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Let you, there’s nothing better than being a chiropractor! I love what I do and I love my patients, too! I have a downtown chiropractic office that absolutely buzzes with health excitement, whether it’s my patients coming for their regular chiropractic checkups, seeking help for an acute musculoskeletal problem, or looking to the wonders of chiropractic to aid them after and accident or injury, they always know that they’re going to find out “what’s new” in the healing science and art of the Chiropractic “I” World! And, what’s new right now is that in October, when National Chiropractic Health Month (NCHM) is celebrated, the theme will be “Get TechnoHealthy!”
What does that theme have to do with you? Well, the focus will be on how chiropractors, like me, can help you to stay healthy and injury free while toting the gadgets you love, or if you work long hours in front of a computer. Did you know that excessive use of mobile devices, and incorrect posture while using smart phones (and other gadgets) or while sitting in front of a computer can lead to neck, back, wrist, and even thumb pain? In fact, the problem is becoming so widespread that earlier this year a spokesperson for the Occupational Safety and Health Administration said that musculoskeletal injuries remain one of the biggest workplace health and safety problems in American industry.
Chiropractic care, of course, can treat these conditions naturally, but your chiropractor can teach you how to take breaks, to stretch and exercise to prevent pain and injury, and how not to maintain the same stooped-over posture for long periods of time or to repeat the same motions endlessly.
Your chiropractor knows a lot about the musculoskeletal system and how modern day technology can often affect it in painful, and sometimes debilitating ways. Don’t wait for October. If you’re experiencing neck pain, back pain, shoulder pain, wrist pain, or even thumb pain, see your chiropractor today! It’s time to learn how to use modern technology and stay pain-free at the same time.
As a Wichita Chiropractor for more than twenty years, I have assisted many people suffering from sciatic pain, so I’m truly aware from experience just how incapacitating sciatic pain can be. Sciatica sufferers are unfortunately all too familiar with the kind of deep pain that often radiates through the lower part of their body, persists during the day and restricts almost all of their daily activities.
Are you concerned that your low back pain could be generated by sciatica? If your pain travels from your low back, through your buttock(s), down the large sciatic nerve in the back of your leg(s), and possibly penetrates into your knee(s), you probably have sciatica. In addition, not only movement, but even sitting can be painful. Often lying down will reduce, or occasionally even temporarily get rid of the pain. But, you should be warned that sciatica cannot be corrected without proper care.
Radiculopathy
One of the clinical diagnoses of sciatica is called a “radiculopathy”, a medical term that means simply that a disc has protruded from its natural position in the vertebral column and is putting pressure on the radicular nerve, or nerve root, in the lower back, which forms part of the sciatic nerve. This type of pressure is extremely painful.
Added pressure on the intervertebral discs, as well as imbalances in the muscles encasing the spine, can occur during and after extended sitting, specifically in an improper position. A particular event or injury isn’t usually the cause of sciatica, more often sciatica is likely to progress over time due to everyday wear and tear on the vertebrae of the lower spine. After a while the lower spine can lose its ability to function normally during everyday stresses.
Ultimately, the intervertebral disc undergoes small fissures or cracks, which then allow the soft nucleus to protrude the disc outward. If the disc pushes on sensitive tissues, it generates the pain that is frequently called a ruptured, or slipped, disc. If the disc presses on the spinal nerve, sciatica is likely to develop. With chiropractic manipulation and management, which often includes postural exercises, the majority of disc problems, including sciatica, can be totally alleviated.
Periformis Syndrome
Another cause of sciatic pain is periformis syndrome. Periformis syndrome occurs when the periformis muscle, for whatever reason, goes into spasm and irritates the sciatic nerve, is superficial to the nerve In combination with chiropractic manipulation, this kind of sciatica can be significantly relieved by sciatica stretches that your chiropractor can recommend.
If you are experiencing sciatic pain, it is crucial for you to seek chiropractic attention. If you are in the Wichita area, as your Wichita Chiropractor, I look forward to helping you to get out of pain and get your life back!
At my Cincinnati Chiropractic Clinic I treat many elders who are affected by balance problems. In fact, nine percent of adults, aged 65 and over, experience dizziness, “wooziness,” and other balance-related conditions. Good balance is extremely important, of course, in aiding seniors in remaining independent and to avoid falling down and incurring injuries that are frequently very serious or even fatal. But, it may surprise you to know that falls produce a large percentage of work-related injuries for adults younger than 65 years of age, including individuals in their twenties and thirties. That’s right! Balance problems can happen at any age. In fact, those who work at “dangerous heights” like construction workers, roofers, oil platform employees, windows cleaners, or anywhere else where a ladder is required are far more likely to sustain serious injury if their balance isn’t good.
