No matter your age or health condition, pain and injury are bound to happen. You are also bound to be healed with chiropractic care.

Most of your body’s function is directly impacted by the nervous system. Being that your spine is a part of this essential system, chiropractic treatment benefits way more than just your back.

The nerves in your spine affect you from head to toe—literally.

Whether dealing with migraines or pain in your ankles, chiropractic care offers treatment to get you both physically and mentally well.

Chiropractors go beyond adjustment. They also help patients with nutrition, exercise, and other healthy lifestyle changes to ensure that your health continues to improve with treatment.

By investing in chiropractic care, you are investing in your health and longevity.

What Chiropractic Heals

As mentioned earlier, your spine plays a pivotal role in your overall health. The slightest misalignment in your bones can lead to a multitude of injuries. The slightest adjustment can also heal you.

Chiropractors can improve lower back pain, wrist conditions, leg pain, knee injuries, sprains, migraines, and back of neck pain.

Many of these treatments revolve around adjustments of the joints or bones. Through realignment, the healing process is set into motion.

This is the core of chiropractors’ philosophy—allowing the body to heal itself after intervention through spinal manipulation or other adjustments.

That being said, it only makes sense that the results of the treatment go beyond just putting everything back into place.

These adjustments have a domino effect of improvement for your overall well-being. In fact, you don’t necessarily have to be injured to reap the benefits of this care. Many patients visit regularly simply to maintain health.  

Why You Should Invest in Your Health

By eliminating injuries and pain, chiropractic serves as way to prevent illness, boost productivity and immunity, and improve sleep.

Chiropractic prevention takes form in strengthening your body as well as your immune system.

As mentioned in past posts, chiropractic strengthens your muscles through stretching. This is why so many athletes, like CrossFitters, choose chiropractic care. Not only does it help to heal their current injuries, but helps them to heal even stronger than before.

Stretches promotes blood flow throughout the body and also keep the muscles elastic. This way, you can continue to do the same a activities you love—working out, walking your dog, or spending quality time with your family—without fear that you might hurt yourself again.

This restored blood flow from adjustments also helps the immune system because many illnesses are the result of compressed nerves. Tension on nerves directly affects our body’s response to viral or bacterial infections.

Relieving the tension on these pathways and allowing the blood to carry important nutrients through the body, your fight against infection dramatically improves.

Adjustments also help to reduce your stress. It is often has just as bad on the body as a misaligned spine – it can be bad for your heart, immune system, digestion, metabolism, and, of course, your psyche.  

Spinal manipulation acts as a catalyst for mental wellness. By ridding of stress on the body, you rid of stress on the mind.

Injuries are not only painful physically, but can take an emotional toll. Pain affects how you live your life and its interference is frustrating.

With all of the other stressful things in life, whether it is your job or family, the last thing you need to worry about is your health.

Adjustments relieve physical stress, allowing you to feel better and move more freely without pain restricting you. This allows you to think more clearly, as the pain is no longer looming over you.

With mental stress from your pain reduced, you can also be more productive. As said by Paul Baard, a sports psychologist at Fordham University, anxiety takes up a lot of energy, therefore reducing stress greatly increases your energy for the important things in life.

You can think more clearly when working because the signals in the spine are being transmitted more efficiently to the brain.

You can also get back to doing more exercise or other physical activities. A clear mind and strengthened body inevitably increase your energy and motivation. Both manipulation and stretches increase your range of motion so you can move freely and easily without constraint.

In reducing anxiety and pain, you also improve your sleep quality. Pain can keep you up all night, leading to a lot of lost hours of much needed rest.

Adjustments alleviate pain and allow your body to relax, making it easier for you to fall asleep. In fact, many chiropractors treat patients with insomnia. Read this success story of a how chiropractic helped this single mom.  

Sleep is incredibly important for your health, which is why chiropractic care is so beneficial. Studies show that sleep deprivation can contribute to weight gain, more illness, stress, and possibly even a shortened life expectancy.

In this way chiropractic care doesn’t just improve your life—it lengthens it.

Visit a Chiropractor Today

All of these factors contribute to your overall health, which is why chiropractic care is an imperative treatment for all.

This care promotes wellness in all aspects of your life. Pain too often limits your movement and ultimately how you live day to day.

With pain reduced and eliminated by adjustments and maybe massages, you can not only get back to being your normal self, but even healthier than before.

This treatment allows your body to heal itself naturally, without medication or surgery. Chiropractors set forth the healing process by putting your body back into place.

When your body falls back into place, the rest of your life will follow.

A healthier present means a healthier future. In improving your health, you are actually increasing longevity.

For this very simple, yet crucial, reason, your health is a top priority, for both yourself and your chiropractor.

While the relief offered feels almost immediate, the effects are clearly long lasting. With the guidance of your chiropractor, you can change your life to be healthier—and happier.

Call 513-247-9045 to schedule a visit with your local Montgomery chiropractor, Dr. Scanlon.