The Event That Changes Everything.
It’s a little frightening to know that without an absolute knowledge of your body, at any given moment, you could have “the event that changes everything.” Now, to be fair, most of us will not experience this type of life altering subluxation or other meltdown.
Lawn care and maintenance in the summer can be one of those activities that sticks it to you. Why lawn care? Because lawn care involves the “3 T’s”. The three T’s are thoughts, traumas and toxins.
Thoughts: The mental stress that accompanies doing something you dread doing (Yard work)
Traumas: The physical labor and stress of holding equipment, mowing, blowing, weeding, hedging, etc.
Toxins: Gasoline fumes, stress hormones, inflammation chemicals and the like.
Heavy, cumbersome equipment, the fact that you’d rather be hanging out with friends and family and the uptick in stress hormones all make you more vulnerable to a physical melt down. Sciatica, disc herniations, sprain strains, frozen shoulders and the like can be the result of overstressed yard work.
Hold your leaf blower close to your body and use both hands to hold it. Don’t ever hold anything cumbersome and heavy, far away from your body. A lawn care injury can set you back for the rest of your life. You have choices.
If you injure yourself you have choices. Drug related therapies or drug free solutions.
Drug related therapies involve surgery and drugs. Drug free solutions involve chiropractic, acupuncture, physical therapy and massage.
If you have injured yourself with lawn care this summer don’t wait for things to get better on your own! You have one life and every day counts. Do you want to waste time on the floor, unable to move? Uh uh.
Dr. Lou Jacobs is the BEST chiropractor in Portland, Maine. What makes him the best? Ask google reviews. He’ll help you and your lawn care. Call for help today at (207) 774-6251.