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D.O.T. Physicals Same Day Appointments for $99

August 22, 2018 By Hatch Chiropractic

Department of Transportation Commercial Drivers Certification

Hatch Chiropractic offers D.O.T. Certification testing for Truck Drivers

Drivers are able to get same day or scheduled appointments for only $99. We talk walk-ins too!

Their office located at the corner of Parker Road and Mainstreet is convenient to Parker, Castle Rock, Lone Tree, Highlands Ranch, Centennial, Englewood and South Aurora.

Having affordable and fast testing is crucial to keep drivers on the road and that’s what we’ll strive to provide our clients.

The D.O.T. Physical Exam

The physical exam at Hatch includes:

A Vision Test
Blood Pressure Check
Reflexes,
Heart
Lungs &
urine analysis

Drivers Chiropractic Treatments available

Commercial drivers have specific pain and strain on their skeletal system because of the hours of sitting, Hatch Chiropractic and Wellness has developed very specific chiropractic treatments to help with pain in your lower back, sciatic nerve pain,neck pain, leg pain, shoulder pain and headaches. You’ll find our chiropractors are friendly, knowledgeable and affordable.

You can fill out the D.O.T. Physical Form here.
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Are you Depleted? Are you TOXIC? Find out with Hair Analysis

May 30, 2018 By Dr. Ryan Hatch

Have you ever wondered why you are so tired?

Have you ever wondered why you can’t digest certain foods very well?

Have you ever wondered why you get skin outbreaks of acne, eczema or psoriasis?

How about headaches, joint pain or nerve pain that never seems to go away?

It may be due to nutrient imbalances or toxic levels of heavy metals swimming around in your system. If you have had chiropractic and/or acupuncture treatments with our doctors here at Hatch Chiropractic, then you know just how important it is to take care of your body, and you have felt the benefits of treatments to the spine, nerves, and muscles! But what about everything on the inside?
That’s where hair analysis comes in.

What is hair analysis?

Your hair contains all the minerals present in your body, including nutritional minerals as well as toxic heavy metals. Hair analysis is a laboratory test that measures the mineral content in the hair. In most cases, a hair test will reflect how much of these elements are in your body’s tissues and will provide a vivid picture of your “internal environment”. Not only can your nutritional status be viewed, but we can also learn much about how efficiently your body is working!

How can hair analysis help you achieve better health?

If we consider that DIET is what we EAT and NUTRITION is what we RETAIN, then we can see that discovering WHAT your body NEEDS, WHEN it NEEDS IT is a valuable tool in creating health. After 30 years of research, Hair Analysis has emerged as the most practical method of testing for nutrient balance in your body. It indicates what supplements you need and which ones you should avoid.

How is hair analysis performed?

Here at the clinic, we provide you with a Hair Analysis Kit. This kit is for home use and once the hair collection is complete, it is sent to the Trace Elements Laboratory. Once tests have been run, Trace Elements will send you a full nutritional report and you are on your way to adding and eliminating the proper supplements to achieve your OPTIMAL HEALTH.

How much does it cost?
Normally, nutrient testing through blood work can cost up to $360, but with a Hair Analysis, it’s only $99. Performing a Hair Analysis saves you time, pain AND money.

Call 303-841-7121 to schedule your Hair Analysis today.

Hair Analysis Seminar

May 30, 2018 By Dr. Ryan Hatch

It’s time for our monthly seminar and this one you WON’T WANT TO MISS

Informational Seminar on Hair Tissue Mineral Analysis

Hair Analysis Seminar

hosted by Dr. Ryan Hatch

May 30, 2018

6:30 PM

Hair tissue analysis is an analytical test which measures the mineral content of the hair.

Many symptoms are associated with mineral and vitamin deficiencies and/or excesses, such as: headaches, allergies, anxiety, depression, weakness, arthritis, and high blood pressure.

Dr. Hatch will explain why hair is the ideal tissue for sampling and testing. You will see an example of the results and recommended treatment.

