8 Ways Chiropractic Care Can Change Your Life

1. It Can Boost Your Productivity

Chiropractic care can boost your productivity at work and at play.

Regular chiropractic care can boost work performance by preventing work-related injuries, including carpal tunnel syndrome and low-back pain.

Low back pain that is left untreated can lead to missed days of work and higher medical costs.

A recent review of 250 employees receiving worker compensation for low back pain revealed that patients receiving chiropractic care experienced more significant reductions in pain.

Chiropractic care will restore proper spinal alignment and reduce your low back pain.

And if you're an athlete, chiropractic care can also boost your athletic performance.

World-famous athletes like Tiger Woods and Lance Armstrong rely on chiropractic care to reach optimal performance levels.

2. It Can Make You Smarter

Mapping brain activity before and after chiropractic adjustments has revealed that chiropractic care stimulates cognitive function.

A study involving 500 adult volunteers had researchers use cutting edge technology to create maps in the cortical portions of the brain before and after chiropractic adjustments.

The researchers found that cervical manipulation activates specific neurological pathways in the brain, potentially stimulating cognitive function.

Cervical manipulations can also enhance response mechanisms in the brain, according to a study done in New Zealand.

The study involved 30 volunteers who all had evidence of cervical spinal joint dysfunction.

Instead of the cortical mapping, these researchers used reaction time to various stimulation as a gauge.

The researchers found that multiple sites of cervical joint dysfunction were related to impaired cortical processing.

After a chiropractic adjustment, the volunteers demonstrated improved cortical processing and response selection.

3. It Can Lower Your Stress

Chiropractic care gets rid of stress by allowing your body to achieve the balance it needs.

Chiropractic care also helps keep you free of physical impediments to regular exercise, which is key to busting stress and preventing stress-related anxiety and depression.

While a chiropractor doesn't treat depression directly, there is research that demonstrates that chiropractic adjustments may ease depressive symptoms.

Part of this research included following 15 adults who were both clinically depressed and had a vertebral subluxation of their upper neck.

Before and after receiving a chiropractic adjustment, the subjects completed a standard assessment for depression.

The results revealed marked reductions in depression scores following the intervention.

4. It Helps You Avoid Medications

If you maintain regular chiropractic care, you are far less likely to overuse or misuse medication, which can have hazardous side effects.

Even the safest over the counter pain medications can wreak havoc on your body, including your gastrointestinal system.

Long-term use of pain medication can also exacerbate the same symptoms it's supposed to treat.

People who focus on prevention and have regular appointments with their chiropractic are far more likely to avoid rebound headaches.

Rebound headaches, or medication overuse headaches, is a new term for a long-standing, previously unnamed condition caused by taking painkillers every day for headaches.

Unfortunately, rebound headaches are extremely common, affecting about 1 in every 50 people.

5. It Can Improve Your Overall Wellness

Regular chiropractic care will empower you with what many chiropractors call health-esteem.

You will learn to take charge of your own wellbeing so you can achieve optimal health, increased longevity, and heightened quality of life.

This occurs your chiropractor will talk to you and tell you what's going on, instead of just giving you instructions.

Chiropractors want you to understand why sitting at a desk for eight hours is terrible for you, or why even if you work a hard labor job you still need exercise.

The more you know about your overall health, the better choices you will end up making.

6. It Can Alleviate Pain

Instead of covering up your pain with harmful painkillers, chiropractic care addresses the underlying issues with pain disorders like headaches, low back pain, and other injuries.

These conditions are often linked to dysfunctional areas in the spine, known as vertebral subluxations where movement is restricted or spinal bones are misaligned.

Many times if you are in a fixed position for too long like when you are driving, working or traveling it can cause pain over time.

Chiropractors treat subluxations with chiropractic adjustments, so the underlying issue is fixed, and you just aren't masking the pain.

7. It Can Prevent Other Conditions

There's a growing body of research that indicates that chiropractic adjustment can help prevent a vast array of conditions.

Some of the conditions that could be helped by chiropractic care are infantile colic, ear infections, behavioral problems, high blood pressure, and Parkinson's disease.

Researchers have found that vertebral subluxations affect the way the nervous system functions. Along with the brain, the spinal cord is the main component of the central nervous system.

Research indicates that dysfunctions in the spine may inhibit the balance of the central nervous system, leading to a variety of health problems.

8. It Can Improve Your Sleep

Another perk of chiropractic care is improved sleep quality.

Improved sleep is due to a reduction in pain and anxiety, which often interfere with sleep.

Improved sleep enhances immunity, in turn, fighting disease.

Preliminary research also links insomnia with vertebral subluxations, which can be corrected with chiropractic care.

Change Your Life Today

If you have yet to experience any of the amazing benefits of chiropractic care, it's time to do so.

Even if you feel fine, chiropractic care can fix things you didn't know were broken.

If you don't have a chiropractor, reach out to the team at the Arrowhead Clinic.

They have been changing lives for years, and they'd love to do the same for you.