There is little that can negatively impact your life more significantly than pain. Pain can hold you back from effectively completing daily tasks, performing well at work, and enjoying your life. Most pain treatments consist of long-term medication which can have potentially dangerous side effects. In some cases, the only treatment option may be invasive surgery. However, chiropractic care offers a completely natural, noninvasive and clinically proven treatment that can offer you freedom from pain along with greater day-to-day function. Here we look at five ways chiropractic care is a better treatment for pain.

Chiropractic Treatment Clinically Effective For Back Pain, Neck Pain, Whiplash, And Migraine

Chiropractic care doesn’t just help you to relax and feel better, it’s actually clinically proven to improve pain related to neck and back problems, migraines and whiplash. Numerous studies and reviews reveal that chiropractic care is at least as effective for back and neck pain as applying heat, using a firm mattress, or taking pain-relieving medications[1]. Chiropractic care has long been known as an effective treatment for headaches and migraines[2], and has also been clinically proven to ease the pain of whiplash[3]. Doctors of chiropractic have been highly trained to provide safe and targeted care to effectively relieve pain with completely natural, drug-free and evidence based treatments.

Chiropractic Care Promotes Nerve Healing And Bloodflow

One of the main focuses of chiropractic treatment are spinal manipulations that correct spinal irregularities and misplacements (subluxations). These manipulations release tension, promoting optimal blood flow and nerve function from the spine. The spine is the core of the body, so effective spinal treatments help to relieve pain and promote healing throughout the body’s peripheral systems as well. Nerve damage and dysfunction is a common source of pain. Damaged tissue that is slow to heal can also cause chronic pain. Expert and targeted spinal manipulation’s help to regenerate nerves and boost blood flow that promotes tissue healing and naturally relieves pain.

Chiropractic Care Focuses On Whole Body Treatment

Chiropractic care doesn’t just consider biomechanical activity and physical manipulations. Chiropractors look at total body health to help you achieve your ideal level of well-being. Your chiropractor can help you find a better way to function and be active in daily life to maintain optimal health and pain-free functionality. A holistic chiropractor can also help you with nutrition and weight loss, to maintain a healthier and more mobile body, that’s less prone to pain and illness.

Chiropractors Integrate Natural Pain Relief Technologies

As well as providing diagnostics, spinal manipulation, massage, and other forms of physical therapy, chiropractors also offer advanced natural technologies to stimulate healing and relieve pain without medication. These can include ultrasound and laser machines that provide noninvasive, gentle, and pain free treatment to effectively and naturally alleviate pain. These technologies make the ideal adjunct to physical chiropractic therapy and help achieve accelerated healing and even more effective pain relief.

Treatments To Strengthen As Well As Heal

Chiropractic care does more than just treat your short-term pain. Chiropractic care focuses on long-term results and holistic well-being to ensure that you not only experience relief from pain now, but maintain long-term functionality and comfort into the future. As well as relieving your pain during your treatment session, your chiropractor will instruct you on how to move more effectively, how to maintain better posture, and how to strengthen your core muscles to prevent pain reoccurring.

Chiropractic care encompasses a range of modalities that ensure you not only receive short-term benefits of improved functionality and reduced pain, but you learn how to maintain pain-free living in the long term as well.

[1] https://nccih.nih.gov/health/pain/spinemanipulation.htm

[2] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10714533

[3] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9039361