The essential capacity of good balance is to assist us in managing and maintaining our body position, whether we are standing still or moving, and whether we are on the ground or high up on a platform. Good balance assists us in walking without faltering, arising from a sitting position without tottering, and in climbing stairs without slipping. In other words, good balance is crucial to our health and well-being.
What is commonly surprising to some people is that they could have a balance dysfunction without any idea of how serious it is. Often times someone is able to “shake off” a dizzy feeling and the sensation may not come back for a while. However when precipitous dizziness occurs at a consequential moment, it is too late to shake it off and a fall is most likely certain.
The feeling by some individuals that they, personally, are spinning or that objects around them are moving is known as “vertigo.” About 40% of individuals in the U.S. will have at least one experience of dizziness that is serious enough to seek out help from a health professional, like your Chiropractor at Cincinnati Chiropractic. That said, if you work at any of the jobs listed above, it is a highly beneficial idea for you to have a chiropractor check your balance prior to a sudden episode of dizziness, instead of as a response to such an episode. Why? Because as a chiropractor, I can not only check your balance, and make corrections if needed, but can assist you in maintaining good balance in the future. And, of course, having good balance may save you from serious injury or worse.
Balance disorders at any age are serious. If you believe that you may have a possible balance disorder, it is crucial for you to be evaluated and treated without delay. In fact, if you can answer “yes” to any of the following questions, even if the experience is seldom or infrequent, you should discuss the symptom(s) with a chiropractor as soon as possible:
• Have you experienced a feeling of being “unsteady?”
• Has the room seemed to spin around you?
• Has there ever a time when you felt as if you were moving when you knew you were standing still?
• Have you lost your balance and/or fallen down?
• Have you ever felt as if you were falling?
• Has your vision ever become “blurred?”
• Have you ever felt disoriented, or lost a sense of time, place or identity?
It is important for you to remember that balance problems are not confined to a particular age group. From the time we learn to walk until we take our final step, our falling down is possible. All the more reason to have your balance checked if you work in a job that makes your falling down a “critical” issue. Don’t wait until you sustain a work injury! If you’re in the Cincinnati area, give Cincinnati Chiropractic a call today!
When it comes to hip pain relief, your chiropractor in Corona provides highly effective non-invasive, drug-free treatment. Hopefully, it goes without saying that surgery should be a last resort whenever possible. Therefore, before you schedule a surgery to replace that hip, ask yourself the following questions: Is it impossible for you to get a good night’s sleep because your hip pain wakes you up at night? When you get out of bed in the morning, and/or when you get out of your car, are you stiff and do you find it initially hard to get your legs moving sufficiently? Do you feel pain in one or both hips when you cross your legs or rotate or twist your hips? If so, you may have imbalances and alignment problems in your lower extremities that are not only causing your hip pain, but can over time lead to osteoarthritis in your hips if not treated. The good news is that whether or not degenerative changes have already taken place, chiropractic treatment can help!
It may be true that you’re getting older and your hip joints just aren’t what they used to be. But, are you aware that your hip pain and related problems, which normally signal age-related degenerative conditions, may not actually be created by osteoarthritis? That’s right. In fact, instead of being the original source of your condition, osteoarthritis of the hip joint is more often than not the outgrowth of a earlier injury (or injuries) to your hips.
More often than not, hip problems have to do with asymmetry or imbalance when you are in motion, as when you are walking. If you tend to walk “pronated” like a duck, with your toes pointing away from your body, sooner or later you will develop pain in your hips as a result of the asymmetrical pressure on your hip joints and your body’s efforts to compensate. However, you can learn to correct your gait pattern at any age, and your chiropractor in Corona can help you to do it.
Additionally, you may have had gait changes as the result of an ankle sprain or knee strain, and since “the knee bone’s connected to the hip bone,” these biomechanical accommodations create pain in the hip(s). Naturally, if not remedied, your hip joints will suffer further consequences, namely, the wear and tear that produces degenerative changes.
