Dellanno Family Chiropractic Center

Power has been restored! We will re-open at 3:30!!

Due to a downed power line, our office will be closed today. We will be reaching out to all scheduled patients to reschedule. We will post an update soon! Thank you for your patience and understanding!

Dear Patients,

As per the latest instruction from Governor Murphy, we are still open to serve you. However, due to the Covid-19 virus we have to make some changes in order to do so. The biggest change that we will be making is to close our waiting room and move to appointment only scheduling. This means we will be asking everyone to call before an appointment before coming in. When you do arrive please give us a call and we will bring you directly into an adjusting room so we can maintain proper social distancing.

In addition, each adjusting and treatment room will be disinfected after each patient. We realize the pervasive smell of cleaning products will be an irritation to some but your safety is our primary concern. All doctors will be wearing N95 masks and gloves when appropriate.

If for any reason you feel like you have a cold or flu like symptoms like: fever, stuffy nose, chest congestion, fatigue, dry or wet cough, PLEASE DO NOT COME IN. You could put others at risk by doing so.

Fortunately, the governor has allowed us to continue to serve. So many of our patients have already reached out to see if we will be there and it would have been very difficult to say no. We are here for you. If you are a senior, pediatric patient, or are considered a high risk patient due to a certain medical condition we can still see you but we will either try to schedule you at a lower volume time or we can see you on our traditional “off” days so that we limit your exposure to others. We realize this isn’t ideal but we will do our best to make it as convenient as possible.

We would like to wish everyone continued health and safety during this crazy time. Please feel free to call us with any questions.

Our team sharing our Forward Head Posture Correction Collar! Later today Dr. Dellanno will be presenting the collar at the conference! Please see our website .com for more information.

We are excited to be attending the 41st CBP Annual Conference and presenting our Cervigard Forward Head Posture Correction Collar!

Hello Everyone,

Since everyone is coming in with coughs and runny noses, I guess it's time to start talking about allergies. After the interesting winter we just had you just know this allergy season is going to hurt. So with this post we will briefly talk about what you can do to help make it better for you without running to the medicine cabinet every 10 minutes.

First step is to limit your allergy symptoms is to minimize the exposure to whatever it is your allergic too. I know the weather is starting to get warmer but driving around with the window open is not going to help you. Your just asking the pollen to swirl around your car causing uncontrolled histamine release in your body.

Same for sleeping at night with the window open. I know it's cool out but the pollen is at its worst at night and the constant exposure to outside air will make it hard to get a good night sleep. Take a shower before you go to bed and keep the clothes you have been outside in out of the bedroom. At the very least, you want to keep your bedroom allergen free. If you don't sleep, that's when you will get sick. Secondary infections like sinus infections, colds, and bronchitis can take advantage of an allergy sufferer if their immune system becomes compromised due to lack of sleep so it's important the bedroom stays as allergen free as possible.

As far as over the counter medication to help your allergy symptoms, here are a few suggestions that have limited side effects. The first is your standard antihistamines like Benadryl, Claritin, Allegra, and Zyrtec. All of these will help reduce histamine levels produced by allergens and will help keep your symptoms under control. Other then making you a bit sleepy most don't have any side effects. WARNING: Men should avoid using Benadryl and nasal decongestants like Afrin. They can effect the
prostate in older men. Stay away from psuedoephedrin. They have a long list of side effects that could really effect your health.

Some over the counter remedy that has zero side effects is Simply Saline and Breath Right strips. Arm and hammer makes Simply Saline and it's basically salt water in compressed air ( see picture on the bottom of the post). The salty mist will irrigate the nasal passages and the salt will dry you out and help you sleep at night. The trick to using it is that you need to use it nightly. It does have a cumulative effect so get a bottle and try it nightly for a week. I personally find its easier to use then the Neti-pot. Not only is it less messy but you won't subluxation your neck trying to use it. Breath Right strips uses a bandaid like apparatus with a rigid insert to help open up your nasal-passages allowing more air to be drawn in. Both work great, especially together, and aside from the Breath Right strips making you look a bit goofy, will help you sleep at night.

Finally lets talk about what chiropractic can do for our allergy suffers. One of the worst parts of allergy symptoms is the stuffy nose and congested sinuses. This happens due to uncontrolled histamine release in your body. It can get so bad that it can tighten the muscles under the skull and around the upper neck which is we're the sinuses drain in the first place. If it gets to tight it will keep you sinus from draining causing more pain. Upper cervical and skull adjustment help release this area so the sinuses can drain. In particular the anterior skull adjustment really works the best to stretch this area and it usually lasts a week to 2 weeks so most patients only need 1 or 2 adjustments to get them through the season.

If you or a loved one is suffering from allergies share this article with them. Thanks again for your support and feel free to post any questions for us.

Yours in Health,

Dr. Mike