back pain? Well let's talk about the lower back for a second. This is the left hip here and the right hip. You can see bones in the low back called vertebrae. And there's a disk separating each one.
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Headaches and Chiropractic Care

Hi, I'm Dr. Steven Battaglino with Battaglino Chiropractic and I want to talk today about headaches and chiropractic. Specifically, how chiropractic can help get rid of headaches. Many headaches are caused in the neck, specifically right at the very top of the neck. So we have vertebrae and the spine here in the neck and this is the base of the skull. We have little nerves that come out of
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Neck Pain

I'm Dr. Steven Battaglino with Battaglino Chiropractic and today I want to talk about neck pain and chiropractic. Chiropractic is really good at getting neck pain and let's talk about how it works. Let's first talk about what's causing the neck pain. This is the neck. This is the front of the neck or the throat area where you can see different bones here called the vertebrae. There's a tiny
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Family Plan: (When you bring your kids with you) 10 yrs and younger – FREE 11-18 yrs old = $20 Turn the power on in your kids by removing the interference to their developing nervous systems. It's gentle and works GREAT for kids!
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Scoliosis – A Success Story

When I first consulted with this 11-year old boy’s mother, he was scheduled to have long stainless steel rods, called ‘Harrington Rods’ surgically inserted along the entire length of his spine on both sides.  In the first x-ray view (on left), a pronounced scoliosis is present. The second view (on right) was taken after four months of care in my office.  The spine is clearly much straighter, and the
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Degeneration and Arthritis

Spinal misalignments cause the spine to wear out prematurely. Over time, the body lays down calcium bone spurs in these areas, which eventually fuse together. This form of naturally occuring spinal fusion ‘welds’ the bones together in a misaligned way, which leads to increased pain and decreased function. This patient is a 41-year old woman with severely reversed neck curve and considerable degeneration of the vertebrae.  She reported almost no
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Healthy Curves – Your Neck

From the side view, the neck is supposed to be curved, so that it can comfortably absorb the shock of living a lifetime in gravity.  When this curve straightens out, the resulting increase in stress on the bones and joints eventually causes bone spurs to develop.  Bone spurs are the body’s attempt to stabilize the spine.  In this x-ray, this process has begun (outlined in red).  The chiropractor’s
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