Carlsbad Chiropractor - Dr. Brian Wofford - Is Texting Hurting Your Neck?

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Is Texting Hurting Your Neck?

On average, how many minutes a day do you think you spend on your smartphone texting, checking your email, playing games, or searching one of your many downloaded apps? Ten? Twenty? Sixty? More?
A recent study from the Journal of Behavioral Addictions that has found that young woman typically spend 10 hours daily engaged with their cell phones. No, that isn’t a typo. They spend roughly ten hours.
Whether you’re spending this much time texting or conducting any other business on your phone or not, the impact on your neck after even a few minutes can cause you a tremendous amount of issues. Issues that you feel today, as well as years down the road.

The Effects of Texting on Your Neck

The Chief of Spine Surgery with New York Spine Surgery & Rehabilitation Medicine, has studied this effect and found that the force of having your head tilted forward for long periods of time has damaging results on the cervical area of your spine (your neck region). And the more your head is tilted forward, the greater the effects.

A human head weighs somewhere around 11 pounds. Therefore, when you are standing or sitting with good posture (which is defined as head sitting squarely on your shoulders with your shoulders down and back), there is around 11 pounds of force straight downward on your cervical spine.
Now, if you lean forward just slightly, creating a 15 degree angle in your neck, that amount of pressure more than doubles, increasing to 27 pounds. In essence, it is like your head now weighs 27 pounds which, as you can imagine, would put an extreme amount of pressure on your neck while trying to hold it up.

 

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More than 36,000 chiropractors were paid nearly $500 million by the federal government in 2012, making chiropractors one of the largest groups of Medicare providers. And one chiropractor in Brooklyn topped the list, receiving more than $1 million that year alone.
Alexander Khavash, who works in Brooklyn out of a rented office, received nearly twice the Medicare payments than any other practitioner in his field, according to data released this month by the Department of Health and Human Services.
Overall, chiropractors provided 21 million taxpayer-funded treatments for 2.5 million beneficiaries, the Medicare data show. But just 600 chiropractors, including Khavash, accounted for more than 10% of the Medicare payments.
Khavash was the only chiropractor in the top 1% of all individual practitioners paid by Medicare in 2012. According to the Medicare data, he performed more than 42,000 procedures on more than 2,500 patients.
Early last week, Khavash denied doing that many procedures and refused to comment about the $1 million. Then, in an interview at his office Saturday, he said he had eight chiropractors working for him and using his identification number in 2012. He declined to provide the chiropractors' names, but said Medicare is aware of them. He said they work at different locations than he did in 2012.
He now works out of a Brooklyn physical therapy practice and says he has four chiropractors working for him out of other locations. "I go by the book," Khavash said. "I earned my license. It took me a long time to earn it. I'm not about to mess it up by playing games with Medicare, or any insurance for that matter."

 

 

 

 

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Chiropractic care works well for those who suffer from headaches, lower back pain, neck pain, leg/arm pain, sciatica and injuries sustained from car accidents. Your Health is very important to us. We believe no one cares more about your problem than we do here at Carlsbad Chiropractic and we Strives for the Best Personal Health Care Treatment for YOU!



Chiropractic medicine is a branch of the healing arts, which is based upon the understanding that good health depends upon a normally functioning nervous system.

Chiropractic addresses illness and injury by treating specific musculoskeletal areas of the body that are functioning improperly.

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Wofford Chiropractic will establish your diagnosis through the time honored methods of history taking, physical examination, appropriate testing, and x-rays when necessary. Our thoughtful blend of gentle spinal manipulation combines multiple therapies to provide excellent clinical care.

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Choosing the right Chiropractor is an important choice to make. The doctors and staff are trained on the latest chiropractic treatments & technologies...

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Within our website, Carlsbad and surrounding area residents will find all types of health and wellness related information including information about our office and services such as chiropractic care, back and neck pain, auto injuries, functional medicine and much, much more.

The mission of Chiropractic care and Therapy, are to provide the members of our community with high quality, affordable health care in a comfortable and caring environment. We are committed to doing so with an ongoing spirit of service, dedication, and integrity, holding ourselves accountable to the highest ethical standards. We pledge to our patients that we will settle for nothing less than helping you reach your optimum state of health and well-being.