Anyone who is living with chronic pain knows the daily drudgery, mental fatigue and physical exhaustion that go along with this condition. Stress, daily wear and tear on our bodies, injuries, and emotional stress can cause subluxations to occur in your spine, which then throw your entire body off balance. Over time, these skeletal and muscular imbalances can contribute to chronic pain, disease, and mental stress that reduce the quality of life.
What is a subluxation
A subluxation is a misalignment of one or more vertebrae running the length of your spine. When these bones move, they cause pressure and stress on the delicate nerves that are housed within the spine. These nerves are the central nervous system hub of your body, responsible for transporting millions of messages per day to different systems of your body all in an attempt to maintain a glorious state of homeostasis and balance. When a subluxation occurs, the resulting stress on the nervous system causes mixed messages and errors in receiving across this communication medium, resulting in an inability for the body to function at optimal levels. When your nervous system is compromised, it wreaks havoc on the rest of your body and its systems, which can lead to injury, illness, and mental and emotional stress. Something must be corrected.
How can a chiropractor help me with chronic pain?
Pain is the body’s clear signal that something is wrong; when we take a look at the delicate balance that is needed across all of the body’s systems in order for it to perform well, we see that chiropractic care can benefit us in many ways. Here are some marked benefits that regular chiropractic care can do for us and for our marvelous bodies:
Chiropractic care can relieve back pain
When it comes to back pain relief, few interventions are as effective as chiropractic care. When subluxations are corrected, muscles that have been pulled out of alignment are brought back into proper position once more, relieving incidents of pain and discomfort. Back and neck pain become a thing of the past as you learn to recognize what true balance and alignment feel like.
Chiropractic care can relieve headaches
Second only to back pain, headaches and migraines are the most common reasons people seek relief from chiropractic treatment. Over 90 percent of people who receive chiropractic treatment on a regular basis report that the incidence of headaches and migraines drops significantly, and many report that pain during sporadic episodes is dramatically lessened. As the spine is brought back into alignment, pressure and stress on nerves, muscles and tendons is released, allowing the body to heal and correct itself.
Chiropractic care improves neurological conditions
A study of MRI scans performed on patients before and after spinal adjustment indicates that there is an upswing in the amount of cerebrospinal fluid flowing along the length of the spine and into the brain stem, improving certain neurological conditions that appear when this fluid is reduced in the brain. Diseases such as Multiple Sclerosis, Fibromyalgia, and other neurological conditions are improved greatly with regular chiropractic care and adjustments.
Chiropractic care can regulate blood pressure!
A study conducted by George Bakiris in 2007 indicated that just one upper cervical spinal adjustment had the same effect on blood pressure that prescription drugs had. This is incredible news for the medical community as people seek alternative and natural forms of treatment over potentially damaging drugs and supplements. This is concrete evidence that the body seeks a state of balance, and aiding the body by correcting subluxations will allow it to find that balance and return to health in a more natural manner.
Chiropractic care can help reduce the need for certain surgeries
Chiropractic care is now widely recognized as the first alternative to surgery for back and neck pain. When received on a regular basis, chiropractic care can reduce the need for other types of corrective surgeries as well, including those for herniated discs and scoliosis.
Chiropractic care reduces overall pain and inflammation
When the body is in a state of balance, systems that exist to correct pain and inflammation go to work and can effectively eliminate sources of pain and inflammation in the body. That continuous state of balance that we seek in our physical bodies is now present, and natural health becomes our expected state of being as we give the body the alignment and correction that it needs.
Experiencing pain? See your chiropractor!
If you are experiencing neck, back, or even chronic pain, perhaps it’s time to see your chiropractor to see what can be done to bring your body back into balance. Once you’ve achieved a state of balanced, optimum health, it will be difficult to imagine living any other way. Create a better quality of life for yourself today; contact your chiropractor to get on the road to better health and wellness! Call us today at 205-637-1363.
