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How Chiropractic Supports Your Body’s Natural Healing Process
With an abundance of biased claims about chiropractic care circulating on the web, it can be challenging to understand exactly what role chiropractic plays in health and wellness. Too many people, experts and non-experts alike, make grandiose promises as if chiropractic is a “cure-all solution” for any condition. It’s time to take an in-depth, fact-based look into what really makes chiropractic effective, and why. With data collected from years of research and practice, here are some of the facts about chiropractic care, including how it works, what to expect, and when it’s time to include additional treatments.
Fact: Chiropractic is not a cure-all.
It may catch you off guard to hear this from a chiropractic expert, but it’s a fact—chiropractic care should not be thought of as an “all-encompassing” remedy that treats and resolves absolutely all physical dysfunction and pain. Misrepresenting chiropractic as a panacea is an injustice to actually conveying what chiropractic care really has the ability to do. It isn’t a cure for every illness or pain, and shouldn’t be thought of as such; however, when used correctly, chiropractic can reinvigorate the body and create positive, life-enhancing changes in overall wellness.
Chiropractic care mainly focuses on treating issues with the musculoskeletal system and the nervous system.
Chiropractic care offers an array of modalities that target the nervous, muscular, and skeletal systems to help improve overall health. These treatments include spinal decompression therapy, laser therapy, manual manipulation, Chiropractic BioPhysics®, massage, Advanced Muscle Integration Technique, and many others. Implementing these techniques can provide long-term health benefits for any patient who seeks chiropractic treatment.
One of the amazing advantages of chiropractic treatment is its non-invasive nature. It helps the neuro-musculoskeletal system (nerves, muscles, and bones) externally while encouraging your body to heal itself internally. Not only does this have a positive impact on the systems that it directly treats, but also affects other parts of your body in a beneficial way.
What are the benefits of chiropractic care on the body?
Bones & Joints
Chiropractic care is an invaluable tool for protecting and improving bone and joint health. Through careful alignment of the spinal joints, chiropractic treatment can revolutionize overall body function while also providing therapeutic relief to those with arthritis or osteoporosis. Treatments are customizable to best suit your specific needs – from gentle adjustment for sensitive conditions, all the way up to targeted treatments that help alleviate injuries.
Muscles
Chiropractic care can be especially beneficial to muscles, which are more often than not overworked and undervalued. With the exception of regular massages that serve to relax and stretch them out, people typically ignore the importance of their muscle health. Unfortunately, neglecting your muscles leads to a strain on the entire body, as improper functioning of muscles impacts other areas too. Taking good care of your muscle health is essential for maintaining optimal physical condition.
Nervous System
By accessing the spinal cord, a major hub of the central nervous system, chiropractic care can have powerful and transformative effects on your nervous system. Adjustments to this critical area may help regulate its function for both immediate relief from discomfort and long-term improvement in well-being.
With the help of chiropractic care, particularly Chiropractic BioPhysics®, your spine can be properly realigned to alleviate pressure on the nerves. This allows for improved electrical impulses to flow between the body’s neural pathways and a decrease in inflammation. Not only does this often result in lowered headaches and pain symptoms, but it may also help diminish other nervous-system-related issues such as migraines, pain, or numbness.
Digestion
Your digestive system is supported by its own specialized subsection of your nervous system, the enteric nervous system. Through chiropractic techniques that act on your spine and all of its connecting nerves, you can promote balance in your digestion and reduce issues like acid reflux, GERD, nausea, and more. By maintaining equilibrium with the enteric neurological network through chiropractic care treatments, enzymes are efficiently released to facilitate normal gastrointestinal functioning. This means a significantly faster rate of digestion with fewer complications along the way.
Pain
Pain is commonly caused by an inflamed nervous system. When the nerves become too impeded, it can disrupt the transmission of nerve energy and cause discomfort in the body. Muscles that are tense, joints that are misaligned, or any kind of physical injury may lead to inflammation of these vital pathways. This type of chronic pain often originates from issues within the neuro-musculoskeletal system.
All three of the neuro-musculoskeletal systems – the nervous system, muscular system, and skeletal system – are so closely connected that any imbalance in one can be very difficult to correct without treating all three holistically. Take sciatica, for instance; a prime example of chronic pain requiring whole-body treatment.
If you’re dealing with sciatica, traditional methods like heat packs and pain medication may provide temporary relief. But to find long-term resolution from the underlying cause—usually misalignment in the lower part of your spine—you need chiropractic care. When this issue is addressed, you may notice significant improvement in your symptoms.
