HI! Are you ready to talk about jaw popping?

Are you experiencing tension, grinding, or popping when you stretch or open your mouth? 

You may even have pain associated with it. 

What can you do? 

If you have a stiffened jaw on one side that pops on occasion when stretching your mouth in a yawn or worse yet both sides of the jaw pop or grind  when you open your mouth. 

Your jaw may be misaligned.

And in that case, your jaw isn’t sitting correctly in its joint socket creating inconsistent, asymmetrical movement.

I once worked on a patient that had this scenario so bad that she couldn’t chew on one side and the pain was like a sharp jab occurring every minute. 

At night, when she slept, she had incredible tension, teeth grinding and pain so severe, it would wake her up. 

Luckily, during an exam, I was able to work on her jaw muscles and found the real issue in her neck muscles and the position of her neck joints. I even found some underlying tension in her low back that contributed to the problem of stiffness in her neck.

I found that a certain posture she maintained for several hours a day in an easy chair was causing this regular strain on her neck posture. 

Many things can cause these jaw problems, not just sitting postures, but also strain and stress in the low back. 

After intense deep massage point treatments of deep muscles in her jaw and neck, and relaxing manual therapy for her low back for days in a row, she finally was able to have subtle release of tension each day. At day five, she didn’t need to come back anymore. 

I gave her my Balancing the Neck Biomechanics Exercises to do at home and she maintains the correct joint balance daily to prevent future problems or reoccurrences. (You can find these exercises for all body regions and for joint issues in The Products and Video Store drop down list in this website at the top). 

I hope this story helped you and the explanations are clear. If you have more questions, then I ask you to attend my next webinar (given on Fridays at noon (PST) where we can go over your specific issues. 

Sincerely, 

Dr. Alongi, The Virtual Chiropractor 

Where It All Began

Hello there!

By Dr Alongi, The Spine Doctor

Thank you for reading my new blog. It was created out of a strong need for me to share my 25 years of experience in holistic, natural health care programs, and hands on care. My practice has attracted and helped many people with their ailments and symptoms to live a better life. These patients needed help making their life healthier for one reason or another.  Maybe they were injured, and suffered bodily trauma from an accident, or a fall, recent or early in life, or maybe poor alignment from ongoing stressful postures did them in.  It is no fun when ill health and dis-ease gets in the way of a good time, or prohibits you and your family from having a wonderful energetic experience together.

I got my start thinking about the human body when I found that I was very good at connecting with the horses at my Vaulting Club's ranch. My coach noticed this and as a very small person, I had the task of retrieving the horses for their baths and to be suited up for riding. I didn't notice this then, but now I remember everyone else staying back behind the fence as I bravely entered the horse corral alone to get a horse. Deep inside of me I was aware that my energy, my vibe was affecting the horse, so I learned hoe to enter into that very empathetic state of myself and the horses. In this state, I believe, is where healing energy lies. 

People think that health comes from a bottle, a pill, or a lucky gene ....but in actuality, we were born with health, and hopefully our growing bodies are nurtured in health from the very beginning of inception.

How you cultivate health in you and allow health to progress in your aging process is how we age gracefully, effortlessly, and comfortably. 

It's about what you know about it. 

There are many ideas and ways to be healthy. Doctors are here to teach us. There are Simple techniques and tips I've learned over the years as a practicing Chiropractor that I enjoy teaching. 

And I have some trade secrets to get you back in the game without the use of drugs or surgery.

I hope you will follow me in my blog stories based on real life experiences and my background in science and health care to make your life healthier.  

Lets get started!

Nature Has a Way of Being Powerful

By Dr. Alongi, The Spine Doctor

Human is a natural creation and derived from the Earth. Survival of the fittest, right?

If you were to learn about and follow a self-created protocol based on your own research for your body, would that be a winning strategy?

I find that what might be right for one is not right for everyone and that a natural self aware program insures the greatest results.

Listen and learn from professionals.  Many Doctors will try to teach you to do it all one way or will try to put you on a strict protocol based on what they read in science books.   Of course, get help and assistance from professionals, ask lots of questions to professionals and nonprofessionals alike who have found intelligence by merely experiencing health results of different kinds through years of asking questions.  Maybe they will have the added passion to help you not make the same mistakes they made or that will help boost you to become successful.  

Wonderful strides,  advancements in science and health are being made these days.  There are many new discoveries and information being uncovered from different camps with enlightened thinking. Many are not common sense and seem to go against what you may have imagined.  Science and understanding of current modern human health care systems are being looked at with a different viewpoint.

It's time to have an open mind and realize we are all learning together and health is our goal. 

Getting Curious?

Who do you trust?

This question has a finite answer to it but I want to offer you an open ended answer.  It is important to look at the source of your information and to not trust everything you read entirely.

If you find you are getting too excited about a particular concept or finding, take a second or third look investigating new reports or related material found in the works cited of the paper you read.  See if you can cross reference the information a few ways to better get a grasp of the science and completed studies and research.

With trusting yourself, you become fully responsible, for your reasoning, thoughts, behaviors and actions. Find the time and due diligence to create the confidence in your decisions and your next plan.

Don’t expect you program to change you right away. Healing is painful and not so comfortable at times, true. The action of taking time to re-position your thoughts or stance or your judgments on a subject, or process and take time to heal is necessary in healthcare as well.

   

    
   

Why it is important to let your brain learn about pain

How to handle pain and discomfort without drugs or surgery

By Dr. Alongi, The Spine Doctor

Why it is important to let your brain learn about pain? 

Your brain needs to know Where the pain or discomfort comes from.

If your brain doesn’t know anything, how will it set up it's healing pattern to correctly heal?

We want the brain to get the message so it can:

• Respond with healing messages and orders in response to the problem.
• Carry out activation of healing systems
• Alert higher cognitive centers so your mind can control the outcome of the body’s attempt to heal and facilitate better lifestyle choices. 
• Has attention and energy focused on this healing process instead of energy being sidetracked to a different activity. 

The use of medications, painkillers, and other forms of pain relief turns down the messages to the brain like a dimmer switch on a light fixture. 

Pain and discomfort in the body can come from many sources: 

• Soft tissues as muscles, tendon, ligaments, and cartridge (which are the connecting material of these elements to your bones).
• Joints are special types of cartilage that sit between your bones. (There are vertebral joints as well as extremity joints that connect your feet, hands, and limbs to your pelvis and spine).
• blood supply tissues (arteries and veins) can cause discomfort. 
• Organ cells and tissues (for example; a segment of bowel cells, or liver tissues).
• The skin is considered an organ as well as the brain

Primarily, discomfort is a message from the cell tissues to the nerves which then carry the message to the brain. The nerves have several functions to them. registering pain is only one function. 

You may be in a state of numbness, constant chronic tension creating a lack of energy for other parts of your life, or just accustomed to the pain, but not have healed.

How long will you last like this? And how healthy will you be later in life?

Check out my next blog for alternatives to taking drugs and medications to heal your pain.