When most people think about a chiropractor, they automatically think back pain or neck pain. Did you know chiropractors can not only treat many more injuries and ailments, but also support your health through boosting your immune system and reducing common ailments such as high blood pressure? Here are just a few conditions that chiropractic care can treat, and how.
Back/Neck Pain
There are a few ways chiropractors treat back and neck pain, with spinal adjustments being the most popular. Chiropractic adjustments correct vertebral subluxations – misalignments of the vertebrae that cause pain, inflammation and spasms. Once adjusted, the inflammation pain and spasms are greatly reduced, if not eliminated altogether, which also eliminates the back and neck pain.
For more severe back pain ailments, such as herniated discs, bulging discs and nerve damage, there is a treatment called Non-Surgical Spinal Decompression. Painless and medication free, NSSD is a sophisticated procedure that uses state-of-the-art equipment to treat such conditions without back surgery, and also to fix failed back surgery.
Migraines/Headaches
The primary cause of migraines and headaches is tension within the neck. This simply means that the spine is out of alignment, and there is an imbalance in the central nervous system. Chiropractic spinal adjustment realigns the spine, relieving tension and inflammation and in turn, relieves headaches and migraines.
Boost Your Immune System
Our immune system is the main tool our bodies have to fight illness and infection. When our immune system is not functioning properly, we allow our body to be in dis-ease and the disease process begins. Most people do not know that the immune system is directly linked to the spine and central nervous system. When there are subluxations, compression of nerve pathways, and the spine is misaligned, our immune system becomes unresponsive. Spinal adjustments relieve subluxations and realign the spine, allowing the immune system to work at its optimal potential.
Common Ailments:
High Blood Pressure
Lifestyle can play a large role in developing high blood pressure, and many people are given medication to lower it. In a recent study, results of a 290-adult participant study revealed that adjustments to the thoracic spine positively affected, or successfully reduced, high blood pressure. Because your spine is directly linked to your central nervous system and your nerves control just about everything in your body, it makes sense that if those two things are working properly, ailments will be reduced.
Treating the Cause
Chiropractic care is more than spinal adjustments – it also includes full therapy, exercise and massage therapy, plans to strengthen muscles, reduce joint pain and treat all sorts of physical injuries. Because chiropractors have a wide array of training and understanding of the body, they can create personalized programs that include a variety of treatments that get to the root of a health issue, rather than simply treating its symptoms.
Most people do not know that the immune system is directly linked to the spine and central nervous system.
