Chiropractic care is a noninvasive, hands-on health profession that specializes in your spine, muscles and joints. Chiropractors (DCs) possess broad diagnostic skills as well as being trained to offer therapeutic exercises, rehabilitation therapy and diet/lifestyle advice.
Chiropractors provide soft tissue therapy and Kinesio taping to ease tight muscles and joints, depending on your specific needs. Joint bracing or acupuncture may also be utilized.
Personalized Health Goals
Chiropractic care primarily addresses pain conditions by correcting misalignments and dysfunctions in the spine, improving body mechanics and increasing mobility. However, lifestyle factors like poor posture, inactivity or high stress levels could also play a factor.
Health coaching provides solutions for these obstacles, assisting clients in creating a healthier and more balanced lifestyle. Patients can then become more proactive about managing their spinal health and overall well-being.
A holistic chiropractor views spinal health as being affected by lifestyle choices. Therefore, they often make recommendations to make life healthier – such as diet and exercise advice, relaxation techniques or self-care strategies.
Recent research indicates that over 90 percent of chiropractors provide nutritional and dietary counseling to their patients, while providing ergonomic/postural advice to over half their clients. This approach enables chiropractors to maximize patient outcomes while decreasing time spent on non-manipulable interventions.
Recovery from Injury
Chiropractic adjustments during sports injury recovery help balance muscle function and remove any nerve interference that compounds pain or prevents proper nerve signaling, thus expediting healing time and allowing athletes to heal without resorting to drugs or surgery.
Chiropractors use spinal manipulation to realign bones and alleviate pressure on joints in the neck, back, shoulder, knee, and ankle areas. Soft tissue therapy, joint mobilization and Kinesio Taping may also be employed by chiropractors to relieve spasms, tight muscles and stiff joints.
Chiropractors often work alongside other healthcare professionals as part of an integrated treatment team, including physicians, nurse practitioners, physical therapists and registered massage therapists. Chiropractors may be found in private practice clinics, interprofessional teams, hospitals or patients’ homes. Many chiropractors also specialize in sports injuries. By evaluating your body structure before engaging in sporting activities they may help prevent future injuries as well as providing nutritional and exercise strategies to support bone and joint health – helping athletes stay injury free more often!
Pregnancy
Pregnancy can be an exciting and joyous time, yet also can bring with it several physical stresses that need to be alleviated. A chiropractor may help relieve some of these aches and pains during gestation.
Chiropractic treatment during gestation is generally safe. Chiropractors use gentle yet effective chiropractic techniques that relieve spinal nerve stress while creating pelvic balance and alignment that allows baby to enter head-first during delivery reducing risk for breech birth or complications.
Chiropractic care may also help relieve pregnancy-related symptoms such as morning sickness. This is possible thanks to how regular adjustments optimize nervous system functioning for hormonal balance and digestion, helping mothers-to-be schedule visits more frequently as their due date approaches to ensure their bodies are ready for labor – some chiropractors specialize in Webster techniques which specifically prepare pelvis and birth canal.
Immune System
As soon as germs invade, your immune system responds by sending cells to destroy them and cause inflammation – typically manifested as redness, swelling, heat and pain – but if this process is compromised your immunity becomes vulnerable and ultimately compromised.
Chiropractors specialize in aligning your spine and relieving nerve interference that impedes proper communication between the immune system and brain. Subluxations or misalignments in your spine may press against, irritate, or pinch nerves of your spinal cord which send out messages meant for activating immunity that end up blocking messages meant for it.
Studies have demonstrated that those under chiropractic care tend to experience stronger immune systems, making them less prone to colds and flu. Researchers even discovered that phagocytes – white blood cells that hunt down infection-causing pathogens to rid their bodies – were enhanced among chiropractic patients due to how closely tied together all three systems are.