Other circumstances that can occasionally injure the hip joints are starting a new job or beginning a new sport that requires you to move your body in unfamiliar ways. Also, transporting a child (or grandchild) on one hip can cause hip pain. Even the way you sit or driving for long periods of time on a regular basis can cause hip injury and pain.
See? Not every pain is caused by “old age,” even though we may suffer from more pain as the result of the progressive capacity of untreated injuries.
As part of the chiropractic management of your hip problem, along with your adjustments, your Corona Chiropractor will recommend appropriate rehabilitative exercises that include gentle muscle stretching and strengthening, and will also evaluate your gait and may suggest simple pattern changes.
Your hip pain won’t vanish by itself. Hip pain means that something needs correcting. If left untreated, it is very likely that at some point you will require that hip replacement surgery. So, don’t wait until it’s too late. Your chiropractor in Corona can get you out of pain, get your body back into balance, and help you get to back to enjoying your life again!
Dr. Donald Bolt, your Chiropractor in Oxnard, knows that allergy symptoms can make your day-to-day life difficult. A stroll in the park, a play date with Kitty, a seafood pasta, or merely something as tiny as a nut is likely to produce such miserable complaints as itchy eyes, a runny nose, sneezing, or a skin rash.
But unfortunately, now and again an individual’s allergic reactions can go from just plain annoying to acute and life-threatening as the air passageway starts to tighten and breathing becomes strained. This kind of progression of difficulties can frequently produce a state of acute anxiety coupled with a trip to the emergency room.
Allergies can, without a doubt, end up as an exceptionally serious disruption and make you feel sidelined and not able to participate in life. In fact, if you are one of those unfortunate individuals who have allergy symptoms, it may perhaps seem to you that, on occasion, your environment is a extremely antagonistic space and that the world all around you is, literally, out to get you!
You might ask yourself why it is that other people seem to be so unaffected by the exact same environmental stresses that send your body into overwhelm. Other people seem either unaware of or plainly`totally unresponsive to the would-be irritants that lurk at each and every turn, while your body reacts, or rather overreacts, to them. Why you? A good question. The answer is that some men and women, such as yourself, have a hyperactive immune system that basically “goes wild” whenever you come across common substances like pollen, dander, shellfish, or nut products.
Can your Oxnard Chiropractor help you in gaining a lasting reduction in your allergy symptoms? Fortunately , the answer is a unquestionable “Yes,” and the explanation will possibly surprise you. A great many chiropractic patients have noticed that they experience freedom from their allergy symptoms after a chiropractic treatment, even though chiropractic care doesn’t essentially directly address allergies, per se. The scientific explanation for the decline in allergy symptoms is because of the fact that chiropractic adjustment affects your whole nervous system, including the autoimmune system, and that is at the root of your allergic responses. Every time there is a disruption within the nervous system, coupled with other challenges, the autoimmune system, whose job it is to enable you to adjust and react appropriately to your surroundings, may become under-active or overactive. Where your allergies are concerned, the breakdown is the latter (it becomes overactive).
In view of the fact that chiropractic adjustments are meant to reduce or even totally do away with disturbances within the nervous system and bring back balance and tranquility to the complete body, in addition to a variety of corrections, the treatments impart homeostasis to the autoimmune system at the same time. A sound immune system reacts appropriately to so-called allergens in the natural environment.
So, as pointed out previously, your Oxnard Chiropractor doesn’t necessarily apply treatment to allergies, nevertheless that doesn’t suggest your allergies won’t get better or go away. On the other hand, you could say, instead, that relief from your allergies is simply the “side-effect” of your rebalanced nervous system. If you would like to get back into a balanced relationship with your surroundings as soon as possible, call Dr. Bolt, your Chiropractor in Oxnard, today. He can help you get your life back!
Your Dallas Chiropractor knows from experience that knee problems can cause deep pain and can often be debilitating. There are many reasons why people experience knee pain. And, it’s important to be aware that everyone, at any age, is at risk. A fall, an auto accident, a sports injury, or some other acute, traumatic event can cause knee pain. Nonetheless, the knee problems that most people experience, especially as they age, are diagnosed as “non-trauma knee problems.” This is to say, the majority of knee problems are not due to a sudden injury to the knee, but rather because of long-term dysfunction and wear and tear on the knee due to excessive weight, poor gait, and other stresses on the knee joint and surrounding tissue that, over time, have developed into “noticeable” to “disabling” knee pain.
