Both Dr. Ezgur and DiDomenico recognize that your mental state has a significant impact on pain and your body's ability to heal. This is especially true in virtually all types of chronic pain. The doctors may make specific recommendations when appropriate. These recommendations may include stress management, muscle relaxation techniques, and breathing exercises. More in-depth psychological services may also be recommended, to help you with:
- stress management
- weight loss
- pain management
- sleep disorders
- smoking cessation
Dr. Ezgur and Dr. DiDomenico both work closely with clinical psychologists and psychiatrists in Chicago and the Chicagoland area, when patients may benefit from psychological services. Especially effective is cognitive-behavioral psychotherapy, an empirically based, time limited system by which patients are taught to monitor and change thoughts and behaviors in an organized way in order to feel better and act in more self-helping, adaptive ways.
For more information, please contact the doctors at their respective Progressive Chiropractic locations.
PROGRESSIVE HEALTH & WELLNESS BLOG: HOW ACUPUNCTURE WORKS : Acupuncture and other forms of traditional Chinese medicine have been in existence for over 4,000 years. Yet the explanation for how acupuncture works has been largely based on theory. The basic theory is outlined in a text from 200 B.C. It acknowledges in people and nature a vital energy or life force known as Qi (pronounced "chee"). Qi flows through the body via channels called meridians. If the Qi flow is altered, the resulting deficiency, excess, or stagnation of qi causes bodily malfunction, illness, and inability to heal properly. Acupuncture, in which needles are inserted into specific points along these meridians, restores the proper Qi flow, thereby returning the body to a state of improved health and decreased pain.Chiropractic doctors and other licensed practitioners administer about 10 million acupuncture treatments each year in the US, most commonly for pain control, sports injuries, and smoking cessation. As the popularity of acupuncture increases, researchers have become more interested into proving exactly how acupuncture works. To date, researchers have been able to measure an increased flow of acupuncture-induced endorphins. This explains the pain-relieving effect of acupuncture. Also, functional MRI's have measured changes in the activity of key centers of the brain, where pain is interpreted, when certain acupuncture points are treated. There are other beneficial effects of acupuncture also being researched, including the treatment of: nausea, asthma, sinus conditions, colds and the immune system, and other internal disorders. Furthermore, acupuncture has been observed clinically to enhance healing, and provide long-lasting pain relief. Read More |