Medical

At Unruh Chiropractic, we use the most innovative technology available to help our patients.  One of the newest therapies that we have integrated into our clinic is Electro Magnetic Therapy.
Pulsed Electro Magnetic Fields influence cell behavior by inducing electrical changes around and within the cell.  This results in improved blood supply which increases the oxygen pressure, activating and regenerating cells. 

Sheila R. Veloz Breast Imaging Center is dedicating three Mondays in February, Women’s Health Month, to entice busy women to take time to take care of themselves by getting a mammogram and enjoying special treatment.

Many women believe their greatest health threat is breast cancer.  However, the reality is that ten times as many women die from heart disease than from breast cancer.  What used to be a man’s disease now claims as many women’s lives as it does men.
Risk factors for heart disease are sometimes out of our control, such as family history or metabolic disorders.  Thankfully, many risk factors are in our control including diet, exercise and lifestyle.  The ever-popular concern of optimum body weight seems to be everyone’s enigma. 

Insomnia?  Anxiety?  Depression?  Fatigue?  Weight gain and Cravings?  Joint pain and Inflammation?  Menopause symptoms?  Other conditions that are not resolving?
Innovative clinical methods are now available that can finally find the missing pieces to the puzzle of you not feeling well.  Neurotransmitters (chemicals found in the brain and throughout the body) and the hormone, Cortisol, are hot topics. 

The concept of removing fat from one part of the body and injecting it into another part of the body is one of the most exciting to be added to the field of cosmetic and reconstructive surgery.  While fat transplantation has been done in various ways for some time (first recorded in the late 1800s), the concept of fat transplantation by micro-injection is relatively new.

We wake up in the morning after a good night’s sleep and open our eyes and see the world.  How is it that we are able to see this world?  It is definitely an amazing process that occurs, involving the sciences!  With the help of optics and physics, we are able to define the amazing process that occurs to enable us to see.

Henry Mayo Newhall Memorial Hospital volunteer Estelle Hoffman was installed as the hospital’s 2010 Auxiliary president in front of an enthusiastic group of board members and volunteers during a luncheon on Friday, January 8.
The Auxiliary is an organization of hospital volunteers who support Henry Mayo with their participation in various fundraising events as well as the management of the hospital gift shop.

While studying about shoulder aches, I discovered that TMJ plays a large role in health overall.  An unbalanced TMJ causes pain in many different body parts, including the shoulders.  With the knowledge of TMJ’s importance in keeping a healthy and pain-free body, I went to Korea to learn how to fix the problems that have to do with the unbalanced TMJ.

Although teeth straightening and extraction to improve alignment of remaining teeth has been practiced since early times, orthodontics as a science of its own did not really exits until the 1880s. The history of dental braces or the science of orthodontics is very complex. Many different inventors helped to create braces, as we know them today.

Few people associate sugar with heart disease.  But, in fact, sugar consumption (in the form of refined carbohydrates/simple sugars) is a leading cause of heart attack and stroke.
A condition we’re hearing more about these days is Syndrome X. 

If you feel tired and drained, you’re not alone.  According to Oriental medicine, the cold months of winter are the perfect time to recharge your battery and generate vital energy – Qi, in order to live, look, and feel your best.
The ancient Chinese believed that humans should live in harmony with the natural cycles of their environment.  The cold and darkness of winter urges us to slow down.

Everyone has (or has had) teeth, right?  Although that much is obvious, it may not have occurred to you that the ‘fairer’ sex has some unique dental health concerns.  It is my Valentine’s gift to all of the women readers to help raise their awareness of these conditions.
The Academy of General Dentistry (AGD) recently stated that women’s oral health depends on their different stages of life.  These are directly related to surges in sex hormone levels, such as puberty, menstruation, pregnancy, lactation and menopause. 

Everything starts with our mind.  Our thoughts affect our feelings which affects our behavior, which affects our actions (or lack thereof), which in turn affects our lives.  Whatever our thoughts, positive or negative, they carry weight.  They stimulate our passions, desires, goals, confidence, anger, stress, worries, fears – the list goes on and on.

Love is beautiful and painful. 
In childhood, our best friend moves away.  How did we spend our last moments together?
As a teen, our first love moves on, continuing his/her search for self-discovery. 

When a tooth is severely broken down, there may not be enough tooth structure to securely hold a crown.  We use a cast post and core to replace the missing portion of the tooth.
A cast post and core is a one-piece unit.  The post section is placed into the inner part of the tooth, and the core provides a foundation for a crown.  It is precision-crafted in a dental laboratory, so the procedure may take two or more appointments.

When are dentures necessary? Your dentist will recommend dentures as an option for replacing missing teeth or if the current state of your natural teeth are beyond restoration. Situations that result in the removal of your remaining teeth are from:

I have torn meniscus and severe arthritis in both of my knees, making every step very painful.  I had orthoscopic surgery in 2003 to repair the torn meniscus, but it didn’t last!  Then the arthritis kicked in also. 

By definition, dentistry is a branch of medicine that involves diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of any disease concern about teeth, oral cavity, and associated structures.
Toothbrush – Natural bristle brushes were invented by the ancient Chinese who made toothbrushes with bristles from the necks of cold climate pigs.  French dentists were the first Europeans to promote the use of toothbrushes in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries.