January 22, 2025 • 26 mins
Pain treatments by Chiropractic Care
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Speaker 2 (00:26):
Welcome to the Ask the Experts Show on W FOURCY
Radio and Talk for TV, where we bring you educational
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home care, along with many other topics. Now here are
your hosts, Spevo and Sophia.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
And we are back. I want to welcome our national audience,
who is young us now for our Dallas fort Worst show.
We have been doing this show for fifteen years now,
and I must say that there is a topic that
I've never seen become as popular as it is and
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I understand the reason why chiropractic here. And I got
to tell you, I've seen over the years what chiropractors
are doing now versus say, ten or fifteen years ago,
and I think one of the greatest things about a
chiropractor is that they can literally save you from having
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to do surgery. There's so many different areas that they cover.
And we're lucky enough we've got the Functional Health Centers
located in Dallas, Texas. And let's welcome doctor Adam Bumblasty here.
Speaker 4 (01:59):
I Adam, how's it going.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
Well, you know what my family all tells me, how
cold it is there in Dallas, very very cold for us. Yes, wow,
did you get any snow?
Speaker 4 (02:12):
No, not this time luckily.
Speaker 3 (02:15):
Yes. Well, hey, Adam, I was just telling everybody that
I can't believe how far your profession has come and
the things you're doing. That Listen from a guy who
had two knee surgeries replacements, I wish I'd have gone
to a chiropractice first, for sure. Tell people first of
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all about your practice.
Speaker 4 (02:39):
We're primarily a chiropractical practice. We focus on really optimizing health,
so not just a simple neck or bat thing, but
more in depth about the issues, so the muscles, the
connective tissues, the gut health, the immune system, the healing response.
You're trying to be an encompassing practice that helps anybody
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with any kind of muscular scale conditions, nervous system conditions,
even gut health issues.
Speaker 3 (03:05):
And you know I'm hearing that you are even I
know you work with autoaction injuries, which we have a
personal injury attorney who talks on auto accents. But what
are some of the most common types of personal injuries
that you see at your clinic.
Speaker 4 (03:24):
First and foremost, it would be the woodlash type injuries.
So people are in small to medium car accidents where
there's mild to moderate damage to the vehicles. Even there's
some research that came out of a couple of different
schools that tells us somewhere between eight and fifteen miles
an hour in a car accent is enough to cause
permanent damage to your neck and your lower back. So
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we see those mild soft tissue injuries. Sometimes we do
see the moderns of severe where we have discrimations, broken bones,
broken ribs, those kinds of things, mild traumatic brain injuries,
most common ones are going to be those mild soft
issue injuries and the big problem with those if you
leave them untreated, they turn into ostin arthritis, de generation,
all those conditions you were talking about that end up
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in a surgical setting. So we want to address them
before they get to be a problem.
Speaker 3 (04:13):
We just got our first text. This is from Garland, Texas.
I found your show by Accident on iHeart last month,
and I was so glad to see that you're back
on again this month. I've got to ask, is there
really is such thing as whiplash? For sure?
Speaker 4 (04:35):
Macan said that it's more of a generalized term for
any injury that happens where the head goes forwards and
backwards quickly right. So it doesn't have to be a
car accident. It could be a slip and fall, can
be getting in and the head. Sports injuries are very
common that we have. Some whiplashing can conjunction with things
like concussions and stuff like that. Essentially, we're defining the
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injury to the soft tissue that connects the bone together
in the neck. It could be a muscle, it can
be a tendon, it could be a ligament, it could
be the disk. But that whiplash injury is going to
affect many of those components of the soft issue, and
it's just going beyond the limits of those soft issues
in a very small amount of time. That's where we'll
have those injuries that we've generalized as a windplash injury.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
You know, this is really important. A lot of people
will say, well, I was in an auto action and
I'm not hurt, or even a slip and fall, and
they go, I'm not hurt, So it's silly to go
see it, you know, a doctor. But sometimes those injuries
don't really appear for two or three days or even
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a week. Is that correct for sure?
Speaker 4 (05:42):
Now, just simply the information cascade sometimes it takes up
to seventy two hours to see its peak. Right, So
we may not feel much discomfort the day.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
Of the day.
Speaker 4 (05:51):
After that third day, you're really sore and aching. That's
sore in achiness is your body's response is trying to
heal some kind of damage to the soft issues. Even
if we just feel a little bit sore and achey,
it could be evidence that we have some more severe
injury to those soft issues. I have many patients that
sow up ten, fifteen, twenty years after a minor car
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accident that had no dreaming. I have severe oustine arthritis
now and they just didn't know where it came from.
It was that minor. I didn't feel any pain, I
didn't break any bones. It was nothing by accident. Better
to get it checked out.
Speaker 3 (06:24):
It's really important at a person if they're in an
auto accident, come to you first of all to make
sure everything is okay. But you know, we just got
a text here from Matt in Arlington and he said,
I had back surgery last year. I am in worse
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shape now than before the surgery. Adam, do you hear
that often? Maybe they should have maybe come to you
first rather than have that surgery right away.
