Get well, soon – Getting well is not a wish. It’s what your body is designed to do – naturally.
Can your chiropractor treat your condition? The short answer is: “Yes!”. Chiropractors can treat conditions allowed in the scope of care for their state of licensure. All chiropractors can treat spine and related joint restrictions, others may treat extremities (arms and legs), others may treat for nutritional imbalances, or spinal decompression, or treat with acupuncture or acupressure. Sports injuries, infant and child care, focused care for injuries – these are just some of the specialized areas of chiropractic. Some specialized care requires additional training and certification.
How familiar are you with the conditions that chiropractic care can treat? Here’s a small list of conditions to give you an idea:
Pain –
Pain tells us something is not right. Covering the pain with medications to make it go away or at least less intense, is one option. Chiropractic care may lessen the pain by addressing underlying bone and muscle problems. Of course, some pain – such as heart attack, headaches from stroke, bone or visceral (organ) pain from cancer – is not treatable by chiropractic care. In those cases, however, chiropractic care may increase your feelings of well-being, and the quality and enjoyment of life.
Joint restrictions –
All joints of the human body are designed to move to a greater (shoulders) or lesser degree (cranial sutures.) Chiropractic care is designed to remove restrictions that keep your joints from moving to their fullest extent. This is accomplished by chiropractic adjustments, most using an HVLA ‘thrust’. This thrust moves the restricted joint in specific ways, therefore increasing range of motion. Over the course of treatment, the range of motion of affected joints can return to normal
Headache –
Some headaches are caused by nerve compression in the neck, others are vascular, that is they originate from compressed blood vessels while others are muscular in origin, where stress plays a major role.
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