Anterior Head Syndrome (ANS) is a relatively new condition presenting itself in the early 2000s.  Sedentary lifestyle stresses such as heads down texting, computers, gaming, and tremendous emotional stresses have stressed the muscles and ligaments to a point where they cannot adapt.  Often time this leads to misalignment of the spinal bones which creates pressure on the nerves and stretches the spinal cord.  This produces significant neurologic consequences.  ANS is so serious that in a recent medical study out of UCLA, men and women with hyperkyphotic spines (ANS) had an increased mortality rate.  Besides an unsightly postural condition in females called Dowager’s Hump, children with weakened muscles and sedentary lifestyles are being seriously affected by this.

You can self-test for ANS, but your chiropractor can only determine if it is caused by a chiropractic condition.  If you suffer from Anterior Head Syndrome, please call and schedule a consultation with your San Diego Gonstead chiropractor in Carlsbad to see if you qualify for care.

Arthritis is a condition in which repeated trauma has gradually degraded the joints

including cartilage and bone.  It mostly happens in weight bearing joints such as the knees, hips, and spine.  It is also common in the neck and hands.

Over time, degenerated joints may cause stiffness and strain the supporting muscle.  This generally will lead to the body compensating consciously or not.  Here the body will begin to develop bone spurs to protect the joints from excessive movement.

When there is a subluxation, there is always a bone in the spine that is fixed into position.  When the subluxation is corrected, often time normal body movement will ensue.  When there is no longer any need for extra joint protection, often times the bone will resorb as calcium into the blood stream.

If you suffer from arthritis, please call and schedule a consultation with your San Diego Gonstead chiropractor in Carlsbad to see if you qualify for care.

Allergies are an incorrect response by your immune system to an allergen (substances that normally have no effect on people) resulting in sneezing, coughing, congestion, hives, rashes, and in severe cases, seizure and anaphylactic shock.  These symptoms are caused by the histamines your immune system creates in an attempt to protect your body against the allergen.

When your spine is misaligned it can impinge on the nerves in your body.  The nervous system controls everything including chemical and hormone release.  Any insult to the nervous system will cause the body to not function properly, and your immune system cannot work at an optimal level.

Chiropractors realign the spine to relieve any stress on nerves. This allows the immune system to work at a higher level, making it easier to fight off infections while recognizing allergens.  When your immune system recognizes allergens, it will not overreact to them, or at least not react as severely to them.

In our office, most patients report a decrease in the severity and the frequency of allergies, and most cease taking drugs all together. Gonstead chiropractic does not work like an anti-histamine as a direct, short term relief from allergies. Gonstead chiropractic allows your body to be better equipped to fight against allergies.  If you suffer from allergies, please call and schedule a consultation with your San Diego Gonstead chiropractor in Carlsbad to see if you qualify for care.

These days millions of Americans have jobs which can have damaging effects on the hands and arms. Repetitive movements which are not performed with good ergonomics in mind can cause micro-trauma to the hands and wrists.   This trauma combined with joint dysfunction and spinal problems may result in a condition known as carpal tunnel syndrome.

The median nerve, which is affected in carpal tunnel syndrome, travels from spinal cord from the lower neck, down the arm, through the wrist and to the tips of the fingers.   If one or more of these structures are affected, symptoms of wrist pain, numbness, weakness, burning and loss of muscle function can occur.

Surgery is usually unnecessary because it deals with the wrist, and more often than not that pain is caused by misalignment of the bones in the lower neck.  Gonstead chiropractic can assure that all of the joints and muscles along the path of the nerve are free of obstruction and functioning normally, thus reducing nerve irritation and pain.  If you suffer from Carpal Tunnel Syndrome, please call and schedule a consultation with your San Diego Gonstead chiropractor in Carlsbad to see if you qualify for care.

Gas, bloating, heart burn, reflux and general digestive problems plague nearly 80% of adults. Many times, poor diet is the cause.  But often times, the digestive organs do not produce the proper chemicals and enzymes necessary for digestion.  The nerves going to the digestive organs are responsible for telling the organs to create digestive fluids.  Often times when the spinal bones are misaligned, they create pressure on those nerves making proper digestion impossible.  Once the spine is back into a normal position, the body can create digestive juices and digest food properly.  If your digestive difficulties are caused by a chiropractic condition, we have outstanding success rates. Call and schedule a consultation with your San Diego Gonstead chiropractor in Carlsbad to see if you qualify for care.

There is more than a 50% chance your back surgery will fail.  Failure means equal or more pain, or more surgeries or drugs needed.  Attempting to artificially stabilize a joint by fusion or by discectomy can destabilize the joint further by causing other vertebrae to make up the lost range of motion, or by decreasing the overall matter of the disc necessary for joint stabilization.  Invariably, surgery further destabilizes spinal segments and increases misalignment causing more severe subluxation.  Surgery speeds this process of subluxation.

If this is you, there may be hope.  We have worked with surgery cases where there have been a complete recovery from symptoms.  For these candidates, there is a special program at our office. Call and schedule a consultation with your San Diego Gonstead chiropractor in Carlsbad to see if you qualify for care.