Elevate Life Chiropractic and Wellness

Our holistic approach to musculoskeletal problems at Elevate Life in Kansas City emphasizes how a proper understanding of the body’s workings can prevent or treat a lot of injuries with minimal invasiveness. If you have decided you want to start exercising, it is important to know how to avoid soft tissue injuries by doing warm-ups the right way. You don’t ever want to stretch a muscle that is still “cold.” Static stretches, which is the term for when someone holds a stretch for a long time, have their place, but that is during the cool-down at the end of a work-out. The best warm-ups are those which flex the body while keeping it in motion. These are called “dynamic stretches.” Some of the well-known examples are arm circles, butt-kicks, lunges, and leg swings. Yoga also includes a lot of dynamic stretches, which is part of the reason for its popularity. Warm-ups should take at least five minutes and should encompass the entire body, although people sometimes especially target ...

One of the most common sources of pain requiring holistic treatment is fibromyalgia. At the Elevate Life chiropractic and wellness center in Kansas City, we often treat patients who have failed to find relief through mechanisms that only target individual systems, which is why we want our patients to understand that fibromyalgia is a whole-body phenomenon. Fibromyalgia is a disorder of both the musculoskeletal system and the nervous system. It causes dull, throbbing pain and fatigue in every quadrant of the body as well as difficulties with memory and concentration. Relatedly, it also disrupts patients’ sleep and is highly correlated with depression, anxiety, and irritable bowel syndrome. It is especially prominent among people with temporomandibular joint disorders (TMJD), but most TMJD patients are younger women, whereas fibromyalgia patients tend to be older. There are a number of treatments that can relieve the pain of fibromyalgia, including personalized acupuncture regimen...