This week’s alternative pain relief strategy is physical therapy! Physical therapy is one of the most successful strategies for chronic pain, and long-term results. Physical therapists are trained to assess your condition and help you regain functional mobility and independence. How does it work? Physical therapy works to strengthen the body, reduce pain and improve […]
Options before Opioids-Chiropractic Manipulation
This week’s alternative pain relief strategy is chiropractic manipulation! What is it? Practitioners use their hands or a device to apply a controlled thrusted pressure to a joint Adjusts and realigns spine or other parts of the body Controlled sudden force, that may produce a popping or cracking sound Aims to reduce pain and improve […]
Options before Opioids- Acupuncture
To continue our options before opioids series, this week will focus on acupuncture. What is it? Acupuncture is an ancient Chinese medicine-based approach, which triggers specific points on the skin with needles. Minimally invasive method to stimulate nerve-rich areas of skin, to influence tissues, glands, organs, and various functions of the body. Each needle produces […]
Options before Opioids- Therapeutic Injections
It is important to try other pain management options before taking a prescription opioid. Prescription opioids are known to be highly addictive, and other pain management options often offer the same sort of relief without the risks. We will be highlighting different options over the next few weeks, this week being therapeutic injections! What are […]
Emerging Trends
The National Drug Early Warning System, or NDEWS is funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse and provides insights to the drug trends the United States is seeing. One interesting emerging trend mentioned was that the opioid crisis is now about synthetics and polydrug use. Robert DuPont, MD explains how the opioid epidemic needs […]
Giveaway Details
CLD Partners! It’s GIVEAWAY TIME! Thanks to our friends at DisposeRX, who donated some of their home disposal kits, we are excited to be hosting a #QuarantinePrevention social media challenge together! Follow the rules below and your organization could win 100 packets of DisposeRx and a box of CLD goodies to provide to your community! […]
Pursuing Wellness Webinars
Join us, for our pursuing wellness webinars! Open to anyone! These trainings are completely FREE and you will be able to get CPS hours for attending. These webinars are broken up into middle and high school content, as well as a separate parent content. Middle/High School: Tuesday April 28th @9am CST Parent: Thursday April 30th […]
Wellness Series- Week 4
Mental health has been a big concern for health officials during these unprecedented times. Mental health is just as important as physical health, and in this time of quarantine people might be more susceptible to feeling alone, anxious, or depressed. Luckily in this time of advanced technology, teleservice has become more available for these symptoms […]
Wellness Series- Week 3
In last weeks blog post we highlighted how important it is to stay connected during the uncertain time of COVID-19. To go off that, I found an article with 40 ways to stay connected linked here: https://parade.com/1011597/nicolepajer/ways-to-stay-social-coronavirus/. Even though it is a long list, I wanted to highlight 10 ideas that I thought I would […]
Wellness Series- Week 2
For Week 2 of our Wellness Series, we want to share tips and resources from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC). Some of their tips listed were: · Meditate · Take deep breaths · Stretch · Try to eat well balanced/healthy meals · Exercise regularly · Get plenty of sleep · Take time to do […]
