Chiropractic
What is Chiropractic?
Chiropractic is a natural form of health care that uses spinal and extremity adjustments to correct misalignments and restore proper function to the nervous system, helping your body to heal naturally. No part of your body escapes the dominance of your nervous system. Improper function of the spine or extremities due to slight misalignments—called subluxations—can cause poor health or function, even in areas far removed from the spine and spinal cord itself. Misalignments can also reduce the ability of your body to adapt to its ever-changing environment. Even the slightest malfunction may alter the regular transmission of nerve impulses, preventing that portion of your body from responding optimally.
How Does Chiropractic Work?
Chiropractic doesn’t use drugs or surgery. Rather, a chiropractic spinal or extremity adjustment—the application of a precise force to a specific part of the spinal segment, or joints of the arms or legs—corrects the misalignment, permitting normal nerve transmission and assisting your body to recuperate on its own. It also helps to relieve pain, stabilize and mobilize joints, balance the muscular system and promote optimal body function. After the adjustment is performed, your chiropractor will discuss a treatment plan that includes when you should be seeing us in the office, what you can do at home to hold your adjustments and any other ways to make activities of daily living more comfortable.
Who Would Benefit From Chiropractic?
Chiropractic care can benefit just about anyone! We treat a wide variety of patients: adults, kids, pregnant women, athletes, people who sit at a desk all day, and even people who are healthy!
Conditions we treat include: (but not limited to)
- Arthritis
- Back Pain
- Extremity Pain (such as knees, shoulders, elbows, etc.)
- Headaches/Migraines
- Muscle Spasm
- Neck Pain
- Poor Posture
- Pregnancy Aches and Pains
- Sciatica
- Sports Injuries
Chiropractic for Children
2012 Study of Colicky Babies Found:
Daily crying decreased by 48% in babies receiving Chiropractic adjustment compared to 18% in those who did not receive Chiropractic adjustment
Chiropractic Care is the MOST COMMON complementary and integrative medicine used by children in the United States.
What Does Chiropractic Treat in Children"
- Failure to latch during breast feeding
- Torticollis of the neck - stiff neck
- Ear-aches
- Bedwetting through adolescence
- Sports injuries - reoccurring neck or back soreness, headaches, decrease range of motion, uneven shoulders, growing pains, and general discomfort of aches and pains