Speaker 4 (06:59):
Unfortunately, it's a very common thing. For some strange reason,
we end up being the last protocol for a lot
of patients. They did FTI, they did ingestions, they did
pain management, they did surgery, and now that that what's
in and they can't find any solution in the show
up here. I really shouldn't be in the first place
they went. Even if you end up having to have
some kind of surgeble intervention, having appropriate chiropractic care with
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the physical therapy and all the other components is going
to increase the chances of the surgery being successful and
you're recovery being much better. Right, So even if it
ends up in that department, which I hope it doesn't,
it's going to have a better outcome overall. So it
really needs to be the first place you go.
Speaker 3 (07:40):
And you know, if a person's in an auto accident,
what are just some of the signs someone might look
for it to see if they needed chiropractic care.
Speaker 4 (07:52):
Generally, if there's any kind of damage to a newer vehicle,
that's more than enough indication that you need to at
least get checked out to see if there's any kind
of If you're feeling any kind of soreness achiness, people
will describe it as a deep, gnawing pain that they
can't quite pinpoint. That's evidence of a livument injury, which
is a very severe thing that needs to be addressed quickly.
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So soreness achiness, those gnawing, deep pains, something doesn't quite
feel right, or you can't turn, don't have the normal
range of motion anymore, those are all really good indications
that we do have a soft issue injury that needs
to be you know, I'm.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
Sure you've seen patients that blue off their injury thinking
it would heal get better. I don't have time. They
waited too long. What happens if you do way too
long with some of these injuries.
Speaker 4 (08:42):
So the ultimate thing is that you're gonna have severe
ostie arthritis. That's the breakdown of the generations. Yeah, it's
really a very slow progressing disease from the initial injury
to generally would say intervention is going to take twenty
or twenty five years, but there are so many steps
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in between that we could have addressed it before we
got to that point. So making sure that we take
care of it early is really the best option for us.
Speaker 3 (09:11):
And you know, there's so many people who have never
even been to a chiropractor who are so uneducated about
what you do. What are some of the things people
should look for when they choose a chiropractor.
Speaker 4 (09:26):
Anybody that has any any kind of issue, So whether
we headaches and net fame or back pain something like that,
we want to find a chiropractor that focuses more on
holistic treatment. So we want to have somebody that comes
up with a decent plan, explains to you what's going on. Right,
So we want to take X race they want to
do an exam to figure out what parts of pieces
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are working and not working and give you some kind
of idea of what it's going to take to get
it treated. So we really wanted a provider that's going
to do all the necessary steps to come up with
a good treatment plan that's going to be the most
successful for you. If you have no issues and you
just want to experience chiropractice, there's plenty of different wellness
type chiropractice in which you just go. They make sure
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that nothing's wrong with you, and they can give you
the experience of an adjustment for the chiropractic treatment so
that you can at least know what it's like.
Speaker 3 (10:15):
Helen and Elano, great show. I'm wondering, does your expert
treat headaches migraines and if so, how do you treat them?
Speaker 4 (10:29):
For sure? Those are some of my favorite cases to
see the changes. Right, it's so miserable with headaches and migraines,
and if you always have these migraines, it's so debilitating
it and encompasses every part of your life. So these
are really special cases for me. A few weeks ago
had a mother come in that she was at her
what's in She couldn't she couldn't operate, she couldn't help
take care of her kids, couldn't help her house, she
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can go to work anymore. And she was dealing with
pretty consistent migraines. Almost every day. She was having somewhere
between ten and twelve hours of a migraine. And there's
many different types of headaches and migraines, so when we
think of treatment, there's very.
Speaker 3 (11:04):
What's a difference between a headache and a migraine.
Speaker 4 (11:06):
Generally, a headache is going to be an isolated thing,
so we're going to feel it in one spot or
the other. It's not the whole head that feels like
it's going to blow up, or that you have any
kind of symptoms behind the eyes or auras or changes
in the vision. The migraines are really the whole head's
killing you. You feel like your head's going to blow up.
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It affects your vision and your hearing. Sometimes it's it's
it's a more much more severe headache, for sure, But
so many variables go into where these come from, what
problems cause these types of issues, So the treatment's variable
in that. Sometimes it is just making sure that the
upper part of the neck, so where most of the
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nerves that you feel your head come from is operating
and moving with it's supposed to do to take the
pressure off the nerves, the muscles, and the connected tissue.
Some of it is the nerve input from the rest
of your body being disconnected and causing those wiring within
the brain to go hey wire and causes a lot
of discomfort. Fact, we do an assessment to make sure
that we will be successful with your type of headache
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or migraine. In many cases we can't help those tremendously
and even resolve them entirely.
Speaker 3 (12:15):
Did we lose you here? Okay? Our weather, believe it
or not, is bad here, not like yours. But it's amazing.
We get down to fifty degrees at them and everybody's
got the park is out, you know. So you know
it's amazing though, that you can treat headaches. Oh my god.
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I have know people that can't just light bothers their
eyes and it's it's so sad. What about What are
some of the other areas that you like to treat.
Speaker 4 (12:53):
Some of my favorites are going to be extremities. I
really like helping people with shoulder problems, need problems that problems,
those are really more soft tissue oriented. I have a
lot of experience with mild fashion release, a bunch of
different techniques that are specific to the soft issues and
physical therapies that support it. I enjoy seeing the changes
in those truth endously. It's a lot of fun for me.