All attendees will be able to have their hair tested at the event for just $75, (normally $99) and will receive the results approximately 2 weeks after the testing.

Light refreshments will be available. We look forward to seeing you!!!

What is Hair Mineral Analysis?

Hair Mineral Analysis is an analytical test which measures the mineral content of the hair. Hair is the ideal tissue for sampling and testing as it can give an indication of mineral status and toxic metal accumulation in the body over long periods of time. Not only that, hair analysis can show metabolic, digestive and intracellular activity. This can provide you a blueprint of the biochemistry occurring in your body!!!!

Why is Hair Analysis Important for You?

Many symptoms are associated with mineral and vitamin deficiencies and/or excess, such as:

-Headaches
-Allergies
-Anxiety
-Depression
-Weakness, Muscle & Nerve Pain
-Arthritis
-High Blood Pressure
-Weight Gain

Not only will our docs be giving a presentation, but she will also have the Hair Analysis Kits at the Seminar. The doctor will help you prepare your hair sample and assist you in filling out the paperwork!!! It’s that easy.

Other comprehensive vitamin and mineral analysis through blood work and other bodily samples can cost up to $360.

There is no pressure to buy and perform a hair analysis at the seminar. If you and your friends/family would like to come just for the seminar, that is fine!

Harnessing Holiday STRESS!!!!

December 3, 2017 By Dr. Ryan Hatch

Harnessing Holiday Stress!!!

We have just made it through Halloween, and Thanksgiving which means Christmas and Hanukah are quickly approaching!!!! With all the hustle and bustle that the holidays can bring, stress can skyrocket! Here at Hatch Chiropractic, we want to TEACH our patients strategies to lessen the effects of stress!!! The following is a very helpful tip sheet from the American Chiropractic Association: Stress has become a fact of life, and for some, the daily norm. Although occasional stress can help improve our focus and performance, living with chronic stress can backfire by causing anxiety, depression, and serious health problems. Understanding who we are, knowing our major struggles, putting them in perspective, and taking action can help us deal with stress. The following strategies can also improve stress tolerance and help lessen the effects of stress on our health.

#1. Think Positively

“Adopting the right attitude can convert a negative stress into positive,” said Hans Selye, author of the groundbreaking work around stress theory. When optimism is hard to muster, cognitive-behavioral therapy, which trains people to recognize negative thinking patterns and replace them with more constructive ones, can also help reduce the risk of chronic stress and depression.

#2. Get Out and Enjoy Nature While modern civilization has made our lives more convenient, it has deprived us of an essential source of stress relief—connection with nature. Studies show that interacting with nature can help lessen the effects of stress on the nervous system, reduce attention deficits, decrease aggression, and enhance spiritual well-being. #3. “Smell the Roses” for Better Mood

Aromatherapy, or smelling essential plant oils, recognized worldwide as a complementary therapy for managing chronic pain, depression, anxiety, insomnia, and stress-related disorders, can help you unwind. Orange and lavender scents, in particular, have been shown to enhance relaxation and reduce anxiety.

#4. Relax with a Cup of Tea During stressful times, coffee helps us keep going. To give yourself a break, however, consider drinking tea. Research shows that drinking tea for 6 weeks helps lower post-stress cortisol and increase relaxation. Habitual tea drinking may also reduce inflammation, potentially benefiting your heart health. #5. Laugh It Off

Humor relieves stress and anxiety and prevents depression, helping put our troubles in perspective. Laughter can help boost the immune system, increase pain tolerance, enhance mood and creativity, and lower blood pressure, potentially improving treatment outcomes for many health problems, including cancer and HIV. Humor may also be related to happiness, which has been linked to high self-esteem, extroversion, and feeling in control.