It may surprise you to know that chiropractors like me, your chiropractor in Dallas, treat almost as many patients with knee pain as we do patients with back problems. However, I’m convinced that we, chiropractors, would see fewer knee problems if more men and women came in sooner for back care. That’s right! Taking care of your back can help prevent knee pain!
What does your back have to do with your knee? The answer is that the musculoskeletal system of the body operates in a compensatory, “chain-reaction” manner. Which is to say that when one area of the musculoskeletal system isn’t functioning correctly, the rest of the body shifts and tilts in order to compensate for the problem. For instance, pain in the patella (kneecap), also known as Patella Femoral Syndrome (Knee Cap Pain) is often caused by imbalances in the quadriceps muscles of the thigh that attach to and move the patella. These imbalances frequently start in the lower spine, most often in the sacroiliac joint. It’s not unlike the old song, “…the knee bones connected to the thigh bone…”. From our head to our toes, we are one, whole, organic structure. That is why challenges are never isolated. So, now you know that your back can affect your knees, but it’s not always the culprit! For example, reduced foot mechanics due to foot pain generally causes painful knee problems as well. In addition, poor knee tracking due to improper gait patterns, such as pronation (walking like a duck with toes pointed out rather than straight ahead), can cause stress on the knee joints and extreme pain over time. And, lastly, excess body weight and, not to bum out the ladies, but the wearing of high heels on a regular basis can cause knee problems over time.
Happily, chiropractic treatment can reestablish healthy muscle balance, restore appropriate movement to the patella and other knee joints, and adjust subluxations of the sacroiliac joints or bones of the foot. Knee replacement surgery in an attempt to relieve knee pain should be a last resort!
It it vitally important that you never disregard knee pain, or “play through” knee pain, or continue walking in those lovely Jimmy Choo heels when your knees are aching. Pain is the body’s way of alerting you to the fact that something is wrong. If knee problems are left untreated, the tissues of the knee joint, particularly the cartilage, will continue to degenerate. And, changes, such as bone spurs, can occur if the bones begin to rub on one another.
Musculoskeletal problems, such as knee pain and degenerative joint disease (osteoarthritis), generally increase as a person ages. However, no matter what your age is today, right this minute you are younger than you will ever be again. See your Dallas Chiropractor today…for tomorrow’s sake!
If you’re over 40 you know that as we age our body doesn’t feel or respond the same way as it used to when we were younger. It just doesn’t seem fair that as our mind appears to improve and become more “inventive,” our body seems to become less “cooperative.” We’re stiff in the morning; certain activities during the day make us sore at night; and, if we’re not cautious, even something as simple as turning too fast or bending over to pick up a dropped object, can send our back or some other muscle group into spasm. But, things don’t need to go from bad to worse because there are specialized techniques accessible that can not only slow down the aging process of the body, but help us to avoid some of those problems altogether.
For an example, arthritis. In point of fact, with the exception of pharmaceuticals, allopathic medicine doesn’t address this age-related condition. What is the reason? The answer is that most medical practitioners are only concerned with the symptoms of arthritis. The chiropractic method is to uncover the cause of the affliction and relieve the pain at its source. For more than a hundred years, chiropractors, like your Chiropractor in Santa Clara, have been treating individuals suffering from back pain and other conditions caused by arthritic changes in the musculoskeletal system.
Arthritic changes take place as your body ages because, over time, wear of particular joints takes place due to repetitive stresses, and years of incorrect gait, improper posture, and insufficient movement. Chiropractic treatment brings back motion into your joints and decreases pain, and it ameliorates any vertebral misalignment that may be causing irritation and restriction. In addition, did you know that misaligned vertebra, along with causing arthritic changes in the spine and escalating pain, can also lower your resistance and immunity? It’s true, and this could be one of the reasons why it may seem to you that as you get older you experience more health issues and that it frequently takes longer for you to feel better again. Studies have shown that older individuals who are under chiropractic care stay healthier. To put it another way, as you get older, chiropractic adjustments are good for what ails you!
Chiropractors are experts when it comes to the health of the musculoskeletal system, from the small, growing frame of an infant to the full-grown body of a mature adult. Your chiropractor is experienced in working with the aging process of the body and has special observational and diagnostic skills that aid in detecting spinal misalignments and joint problems. A chiropractic examination can, in fact, often reveal some age-related changes before they’ve begun to create noticeable pain. Furthermore, your Chiropractor in Santa Clara can check your posture and analyze your gait to identify inappropriate patterns that might cause more arthritic changes in the future.