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The rapid relief that I can give somebody makes me
just just feel warm inside, and can give somebody an
ankle that's working and they haven't been able to walk
for ten years. To make that happen for people, it's
really recording.
Speaker 3 (13:29):
Ron in Farmer's Branch wants to know, do you do
physical therapy at your clinic.
Speaker 4 (13:36):
For sure, we do something like physical therapy. The physical
therapists have that coin for their so we would call
it rehabilitation. It's active rehabilitation, much like you would do
it a physical therapy office. We're having you neurologically connect
with the muscle again, strengthen the muscle, coordinate all the
muscles together, and so we do a different many different
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forms of physical therapy in order to get you the
best result. That works very very well in congruency with
the chiropractic adjustments. It's a wonderful support that makes a
huge difference in the ultimate outcome.
Speaker 3 (14:11):
This is Greenville Avenue, that's Dallas. Yeah, really enjoying the show.
I was one of the people who wrote you that
she should have a chiropractor on your show. Does your
expert do laser?
Speaker 4 (14:28):
I do not have any of the Class four lasers
in the office. Many providers do have those types of things.
There's a wonderful clinic down the street that specializes in
a lot of the passive therapies. In my office, I
tend to focus on the focus on the active therapies.
So anything that's accessory like that, I do refer them
to that that provider too, and we work and we
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work together to help those patients.
Speaker 3 (14:51):
Adam, Why why did the insurance companies I don't understand.
Why do they don't cover a lot of things that
chiropractors do, because what you do, especially in the long term,
I mean to me, it seems like it would save
them a lot of money.
Speaker 4 (15:10):
There's been a lot of statistical analysis that's been done
lately that you know, told even Blue Cross Boushield they'd
save hundreds of millions of dollars a year if they use.
Chiropractors is the force first protocol for any kind of
muscular scle of issues. I think there's an unfortunate hold
back to the nineties and the early two thousands where
there was a lot of misinformation.
Speaker 5 (15:31):
That was spread about chiropractic chiropractic care and the success rates,
and it takes so long for the insurance industry to
make changes to accommodate for those types of things. I
think they're just behind the ball on that significant absolutely.
Speaker 3 (15:46):
Well, let's talk about the number one subject. And if
you've ever had low back pain, you know how painful
it is. And I used to have it where I
couldn't even get out of bed and it affects your breathing.
How do you treat low back pain.
Speaker 4 (16:07):
Now depends on where it's coming from, for sure. So
there's many different reasons that we've got a lower back pain. Generally,
the majority of cases are going to be simbilization based,
so we have soft tissue injury that caused one or
more of the bones to become roughly out of alignment
with the best. That misalignment in the system causes more irritation,
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more degeneration of the soft tissues, that connect to the bones,
we get more inflammation, more scar tissue. Over time that
starts to build up and cause pressure and irritation to
the nerves that surround it, and that's generally when we'll
start getting the pain. So by the time you have
low back pain, you've had a problem for years. Typically
the treatment for that would be to make sure that
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we break down that scarp tissue so that we can
optimize or normalize the range of motion or movement, help
rebuild them and soft tissues in the surrounding surrounding areas
to keep that range of motion at movement normal and
that's where we can really truly find solutions for this
true correction to the problem.
Speaker 3 (17:11):
Oh, this is a great question. Uh, Marie wants to know.
I was in an auto accident. My attorney said I
had to see a certain chiropractor. Do I have to
go to that chiropractor or could I make an appointment
with you.
Speaker 4 (17:30):
The legality of that situation, you do not have to
see that particular chiropractor. Generally, if you've already hired the attorney,
any chiropractor that accepts what's called a letter of protection
which your attorney can provide would be able to take
care of you. We take LP's all the time. I'm
happy to work with just about any attorney, and there's
a couple on my list, but most of every attorney
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I'll work with. You don't have to go to any
particular provider, and your attorney really shouldn't dictate.
Speaker 3 (17:56):
That for it. I totally agree. What does a chiropractice,
How does a chiropir complement, say, other medical treatments, especially
for personal injuries.
Speaker 4 (18:10):
Sure, most of the time, when we have enough soft
tissue injury that it causes an inflammation cascade that we
have a tremendous amount of discomfort and pain, we're going
to go to payment the pain managed providers are going
to give us some type of anti inflammatory along with
the corcosteroid and a muscle relaxers, so we're trying to
reduce the overall inflammation so we have less pain. A
muster relax that's a great starting point. It gives us
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a little bit more comfort, range, emotion, and those kinds
of things. It gives me a really wide door to
start getting a lot of work done, so we can
start getting a lot more movement, and we can start
getting a lot more stimulation. Of muscles, repair of those
soft tissues. Patients that have head traumas or file traumatic
brain injuries do significantly see improvements in the nervous system function.
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With chiropractic care, it helps sopt them the inputs and
outputs so that the brain can normalize that normal function,
keep everything working the way that it's supposed to.
Speaker 3 (19:09):
You know, I know there's you do a lot of
treatments for personal injury recovery, do you are? There are
also supplements and exercises they can also do.
