CHIROPRACTIC ADJUSTMENTS
A chiropractor treats various conditions that affect your nervous and musculoskeletal system. Chiropractic care can help relieve your lower back pain, headache, neck pain, muscle pains, and other joints of your body.
Chiropractic adjustments will involve a licensed chiropractor using special instruments or their hands to manipulate joints of your body. This process is referred to as spinal or joint manipulation. The chiropractic adjustments can help reduce pain and correct the body’s alignment and overall physical function.
The goal of this procedure is to improve spinal motion and improve your body’s physical function. The chiropractic adjustment is safe as it is performed by trained and licensed chiropractors to provide chiropractic care. Chiropractic adjustments rarely cause any serious complications, but they may include:
- Worsening of an existing disk herniation.
- Development of herniated disk.
- Compression of the lower spinal column nerves.
- Some type of stroke after neck manipulation.
You should avoid chiropractic adjustment if you have:
- Severe osteoporosis.
- Numbness, tingling, or loss of strength in a leg or arm.
- Spinal cancer.
- Risk of increased stroke.
- Bone abnormality in the upper neck.
WHAT DOES CHIROPRACTIC CARE INVOLVE?
Just think of aches, pains, creaks, and strains if you want to understand what your chiropractors do. If you are suffering from problems that involve your musculoskeletal system, a chiropractor can offer alternative methods of treatment.
Chiropractic care does not involve medication, but this will involve the following:
- Soft-tissue therapy: This help the relaxation of tight muscles, relieving spasm and releasing tension in the fascia, which is the connective tissue that surrounds each muscle.
- Adjustments: This involves gently realigning the joints and increasing their range of motion.
- Joint bracing/taping like Kinesio taping: These help support sprained joints or muscles while healing.
- Exercises and stretches: This helps restore and maintain mobility and range of motion.
- Referrals to integrative medicine experts: Chiropractors will guide diet and nutrition to reduce inflammation and promote weight loss.
BENEFITS OF CHIROPRACTIC CARE
Visiting a chiropractor, like us here at Zenith, may help you overcome most of your symptoms. A chiropractic adjustment procedure can have countless positive benefits without the stress or invasiveness of surgery as well as other more intense techniques.
Is a chiropractic adjustment beneficial for you? To help you answer that, let us see some of the benefits of getting a chiropractic adjustment.
- Blood Pressure: The chiropractic adjustment provides you relief from high blood pressure similar to the effect you get from high blood pressure medications. It has been observed that the effects of the chiropractic adjustment would continue for 6 months even after the adjustment.
The high blood pressure medications can have side effects such as: - Fatigue
Nausea
Dizziness
Anxiety
Weight loss - The chiropractic adjustment targets the nerves in your upper neck that may be just as effective as taking blood pressure medication.
- Range of motion: Your joints, connective tissue, and ligaments change as well as deteriorate over time, even when you do not feel pain. Chiropractic care influences your body to maintain and even improve your range of motion. Chiropractic adjustments improve joint mobility as well as reduce your chances of suffering joint and cartilage deterioration later in life. With chiropractic treatment, you will feel an increase in muscle strength, decrease the tightness of muscles and strengthen weak muscles.
- Reduce neck and lower back pain: This is the most common chiropractic adjustment. Chiropractic adjustments is good alternative to more invasive alternatives such as surgery or injections for treating short-term or chronic back or neck pain.
Your chiropractor may help ease your neck and back pain by realigning your spine and easing tension in your neck muscles. An adjustment from chiropractor services reduce your back and neck pain significantly via a non-invasive technique. Chiropractic treatment is often cheaper than other methods of back pain management.
- Scoliosis: Scoliosis leads to an abnormal curvature of the spine that cause pain, abnormal posture, a reduction in your range of motion, and even trouble breathing. Mostly people with scoliosis have few options for treatment, but the chiropractic adjustment helps treat scoliosis patients.
Chiropractic treatment combined with physical therapy could help treat and prevent the progression of scoliosis. The effectiveness of this treatment option varies from patient to patient, but it is a viable option.
- Sciatica: Sciatica causes the pain radiating from your lower back down your legs due to damaged or pressured sciatic nerve. The nerve pain can lead to over-medication and chronic pain. Chiropractic adjustments can help relieve pressure on the sciatic nerve causing your sciatica. If you are receiving chiropractic adjustments, it reduces the number of pain bouts, along with reduction in the severity of their pain.
- Reduce Inflammation: Pain leads to inflammation, joint issues, and tension. Chronic inflammation is a sign of various diseases such as heart disease, chronic pain, and cancer. Chiropractic adjustments reduce inflammation that can lead to several benefits, including: Chronic lower back pain relief.
Reduced muscle tension.
Relief of joint pain.
Reducing inflammation can also help reduce your risk of developing diseases that are linked to high inflammation.
- Eases Headache: Spinal manipulation by chiropractors is effective at treating tension headaches and headaches originating in your neck. The tension and migraine headaches can be caused by back pain and spinal issues. Back misalignment can result in muscle tension and pain, can lead to tension headaches as well as migraine headaches. Apart from back pain, headache is the top ailment that chiropractors treat.
- Improvement in Neurological condition: Chiropractic adjustments helps increase blood flow to the brain. These can also help increase the flow of cerebral spinal fluid as well. The chiropractic adjustments considerably help people suffering from neurological conditions such as multiple sclerosis and epilepsy.
- Quality of Sleep: Misalignments in the spine might be interfering with your sleep. The chiropractic adjustments resolve the unhealthy strain and stress off of the nerves and bones in your spine, promoting relaxation. A supportive pillow or mattress, and sleeping on your stomach, can help your body feel better while you sleep.
OUTLOOK
Your chiropractor would use hands-on adjustments to reduce pain as well as help your body heal itself. They would mostly focus on issues dealing with the spine.
Getting the treatment from a chiropractor may also lower your need to take pain relievers or undergo more invasive treatments like surgery.
If you or anyone you know is suffering from pain, our expert providers at Zenith Injury Relief & Wellness Clinic will take care of your health and help you recover.
Call 972-210-0033 book an appointment with our specialists, and begin living your life pain-free.