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How Can Chiropractic Care Help Ease My Pain?

The benefits of chiropractic extend beyond pain relief. A chiropractor can be an excellent solution if your joint movements feel restricted and you don’t have a full range of motion. With chiropractic care, the spine is relaxed, and proper nerve conduction is maintained between the brain and body.

Chiropractic care is a form of complementary medicine based on the idea that your body can heal itself with the help of specific hands-on manipulations from a trained professional. Chiropractors use hands-on adjustments to reduce pain and help your body heal itself, focusing on issues dealing with the spine. These manipulations help realign your joints and relax strained muscles and ligaments, leading to pain relief.

Here are some benefits of getting chiropractic care:

Improves Neck Pain
Neck pain is a very common complaint. A chiropractor can help ease your neck pain by realigning your spine and easing tension in your neck muscles using spinal manipulation. Cervical spine manipulation may help decrease neck pain in the short term by modifying levels of neuropeptides in your blood. Neuropeptides are proteins made in your nervous system that function as neurotransmitters or hormones (1).

Eases Back Pain
Chiropractic treatment may be a good alternative to more invasive alternatives like surgery or injections for treating short-term or chronic back pain. Chiropractors can identify and address the root cause of your back pain. Rather than just treating the symptoms, chiropractors look at the whole body to determine the underlying cause of your pain. They may use techniques such as spinal adjustments, massage, and stretching to help restore proper function to your body, which can help reduce pain.

Reduction of osteoarthritis symptoms
Osteoarthritis pain is caused by the degeneration of the cartilage in a joint that causes the ends of your bones to rub together. Some types of chiropractic adjustments may help align your joints and reduce how much your bones rub together. Chiropractic manipulation may help slow down the progression of arthritis by improving the status of cartilage, bone, and the joint capsule (2).

Eases Headache Symptoms
Spinal manipulation may be effective at treating tension headaches and headaches that originate in your neck. If you’re experiencing headaches after a car accident, chiropractors can use techniques such as spinal adjustments to help relieve tension and pressure in the neck and head, which can reduce the frequency and intensity of headaches.

Sources

  1. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30935335/
  2. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7413258/
  3. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5574330/
  4. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29191288/
  5. https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/treatments/21033-chiropractic-adjustment
  6. https://www.webmd.com/back-pain/chiropractic-pain-relief
  7. https://www.verywellhealth.com/is-chiropractic-adjustment-safe-4588279

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