The benefits of Chiropractic care
There are so many benefits from chiropractic care, and today I want to share the top 5 researched benefits! These benefits may not affect everyone, but hopefully you can find other benefits of chiropractic care.
Pain Reduction
Less pain means that it is easier for you to go about your daily life activities, and you can enjoy them more when you aren’t fighting pain! Chiropractic care helps reduce pain by interrupting and translating the pain signals to your brain into movement signals. When I adjust a joint, that movement can stop the pain signals and then it starts telling your brain that movement doesn’t hurt as much. While your pain can return after an adjustment, over time we can work together by adding in home exercises that will continue to tell your brain that movement doesn’t hurt!
Reduced Headaches
Reduced frequency, severity, and intensity of headaches
If you have ever suffered, or are currently suffering from chronic headaches, this one is for you! Chiropractic care can help treat both the symptoms and the causes of different types of headaches.
Muscle work, stretching, mobilization and adjusting can all help with muscle tension in your neck and head that cause or worsen headaches.
Improved quality of Life
This one can be a bit tricky, because while chiropractors can’t completely remove pain from your life and give you back 100% function and movement, if your health is making it difficult to enjoy your life and activities, we can help improve it.
My main goal is to give you the tools and power to make small changes in your daily life that will help you move easier, reduce pain and be able to get back to all of the activities that you love. My toolbox includes functional movement, nutrition, supplementation, posture analysis, and of course, adjusting!
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Reduced medication usage
This goes hand in hand with reduced pain, but if your pain is reduced, you won’t feel the need to take as many pain medications!
As an added benefit of taking less pain medication, you can limit damage to your stomach, liver, or kidneys that may go along with over the counter or NSAID medications. Occasionally, when we implement other small changes, you may – under the care of your primary physician- find that you can also decrease some prescription medications as your body learns to heal itself.
Sports performance improvement
Every major sports team has a chiropractor on staff to treat their athletes and help with injury prevention. This helps keep athletes performing at their absolute best, with better biomechanics and ranges of motion. This doesn’t just apply to major/professional athletes, it also applies to youth athletes, especially those that play multiple sports or train heavily. It also applies to weekend warriors, since you may not do as many activities during the week and then push yourself hard on the weekends. This can cause a lot of stiff and sore muscles and joints that can benefit from chiropractic care.
Book an appointment today to experience the benefits for yourself!