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Dec 14 2018

Enhancing the Immune System with Chiropractic Care

Enhancing the immune system with chiropractic care

There are many people who try to enhance their health care by eating healthy meals, purchasing organic produce and also going for exercises on a regular basis. However, these people fail to realize that a chiropractor is one person who can help them boost their immune system. When one goes for these type of massaging, they will help you take your health status to the next level. Chiropractic care has been found by health practitioners to boost the immune system.

Alleviate stress from the body

One of the causes of stress in a person is spinal misalignments. One thing to know is that the body’s immune system works together to enable the body to heal properly. If the spine by any chance becomes misaligned, your body will not be able to adjust to any unusual change which may come up. This means that your body will have less response from the immune system. Healing will also take longer than it should.

With this chiropractic adjustment, an individual will boost their immune system and it will begin to function normally. This will restore normalcy in your normal functioning of the body.

Open nerve pathways in your body

Chiropractic care has been proven to unblock the nerve pathways which affects the body organs. With your spine misaligned, then nerve pathways will consecutively be blocked. Normal functioning of the body organs will be interrupted. If the spine is stressed, then this could lead to interference with the immune system. The body thus becomes susceptible to a variety of diseases.

If this pressure is not released from the spine, a person is likely to experience inflammation of the nerves. A stressed person eventually succumbs to rheumatoid arthritis and depression. With chiropractic care, all of this can be avoided.

Chiropractic is more than just relieving pain

Relieving pain in a body is an integral and essential goal of chiropractic care, however, there is much more in it than just pain relief. A specialist in this field has the capacity to relieve the stress which has been placed on the spine. This ensures that the nervous system is functioning optimally. A study back in 1992 revealed that this type of care helps add more white blood cells in patients. This means that the disease fighting cells count increased hence a patient is able to keep off diseases from the body.

Rather than relying on healthy meals and regular exercises for keeping the body healthy, one can also go for chiropractic care to boost their health.

Long term benefits

Chiropractic care also has long term benefits. In 1975, a Preventive Medicine Institute in New York carried out a research that involved 107 patients who had regularly received chiropractic care. It concluded that they had developed 200 percent immune competence than those who never had it.

This is a study which shows just how important chiropractic care is in the long term.

Cells of the Immune System

Dec 14 2018

Greenville Chiropractor shares ankle exercises for beginners.

Here is a simple exercise that you can do at home with no equipment.
It works the peroneus longus/brevis, tibialis anterior, tibialis posterior, gastrocnemius, soleus muscles.
The purpose of this exercise is to improve muscular endurance, ankle strength, and proprioception.
By doing this exercise you can have the benefits of Improved stability, functional strength and injury prevention.

Begin seated in a chair with good posture.
Extend leg.
Attempt to write alphabet from A through Z with toes, moving ankle in all directions.
Repeat for prescribed sets.

Dec 14 2018

What is Joy-Foreboding?

You’ve likely read an article or two on this, but joy-foreboding is practicing for a tragedy that you’re sure is about to happen. I was really good at that. I’d been practicing for most of my life.
So when my son was born, I worried. Every morning I’d rush to his bedside if he hadn’t started fussing for me to nurse him, worried that he’d suffocated during the night.
Yes, I worried about that. Everyone’s heard of SIDS. I have a friend whose child died of SIDS. One friend. One child. Out of the dozens and dozens and dozens of friends and children I know. Yet I worried.
Was he sleeping OK? Was he eating enough? He was jaundiced at birth, was he OK now? I was a new mother, many miles from home and I had no internet to look up all my worries. So they continued to multiply.
I’d wake from a deep sleep and jump from my bed to run to the crib and make sure I hadn’t missed his cry for help. Even my husband said that I didn’t need to go to the worst case scenario when I thought there was a problem.
One day I was invited by a friend to attend a young mother’s meeting at her church. Desperate for outside conversation, I jumped at the chance. I lived nearly an hour away from my friend, but the drive was more than worth the opportunity to have conversation with other mothers.
One of the talks was on my very worst fear. A mother had lost her child to SIDS. I wanted to weep. My heart jumped, stopped, then thudded frantically. I began to breathe faster, I could feel the panic rising in my chest. My friend noticed my anxiety and asked, “What’s wrong?”
I told her that I worried every night that my son would be dead by morning. Tears streamed down my face. I was grieving . . . For something that had not happened.
She became very stern with me. “You can’t live like that! If it happens, it happens. But you’re wasting every single wonderful second you have with your newborn son worrying about something you can neither control nor prevent.”
I felt as if she slapped me. How could she have so little sympathy for my fears.
But it turns out she was right. I was practicing “joy-foreboding” or dress-rehearsing tragedy. I refused to allow myself to feel joy as a new mother because I was afraid it would be taken away from me.
It took some time, but I gradually overcame the worst of my tendency to worry and not allow myself to feel joy. It still comes, when I least expect, just when my joy over something is at its zenith, that shadow threatens to cover me.
I have to notice it, recognize it for what it is, and say, “Thank you, but I’m fine now. I don’t need to be worried right now. I prefer to feel the joy in this moment.”
My friend was right, I had risked missing out on every joyful moment of my young son’s life. Fortunately, he was just two months old when I attended her meeting. As a result, I became much more joyful about my life than worried about it.

Man And Bird Flight by Gerhard Lipold

Dec 14 2018

Chiropractor Greenville shares low back exercises for beginners.

Here is a simple exercises that you can do at home with no equipment.
It works the multifidus, erector spinae, transverse abdominus, oblique muscles.
The purpose of this exercise is to Increase low back strength and muscular endurance. By doing this exercise you can have the benefits of Improved stability, functional strength and injury prevention

Begin lying on your back.
Extend arms above head flat on floor.
Activate core and lift knees above hips and maintain a 90/90 hip and knee position.
Activate core.
Lift one arm off the floor and raise it towards ceiling until above shoulder level while simultaneously extending one leg downward towards floor.
Pause momentarily.
Return to start position, alternating sides.
Core activation should be maintained throughout entire exercise.
Repeat for recommended repetitions and sets.

Dec 14 2018

Chiropractic and Stress Relief

Stress is now recognized as one of, if not the main threat to health in modern society. The stress of work, financial pressure, and personal conflicts takes a huge toll on the health and happiness of millions of people in today’s society.

Surprisingly your “feelings” of stress may have nothing at all to do with the stress in your life. Misalignment of the top bones in your neck, poor posture or an old injury can cause spinal and muscular stress. Chronic pain and muscle tension can cause you to experience nervousness and irritability.

How well does your body handle stress? For some people its recurring headaches or backpain. For others its chronic muscle tension or feeling like you need your shoulder rubbed all the time. It can even cause sciatic or jaw pain. No matter what your response, the function of your nervous system is involved. This is why chiropractic can be so helpful. The chiropractic approach to stress is to remove interference in your nervous system caused by misalignment of your spinal bones. Gently correcting this can make a wonderful difference in your response to stress.

It may not be possible to remove the stress from your life. However, with gentle correction of the spinal causes of stress your chiropractor can help your body respond better to the stressful challenges you face.

Can we help you? The beautiful thing about upper cervical specific treatment combined with cold laser nerver retraining is that if we can help you, it should be obvious after the first treatment.

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