Chiropractic Care
Chiropractic Care
If you frequently deal with symptoms like joint pain, backaches or headaches but have yet to visit a chiropractor for help, you may be missing out on an effective and natural treatment option. Millions of people around the world have experienced the incredible benefits of chiropractic care, a holistic, non-invasive treatment approach that has been shown to help treat dozens of different conditions.
One of the best things about receiving chiropractic adjustments is that they are a completely drug-free path to improving the body naturally. Chiropractic benefits include helping naturally improve problems such as:
- Back pain
- Headaches
- Bowel irregularity
- Impaired mental clarity
- Ear infections
- Stiff neck
- Arthritis and joint pain
- Scoliosis
- Asthma
- Blood pressure
- Pregnancy
- Organ function
- Surgery prevention
Chiropractic care aims to address the whole body, enhancing patients’ ability to think, move and perform.
- Chiropractors pride themselves on taking a natural, drugless approach to helping their patients reach their health goals. Essentially, the basic principle upon which the entire profession is built is that the body has the amazing, innate ability to heal itself (under the right conditions). It is the chiropractor’s job to help create an environment that facilitates this inner-healing process and where safety is assured.
- Because the nervous system controls every cell and organ in your body, chiropractors focus their attention on the health of the spine being properly aligned. If the spine shifts out of its proper place, then adjustments are used to help bring the spine back into alignment.
- At the core of numerous chiropractic stories is a concept known as “vertebral subluxation.” When chiropractors use this phrase, they refer to mechanical compression and irritation to spinal joints and nerves.
Why Get Chiropractic Adjustments?
There are three main causes of subluxation. The causes of subluxation are physical, emotional, and chemical. Some examples of these include:
- A vertebra going out of place (“misalignment”) because of a slip or fall (i.e. “macrotrauma”).
- The entire spine misaligning globally due to poor posture.
- Joint swelling caused by damage done to the intervertebral joint.
- An inflammatory response caused by a poor diet, lack of pure water or psychological stress.
- Osteoporosis or degenerative changes of the spine or intervertebral discs.
- Trigger points and tight back muscles that pull the vertebrae out of place.
Importance of Having Good Posture: The problem we see in Western cultures is that our unnatural habit of sitting down all day does a lot of damage to our spine and posture. Today it’s common to spend hours sitting while being glued to a cell phone, iPad or laptop. Few people take the time each day to properly stretch, fix their posture or engage in enough physical activity.
The “hunched over” lifestyle that is all too popular today causes straining on the neck, due to a condition called “forward head posture.” Studies prove that for every inch your head sticks out from its true center of gravity, your neck bears an extra 10 pounds of stress!
During posture evaluations, chiropractors regularly observe many of their patients carrying their heads two to three inches forward, which is an extra 20–30 pounds of pressure on their necks. Just think about how dangerous this can be for the health of someone’s spine and how this straining then spills over to many other parts of the body.