#6. Build a Support System Relationships are also key to health and happiness, especially for women. Women with low social support, for example, are more likely to increase blood pressure under stress. Loneliness may also contribute to stress in both men and women, also leading to poorer outcomes after a stroke or congestive heart failure. On the other hand, active and socially involved seniors are at lower risk for dementia and Alzheimer’s disease. Social support also helps cancer patients to boost the immune system and maintain a higher quality of life. #7. Employ the Relaxing Power of Music

Music, especially classical, can also serve as a powerful stress-relief tool. Listening to Pachelbel’s famous Canon in D major while preparing a public speech helps avoid anxiety, heart rate, and blood pressure, which usually accompany public speaking. Singing and listening to music can also relieve pain and reduce anxiety and depression caused by low back pain. Group drumming also showed positive effects on stress relief and the immune system. Music therapy can also elevate mood and positively affect the immune system in cancer patients and reduce fatigue and improve self-acceptance in people with multiple sclerosis. To help people deal with stressful medical procedures, music can help reduce anxiety before surgery. When played during surgery, it can decrease the patient’s post-operative pain. Aiding recovery, a dose of calming music may lower anxiety, pain, and the need for painkillers.

#8. Calm Your Mind In recent decades, many forms of meditation have gained popularity as relaxation and pain relief tools. Focusing on our breath, looking at a candle, or practicing a non-judgmental awareness of our thoughts and actions can help tune out distractions, reduce anxiety and depression, and accept our circumstances. In cancer patients, meditation-based stress reduction enhances quality of life, lowers stress symptoms, and potentially benefits the immune system. Guided imagery, such as visualizing pictures prompted by an audiotape recording, also shows promise in stress relief and pain reduction. Based on the idea that the mind can affect the body, guided imagery can be a useful adjunct to cancer therapy, focusing patients on positive images to help heal their bodies. #9. Enjoy the Warmth of Human Touch

Just as the mind can affect the body, the body can influence the mind. Virginia Satir, a famous American psychotherapist, once said that people need 4 hugs a day to help prevent depression, 8 for psychological stability, and 12 for growth. While asking for hugs may not work for some, massage can help us relieve stress and reduce anxiety and depression. Massage has also been shown to reduce aggression and hostility in violent adolescents, to improve mood and behavior in students with ADHD, and to lead to better sleep and behavior in children with autism. Massage has other therapeutic properties, as well. Regular massage may reduce blood pressure in people with hypertension and may lead to less pain, depression, and anxiety and better sleep in patients with chronic low-back pain. Compared to relaxation, massage therapy also causes greater reduction in depression and anger, and more significant effects on the immune system in breast cancer patients.

#10. Give Exercise a Shot To get the best of both worlds, affecting the mind through the body while getting into good physical shape, try exercise. In one study, a group of lung cancer patients increased their hope due to exercise. Exercise can also reduce depression and improve wound healing in the elderly. Tai chi, which works for people of all ages, may enhance heart and lung function, improve balance and posture, and prevent falls, while reducing stress. No matter what stress-relief methods you choose, make it a habit to use them—especially if you feel too stressed out to do it. As someone once said, the time to relax is when you don’t have time for it. Sometimes an adjustment can be more than just crackin’ backs….. Research shows that Chiropractic Adjustments to the Spine can release endorphins and boost neurological and Immune function! Now that’s what I call an attitude adjustment! So stop on by between running, shopping, and cooking for a stress-reducing treatment. (***For more information on what stress is and how it affects our health, go to www.acatoday.org/jaca and find the Dec. 2006 issue. For references, go to www.acatoday.org/jaca. Jan/Feb. 2007).

How To AVOID Pain from Back Pack Use

August 24, 2017 By Dr. Ryan Hatch

Back To School Time

And we all know what that means…. new classes, new friends, fun sports and….. BACK PAIN?!

Whoa, whoa…. Wait a minute, what do you mean back pain? With school?

