If you’re dealing with chronic pain, chiropractic care can help. It focuses on disorders of the musculoskeletal system and the nervous system, and their impact on your general health and wellness. It’s also gained much more acceptance over the past 20 years as an effective form of healthcare. Chiropractic services are now widely in use, treating everything from back pain to stress to sports injuries.
With regular adjustments from your chiropractor, you can help keep your body balanced and healthy. Everyone, from children to seniors, can benefit from chiropractic wellness care.
How Chiropractic Wellness Care Works
Chiropractors use hands-on spinal manipulation, trigger-point therapy, electronic stimulation, and other treatments to bring the vertebrae in your neck and into proper alignment. By clearing blockage in nerve cells, restoring mobility to joints, and easing pain and muscle tension, chiropractic treatment allows your body to heal itself without surgery or medication.
6 Ways Your Health Can Improve
Headaches? Depression? Pain? Regular chiropractic wellness care can improve your life in many ways.
1. Less pain.
Many people suffer from chronic back or neck pain. Pain relievers can provide temporary relief, but they do nothing to fix the problem. Chiropractic adjustments address the origin of the pain.
2. Better posture.
If you’re doing desk work, you’re likely sitting down for longer periods than our bodies were designed for. Sitting in front of a computer for hours often leads to slumping and bad posture, which in turn puts a lot of extra pressure on our neck, shoulders, and hips. Regular chiropractic care can put your spine back into alignment.
3. Fewer headaches.
Roughly nine out of 10 Americans suffer from headaches. Since most headaches are linked to muscle tension in the neck, spinal manipulation and other chiropractic techniques can often effectively reduce headache pain.
4. Enhanced immune system.
To fight off infections and disease, our immune system relies on messages being sent correctly through our nerves. When vertebrae go out of alignment, they can pinch a nerve, potentially blocking these messages. Regular chiropractic wellness care can relieve the pressure on the nerve and allow the immune system to work at peak efficiency.
5. Reduced dependence on medication.
Because chiropractic care can relieve many types of pain without surgery, it can significantly reduce a person’s reliance on drugs. In fact, an estimated 96% of people with chronic back pain can be treated non-surgically.
Traditionally, mood swings or depression have been treated with medication. However, that route can be expensive and may still carry a social stigma. Chiropractic adjustments improve the nervous system, which can repair the chemical imbalance that often leads to mood swings. By clearing obstacles in our nerves, chiropractic care can also help us think more clearly.
Improved Alignment, Improved Health
If you have any questions about chiropractic wellness care or would like to make an appointment, please call us at (780) 432-1400.