Speaker 4 (19:23):
For sure, there's many supplements that would help support the
necessary inflammation. Right, So when we think of the inflammation cascade,
it's something that has to happen. For example, say you're
walking down the street and your roller akle, it's going
to swell up. That's the immune system's response to damage.
We need that inflammation process to occur in order for
us to heal those soft issues. So taking things like
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i'd be growth in the leaves, dial and all they
stop that process. They slow it down. So if we
can find relief from things like supplements we'd say magnesium
or zincer, different things that would help reduce the inflammation
naturally so that we can continue that healing process with
less pain. I really like whole body collagens. That seems
to help a lot of people that have a fresh injury.
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Have plenty of building blocks so that the body is
really very efficient and effective. Soft issues.
Speaker 3 (20:12):
What ways do you help your patients regain their strength
after an injury.
Speaker 4 (20:17):
The most important thing is that we help reconnect the
nerves to those muscles. Anytime there's an injury to a muscle,
there's a neurological inhibition. The brain turns off a portion
of that muscle that's to protect them. It's a really
really great system that the body came up with to
make sure that we don't injure it anymore. Helping reconnect
those nerves to those muscles through the chiropractical adjustment facilitated
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with some neuromuscular re education. So we train that connection
back to those muscles. After we get the connection, and
then we start to work hard and or strengthen that
particular muscle. So it's really essential that we have no
scar tissue in it. We have the nervous system connection
and communication so that we can strengthen the muscle correctly
with full range of motion and function.
Speaker 3 (20:58):
Adam I know this is going to be an easy
question for you, but I want to really ask this
question because I know there's so many people out there
who have different concerns or fears about seeing a chiropractor,
which is they're so far behind the eight fall. But
for those people who do have concerns, can you address
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those that people just don't know about what chiropractors do?
Speaker 4 (21:27):
Sure the chntractor treatment in and of itself is inherently
very safe. The incidence of us causing any kind of
injury or wor seeing any injuries is very, very very small.
A few cases a year where we have some kind
of injury out of millions of adjustments. Most of the
time that's just a misinterpretation of exam findings or X rays.
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Making sure that we have all the necessary information to
create the most appropriate treatment for you as essential. So
making sure that you find a chiropractor that does take
X rays, does do exams is really a good way
to make sure that you don't have any of those
potential issues. But it's extremely rare of any kind of
complicated affection.
Speaker 3 (22:08):
I've noticed that there's a lot of people who've been
joining our show in the middle. I think This is
really an important question that again tell people what the
risk are, especially in personal injury, if left untreated, if.
Speaker 4 (22:23):
We don't get soft issue injuries to treat it, so
namely car accidents, even a mild acre pain is going
to eventually break down the soft tissue, break down the
disc and everything connected to it because what's called osteoarthritis.
That osteoarthritis is considered a progressive degenerative disease, which means
it's just going to get worse and let's do something
about it. Eventually that's going to lead to surgical intervention.
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And I'm just dingling dysfunction, loss of function of hands, beat,
all kinds of horrible things that come from it. So
early treatment is essentral in any of those soft issues.
Speaker 3 (22:59):
Brook In, Alan, Texas, Steve though really enjoying the show,
Could you please ask your guest what causes a stiff
neck and how do you treat it?
Speaker 4 (23:12):
For sure, if we have a stiff neck that came
out of nowhere, likely we had a softest your injury
many years ago that was mild, very mild. So maybe
you're jarred your neck when you tripped over a curve
or something, or we have a really bad boster. So
we're always working at a computer for long hours and
our heads really far forward their shoulders by the time
we cause irritation between the joint spaces. That's typically where
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we're gonna get the very stiff neck. I can't turn
it as far, I can't rotate as far. I feel
pinching or pain when I do go backwards and sideways,
and that's telling us that we have that sublexation complex
or that bone that stuck out of place. Generally, a
series of treatments that correlates to the X rays so
we'll be able to unstiffen that particular neck. Normal stretches
where you're trying to touch you to your shoulder, doing circles.
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As long as those aren't painful, that's definitely a good
way that you can start to alleviate those symptoms. It's persistent,
so we said that it lasts more than seventy two hours.
That tells us that something more than just a muscle
ache is there and we should get that checked out.
Speaker 3 (24:11):
Someone to row. Where's your office at We're.
Speaker 4 (24:14):
Located at four one one North Washington, the Big Baylor
University Hospital complex here near downtown Dallas.
Speaker 3 (24:21):
Oh okay so, and it's called Texas Functional Health Centers.
The phone numbers four six nine three three four o
six two four. Uh. If you're watching on YouTube, we've
been running that. But for all of you listening on
iHeart and Spotify again, the phone numbers for six '
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nine three three four zero six two four. Adam. I
love the way you answer questions. You don't talk over
people's heads, and people just I can see that. People
just feel so safe with you treat them and we
really appreciate you. Thank you for having me. Thanks so much, Adam.
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And that'll be it for us today. Again. It was
ton to someone just asked me again. Texas Functional Health
Centers four six nine three three four six two four.
Website is www dot Texas f is in Frank h
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it for us today. We'll be back in with you
next week with more Asked Cexpert.