So, if feeling your age has become a painful experience, make an appointment with your Santa Clara Chiropractor today!
With any sort of sport, injuries are not unusual. You can frequently avoid getting injured in a specific sport by finding out what injury is likely to occur, and then do whatever it takes to avoid it. The truth is, though, that sports injuries can’t always be avoided. Therefore, it’s advantageous to take conscientious care of your body to make injury less probable, or less traumatic. Before beginning a sport, such as golf, the most critical thing you can do is to be sure that you have the proper fitness level. By maintaining a healthy lifestyle, keeping your joints mobile and your muscles limber, warming and stretching your body before activity, using proper form and good postures during activity, and giving yourself an appropriate amount of cool down and relaxation time, you will probably keep your body safe from injury.
Golf injuries don’t only happen to amateurs. It has been conjectured that almost one-third of pro golfers playing at any given time are playing injured. The good news is that overall good health and fitness can reduce how many injuries you may acquire and may actually prevent them altogether.
Proper body strength in the muscle areas most employed during golf is very important. However, it’s important to make certain your spine is in good alignment and that it has good mobility before you set out to build muscle strength. A proficient golf swing hinges on your spine’s facility to efficiently move in a rotational action. Back injuries are the most widespread type of injuries suffered by golfers. To get the help you need so that your spine is in appropriate alignment and there is effectual movement in the vertebrae, see your chiropractor in Sacramento. Chiropractic treatment can go a long way in helping you to avoid back injury.
It’s time to strengthen once you’re “straightened.” Safe, injury-free action on the green is contingent upon your being prepared for your golf activity. You can warm up your muscles and make injuring them less likely by doing golf stretching and flexibility exercises. Full body range of motion (ROM) exercises will increase flexibility, fairly speedily, in all areas of the body. Furthermore, elastic band conditioning can provide distinct golf range of motion benefits and can increase needed strength in the shoulders, hips and deep muscles of the core. Sports professionals, such as your chiropractor, are adding elastic band training to their golf conditioning programs because the bands offer dynamic resistance that regular weight lifting does not offer.
Besides back injuries, many golfers have painful “Golfer’s Elbow.” Despite the fact that golfer’s elbow and tennis elbow are nearly identical injuries, there is a minute difference between them. Whereas the outside of the upper arm is disturbed in tennis elbow, golfer’s elbow affects the inner arm. Golfer’s elbow, like tennis elbow, can be the consequence of a single extreme action, such as (in golf) thrusting down on the mat at the driving range or striking a hard fairway surface. Although, it generally is produced by repetitive stress from smaller shocks. In addition, it can occur for those who all at once start playing too much golf. For example, if players that usually play golf once or twice a month elect to play in a tournament, they are conceivably at risk for developing the injury.
Golf makes unique requirements on the body. The game is generally longer than most other sports and that can result in fatigue. Once the body is fatigued, poor posture and impeded coordination often follow. This combination can create a number of injuries. In addition, because of the continuous swinging of the golf clubs, the shoulder muscles are subject to injury. Just as attention should be given to make sure that your muscles are stretched and warmed up before starting your golf game, be sure to rest your body properly between games.
An unexpected injury sometimes associated with golf is Carpal Tunnel Syndrome. But, this injury can be induced by numerous games of golf played over a number of months continuously because it is an affliction that happens as a result of repetitive stress Carpal Tunnel Syndrome can be a serious injury producing disability and on occasion requiring surgery. However, if a health professional, such as your chiropractor, diagnoses it at an early stage, chiropractic treatment and, sometimes, the use of a brace will help the condition.
Many golfers appear to think that injuries are just an unavoidable part of a golfer’s life. Nonetheless, a healthy, mobile spine, good preparation, appropriate exercise and muscle conditioning, reaching and maintaining a a good fitness level, and sensible rest and recuperation after your game is over, can assisting in making injuries a good deal less a part of your golfing experience.
