Chiropractic
What is Chiropractic?
Chiropractic is a health care profession that focuses on improving the negative effects of musculoskeletal and nervous system disorders. Chiropractic care is most often used to treat complaints of back pain, neck pain, pain in the joints of the arms or legs, and headaches. Other symptoms may also be improved -- just ask.
Doctors of Chiropractic practice a drug-free, hands-on approach to health care that includes patient examination, diagnosis and treatment. Chiropractors have broad diagnostic skills and are also trained to recommend therapeutic and rehabilitative exercises, as well as provide nutritional and lifestyle counseling. The most common therapeutic procedure performed by doctors of chiropractic is known as "spinal manipulative therapy". Spinal manipulation helps to:
restore normal joint movement• decrease pain• reduce muscle tension
increase mobility and flexibility increase vitality
What does an adjustment feel like?
You may feel light pressure on your spinal joints and/or hear a popping sound resulting from quickly moving joints. Chiropractic adjustments rarely cause discomfort and some patients may experience mild soreness or aching following treatment (similar to some exercise soreness) which usually resolves within 12 to 48 hours.
Why is Chiropractic used?
As a result of injury, overuse or even postural imbalances, muscles and joints become tight and restricted. In order to restore normal joint movement and function, spinal manipulative therapy may be needed.
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