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Welcome to the Ask the Experts Show on W FOURCY
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home care, along with many other topics. Now here are
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Speaker 3 (00:55):
And we are back. I want to welcome our national audience,
who is young us now for our Dallas fort Worst show.
We have been doing this show for fifteen years now,
and I must say that there is a topic that
I've never seen become as popular as it is and
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I understand the reason why chiropractic here. And I got
to tell you, I've seen over the years what chiropractors
are doing now versus say, ten or fifteen years ago,
and I think one of the greatest things about a
chiropractor is that they can literally save you from having
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to do surgery. There's so many different areas that they cover.
And we're lucky enough we've got the Functional Health Centers
located in Dallas, Texas. And let's welcome doctor Adam Bumblasty here.
Speaker 4 (01:59):
I Adam, how's it going.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
Well, you know what my family all tells me, how
cold it is there in Dallas, very very cold for us. Yes, wow,
did you get any snow?
Speaker 4 (02:12):
No, not this time luckily.
Speaker 3 (02:15):
Yes. Well, hey, Adam, I was just telling everybody that
I can't believe how far your profession has come and
the things you're doing. That Listen from a guy who
had two knee surgeries replacements, I wish I'd have gone
to a chiropractice first, for sure. Tell people first of
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all about your practice.
Speaker 4 (02:39):
We're primarily a chiropractical practice. We focus on really optimizing health,
so not just a simple neck or bat thing, but
more in depth about the issues, so the muscles, the
connective tissues, the gut health, the immune system, the healing response.
You're trying to be an encompassing practice that helps anybody
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with any kind of muscular scale conditions, nervous system conditions,
even gut health issues.
Speaker 3 (03:05):
And you know I'm hearing that you are even I
know you work with autoaction injuries, which we have a
personal injury attorney who talks on auto accents. But what
are some of the most common types of personal injuries
that you see at your clinic.
Speaker 4 (03:24):
First and foremost, it would be the woodlash type injuries.
So people are in small to medium car accidents where
there's mild to moderate damage to the vehicles. Even there's
some research that came out of a couple of different
schools that tells us somewhere between eight and fifteen miles
an hour in a car accent is enough to cause
permanent damage to your neck and your lower back. So
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we see those mild soft tissue injuries. Sometimes we do
see the moderns of severe where we have discrimations, broken bones,
broken ribs, those kinds of things, mild traumatic brain injuries,
most common ones are going to be those mild soft
issue injuries and the big problem with those if you
leave them untreated, they turn into ostin arthritis, de generation,
all those conditions you were talking about that end up
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in a surgical setting. So we want to address them
before they get to be a problem.
Speaker 3 (04:13):
We just got our first text. This is from Garland, Texas.
I found your show by Accident on iHeart last month,
and I was so glad to see that you're back
on again this month. I've got to ask, is there
really is such thing as whiplash? For sure?
Speaker 4 (04:35):
Macan said that it's more of a generalized term for
any injury that happens where the head goes forwards and
backwards quickly right. So it doesn't have to be a
car accident. It could be a slip and fall, can
be getting in and the head. Sports injuries are very
common that we have. Some whiplashing can conjunction with things
like concussions and stuff like that. Essentially, we're defining the
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injury to the soft tissue that connects the bone together
in the neck. It could be a muscle, it can
be a tendon, it could be a ligament, it could
be the disk. But that whiplash injury is going to
affect many of those components of the soft issue, and
it's just going beyond the limits of those soft issues
in a very small amount of time. That's where we'll
have those injuries that we've generalized as a windplash injury.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
You know, this is really important. A lot of people
will say, well, I was in an auto action and
I'm not hurt, or even a slip and fall, and
they go, I'm not hurt, So it's silly to go
see it, you know, a doctor. But sometimes those injuries
don't really appear for two or three days or even
(05:39):
a week. Is that correct for sure?
Speaker 4 (05:42):
Now, just simply the information cascade sometimes it takes up
to seventy two hours to see its peak. Right, So
we may not feel much discomfort the day.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
Of the day.
Speaker 4 (05:51):
After that third day, you're really sore and aching. That's
sore in achiness is your body's response is trying to
heal some kind of damage to the soft issues. Even
if we just feel a little bit sore and achey,
it could be evidence that we have some more severe
injury to those soft issues. I have many patients that
sow up ten, fifteen, twenty years after a minor car
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accident that had no dreaming. I have severe oustine arthritis
now and they just didn't know where it came from.
It was that minor. I didn't feel any pain, I
didn't break any bones. It was nothing by accident. Better
to get it checked out.
Speaker 3 (06:24):
It's really important at a person if they're in an
auto accident, come to you first of all to make
sure everything is okay. But you know, we just got
a text here from Matt in Arlington and he said,
I had back surgery last year. I am in worse
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shape now than before the surgery. Adam, do you hear
that often? Maybe they should have maybe come to you
first rather than have that surgery right away.
Speaker 4 (06:59):
Unfortunately, it's a very common thing. For some strange reason,
we end up being the last protocol for a lot
of patients. They did FTI, they did ingestions, they did
pain management, they did surgery, and now that that what's
in and they can't find any solution in the show
up here. I really shouldn't be in the first place
they went. Even if you end up having to have
some kind of surgeble intervention, having appropriate chiropractic care with
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the physical therapy and all the other components is going
to increase the chances of the surgery being successful and
you're recovery being much better. Right, So even if it
ends up in that department, which I hope it doesn't,
it's going to have a better outcome overall. So it
really needs to be the first place you go.