Dr. Yong Kim is a chiropractor in Sacramento with over thirteen years of experience helping thousands of patients get out of pain and get their lives back. His office is located at 1707 Professional Drive, Sacramento, CA 95825. He has special training in the area of sports injuries. Dr Kim is himself an avid health enthusiast. For more information go to his website at http://www.sacramentochiropractor.org
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As a San Diego Chiropractor, I counsel many individuals who come to my clinic who want to lose weight. I know how hard it can be, and I also know how important it is to lose those extra pounds. Before you let the seams out in those slacks or skirt, there are some things that you may want to know about those few seemingly benign extra pounds you may have gained. Over time, they can add up to a surprising number of health problems from heart and pulmonary diseases and diabetes to back pain and joint degeneration. Even a few additional pounds put undue stress on organs, like the heart, not to mention on joints in the low back, hips, and knees. Over half (62%) of American adults are overweight or obese, according to recent studies. That is a substantial percentage and a truly gigantic problem (no pun intended).
Though it is capable of making a surprising array of compensations the human body was not designed to transport surplus poundage in the form of body fat. Just an additional 20 or 30 pounds can, in point of fact, overload and overburden the musculoskeletal system. Excess weight in the belly, for example, requires that the body compensate (counterbalance the weight) by tilting the pelvis forward. This angle produces compression in the joints of the low back. Painful inflammation results as this joint compression impinges nerve activity. The majority of men and women that have a heavy midsectionfeel substantical pain in their low back generated by a compressed sciatic nerve or spinal misalignments that impinge nerves due to weight-bearing stresses. If not addresses, misaligned vertebra not only persist in irritating the degenerative changes that have already taken place, but can develop into new arthritic changes in the spine in the future.
Here are the ways in which chiropractic treatment can help. First of all, to be clear, a healthy body weight is required in order for the musculoskeletal system to function in the way it is designed to. Chiropractic treatment can not only relieve pain generated by excess weight compensation, but it can aid in weight reduction. Here’s how. Chiropractic adjustments relieve nerve impingements in the spinal column and help to get mobility back into the joints of the musculoskeletal system, particularly in the low back, hips, and knees. And, of course exercise and physical activity are a lot easier, and healthier for the body, when the the joints have good movement and the spine is aligned. Not only will exercise help with weight reduction, but it can actually slow the pace of degenerative changes as over the years.
Healthcare professionals, like your chiropractor, can talk to you about your diet and exercise choices. In addition to assisting people suffering from back pain and joint inflammation, chiropractors can provide trained guidance regarding the type of lifestyle changes that can help a person to stay healthier, more vigorous, and more active through the years. Arthritis and immobility due to aging don’t have to be inevitable. The human body was intended for a lifetime of pain-free movement.
So, if you’ve been throwing your weight around and all you’ve been getting in return is back and joint pain,as your San Diego chiropractor and someone who cares about your health, I can help relieve your suffering. Make an appointment today!
Your Ventura Chiropractor knows that allergies can make our everyday life a misery. Unwelcome symptoms like itchy eyes, a runny nose, sneezing, or a skin rash can be the consequence of a simple walk in the garden, a play date with Kitty, a seafood pasta, or even something as small as a nut.
To make the situation worse, for some individuals, and perhaps you’re one of them allergic reactions can progress from just plain irritating to dangerous and life-threatening as the air passageway begins to close and breathing becomes labored. This progression of symptoms can commonly cause a state of panic.
In fact, if you have allergies, it may seem that, from time-to-time, your environment is a pretty unfriendly place and that the world around you is, in deed, out to get you!
You may be curious as to why it is that other individuals seem so unaffected by the environment, while your body reacts, or rather overreacts, to it. It’s a great question. The answer is because some individuals, like you, have a hyperactive immune system that literally “freaks out” when you encounter ordinary substances such as pollen, dander, shellfish, or nuts.
Can your Ventura Chiropractor help with your allergy symptoms? The answer may surprise you. Many people have noticed that they experience relief from their allergy symptoms after chiropractic treatment, even though chiropractic care doesn’t actually treat allergies.
The reason for this is because chiropractic adjustments affect the entire nervous system, including the autoimmune system. When there’s an impedance in the nervous system, in addition to other problems, the autoimmune system, whose job it is to help you to adapt and respond appropriately to your environment, can become under-active or overactive. The dysfunction is the latter (overactive) when it comes to your allergies.
Because chiropractic adjustments lessen or take away disturbances in the nervous system and bring back balance and harmony to the body, the adjustments bring that same balance and harmony to the auto-immune system as well. A strong immune system reacts appropriately to so-called allergens in the environment.
So, as mentioned above, your chiropractor doesn’t actually treat allergies. You could say, rather, that ease from your allergies is merely the by-product of a healthy nervous system. If you want to get back into harmony with your environment as soon as possible, make an appointment with Ventura Chiropractor today.