The human body possesses a natural ability to restore itself. This ability depends on a healthy nervous system. Life's events such as slips and falls, automobile accidents, sports injuries, repetitive work, ongoing or acute stress and an unhealthy lifestyle are just some of the factors that can overwhelm the body's ability to adapt. The joints of the spine can shift out of alignment and often 'lock up' when these sorts of events occur, known as a subluxations, and results in disturbance in the nervous system.
Chiropractic care corrects subluxations, restoring the body to its optimal form and function. Vital instructions flow between the brain and the body by way of spinal nerves. These instructions inform and direct the body as to when, where, and how it needs to heal itself. By irritating nerves, subluxations interfere with the essential brain/body exchange, thereby compromising the normal function of the body's organs and tissues. Chiropractic care clears the path for the body to maintain its own health.
Local symptoms of subluxations may include pain, tenderness, swelling, tingling, numbness, or spasm around the joints of the spine and neck. Often symptoms also refer into the shoulders and arms, around the rib cage, or into the hips and down the legs. Generalized symptoms of subluxations may include disturbance of the internal organs of the body.
Everything in our body is controlled by our nervous system. In addition to the musculo-skeletal system, ALL of our internal organs are controlled by our nervous system. Therefore, Chiropractic care can often relieve more than just back pain and neck pain.
Chiropractic Care can benefit:
Headaches – including migraine, tension and cervicogenic.
Digestive complaints - including reflux and/or heartburn, colic, constipation, and irritable bowel symptoms.
Asthma – studies has found that chiropractic treatment can be an effective way of managing asthma.
Enuresis (bed-wetting) – 20% of children suffer from bed-wetting. Chiropractors have reported successful treatment for treating enuresis when some form of spinal dysfunction or subluxations are present.
Otitis Media (Middle Ear Infection) –Chiropractic adjustments help restore proper function of the ear canal and boost your child's immune system.
Pregnancy Support - Chiropractic care restores balance to your spine, pelvic muscles and ligaments which leads to safer more comfortable birth with fewer interventions. Chiropractors are also the only practioners qualified to perform the Webster Technique. "The Webster Technique is a specific chiropractic analysis and adjustment that reduces interference to the nerve system and balances maternal pelvic muscles and ligaments. This in turn reduces torsion in the uterus, a cause of intra-uterine constraint of the baby and allows for optimal fetal positioning in preparation for birth."
Pelvic Disorders and Dysmenorrhea (painful menstruation) – In a study published in The Journal of Manipulative and Physiological Therapeutics, it was found that a variety of gynecological, sexual and bowel disorders may be successfully managed under chiropractic care.
