Chiropractic and massage therapies work hand in hand as powerful healing practices, providing effective ways to relieve your symptoms, strengthen immunity and decrease stress levels.
Chiropractors focus on the spine and joints, while massage therapists work through muscles and tendons – two areas in which chiropractics excel. Therefore, massage therapy and chiropractic work so well together.
Relieves Headaches
No matter the cause of your headaches – stress, poor posture or tight muscles – chiropractic and massage treatments can provide relief. While over-the-counter painkillers only mask symptoms, chiropractic can actually decrease frequency and severity of migraines, tension or cluster headaches.
Chiropractors use spinal manipulation and massage techniques to realign the spine and ease pressure off nerves in the neck and head, relieving headaches while helping patients discover preventative methods to avoid future episodes. This gives patients relief while providing ways for future preventive strategies.
Regular massages can help reduce inflammation in the body, which slows healing and increases your risk for health conditions and diseases. Your chiropractor may recommend massage in combination with physical therapy, diet changes and stress management – these holistic approaches could decrease dependency on pain medications with their associated adverse side effects such as sleep disruptions, mood swings or organ damage and even death.
Relieves Joint Pain
Chiropractic manipulation relieves tension caused by misalignments that pinch nerves while massage therapy soothes tightened muscles due to stress, helping improve posture and alignment. Together these therapies create an integrative treatment plan to eliminate and prevent further discomfort.
Chiropractic and massage therapies, when combined with other therapies, can effectively alleviate symptoms associated with chronic joint diseases like osteoarthritis and rheumatoid arthritis by decreasing immune system-driven inflammation responses and improving mobility in affected areas by realigning how spinal discs fit together.
Both chiropractic and massage increase circulation, which allows more elasticity to the muscles, tendons and ligaments to improve mobility and decrease stress levels and strengthen immunity – helping lower high blood pressure and protect against cardiovascular conditions like heart disease.
Improves Sleep
Many people struggle to get enough restful sleep. Poor rest can make daily tasks harder to accomplish and be detrimental to overall health, yet there are natural solutions that can improve your restfulness and lead to greater wellbeing in the long run.
Chiropractors utilize soft tissue massages and targeted spinal adjustments to correct any misalignments in the neck or upper body that might be interfering with breathing. They may also teach patients simple breathing exercises designed to relax the throat muscles that might otherwise lead to snoring or sleep apnea.
Regular chiropractic treatments can also be an excellent way to relieve both physical and psychological tension and sleep better. Regular treatments may stimulate your brain into producing serotonin, an endogenous neurotransmitter which promotes calmness and allows you to relax before falling asleep.
Strengthens Immune System
The immune system is a complex network that protects you from germs. For optimal functioning, this defense relies on your nervous system – but when your spine misaligns, this communication disruption compromises immune response, leaving your immune response vulnerable.
A chiropractic adjustment corrects this communication issue, enabling your immune system to operate normally and fight off infections more effectively. Studies have demonstrated that receiving frequent chiropractic adjustments reduces your likelihood of illness.
Receiving regular massages is proven to strengthen your immunity, by relieving stress and lowering blood pressure. Coupled with chiropractic care, massage can be a formidable force against flu and other illnesses.
Lowers Blood Pressure
High blood pressure has earned itself the moniker “the silent killer,” as its symptoms often remain undetected for long.
Most patients diagnosed with high blood pressure rely on prescription medication to manage it, yet these may cause side effects including headache, drowsiness, dizziness, potassium deficiency, frequent urination, etc.
Chiropractic and massage therapy offer natural alternatives to prescription medication, such as chiropractic adjustments and massage therapy. One study demonstrated that one adjustment to the Atlas vertebrae located in the neck could lower systolic blood pressure by 7.8%-13% – comparable to taking two blood pressure drugs combined! According to researchers, spinal manipulation regulates nervous systems which in turn control blood pressure.