Speaker 3 (07:40):
And you know, if a person's in an auto accident,
what are just some of the signs someone might look
for it to see if they needed chiropractic care.
Speaker 4 (07:52):
Generally, if there's any kind of damage to a newer vehicle,
that's more than enough indication that you need to at
least get checked out to see if there's any kind
of If you're feeling any kind of soreness achiness, people
will describe it as a deep, gnawing pain that they
can't quite pinpoint. That's evidence of a livument injury, which
is a very severe thing that needs to be addressed quickly.
(08:13):
So soreness achiness, those gnawing, deep pains, something doesn't quite
feel right, or you can't turn, don't have the normal
range of motion anymore, those are all really good indications
that we do have a soft issue injury that needs
to be you know, I'm.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
Sure you've seen patients that blue off their injury thinking
it would heal get better. I don't have time. They
waited too long. What happens if you do way too
long with some of these injuries.
Speaker 4 (08:42):
So the ultimate thing is that you're gonna have severe
ostie arthritis. That's the breakdown of the generations. Yeah, it's
really a very slow progressing disease from the initial injury
to generally would say intervention is going to take twenty
or twenty five years, but there are so many steps
(09:04):
in between that we could have addressed it before we
got to that point. So making sure that we take
care of it early is really the best option for us.
Speaker 3 (09:11):
And you know, there's so many people who have never
even been to a chiropractor who are so uneducated about
what you do. What are some of the things people
should look for when they choose a chiropractor.
Speaker 4 (09:26):
Anybody that has any any kind of issue, So whether
we headaches and net fame or back pain something like that,
we want to find a chiropractor that focuses more on
holistic treatment. So we want to have somebody that comes
up with a decent plan, explains to you what's going on. Right,
So we want to take X race they want to
do an exam to figure out what parts of pieces
(09:47):
are working and not working and give you some kind
of idea of what it's going to take to get
it treated. So we really wanted a provider that's going
to do all the necessary steps to come up with
a good treatment plan that's going to be the most
successful for you. If you have no issues and you
just want to experience chiropractice, there's plenty of different wellness
type chiropractice in which you just go. They make sure
(10:08):
that nothing's wrong with you, and they can give you
the experience of an adjustment for the chiropractic treatment so
that you can at least know what it's like.
Speaker 3 (10:15):
Helen and Elano, great show. I'm wondering, does your expert
treat headaches migraines and if so, how do you treat them?
Speaker 4 (10:29):
For sure? Those are some of my favorite cases to
see the changes. Right, it's so miserable with headaches and migraines,
and if you always have these migraines, it's so debilitating
it and encompasses every part of your life. So these
are really special cases for me. A few weeks ago
had a mother come in that she was at her
what's in She couldn't she couldn't operate, she couldn't help
take care of her kids, couldn't help her house, she
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can go to work anymore. And she was dealing with
pretty consistent migraines. Almost every day. She was having somewhere
between ten and twelve hours of a migraine. And there's
many different types of headaches and migraines, so when we
think of treatment, there's very.
Speaker 3 (11:04):
What's a difference between a headache and a migraine.
Speaker 4 (11:06):
Generally, a headache is going to be an isolated thing,
so we're going to feel it in one spot or
the other. It's not the whole head that feels like
it's going to blow up, or that you have any
kind of symptoms behind the eyes or auras or changes
in the vision. The migraines are really the whole head's
killing you. You feel like your head's going to blow up.
(11:27):
It affects your vision and your hearing. Sometimes it's it's
it's a more much more severe headache, for sure, But
so many variables go into where these come from, what
problems cause these types of issues, So the treatment's variable
in that. Sometimes it is just making sure that the
upper part of the neck, so where most of the
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nerves that you feel your head come from is operating
and moving with it's supposed to do to take the
pressure off the nerves, the muscles, and the connected tissue.
Some of it is the nerve input from the rest
of your body being disconnected and causing those wiring within
the brain to go hey wire and causes a lot
of discomfort. Fact, we do an assessment to make sure
that we will be successful with your type of headache
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or migraine. In many cases we can't help those tremendously
and even resolve them entirely.
Speaker 3 (12:15):
Did we lose you here? Okay? Our weather, believe it
or not, is bad here, not like yours. But it's amazing.
We get down to fifty degrees at them and everybody's
got the park is out, you know. So you know
it's amazing though, that you can treat headaches. Oh my god.
(12:39):
I have know people that can't just light bothers their
eyes and it's it's so sad. What about What are
some of the other areas that you like to treat.
Speaker 4 (12:53):
Some of my favorites are going to be extremities. I
really like helping people with shoulder problems, need problems that problems,
those are really more soft tissue oriented. I have a
lot of experience with mild fashion release, a bunch of
different techniques that are specific to the soft issues and
physical therapies that support it. I enjoy seeing the changes
in those truth endously. It's a lot of fun for me.
