Clients who have taken a break from seeing their chiropractor often tell us how much better they feel after they return. Much like exercise, it’s easy to forget the many benefits of looking after your body.

You quickly get accustomed to feeling tired, moody and sore. Whether it’s through exercise, eating well or going back to your chiropractor, when you finally return to routine, you realise just how bad you felt before.

Chiropractic care and holistic health

Chiropractors take a holistic approach to health and wellbeing. We believe everything is connected. Neural pathways travel through your spine to your brain, so if one part of your body isn’t working correctly, it wreaks havoc all around.

5 Health Benefits of Chiropractic Care

To remind you of all the great benefits of seeing your chiropractor, we’ve listed the 5 ways chiropractic care improves your health.

1. Treats injuries and reduces pain

Injuries can have a profound effect on your general sense of wellbeing. They’re not only painful, but they also decrease joint function and muscle strength. You may be unable to exercise, work, and in some cases, even get out of bed. Chiropractors help to restore movement and reduce pain. They get to the root cause of the injury and help you avoid it in the future.

2. Improves the effects of bad posture

Think bad posture is just an unsightly slump of the shoulders? Think again. Bad posture causes headaches, chronic pain, neck and back injuries, reduced mobility, poor circulation, and decreased lung capacity. Chiropractors work to correct bad posture through spinal adjustments, exercises and lifestyle changes.

3. Improves brain function and mood

There’s been a growing amount of research showing how chiropractic adjustments improve brain function by altering prefrontal cortex activity. The prefrontal cortex is the part of the brain that controls memory, concentration and emotional response. Reducing chronic pain also has a profound effect on your mood. Everything is connected. By investing in your physical body, you’re investing in your brain too.

4. Strengthens your immune system

There’s been an increasing amount of research on the connection between the nervous system and the immune system. Because neural pathways travel through the spine, the improvement of spinal health has an indirect effect on the way the immune system operates. Chiropractic adjustments work to improve the way your nervous system functions, and therefore, your overall health.

5. Improve flexibility, balance and movement

Whether you have an injury or you’re feeling stiff from lack of exercise, chiropractors help restore mobility, strength, flexibility and balance. We realign your body through spinal adjustments and manipulations and give you stretches and exercises you can do at home.

There are many other health benefits of chiropractic care. Want to experience the difference?

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