Immunity
Chiropractic treatment can be incredibly beneficial to your immune system, primarily due to the increased circulation it facilitates. This improvement in circulation affects three primary components of your body: electrical energy, lymphatic fluid, and blood. Chiropractic care can also boost the circulation of cerebrospinal fluid, which helps to move toxins away from the brain (as well as deliver vital nutrients).
When your body’s electrical energy is balanced and flowing seamlessly, it can lower stress on the nerves and enhance communication throughout. Decreasing migraines, increasing energy levels, boosting clarity in thinking – these are all benefits of allowing electricity to flow efficiently through our bodies.
When the lymphatic system is functioning optimally, harmful toxins are expunged from our bodies quickly, and any possible infections can be contained. Finally, with efficient blood circulation throughout the body, essential nutrients and oxygen are supplied to cells effortlessly while waste materials get broken down and removed effectively. As a result, we achieve maximum performance in both physical activity and overall well-being.
Can chiropractic care heal everything?
It is important to remember that chiropractic care does not directly heal the body, but rather helps the body to heal itself. Chiropractic offers a unique and valuable solution for helping your body self-heal, as its powerful techniques are proven to support recovery by rebalancing and realigning your health.
The advantages associated with chiropractic stretch far beyond neuro-musculoskeletal relief; they are global and affect the entire body. By treating the neuro-musculoskeletal system, you may experience all kinds of improvements elsewhere in the body.
Although chiropractic care is not a “one-size-fits-all” solution, its positive effects can treat an extremely wide variety of symptoms and conditions. Even symptoms seemingly unrelated to the neuro-musculoskeletal system could benefit from this treatment due to its both direct and indirect advantages. Chiropractic provides immediate support for the nervous system while fostering additional long-term benefits by improving circulation, immunity, digestion, and breathing.
Symptoms That Chiropractic Can Help
Are you experiencing an array of uncomfortable or even debilitating symptoms? You may be surprised to learn that chiropractic care can help with a wide range of ailments, including those which appear unrelated to the spine and joints. Here is a brief overview of several issues that have been successfully treated with chiropractic:
Back Pain
Chiropractic care is one of the most popular remedies for back pain issues. Through chiropractic adjustments, misaligned bones and joints in the spine can be realigned, tense muscles can be massaged and relieved, as well as helping to stimulate your body’s natural healing process.
Neck Pain
Poor posture, the use of cell phones, injuries like whiplash, and a regular lack of back support while sitting are all common causes of neck pain. When the joints of the cervical spine are realigned with the help of Chiropractic BioPhysics®, neck pain can be treated at its source.
Digestive Dysfunction
Many people are surprised to learn that chiropractic care can lead to an improvement in digestion. This is because the enteric nervous system, which governs digestive function, is directly linked to the central nervous system, and chiropractic treatments stimulate this connection. As a result of chiropractic care, many individuals experience therapeutic effects on their digestion.
Headaches & Migraines
Reoccurring headaches and migraines can typically be traced to misalignments in the cervical spine, where nerves from your brain and spinal cord extend out into other parts of the body. Thankfully, realigning these joints offers a sensible solution for treating pain symptoms without having to rely on medications.
Lethargy/Exhaustion
The body can become sluggish and tired when the flow of nerve energy is blocked by misalignment in the spine. Thankfully, through spinal realignment, nerve energy obstruction can be reduced, allowing for energizing nerve impulses to run their course throughout our bodies and reduce lethargy and exhaustion.
Muscle Tension
Muscle tension affects everyone: athletes, sedentary people, and those recovering from an injury. The discomfort it brings can be overwhelming; it limits flexibility and mobility while significantly impacting the body’s overall comfort level. Fortunately, chiropractic care has been known to decrease muscle tension while also boosting muscles’ capacity to work as they should.
Chiropractic BioPhysics® can help your body heal.
Chiropractic BioPhysics® is a unique form of chiropractic care that combines mirror-image® adjustments and spinal traction to create discernable differences in the shape of the spine. By bringing the spine back into alignment, the body may be equipped to heal much more effectively. This can lead to a significant reduction of negative symptoms, increased flexibility and mobility, and improved health, overall. If you’re ready to experience the benefits of Chiropractic BioPhysics®, use our directory to find a CBP®-certified chiropractor near you.
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Meridian, ID 83642
Phone: 208-939-0301
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Email: [email protected]
Web: idealspine.com