(13:15):
The rapid relief that I can give somebody makes me
just just feel warm inside, and can give somebody an
ankle that's working and they haven't been able to walk
for ten years. To make that happen for people, it's
really recording.
Speaker 3 (13:29):
Ron in Farmer's Branch wants to know, do you do
physical therapy at your clinic.
Speaker 4 (13:36):
For sure, we do something like physical therapy. The physical
therapists have that coin for their so we would call
it rehabilitation. It's active rehabilitation, much like you would do
it a physical therapy office. We're having you neurologically connect
with the muscle again, strengthen the muscle, coordinate all the
muscles together, and so we do a different many different
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forms of physical therapy in order to get you the
best result. That works very very well in congruency with
the chiropractic adjustments. It's a wonderful support that makes a
huge difference in the ultimate outcome.
Speaker 3 (14:11):
This is Greenville Avenue, that's Dallas. Yeah, really enjoying the show.
I was one of the people who wrote you that
she should have a chiropractor on your show. Does your
expert do laser?
Speaker 4 (14:28):
I do not have any of the Class four lasers
in the office. Many providers do have those types of things.
There's a wonderful clinic down the street that specializes in
a lot of the passive therapies. In my office, I
tend to focus on the focus on the active therapies.
So anything that's accessory like that, I do refer them
to that that provider too, and we work and we
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work together to help those patients.
Speaker 3 (14:51):
Adam, Why why did the insurance companies I don't understand.
Why do they don't cover a lot of things that
chiropractors do, because what you do, especially in the long term,
I mean to me, it seems like it would save
them a lot of money.
Speaker 4 (15:10):
There's been a lot of statistical analysis that's been done
lately that you know, told even Blue Cross Boushield they'd
save hundreds of millions of dollars a year if they use.
Chiropractors is the force first protocol for any kind of
muscular scle of issues. I think there's an unfortunate hold
back to the nineties and the early two thousands where
there was a lot of misinformation.
Speaker 5 (15:31):
That was spread about chiropractic chiropractic care and the success rates,
and it takes so long for the insurance industry to
make changes to accommodate for those types of things. I
think they're just behind the ball on that significant absolutely.
Speaker 3 (15:46):
Well, let's talk about the number one subject. And if
you've ever had low back pain, you know how painful
it is. And I used to have it where I
couldn't even get out of bed and it affects your breathing.
How do you treat low back pain.
Speaker 4 (16:07):
Now depends on where it's coming from, for sure. So
there's many different reasons that we've got a lower back pain. Generally,
the majority of cases are going to be simbilization based,
so we have soft tissue injury that caused one or
more of the bones to become roughly out of alignment
with the best. That misalignment in the system causes more irritation,
(16:32):
more degeneration of the soft tissues, that connect to the bones,
we get more inflammation, more scar tissue. Over time that
starts to build up and cause pressure and irritation to
the nerves that surround it, and that's generally when we'll
start getting the pain. So by the time you have
low back pain, you've had a problem for years. Typically
the treatment for that would be to make sure that
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we break down that scarp tissue so that we can
optimize or normalize the range of motion or movement, help
rebuild them and soft tissues in the surrounding surrounding areas
to keep that range of motion at movement normal and
that's where we can really truly find solutions for this
true correction to the problem.
Speaker 3 (17:11):
Oh, this is a great question. Uh, Marie wants to know.
I was in an auto accident. My attorney said I
had to see a certain chiropractor. Do I have to
go to that chiropractor or could I make an appointment
with you.
Speaker 4 (17:30):
The legality of that situation, you do not have to
see that particular chiropractor. Generally, if you've already hired the attorney,
any chiropractor that accepts what's called a letter of protection
which your attorney can provide would be able to take
care of you. We take LP's all the time. I'm
happy to work with just about any attorney, and there's
a couple on my list, but most of every attorney
(17:50):
I'll work with. You don't have to go to any
particular provider, and your attorney really shouldn't dictate.
Speaker 3 (17:56):
That for it. I totally agree. What does a chiropractice,
How does a chiropir complement, say, other medical treatments, especially
for personal injuries.
Speaker 4 (18:10):
Sure, most of the time, when we have enough soft
tissue injury that it causes an inflammation cascade that we
have a tremendous amount of discomfort and pain, we're going
to go to payment the pain managed providers are going
to give us some type of anti inflammatory along with
the corcosteroid and a muscle relaxers, so we're trying to
reduce the overall inflammation so we have less pain. A
muster relax that's a great starting point. It gives us
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a little bit more comfort, range, emotion, and those kinds
of things. It gives me a really wide door to
start getting a lot of work done, so we can
start getting a lot more movement, and we can start
getting a lot more stimulation. Of muscles, repair of those
soft tissues. Patients that have head traumas or file traumatic
brain injuries do significantly see improvements in the nervous system function.
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With chiropractic care, it helps sopt them the inputs and
outputs so that the brain can normalize that normal function,
keep everything working the way that it's supposed to.
Speaker 3 (19:09):
You know, I know there's you do a lot of
treatments for personal injury recovery, do you are? There are
also supplements and exercises they can also do.
Speaker 4 (19:23):
For sure, there's many supplements that would help support the
necessary inflammation. Right, So when we think of the inflammation cascade,
it's something that has to happen. For example, say you're
walking down the street and your roller akle, it's going
to swell up. That's the immune system's response to damage.
