We could give you a long list of conditions just like every other chiropractor does, but let’s be honest…
Many seek out chiropractic care because of something going on with their body. Could be asthma, allergies, back pain, digestive problems, headaches, colic or difficulty breast feeding in a babies—you get the picture! The short answer is yes, it helps all of them, but the long answer is none of them.
…Read on to find out more. (This is a very important concept)
Doctors and neurologists agree that our brain and spinal cord control everything. It’s a very complex structure and the only organ to be protected by bone. We live our entire life through our nervous system. Really, it is pretty amazing when you think about it what our body is doing and capable of every day.
If the brain controls everything it also controls healing. If you want to get better from anything, you need your brain to be talking properly to your body.
Take for example the nerves coming out of your neck. They go up into the head, sinuses, throat, nose, thyroid, thymus, and down into the arms. If the neck bones are interfering with the nerves coming out of the neck, it changes the way the nerves communicate with the body…kind of like static on a cell phone.
What does poor communication look like from nerves coming out of the neck? Allergies, asthma, ringing in the ears, chronic ear infections, hyper/hypo thyroid, numbness into the arms, muscle imbalance and weaknesses… (You get the picture!)
Chiropractic helps the body heal by improving the communication along the nerves. Recall: the brain controls health and healing. If there is poor movement or poor posture in the spine you’re heading down a path of malfunction and breakdown of those nerves over time. Note that we are not saying every health problem us due to a spinal mis-alignment causing interference to the nervous system, but wouldn’t it make sense to check and see if that is the case? Restore proper motion and function of the spine and your body now has a better opportunity to heal from that health problem.
In the end chiropractic doesn’t treat anything. It isn’t a therapy for symptoms or conditions. In fact, most of the people that come to our office on a regular basis use chiropractic when they have no symptoms at all; they get their spine checked simply to be healthier.
I don’t have any symptoms… can I still see you?
Believe it or not, many people come to see us without any pain or symptoms. They understand that any core problem with their spine and nerve system can have disastrous effects on their health and life and they understand that it’s easier to avoid a problem than try to fix it once you have it.
