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Kukurin Chiropractic Network

Kukurin Chiropractic ~ South Side 2415 Sarah Street PGH PA 15203

412.381-4453

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Kukurin Chiropractic: Finding the right chiropractic system for you

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Take a look at the various spinal shapes to the right. The first spinal structure on the left illustrates a strong foundation. It will be much less susceptible to injury, heal faster after injury and resist the wear and tear of aging. It is simply not possible to produce long lasting pain relief if the overall spinal structure is weak and distorted. So if you want meaningful long term results, you must address your foundation. Your core is your foundation for good health and optimal function. The center of your core is your spine. Because just like a house, if your body is built on a poor foundation, it won't hold up well and will need constant and repeated repair. Endless repeated treatments should not be your goal. It is not our goal for you in our office either. We want to strengthen your foundation so you feel better quickly and stay better longer. And we have developed a system for correcting a poor spinal foundation like no other.

The woman in this picture is an actual patent from our office. Notice how our innovative technique of spinal correction changed her from poor spinal structure to excellent spinal structure. Now any doctor can search his files to find that one special case. Not our office. When we tell you we have developed a system to improve the foundation of your spine, we mean it! Click here, because seeing is believing.

So how exactly does strengthening your core foundation (in other words improving your spinal structure), accelerate healing, increase performance and help you resist the wear and tear of aging? Take a look at the illustration above. It shows a very common problem seen in patients. Notice that the women in the illustration above carries her head forward or anterior to her shoulders. There are many names for this, some people might simply call this poor posture, it is known as forward head carriage, anterior head syndrome and many other names.

The truth of the matter is that it is a recognized medical condition called cervico-cranial syndrome by the American Medical Association. (Cervico = neck, cranial = head, thus the neck-head syndrome). Now you might ask yourself what's the big deal, it looks like poor posture, why make a federal case out of it? That's a good question. Refer back to the illustration above. Did you know that your head weights as much as a bowling ball? It's true that the average head weighs 8-12 pounds or as much as a typical bowling ball. So if those 8-12 pounds are not lined up over the spine, but instead carried forward, what holds them up?

If you guessed that muscles of the neck and shoulders, you are correct! Now imagine for a minute that you had to carry a bowling ball around with you all day. Day in and day out. Do you think your muscles would get sore, tight, stiff and knotted? Well of course they will. Research shows that patients with cervico-cranial syndrome have more headaches, neck pain, shoulder pain, mid-back pain, and even carpal tunnel syndrome, compared with people who have a normal core structure with their head lined up over their spine. Take a look at the picture of the woman below left.       Continue.....