We need that inflammation process to occur in order for
us to heal those soft issues. So taking things like
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i'd be growth in the leaves, dial and all they
stop that process. They slow it down. So if we
can find relief from things like supplements we'd say magnesium
or zincer, different things that would help reduce the inflammation
naturally so that we can continue that healing process with
less pain. I really like whole body collagens. That seems
to help a lot of people that have a fresh injury.
(20:06):
Have plenty of building blocks so that the body is
really very efficient and effective. Soft issues.
Speaker 3 (20:12):
What ways do you help your patients regain their strength
after an injury.
Speaker 4 (20:17):
The most important thing is that we help reconnect the
nerves to those muscles. Anytime there's an injury to a muscle,
there's a neurological inhibition. The brain turns off a portion
of that muscle that's to protect them. It's a really
really great system that the body came up with to
make sure that we don't injure it anymore. Helping reconnect
those nerves to those muscles through the chiropractical adjustment facilitated
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with some neuromuscular re education. So we train that connection
back to those muscles. After we get the connection, and
then we start to work hard and or strengthen that
particular muscle. So it's really essential that we have no
scar tissue in it. We have the nervous system connection
and communication so that we can strengthen the muscle correctly
with full range of motion and function.
Speaker 3 (20:58):
Adam I know this is going to be an easy
question for you, but I want to really ask this
question because I know there's so many people out there
who have different concerns or fears about seeing a chiropractor,
which is they're so far behind the eight fall. But
for those people who do have concerns, can you address
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those that people just don't know about what chiropractors do?
Speaker 4 (21:27):
Sure the chntractor treatment in and of itself is inherently
very safe. The incidence of us causing any kind of
injury or wor seeing any injuries is very, very very small.
A few cases a year where we have some kind
of injury out of millions of adjustments. Most of the
time that's just a misinterpretation of exam findings or X rays.
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Making sure that we have all the necessary information to
create the most appropriate treatment for you as essential. So
making sure that you find a chiropractor that does take
X rays, does do exams is really a good way
to make sure that you don't have any of those
potential issues. But it's extremely rare of any kind of
complicated affection.
Speaker 3 (22:08):
I've noticed that there's a lot of people who've been
joining our show in the middle. I think This is
really an important question that again tell people what the
risk are, especially in personal injury, if left untreated, if.
Speaker 4 (22:23):
We don't get soft issue injuries to treat it, so
namely car accidents, even a mild acre pain is going
to eventually break down the soft tissue, break down the
disc and everything connected to it because what's called osteoarthritis.
That osteoarthritis is considered a progressive degenerative disease, which means
it's just going to get worse and let's do something
about it. Eventually that's going to lead to surgical intervention.
(22:46):
And I'm just dingling dysfunction, loss of function of hands, beat,
all kinds of horrible things that come from it. So
early treatment is essentral in any of those soft issues.
Speaker 3 (22:59):
Brook In, Alan, Texas, Steve though really enjoying the show,
Could you please ask your guest what causes a stiff
neck and how do you treat it?
Speaker 4 (23:12):
For sure, if we have a stiff neck that came
out of nowhere, likely we had a softest your injury
many years ago that was mild, very mild. So maybe
you're jarred your neck when you tripped over a curve
or something, or we have a really bad boster. So
we're always working at a computer for long hours and
our heads really far forward their shoulders by the time
we cause irritation between the joint spaces. That's typically where
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we're gonna get the very stiff neck. I can't turn
it as far, I can't rotate as far. I feel
pinching or pain when I do go backwards and sideways,
and that's telling us that we have that sublexation complex
or that bone that stuck out of place. Generally, a
series of treatments that correlates to the X rays so
we'll be able to unstiffen that particular neck. Normal stretches
where you're trying to touch you to your shoulder, doing circles.
(23:57):
As long as those aren't painful, that's definitely a good
way that you can start to alleviate those symptoms. It's persistent,
so we said that it lasts more than seventy two hours.
That tells us that something more than just a muscle
ache is there and we should get that checked out.
Speaker 3 (24:11):
Someone to row. Where's your office at We're.
Speaker 4 (24:14):
Located at four one one North Washington, the Big Baylor
University Hospital complex here near downtown Dallas.
Speaker 3 (24:21):
Oh okay so, and it's called Texas Functional Health Centers.
The phone numbers four six nine three three four o
six two four. Uh. If you're watching on YouTube, we've
been running that. But for all of you listening on
iHeart and Spotify again, the phone numbers for six '
(24:42):
nine three three four zero six two four. Adam. I
love the way you answer questions. You don't talk over
people's heads, and people just I can see that. People
just feel so safe with you treat them and we
really appreciate you. Thank you for having me. Thanks so much, Adam.
(25:04):
And that'll be it for us today. Again. It was
ton to someone just asked me again. Texas Functional Health
Centers four six nine three three four six two four.
Website is www dot Texas f is in Frank h
is in, Harry c is in Charlie dot com. That's
(25:27):
it for us today. We'll be back in with you
next week with more Asked Cexpert.
Speaker 2 (25:32):
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