Sciatica is a condition associated with back pain and pain in your lower limbs. If you suffer from sciatic problems you will typically feel numbness and muscle weakness in your back, hips, buttocks, legs, calves and foot. The sciatic nerve is the largest and longest nerve in your body. It runs from the spinal column near the pelvis down your legs and it is about as wide as your thumb. This large nerve has five smaller nerves that branch out into your thigh, knee, calf, ankle and foot. When sciatica occurs the sciatic nerve is compressed, irritated or inflamed which triggers pain. If your lower spine becomes misaligned and pinches the root of the sciatic nerve, it typically results in sciatic nerve problems.

Chiropractic Treatments Can Help Sciatica Patients Manage Their Pain

Our Richardson chiropractor can help relieve back pain by using gentle spinal adjustment techniques to correct the spinal misalignment and remove the blockage that is pinching the sciatic nerve and causing back pain in the lower extremities of your body. Massage therapy combined with chiropractic adjustment can help alleviate sciatic pain by relaxing the muscles and increasing blood flow to the nerves. Ultrasounds and ice therapies are other treatments that may be used to relieve pain caused from your sciatic nerve and reduce the inflammation in your spinal nerves. Our chiropractor will take x-rays after your treatments in order to determine if there is an improvement in the spinal alignment. By this time your symptoms should be improving and your body will be healing.

Dr. Aljamal is dedicated to providing non-evasive, medication-free chiropractic care that not only works to relieve the pain, but treats the problem so that the body can heal. Our Richardson chiropractor believes in promoting wellness care for the entire body. Some of our wellness care services include nutrition and weight loss counseling as well as massage therapy and chiropractic treatments. If you are suffering from lower back and sciatic nerve problems or other musculoskeletal pain then call our office today for an appointment and get on your way to becoming healthy and pain-free.

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Nutrition is essential for our bodies to operate properly.  Good nutrition should start in childhood, but if that was not the case for you it is never too late to begin eating nutritious foods.  The most nutritious foods are whole foods meaning they are not processed and filled with chemicals and preservatives.  

Changing the way you eat can sometimes save your life.  Eating the proper nutrients and getting the required servings of fruits, vegetables, grains, proteins and dairy can aid in weight loss.  It also helps with controlling illness such as diabetes, high blood pressure and high cholesterol.  Our Richardson chiropractor, Dr. Houssam Aljamal has spent nearly a decade counseling patients about nutrition and weight loss.  He knows that these two things go hand and hand and both are important steps in your wellness care program.

Nutritious Food Choices Benefit Overall Wellness

Making nutritious food choices does not have to be difficult.  Just small changes in your diet can make a big difference.  Eating protein and fiber helps you feel full faster and longer so choosing wheat and whole grain breads instead of white or eating an apple instead of French fries will aid in keeping your appetite satisfied for longer periods of time.  

Some other tips for getting your eating habits on a nutritious path are eating a well balanced diet, controlling portions, reducing not eliminating foods from your diet and not eating carbs in the evening.  

Some nutritionists and experts say that you should eat carbohydrates early in the day so that your body has time to burn the carbs instead of storing them as fat.  Nutrition is an important part of your families wellness care.  Everyone can benefit from eating healthy foods.

You should eat a variety of foods and balance your meals with foods from all of the food groups. This will not only make eating more enjoyable, but it will give your body the nutrients it needs.  Controlling the amount of food you eat can play a major part in weight loss and maintaining a healthy weight.  

Many problems such as back pain, neck pain and headaches can be treated by changing eating and exercise habits. Dr. Aljamal, our Richardson chiropractor and his staff will help you change the way you eat and get you on the right path for achieving your nutrition and weight loss goals.

What are some things you do to eat healthfully?

Get Your Next Massage from a Our Richardson Chiropractor

If you have always thought of massage as a relaxing indulgence, you will be delighted to learn that it can also improve your health. Massage therapy can work hand-in-hand with other therapies to relieve ailments and assist with overall wellness care. That is why we include it in our repertoire of treatment methods here at Interactive Family Clinic. So if you are looking for a Richardson chiropractor, why not choose one that offers massage as well as adjustment?

While massage therapy generally boosts circulation, relaxes muscles and promotes healing, different kinds of massage are particularly well suited for certain situations. Swedish massage, for instance, strokes and kneads the skin to “unclench” the muscles underneath while also encouraging blood flow to that area of the body. Lymphatic massage essentially does for the lymph glands what Swedish massage does for muscles, improving lymph movement throughout the body to strengthen your immune system. Trigger point massage focuses on specific points in the body that may collect lactic acid, a waste material that can build up in muscles to cause muscular aches and pains. By pressing on these trigger points, the therapist can release that lactic acid and relieve pain. There is even prenatal massage aimed at helping pregnant women feel more comfortable and remain as healthy as possible right up to their delivery date.

Your Richardson Massage Solution

We offer Swedish, trigger point, lymph and prenatal massage techniques, allowing us to help a variety of patients. Personal injury or accident victims, for example, can benefit from a combination of chiropractic adjustment and massage to relieve their back pain, neck pain and other symptoms. Headaches often respond to a combination of adjustment and trigger point massage. People interested in wellness care may have periodic maintenance adjustments plus Swedish massage. Patients with immune disorders can improve their overall health with lymph massage. Try massage yourself and feel the difference!

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Find Important Health Tips from Our Chiropractor on Our New Clinic Blog

We are proud to unveil the first posting on our new chiropractic clinic blog! We want to provide our patients with a resource where they can access information about important topics like chiropractic care, massage therapy, nutrition and weight loss.

At Interactive Family Clinic, we enjoy communicating with our patients about their wellness care and work hard to provide clients with plenty of information about the beneficial services that we offer. We believe that it is important that our readers are familiar with the many benefits associated with regular chiropractic care and hope that this blog will inspire people to make an effort to improve their overall health.

Exceptional Wellness Care at Our Richardson Chiropractic Clinic

At Interactive Family Clinic, we offer a variety of services that can be tailored to meet the specific needs of each of our patients. Our Richardson chiropractor, Dr. Houssam Aljamal, utilizes state-of-the-art techniques that focus on fixing the cause of pain or disease.

We have had tremendous success, helping patients that suffer from car accident injuries like whiplash that can cause chronic headache, back pain and neck pain. The effective, breakthrough techniques for pain elimination that are offered at our clinic have even been featured on NBC/Channel 5 news. Our clinic also offers wellness services like nutrition and weight loss counseling, skin cancer screenings and massage therapy.

We invite you to come meet with our experienced, friendly and efficient doctor and staff. We can evaluate if chiropractic care is the right option for you. If we believe that you can benefit from the treatments offered at our clinic, Dr. Aljamal will review your current medical history and identify a treatment plan that can help improve your health and physical condition.

We hope that you will return often to read our new blog posts. We will be updating information frequently and look forward to reading your comments about the topics that we discuss.

What types of chiropractic treatment have you tried in the past?