Chiropractic care has been helping family have vital lives for over 100 years. Vital health expression is the result of a properly aligned spine, a healthy lifestyle, and a positive mental attitude. If you’re like most families you want a safe and natural health care solution. Drugs all have side effects, and these don’t necessarily affect you when you take them. It can happen years later. More and more people are choosing Chiropractic care FIRST, because it makes good sense. No other form of health care is safer.
Why Chiropractic: Prevention
Many people think that because there is no pain present, that they are healthy. Regular chiropractic care allows your body to function normally and correctly. It is a scientific fact that imbalance (dysfunction) in your spine can cause an adverse effect to the overall health of you and those around you, such as your family. You may not ‘feel’ bad, but if something is wrong, the organs are affected. If chiropractic care starts at birth, you can achieve a higher level of health and wellness throughout life…naturally!
Is Your Neck Pain Serious?
When is a pain in the neck more than just a pain in the neck? When is it the sign that something more serious may be involved?
Typically, neck pain is caused by a muscle strain, and one side of the neck may experience more pain more than the other. But when neck pain is accompanied by other symptoms, it may be a cause for concern. Neck pain with weakness in the arms and tingling in the fingers may indicate herniated disc, which is pressure on a nerve root due to a narrowing of the spinal cord canal. Chiropractors are experts at being able to distinguish different types of neck problems, so make that call.
Myths and the Chiropractic Lifestyle
Like other types of doctors, chiropractors meet stringent licensing requirements, follow a strict code of ethics, and are approved by government agencies. Chiropractic is scientific. Specific technique protocols are used to locate malfunctioning areas of the spine. As sophisticated diagnostic equipment becomes more available, researchers are affirming what chiropractic doctors have known all along – chiropractic works!
Chiropractic adjustments make sense. Like lifting a heavy rock off your toe, most patients report their chiropractic adjustment feel good. When the bones of the spine return to a more normal motion and position, nervous system function can be restored, symptoms relieved, and the natural healing process can proceed.
Chiropractic is safe. Safer than back surgery, muscle relaxers, aspirin or ibuprofen. Even newborns and children can receive chiropractic care.
Continue as long as you want. Like regular dental checkups, once patients experience the value of chiropractic, many choose to continue. How long you decide to benefit from chiropractic care is always up to you. The truth is, chiropractic is a conservative, drug-free approach to better health that has helped millions of people since 1895.
Myths vs. Truth
Because of philosophical differences, misunderstandings and economic competition, countless myths have circulated about chiropractic. Chiropractic doctors are well educated. Based on contemporary research findings, improved technology and educational standards, more people are choosing chiropractic care every day.
The Chiropractic Lifestyle
Chiropractors are experts in the care of the bones, nerves, muscles and connective tissues that make up about 60% of you body. All of the joints in the body are part of this musculo-skeletal system and its optimal function is necessary for overall good health. Ask us for more information about a care program that may include specific spinal adjustments, exercise recommendations, nutritional advice or other conservative methods of care based on your health history, age current condition and lifestyle.
Benefits of Chiropractic Work
Back and neck pain
Chiropractors are best known for safely and effectively treating acute back and neck pain, as well as headaches. Whereas a medical doctor might prescribe pain medicine, muscle relaxers or anti-inflammatory drugs, and an orthopedic doctor might suggest surgery, a chiropractor will treat your back problems by hand, through manipulation of the spine.
Chiropractors bring the musculoskeletal structure into proper alignment. Chiropractors change the position of your body and apply pressure to particular points along the spine that are not properly aligned. This results in a popping noise similar to the one created when you crack your knuckles. The noise is created by a change in pressure in your joints as gas bubbles are released.
By adjusting the spine with their hands at particular pressure points, chiropractors unblock nerve energy and allow it to flow better down your spin and throughout your entire body. Repeated visits can, over time, realign your spine to optimize overall health.
Chiropractic Care for Pregnancy
There are several benefits of chiropractic care for pregnant women. Visiting your chiropractor can help with some of the discomforts of pregnancy. The physical changes of pregnancy cause stress to the spine, and this contributes to back pain.
As labor approaches, the baby moves down into the pelvis. This can result in pain in the pelvic bone or at the bottom of the spine. Pelvic adjustments help bring the hips back into proper alignment, which relieves the pain. Many women are sent to the chiropractor by their health care provider if the baby is in a breech presentation. Chiropractic techniques can put the hips and pelvis in proper alignment, allowing the baby to turn. This can help women prevent a c section birth.