“If I start chiropractic care, do I have to keep going forever?”

Have you ever thought of visiting our practice when you aren’t in pain?

It’s a common myth associated with chiropractic care that is simply not true. While we’re happy to help our patients feel better by bringing them out of pain with chiropractic care, having to go forever isn’t the case. Even though a course of care varies for each person, one thing is true—we aim to make you a partner in your health.

And while you don’t have to do anything, we have many patients who choose to see us on a regular basis. Have you ever wondered about maintenance care? Here’s how it can benefit you.

1. Prevention

When you visit our practice for ongoing chiropractic care, it can actually help you strengthen your problem area to help prevent an injury from reoccurring. Regular adjustments also keep your body balanced and in tune, allowing for better healing and correction of new spinal problems to avoid a relapse.

2. Improved Posture

Let’s face it—a lot of us sit for most of our day. You might not notice immediate problems from over-sitting, but down the line your posture could suffer. When your posture is compromised, this can lead to other issues like sciatica, carpal tunnel syndrome, back pain and more. Get ahead of these issues by opting for chiropractic care before you develop a problem.

3. Enhanced Wellness

Many patients, after feeling what constitutes “normal” can tell when they need an adjustment. We can do more than just bring you out of pain—we help our patients continue to live the life they desire without problems through health optimization. This doesn’t mean we need to see someone for an adjustment every day or even every week—sometimes, just a once a month “tune up” can be ideal.

 

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The health community labels injuries caused by taking medication as adverse drug events (ADEs). Adverse drug events present one of the most challenging problems which exist in healthcare today. A huge risk goes hand in hand with a person putting a pill in their mouth, syringe into their body, or scalpel to their skin.

 

An inherent trust exists between human beings and medical professionals. People often assume that medical diagnosis and treatment goes without question as the safest and most effective way of dealing with a physical concern. Yet, most medical procedures, pills, and hospital visits pose some sort of health risk. Many people assume the benefits of medical intervention outweigh the risks of any treatment, intervention, or pill. Nowhere does that assumption become more dangerous than in the arena of pills and medications. ADEs continue to skyrocket up the list of most common causes of injury, illness, and disease. These medicinal interventions meant to treat problems actually become just as dangerous as the original conditions.

Steroids, non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs), and opioids comprise three of the five most common types of dangerous medications which cause the highest number of adverse events. These three medications maintain a primary purpose of covering up the sensation of pain in the body. The irony of each medication exists in the fact that none of these substances fix or cure pain, thus the body remains in a perpetual state of need for more dangerous drugs. Common sense dictates that proper healing and alleviation of pain would negate any need for these pharmaceutical drugs and provide people with a healthy alternative to the risks of adverse events. Chiropractic provides that solution. Millions of people of all ages, genders, backgrounds, and lifestyles pursue the elimination of pain and symptoms through safe and effective Chiropractic care.

 

Many people experience symptom relief soon after beginning regular Chiropractic adjustments to the spine and nervous system. The benefits continue far beyond pain reduction. Chiropractors remove interference from the body’s supervening system by assessing and gently adjusting areas of stress in the spine and nervous system. The intimate relationship between the spine and central nervous system draws a direct correlation between spinal stress and overall health. Stress in the spine leads to stress in the health and function of the entire body. Removing stress in the spine allows the body to function and heal to optimal levels.

 

Chiropractors did not formulate the anatomy and physiology that help patients achieve greater levels of health through adjustments. They simply honor the facts and attempt to always work with the body to heal the body. Chiropractors utilize scientifically developed evaluation techniques to locate and correct areas of nervous system dysfunction through specific spinal adjustments. Adjustments subsequently improve spinal mobility, gland function, tissues, and hormone balance. Improvements in overall health and well-being begin to take shape when the body becomes free of stress and impingements.

 

Research done in 2018 showed that patients under Chiropractic care experienced 51% fewer adverse drug events compared to those who did not get adjusted regularly. People deserve lives free of the shackles of drug dependence. Chiropractic advances will continue to play a vital role in the future of maximized healthcare around the world.

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When chiropractic gets mentioned in a social gathering or dinner conversation, most people instinctively correlate it to pain relief. Although that is one of the benefits, science and research show the value of chiropractic adjustments extend much further than just pain and headache relief. Science connects areas of spinal stress and malfunction with changing the body’s chemistry enough to even influence a person’s ability to lose weight.

Research from 2012 found that overweight participants who had the hardest time shedding unwanted fat pounds were those whose nervous systems had been stuck in a stressed pattern. In the12-week dietary weight-loss program, researchers discovered that those successful with weight loss had significantly higher resting nerve activity compared to the individuals who were more resistant to weight loss. In other words, the key ingredient to those who lost weight was balance in the nervous system. This sheds light on testimonies shared by millions of people under chiropractic care who have experienced added weight loss after routine adjustments.

Skeptics challenge the chiropractic connection to weight changes by saying, “show me the science” or “how in the world could an adjustment influence weight loss?” These are great questions that require an explanation. Research and science have proven the spine to be so much more than just a hard set of bones which hold a person upright. An intimate connection exists between the spine and the brain. Some experts have gone so far as to refer to the spine as ‘the motor for the brain’. The brain is dependent upon the spine’s alignment and movement for health and function. The spine is unique to any other part of the body because of the number of neurons located in and around it. This makes the proper alignment and movement of each vertebra so vitally important.

If the spine becomes misaligned or loses full range of motion in any joint, the neurology is compromised. And a compromised nervous system leads to organ dysfunction and changes in body and blood chemistry. This is the scientific explanation which helps show why and how a chiropractic adjustment can influence weight loss.

From the study, the research participants who had an increased tone in the nervous system experienced more resistance to weight loss. Chiropractors look to find areas of stress that has resulted in misaligned and abnormally-moving spinal levels. The chiropractic adjustment restores motion and alignment to allow greater nervous system balance.

Chiropractic could be part of the missing link for millions of people looking to lose weight and feel great in 2018. As school is out and summer around the corner, regular chiropractic adjustments combined with appropriate lifestyle changes can help shed the pounds and keep them off. Weight loss and long-term weight optimization is all about hormone balance. Chiropractic adjustments improve the balance of hormones by reducing stress from the nervous system. The world deserves to know and partake in the full scope of benefits provided through Chiropractic care.

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