About the Doctor

Dr. Rebecca Ann Studelska is a licensed Chiropractic Physician certified in acupuncture.  She completed her first four of her nine years of education at Northern State University where she graduated with a bachelor degree of science in biology.  Her chiropractic and acupuncture education was completed at Northwestern College of Health Science in Bloomington, Minnesota.  

Her gentel yet effective technique of adjusting comprises of manual (diversified), activator and drop table.   She uses 'full spine' adjusting and is effective at working on the upper and lower extremities.  She typically will use a brief session of soft tissue work before completing the adjustments to allow for the muscles to relax and the adjustment to hold for a greater lenght of time.  Clinents age range are from the pediatric to the geriatric.  


How Does Chiropractic Work?

Chiropractic works because you have the capacity to heal yourself.  Our bodies area regulated and controlled by the nervous system.  Instructions flow from your brain, down thru the spinal cord and out to every organ and tissue in your body.  Messages are sent back and forth from your brain to your tissues confirming if your body is functioning right.  Chiropractic addresses this relationship by ensuring optimal levels of communications by removing subluxations.


What is a Subluxation?

Restriction in the motion or position of a bone is called a subluxation.  Subluxations in the spine interfere with the exchange of messages from the brain and spinal cord.  This disruption compromises the health of your organs and tissues.  Disease or 'dis-ease' can occur three ways.  The three catagories are: structural, chemical, and emotional.  Without this balance, disease will occur.  Subluxations are included as part of an outcome if that essential balance is disrupted.  Structural could be a chronic bad habit , a poor sitting or sleeping posture, a trauma from a fall.  Chemical could be an ulcer in the stomach sending irritating chemicals (pain signals) to your brain which is referring pain to the middle of your back where the spinal nerve responcible for stomach function is located.  Emotional can be stress from home or work or emotional feelings of grief or dispair that cause the muscles to become tense. Either of the one can influence the other two.  For example:  Stress causes muscle tension which draws the shoulders up and locks the joints so they no longer glide appropriately.  It also caused increased chemical out put by the adrenal glands causing increased levels of cortisol in the blood changing things such as blood sugars, blood pressure, and depleting nutritional stores.


What is an Adjustment?

Specific spinal adjustments improve the communciation of messages flowing back and forth from the tissues and the brain.  Health can often return and/or improve when the nervous system is free of the irritations of a misaligned spinal bone.  Adjustments can be performed on any joint, including those in the hands and feet.  The spine is the bony structure that encases the spinal cord.  It isn't the "pop" of the adjustment on the spine that promotes healing, it is the influence it has on the nervous system that allows the body to respond and heal it's own self.


About Acupuncture

Acupuncture is a very old form of Chinese Medicine that was founded between 5,000 and 7,000 years ago.  It is based on the principle of Energy called Chi. Western medicine belief is the nervous system controls the organs and essentialy the health of the body.  Oriental medicine believes not the nervous systmen but Energy is what controls the health of an individual.  Energy, in the apropriate balance, supports and nurtures the function of the organs.  The body can become unbalanced with too little, too much, or stagnant Chi.  The energy (Chi) travels in vessels called Meridians.  Just like blood vessels cover the body and carries blood, Meridians transverse the body and carry Chi.  Acupuncture uses very slender (the width of a human hair) needles to manipulate the energy.  Needling points along the meridian balances the flow of energy, thereby, restoring good health.


What to Expect from Acuncture

Acupuncture is similar to penicillin in the fact that one pill does not cure the illness.  The number of treatments vary depending on how long the illness or dis-ease has occured, the extent of it, and what the illness is that is being treated.  Aproximately 15 percent of the population will not respond to treatment, aproximately 20 percent respond immediately and the remainder respond with in the third to fifth treatment.  The responce to decreased symptoms will lengthen and improve with each successive treatment.  Typically, for the first week, a patient may be seen three times.  For the second week, depending on the patients responce, they may be seen for an additional two to three visits.  Visits or treatments are determined by the patient's responce and are therefore taylored to the individual.  The closer the treatment dates the better the responce.

During the treatment the patient may notice a mosquito-like bug bite.  Most patients feel very little the first few treatment.  The more in-tuned with the body a person is the more they typically experiance in feeling the energy flow.  If a patient is able to pick up on it, the energy feels warm and heavy - a very relaxing and enjoyable experiance.


What does Acupuncture treat?

For thousands of years, and even still today, Traditional Chinese Medicine is the number one form of healthcare in the Orient.  Treatment of numberous diseases and conditions can be helped by acupuncture and herbs.  Over a hundred conditions are listed in the World Health Organization as being effectively treated by acupunture.  

Please note, Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) healers have trained for seven years, have studied the language, and use herbs in addition to the acupuncture treatment.  As a Chiropractic Physician using acupuncture, the technique is used as an adjunctive to chiropractic.  Though acupuncture can be used effectively as an anesthesia, labor inducer for pregnacy, and as remidies for diseases, it is not part of the training or intension in the practice of Dr. Rebecca Studelska.

A few conditions acupuncture can help with...

anxiety                         sinus congestion                 fatigue
fibromyalgia                  tension headaches              migraines
hemorrhoids                 tennis elbow                        knee pain
arthritis                        gastric problems                  back pain
sciatica                        herniated discs                   mutiple sclerosis
PMS

* Note: This is not a conclusive list.


If you wish to know more about chiropractic or acupuncture, please call our office and we will be more than happy to assist you.  Studelska Chiropractic and Acupuncture (605) 996 -0191.