While it’s true that chiropractors are well known for treating conditions like whiplash, backaches, and neck pain, you might be surprised to learn the various issues chiropractic care can make a significant difference for.
Among many others, here are some examples of conditions your Logan, Utah chiropractor can effectively treat.
Stress and Anxiety
While stress may be triggered for various different reasons, it typically comes from three core sources—emotions, environment, and the body. Things like noise, weather, pollution, added work or family pressures, personal tragedy, poor nutrition, injury, poor sleep, and other factors can all play a role in the development of stress.
Many illnesses and conditions are worsened when stress activates the “fight or flight” response in our bodies. This reaction can impact every part of the body as the sympathetic nervous system is activated—causing an increase in heart rate, blood pressure, and blood volume. This time of prolonged stress can damage the immune system, muscles, and tissues, and contribute to a variety of diseases.
Chiropractors help by working with the root of the nervous system—the spine—to enable the body to process and manage stress in a healthier way. Your Logan, Utah chiropractor can also help relieve muscle tension, irritation of nerves in the spine, the body’s “fight or flight” response, increase blood circulation, suggest proper nutrition, and provide relaxation techniques to try at home.
Migraines and Tension Headaches
About 90% of Americans suffer from headaches. There are various types of headaches—from occasional to chronic, and from dull to debilitating. The good news is, there’s a better option than simply suffering through the pain or taking prescription medication to help alleviate it.
A growing amount of research shows that the primary type of care a chiropractor provides—spinal manipulation— is highly effective at treating headaches and migraines.
Most headaches are related to the common condition of muscle tension that irritates joints and leads to tension in the upper back and head. Chiropractors help improve the function of the spine by manipulating it through simple adjustments. They can also offer recommendations that can help like nutrition, posture, exercises, relaxation techniques, and exercise.
Immune System Function
The immune system, nervous system, and endocrine system communicate with each other to help the body respond, adapt, and heal in a healthy way. Spinal misalignments can lead to dysfunctions in these systems that add stress and abnormal changes to the body—including the immune response.
Subluxation—or spinal misalignments—can irritate or add stress to the nerves. This added stress and its related impact on the immune system can make the body more susceptible to disease. Added stress hormones in the body and an overactive sympathetic nervous system can also affect the immune system.
Chiropractors can help by correcting subluxation, reducing stress on the nervous system, and boosting both nervous and immune system responses. Chiropractic adjustments can also help increase white blood cell count.
Fibromyalgia
This chronic condition is characterized by widespread pain throughout the body’s musculoskeletal system. Patients may also experience fatigue, poor sloop, and a change in mood or depression.
While many experts focus on the psychological aspect of fibromyalgia, some believe it’s more of a physiological condition that results from poor posture or physical trauma. It’s clear that wherever its origins, fibromyalgia involves an issue with the central nervous system.
While it may be challenging for fibromyalgia sufferers to find relief from all of their symptoms, recent studies show that chiropractic care—including adjustments and soft tissue techniques—can help these patients reduce pain, sleep better, and have more energy.
Chiropractors are experts in the neuromusculoskeletal systems of the body and can help improve a patient’s nervous system through chiropractic adjustments. These adjustments can also help increase mobility and range of motion.
Chiropractors can also treat pressure points, headaches, back pain, shoulder pain, neck pain, and pain associated with musculoskeletal injuries.
Flexibility
As the body ages, it’s normal for range of motion and flexibility to be affected. Whether due to health conditions, wear and tear, injuries, or years of stress, the body can become increasingly tight. This can create a harmful cycle as individuals avoid activity that has become difficult—which can lead to further stiffening in the muscles and joints and the formation of scar tissue.
A chiropractor can help by realigning the bones and joints through spinal adjustments and manipulations. This can help reduce pain, restore range of motion, and improve balance, coordination, and flexibility. Chiropractors can also recommend personalized exercises to do on your own to maintain and build on the progress made.
Routine chiropractic care can help reduce or eliminate chronic pain in the muscles and joints—allowing patients to be more active, resume regular activities, and remain more flexible with age.
While the list of conditions a chiropractor can help the body heal from is long, here are several more:
- Sciatica
- Pinched nerves
- Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
- Scoliosis
- Numbness or tingling in the extremities
- Arthritis
- Allergies
- Auto accident injuries
- Spinal disc problems
- Pregnancy discomfort
- Sports injuries
- Neuropathy
Logan Utah Chiropractor
The team at Spring Creek Medical Center can help you experience relief from a variety of conditions and experience a more full, happy, active lifestyle. We look forward to helping you progress on your healing journey.
Request an appointment with Spring Creek Medical Center in Logan, Utah today!
