Marquette Chiropractic & Wellness

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Hello, my name is Dr. Bill Houghton. I opened Marquette Chiropractic & Wellness in 1986. I am in my 25th year of providing chiropractic and wellness services to our community. I graduated from Palmer College of Chiropractic in 1985 with a doctor of chiropractic (DC) degree. Iam aCrossFit fitness trainer and havecertifications in nutrition, strength and conditioning, weight lifting and others.

Weve observed that every quantifiable measure of health that typically declines with age is improved by exercise. Furthermore, these measures can be placed on a continuum that ranges from sickness to wellness to fitness. From this view fitness is seen to be a hedge against sickness. Blood pressure, body fat, bone density, triglycerides, good and bad cholesterol, flexibility, and muscle mass each follow this pattern. Done right, fitness provides a nice margin of protection against the ravages of time and disease. Fitness is and should be super-wellness.
(from CrossFit.com website, May 28, 2003)

Mobility issues are the most common cause of back problems. I have been practicing chiropractic for 25 years and have treated thousands of patients with back and neck problems. By far the most common cause of back and neck pain have to do with improper movement.
Most people have some level of imbalance with their muscles. Muscles attach across joints and create movement. With altered muscle balance, there is no way proper joint alignment can be maintained. Improper movement and misalignment cause wear and tear that will eventually become painful. The pain may come on suddenly.
My job as a chiropractor is to find, diagnose and treat these areas of imbalance. Gentle pressure and movement is used to start correcting the misaligned and imbalanced areas. If you are in a lot of pain, I can increase the movement just above or below where you are hurting. Overnight this will often bring relief as the body starts to correct. As your pain eases, I will work on the areas where there is the most damage. It will take time to get totally out of pain, but relief starts right from the first correction.

Most of us have imbalanced muscles.Imbalanced muscles lead to abnormal and compensated movement patterns. Abnormal movement patterns lead to misalignment and restriction of the skeletal structures. Areas of restricted movement are called subluxations. Subluxations interfere with the bodies ability to function and remain healthy. A gradual decrease of energy and vitality result.
Uncovering and correcting these movement abnormalities is what I do. I use a procedure called motion palpation to locate these areas of restriction. Motion palpation isdone while gently moving youthrough ranges of motion while assesing how your joints and muscles move. Areas of restriction and misalignment arecorrected using gentle pressure and movement. Restoring movement results in a gradualeliminationof pain.
Call my office to schedule an appointment to have your movement assessed. You will be glad that you did.

Check out this vido of 92 year old man who is still very active. Trains at a gym, swims every day, amazing: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkg_mxMZlXU

It is well established from research that exercise improves health. You find out your blood pressure is starting togo upand you start an exercise program and the blood pressure comes back down. Same with cholesterol. Bone density improves with exercise. I could go on. As far as I have been able to find, ALL the measures we take of the human body improve with exercise.
So, here is the conclusion; health is a CONSEQUENCE of exercise. Movement, function, exercise.
Chiropractic is a movement based intervention. When your mobility is reduced from problems with posture, sitting, small repetitive activities or injury, movement changes. You can’t have hunched shoulders and have normal neck mobility. You can’t have a swayed low back and not have mobility issues.You can’t sit for hours and hours and expect to have healthy tissues. EVERY tissue will deteriorate when mobility is altered. Muscle, disc, ligament, cartilage, even bone are all going to deteriorate from altered movement. You bend over one day or wake up with pain and wonder “what happened”? You think in terms of “I didn’t do anything.” You show up at my office, I check your posture and movement and find long standing changes. Your x-rays show long term changes. It is the straw that breaks the camel’s back. You are in pain now from a long standing problem.
What do you want to do? Take meds and hope the pain goes away? Have surgery to cut the tissue that is degenerating? How about get under a program of care to restore the altered movement? Remember exercise and improved health? When movement is restored, tissues heal. Pain is a signal that something is wrong. The pain itself isn’t the problem, the tissue that can no longer support a load is the problem.
If this makes sense to you and you are ready to get moving, give me a call.

I think the average perspective on the street is that chiropractic is an effective intervention for pain. Be it back pain, neck pain, headaches, nerve or muscle pain – it is pretty certain that chiropractic can help.
Today, a growing number of people are using chiropractic in a more holistic way. This is not a new idea but one that is gradually being embraced by more and more people. What is it?
It is improved health through regular, long term chiropractic care. Here is how it works; people join a gym and take vitamins because they believe that it will help them stay healthier, live longer and have more productive lives. In a similar way, more and more people are seeing their chiropractor monthly because they know it will help them stay functional (one definition of health) for the rest of their lives. Increased function is a well documented outcome of chiropractic care and at the heart of any exercise program. If your movements are limited, your ability to realize the beneficial effects of any exercise program is going to be hampered. By getting chiropractic care on a regular basis, you are helping assure that you will be able to compete at a higher level in any sport or activity you take part in. Or just increase your capacity at living life.
Give us a call at 228-3324 and schedule an appointment. Find out how we can help you regain lost abilities as well as improve and increase you capacity for living. Dr. Houghton holds certifications in CrossFit training, nutrition and other strength and conditioning methods.