What does getting chiropractic adjustments help with?
The short answer – well a whole lot of things! An adjustment can help with a number of conditions, many of which cause pain within the joints or muscles of the body. Whether it be neck pain, low back pain, sprains, strains, spasms, chronic pain, or just general pain relief, a chiropractor can help with it all. But it’s not just what a chiropractor can help treat that makes chiropractic treatment valuable. It’s how chiropractic therapy can help you through the various stages of your life, your conditions/injuries, your mindfulness of your body’s symptoms, your overall health, and doing so through a natural means.
Chiropractic practitioners specialize in the neuromusculoskeletal system, our whole career is spent knowing the ins and outs of every joint, muscle, and nerve in the body. Yes, we chiropractors mainly focus on the spine and those muscles that can affect those joints, but did you know that we can also work on every other joint in the body? I have often told patients – “If it’s a joint, we can pop it!” While most find it funny – it has a lot of truth behind it. Chiropractors not only spend their days in school learning about the spine and spinal adjusting but also about every other joint in the body. We learn about conditions and pain relief for every joint in the body.
From hips and knees, to shoulders and wrists, and even your tiny finger and toe joints – chiropractic services can help!
How do you know if you need chiropractic care?
Not only do we help muscles heal and joints move better especially through regular chiropractic care, but we also help with more serious issues that involve parts of your nervous system.
Things like sharp pains that travel into your arms or legs, or those numbness and tingling sensations. Going to a chiropractic office can help with those types of neck pain and low back pain.
We as practitioners can help patients because we learn everything related to the spinal column, including spinal nerves and all those other nerves that travel to the various places in our body.
This can include conditions like:
- Neck pain neck
- Low back disc bulges
- Low back pain
- Radiculopathies
- Sciatica and nerve entrapments
All of this and more – are included in those aches, chronic pains, and conditions that chiropractors treat.
Why you might need chiropractic maintence?
But chiropractic services isn’t just helpful to get someone out of pain. Regular chiropractic care has helped many athletes and weekend warriors heal quicker so they can give 150% to whatever sport or activity they live for! This type of chiropractic patient maintains their health and finds pain relief through spinal adjustments/manual therapy.
Maintenance care with a chiropractor helps the office worker or student with their posture as they sit working on their computer for hours on end. Working to prevent all the conditions that can come from having poor posture for years and years. Chiropractic services can even help your body as it grows and changes during growth spurts, pregnancy, and post-partum. A chiropractor can help your body through the demands that life places on it. As well as helping with the demands that you place on your own body through regular chiropractic care.
Despite all these benefits of chiropractic adjustments, the main value of chiropractic therapy is not that it can help with so many conditions and stages of life, but that it is a natural means to help your body heal. There are no harmful side effects for spinal adjustments, physical therapy, and manual therapy like there are for other types of treatments.
There are no prescription medication interactions. Chiropractic treatment is safe for people that can’t take certain pain medications due to allergies, pregnancy, or other contraindications. Chiropractic care is just setting your body up for optimal healing through reducing inflammation to the area of injury and improving blood flow to the surrounding structures. All of this can be done through manual therapies and adjustments.
The value is simple – help heal your body with natural means through chiropractic care. Adjustments and therapies that can help with carpal tunnel, headaches, nerve pain, disc bulges, hip pain, arthritis pains, TMJ issues, plantar fasciitis, knee meniscus tears, and so much more!
Chiropractic treatments and manual therapy can help your body heal itself and help you feel your best. All this and potentially avoiding more invasive types of therapies like injections or surgeries. Or it can even help you avoid having to take things like ibuprofen or use that back or ankle brace.
What is preventative chiropractic care mean?
Not only can chiropractic be used as a rehabilitative treatment, but it can be effective as a preventative treatment. As a society, we should learn to listen to our bodies – all our aches and tight muscles/joints – and learn to recognize when our bodies need help before they get to the point of pain. That way we learn to look for the signs to prevent the pain, so we are always ready for our daily tasks of life. Imagine if you learned the tightness in your shoulders that leads to your daily, weekly, or monthly headaches so you could catch it at tightness before you even got a headache. Or listening to your body telling you that the pulling sensation you feel in your lower back always comes before that disc pain or sciatica.
That’s what preventative care means. That’s what regular chiropractic care or maintenance care can look like. Listening to the subtle symptoms that your body makes before it ends up in pain. This can be very valuable to patients who have chronic pain and long-term conditions like arthritis, disc bulges, tendonitis, etc. And this is how chiropractic can help keep those chronic conditions under control, keep their chronic pain managed, and improve patient’s functional status.
Which way would you value chiropractic adjustments and care?
- What benefits of chiropractic therapy do you value?
- Do you need help healing your body?
- Did you recently injure yourself or do you have chronic pain that you need help managing?
- Are you trying to help heal your body naturally?
- Or are you in a point in your life where natural treatments are your only/last option?
- Are you seeking to boost your sport performance or improve your recovery time?
Or maybe you’re just looking to prevent aches and pains through physical therapy or manual therapy. Maybe you’re trying to listen to your body a little bit more than you usually do. All of which are valuable points or reasons to go to a chiropractic clinic. So go. Reach out to your local chiropractor practitioner. Make an appointment. Talk to them about why you need their help. And see what they can do for you and your conditions.