The following is an article by the American Chiropractic Association with some interesting new information about school-age kids and back pain –

A MUST READ FOR PARENTS WITH KIDDOS GOING BACK TO SCHOOL

Back pain is pervasive among American adults, but a new and disturbing trend is emerging. Young children are suffering from back pain much earlier than previous generations, and the use of overweight backpacks is a contributing factor, according to the American Chiropractic Association (ACA). In fact, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission reports that backpack-related injuries sent more than 7,000 people to the emergency room in 2001 alone. “In my own practice, I have noticed a marked increase in the number of young children who are complaining about back, neck and shoulder pain,” said Dr. Scott Bautch, of the ACA’s Council on Occupational Health. “The first question I ask these patients is, ‘Do you carry a backpack to school?’ Almost always, the answer is ‘yes.’” This new back pain trend among youngsters isn’t surprising when you consider the disproportionate amounts of weight they carry in their backpacks – often slung over just one shoulder. According to Dr. Bautch, a recent study conducted in Italy found that the average child carries a backpack that would be the equivalent of a 39-pound burden for the average adult man, or a 29-pound load for the average adult woman. Of those children in the study who carried heavy backpacks to school, 60 percent had experienced back pain as a result. Dr. Bautch also reports that preliminary results of studies being conducted in France show that the longer a child wears a backpack, the longer it takes for a curvature or deformity of the spine to correct itself.

“The question that needs to be addressed next is, ‘does it ever return to normal?’”

The results of these types of studies are especially important as more and more school districts – many of them in urban areas – remove lockers from the premises, forcing students to carry their books with them all day long. The problem has become so widespread, that the California State Assembly recently passed legislation that would force school districts to develop ways of reducing the weight of students’ backpacks. Similar legislation is being considered in New Jersey as well. The ACA suggests limiting the backpack’s weight to no more than 10 percent of the child’s body weight and urging the use of ergonomically correct backpacks.

What Can You Do to Help Your Children?

The American Chiropractic Association offers the following tips to help prevent the needless pain that backpack misuse could cause the students in your household.

#1) Make sure your child’s backpack weighs no more than 10 percent of his or her body weight. A heavier backpack will cause your child to bend forward to support the weight on the back, rather than the shoulders.

#2) The backpack should never hang more than four inches below the waistline. A backpack that hangs too low increases the weight on the shoulders, causing your child to lean forward when walking.

#3) A backpack with individualized compartments helps in positioning the contents most effectively.

#4) Make sure that pointy or bulky objects are packed away from the area that will rest on your child’s back.

#5) Bigger is not necessarily better. The more room there is in a backpack, the more your child will carry-and the heavier the backpack will be.

#6) Urge your child to wear both shoulder straps. Lugging the backpack around by one strap can cause the disproportionate shift of weight to one side, leading to neck and muscle spasms, as well as low-back pain.

#7) Wide, padded straps are very important. Non-padded straps are uncomfortable, and can dig into your child’s shoulders.

#8) The shoulder straps should be adjustable so the backpack to fit to your child’s body. Straps that are too loose can cause the backpack to dangle, causing spinal misalignment and pain.

#9) If the backpack is still too heavy, talk to your child’s teacher. Ask if your child could leave the heaviest books at school, and bring home only lighter hand-out materials or workbooks. Or encourage your local school district to purchase textbooks on CD-Rom.

*Although the use of roller packs – or backpacks on wheels – has become popular in recent years, the ACA is now recommending that they be used cautiously and on a limited basis by only those students who are not physically able to carry a backpack. Some school districts have begun banning the use of roller packs because they clutter hallways, resulting in dangerous trips and falls.

Chiropractic Care Can Help

If you or your child experiences any pain or discomfort resulting from backpack use, call your doctor of chiropractic. Doctors of chiropractic are licensed and trained to diagnose and treat patients of all ages and will use a gentler type of treatment for children. In addition, doctors of chiropractic can also prescribe exercises designed to help children develop strong muscles, along with instruction in good nutrition, posture and sleeping habits. (End of article)

Ok parents, now that you know all the facts about how to AVOID PAIN FROM BACKPACK USE, it’s time to get your kids saddled up for the school year.

Yours In Good Health,

Hatch Chiropractic & Wellness

303-841-7121 to Schedule Appointments