HEALTH BENEFITS

How Chiropractic Care Can Help

Chiropractic care is not just for those patients who have been involved in an accident or suffer from chronic neck or back pain. Chiropractic care can benefit many people and address a great number of health conditions. Even those with few, if any, health conditions can benefit from chiropractic maintenance care. How, you ask? Life’s daily stressors add up impacting the human body in far greater ways than you might realize. As a natural healthcare approach, regular chiropractic adjustments at First Choice Healthcare can restore and maintain balance within your body, leaving you better prepared to live life to its fullest. 

Busy parents, athletes, weekend warriors, golfers, runners – really anyone can benefit a great deal from routine chiropractic care. Regular chiropractic visits may help maintain bodies at the high level of activity to which they have become accustomed and even aid in function, allowing the body to self-heal when proper alignment is achieved and maintained. Additionally, injuries are less likely to be serious and can heal at a significantly faster rate in those who receive regular chiropractic care, especially when combined with other healthy activities such as regular exercise and eating a nutritious diet. 

The human brain communicates through the body’s nervous system, sending messages through our spinal column, so it’s easy to see how taking care of this conduit of messages to every single part of our bodies is so important. Routine chiropractic care is vital to maintaining good overall health and regularly visiting The Joint can have a significant and positive impact on your overall well-being.

What Chiropractic Care Can Help

Ongoing chiropractic maintenance care may offer significant health benefits, including but not limited to:

  • Back and Neck Conditions
  • Leg Pain (Sciatica)
  • Knee, Foot and Ankle Pain
  • Shoulder or Elbow Pain
  • Arm or Wrist Pain
  • Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
  • Migraine and Tension Headaches
  • High Blood Pressure
  • Sleep Disorders
  • Repetitive Stress Disorders
  • Stress and Tension Disorders
  • Fibromyalgia
  • Bursitis
  • Arthritis
  • Chronic Injuries

Chiropractic may also help:

  • Improve Nervous System Function
  • Relieve Prenatal Discomfort
  • Increase Vitality and Improve Quality of Life
  • Provide Preventative Care
  • Improve Overall Health and Wellness for both children and adults

People Benefiting from Chiropractic Care

Jerry Rice, Hall of Famer and retired NFL star, is among many top performing athletes who cite chiropractic care as essential to their success. Other legendary athletes who spread the word and endorse chiropractic include Michael Jordan, Lance Armstrong, Emmitt Smith, Joe Montana, Tiger Woods, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Evander Holyfield.

See what some of these athletes have to say about the impact chiropractic care has had in their lives.

Frequently Asked Questions

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What is Chiropractic Care?
Chiropractic care is the relationship between the nervous system and the muscular skeletal system. It can involve joint pain, neck or shoulder pain, back pain, specific injuries or an overall discomfort. The chiropractic approach to better health is to detect, reduce and prevent nervous system dysfunction. Chiropractic is based on the scientific fact that your nervous system controls the function of every cell, tissue, organ and system of your body. Spinal damage or injury at any age can misalign bones and shift the head off-center. The result is stress on the nervous system, muscle spasm, postural distortion and spinal decay. Nerves going to all parts of the body can be affected. Correcting the spine can alleviate stress, pain and discomfort, allowing the body to heal and function properly. Dr. Clingan is trained to locate the source of the pain or discomfort-it may actually be far from the actual location where the symptom is occurring-and then we correct or adjust the joints in the body and set it up to heal on its own. The important thing to remember is that chiropractic success occurs by addressing the source of the problem, not just masking the symptoms.
How long will it take for my pain to go away?

Quite often the patient actually means, “How long will be before my pain goes away?” There are two types of care, relief care and corrective care. Relief care takes less time, but the results are less permanent. Corrective care, on the other hand, is an extension of relief care, meaning that once your pain is gone, care is extended with the goal of getting rid of the cause of the problem. This type of care takes longer. It is important to understand the stages of chiropractic care because they are unique relative to those of other health-care disciplines. Because chiropractic addresses core physiological and biomechanical aspects of the body, the process to correct problems without drugs or surgery can take some time.

How does Chiropractic Work?

Like other health-care professionals, we follow a standard method to gain information about the you. However, unlike other health-care professionals, chiropractors also conduct a careful analysis of the your structure and pay particular attention to the spine. We also ask you questions about your life- Do you eat well? Exercise? What do you do for work? Do you have children? How do you deal with stress? Etc. After gathering this information, a diagnosis is made. It is important to understand that chiropractors seek the origin of the illness in order to eliminate it-we do not simply treat your symptoms. For instance... If the migraine headache you’ve had all week is being caused by misaligned vertebra and an irritated nerve, do you continue to take pain killers indefinitely, or do you realign the vertebra to prevent the pain? Chiropractors have a word for misalignments: subluxations. A subluxation is a misalignment of the bones that protect the spinal cord. It’s a a kink in the wiring of your nervous system. The severity of the subluxation can vary, and there are a number of potential contributing factors that can be physical, emotional, mental, or chemical. The subluxation can be caused by a number of reasons, from birth trauma to an auto accident to simple repetition or over-use. When a subluxation occurs, a chiropractor can correct the misaligned bone and allow it to return to its proper position. This procedure is appropriately called an adjustment, and the adjustment enables the body to heal. To maintain your wiring, several adjustments over a course of time may be necessary, in addition to stretching exercises or strengthening exercises. Keeping the problem fixed and preventing its re-occurrence is just as important as the initial remedy. An important component of chiropractic care is this: Your improvement is the responsibility of both the doctor and the patient. You will be active in your own care.

What types of care are offered?

Relief Care – The majority of patients consult a chiropractor because they have an ache or pain. In the first phase of care, the main objective is to eliminate or reduce your discomfort and stabilize your condition in the shortest amount of time. During this phase, progress is usually rapid.

Rehabilitative Care – Here the objective is to correct any underlying injury or cause of discomfort, strengthen the muscles, and improve neuromusculoskeletal function. The frequency of office visits is reduced over a period of two to six weeks. Care may be supplemented by rehabilitation exercises, nutrition, and modification of daily habits. It is important to remember that many of the conditions for which people seek care have developed over many years; therefore, correcting these problems is a true rehabilitative process. It helps to understand that it takes time to correct these conditions.

Wellness Care – You then “graduate” to the wellness phase, which is designed to maintain your improved health, encourage normal spinal function, prevent the return of the original condition, and catch small problems before they become serious. Few things as complicated as your body can be “fixed” and then ignored. Think of your car, your teeth, or your relationships. They take time and effort to maintain, but you know it’s worth it in the long run.

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Ongoing chiropractic maintenance care may offer significant health benefits, including but not limited to:

  • Back and Neck Conditions
  • Leg Pain (Sciatica)
  • Knee, Foot and Ankle Pain
  • Shoulder or Elbow Pain
  • Arm or Wrist Pain
  • Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
  • Migraine and Tension Headaches
  • High Blood Pressure

 

 

 

 

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