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Health Quiz #1

Here’s a multiple-choice question for you.

What do these things have in common?:

A runny nose, fever, diarrhea, coughing, sneezing, vomiting, pain, and inflammation (swelling).

A.  They are all physical abnormalities

B.  They are all normal responses to things that irritate the body

C.  The lack of these means that one is healthy

D.  (Insert your own ridiculous wrong answer here)

The answer is B.  These are perfectly healthy responses to things that irritate the body.

Coughs and runny noses help to get rid of germs and foreign particles that enter our airways. Diarrhea and vomiting help the body to rid itself of germs or other foreign things that enter the digestive system.  Fever indicates that your body is working pretty hard to rid itself of certain germs. Pain warns you that there is a problem somewhere in the body.  Inflammation forms a natural barrier to stop the spread of an infection and in some cases forms a natural “splint” for injured ligaments, bones, or muscles.

Healthy people experience these things.  In fact, if your body is not able to do these things, that’s when there is a huge problem at hand!  How long would you last without the ability to feel pain?  What if you couldn’t cough/sneeze and you encountered a really dusty dirt road?

The key is to ask WHY you have these symptoms, and not to just automatically counteract them with with a drug.  I’m not totally against symptomatic pain relief.  When I had a kidney stone 3 years ago, an IV dose of morphine was a very welcomed thing.  However, the morphine did not get rid of the kidney stone (nor should I have expected it to). It simply made life livable until I could get rid of the stone.

Some of the treatments we perform in our office are aimed directly at reducing pain, particularly in the back and joints.  The goal of chiropractic, though, is to restore proper function to the back, neck, and joints.  By doing this, the pain just tends to go away without needing to rely on pain-relieving drugs to make life livable.

By John Olsen on November 16th, 2010 | Tagged with: | Comments Off on Health Quiz #1

Miracle Worker?

Often, a patient will call me a “miracle worker.”  I usually reply with the standard “I’m so glad that I’ve been able to help . . .” and so on.

Here’s the thing, though.  I’m not a magician.  I’m not a “faith-healer.” I don’t stick pins in a doll.  There is really nothing I do that could be considered a “miracle cure.”

Here’s what I do.  Like any other doctor, I examine the patient — an exam in my office consists mostly of orthopedic, neurologic, and palpation testing (using my hands to detect abnormal joint motion, swelling, misalignment, etc).  Sometimes I send patients for an X-ray or MRI study.

If the patient has a condition I think I can help, I present a treatment plan.  Every treatment modality in my office has a standard code that is recognized by other practitioners (MDs, DOs, PTs, etc) as well as insurance companies (insurance companies would never pay for a “miracle cure” — they scrutinize every type of procedure to the nth degree before they will ever agree to cover it).

If the patient accepts my treatment plan, they usually get really good results (usually very quickly).  This is where I am often accused of being a miracle worker.  They are just so amazed that I can help them without drugs or surgery.

Most people think that the only “real” solutions to medical problems are drugs and surgery  (pharmaceutical companies do a great job of keeping this myth alive with their marketing).  Sometimes drugs or surgery are required.  For most back pain, headaches, neck pain, and other spine and joint conditions, drug-free, scalpel-free chiropractic will do just fine.

I don’t perform miracles.  I just do what I was trained to do, and I have some experience under my belt.  Don’t be overly surprised if I can help you too!

By John Olsen on October 26th, 2010 | Tagged with: | Comments Off on Miracle Worker?

We Write The Content

Just so you know, we (meaning me and a couple of other trusted people) write everything on this website.  Everything on this website is either written by me or very closely edited by me.

So why would I feel the need to write such a statement?  I get TONS of advertisements from website designers every day that claim to “custom-build” a website just for me.  What that means is that they have already built a website that is utterly stuffed with information (most of it is junk, or worse!!) and they want me to pay them lots of cash so that my practice will be the ONLY practice (in my zip code) to have such a top-notch, professional website, “guaranteed to drive patients to [my] door.”

I think that’s pretty bogus, and I challenge all of the other D.C.s out there to write their own content as well!  In latin, “doctor” means “teacher,” so LIVE UP to your degree!!

It’s important that I say this because my website will change within the next couple of months. I am working with two wonderful LOCAL companies to create a fresh, updated, and great-looking website for East End Chiropractic.  Those companies are Harkins Creative, and Blue Kite Marketing.  I just want to say before this new website goes live, that I will still write, or at least edit (they are better with words than I, so mostly edit),  all of the content of this site!  Even though it will look great, and have lots of great features, it will be unique!  It will still be a CUSTOM website in every sense of the term. It will neither be canned, nor will it be for sale!

John P. Olsen, D.C.

By John Olsen on October 19th, 2010 | Tagged with: | 1 Comment

My Back Hurts Because I’m Getting Older (Excuse Busters, part 2)

This is one I hear all of the time . . . “My lower back stays sore most of the time, but it’s just age.  I’m getting old.”  Here’s the funny part:  I hear this from people in their 30’s, 40’s, 50’s, 60’s, 70’s, 80’s, and 90’s!!  In my opinion, the only people who have the RIGHT to use this excuse are the ones in their 80’s and 90’s!  If you’re 40, your neck isn’t tight because you’re OLD!  So STOP IT!! That is not a viable excuse!  Or my favorite: “My left hip is sore, and it doesn’t let me take big steps anymore . . . there’s nothing you can do about it, though, doc.  I’m just getting old.”  I love it when people say this, because I get to be a smart-alec and say “So what you’re telling me is that you left hip is older than your right hip?”  If it was because of age, shouldn’t BOTH hips hurt?

In most cases, joints are stiff and painful because of mechanical problems in the musculo-skeletal system!*  As a chiropractor, I re-condition the mechanics of the spine and joints, thus reducing the pain and improving function.  If you want to go around thinking that you’re just old, that’s your choice.  It probably doesn’t have to be that way, though.

* Not all cases of joint pain and stiffness are a result of mechanical problems.  I perform a thorough physical examination on each new complaint to rule out other causes such as problems with the heart, kidneys, or gallbladder, aneurysms, and tumors, just to name a few.

By John Olsen on September 10th, 2010 | Tagged with: | Comments Off on My Back Hurts Because I’m Getting Older (Excuse Busters, part 2)

We Had Fun at the 2010 Tomato Art Fest

We really enjoyed meeting everyone at the Tomato Art Fest this year. Thanks for coming to see us.

By John Olsen on August 30th, 2010 | Tagged with: Tags: , , | 1 Comment

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