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Boost Your Immune System with Chiropractic Care

10/21/2022

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Chiropractic adjustments have deep-reaching benefits that aren’t limited to your spinal health. Chiropractic care can also help strengthen your entire body’s immune system. Regular trips to a trained chiropractor can help you live healthier by supporting the optimal spine and joint function.

At Pure Health and Wellness, we specialize in helping our patients restore and rejuvenate through personalized chiropractic care. Dr. Justin works with you to make the best choices for your health and body.

Read on to discover how chiropractic care can benefit your immune system and what a boosted immune system can do for you in your everyday life.

Your Immune System in Simple Terms
We know how important it is to protect ourselves, and you’re likely already aware that your immune system’s job is to fight off disease and bacteria. But did you know your immune system also helps support your daily health?

While your immune system’s primary role is to fight germs and bacteria, its secondary role is to protect all of your vital organs and tissues. There are two parts to your immune system:

  • Your innate immune system. The immune system you’re born with is already prepared to fight disease and protect your health.  
 
  • Your adaptive immune system. The immunity that builds over time. Exposure to toxins, disease-causing agents, and bacteria helps your body prepare for future threats. Vaccines also help develop your adaptive immune system.

The innate immune system consists of essential organs and tissues, like your skin and the mucous membrane that lines your respiratory and gastrointestinal tracts.

The adaptive immune system develops over time through specialized cells called antibodies that know the genetic code of specific bacteria, diseases, and viruses.

So how does chiropractic care come into play?
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Aligning Your Body
The root of chiropractic medicine is using spinal manipulation to achieve greater balance throughout the body. This balance is reflected in your nervous system, which communicates with every other part of your body. 

​Spinal misalignment can lead to:
  • Chronically stiff and inflexible joints
  • Pain, especially in the lower back
  • Discomfort sitting, standing, or lying in certain positions
  • Joint pain and mobility issues
  • Poor range of motion
  • A slouched posture and feeling “pulled down” by your body.

All of these issues can stem from compressed nerves. Poor communication between nerve cells leads to restricted function. Your immune system may be unable to effectively send antibodies and fend off pathogens the way it should.

By gently realigning the spine, you can improve the communication between nerve cells and possibly improve your immune system's function.

Lower Stress to Reduce Inflammation
Inflammation of the body’s tissues is a response to stress and disease. Too much inflammation increases your risk of damaging healthy cells and tissues. People with chronic inflammation are at a greater risk of cancer, heart disease, type 2 diabetes, arthritis, and asthma. Chiropractic adjustments help lower inflammation by improving blood flow and stopping neuropeptides. Neuropeptides are chemical messengers that can increase or decrease the firing of nerve cells. When you have too many neuropeptides in your system, your inflammation increases; high-stress levels can also trigger your immune system’s inflammatory response.

By reducing your stress levels and coaxing muscles into a relaxed state, you lower inflammation throughout the body while slowing the production of chemicals that cause it in the first place.

Optimize Your Spinal Health for Total-body Wellness
Every part of your body plays a role in your well-being. Your spine and alignment are among the most important features, as it correlates directly to your central nervous system. By improving your spinal health through routine chiropractic treatments, you can improve your body functions. This includes giving your cells the boost they need to communicate with your immune system.

Discover the Difference between Chiropractic Care
Contact Pure Health and Wellness today to learn how we can help you. Dr. Justin is eager to learn about your health goals and help you reach them through personalized chiropractic care.
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6 Benefits of Getting a Chiropractic Adjustment

10/19/2022

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Dealing with pain can often cause intense discomfort. Most people consider seeing a chiropractor when experiencing intolerable back and neck pain. There are several benefits to chiropractic care that go beyond pain relief. Regular visits to a chiropractor can improve your physical, emotional, and mental well-being.

What is a chiropractic adjustment?
A chiropractic adjustment is when a trained chiropractor manually adjusts the vertebrae in your back. This type of procedure, also known as spinal manipulation, can be an effective treatment in avoiding invasive surgeries or other costly procedures. Through chiropractic adjustments, your body can function efficiently by allowing your body to heal itself from the inside out.

Techniques chiropractors may use:
  • Joint manipulation – A chiropractor manipulates the joints and muscles around the head to relieve pain in the head and neck associated with migraine.  
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  • Massage therapy – A chiropractor uses massage therapy to help alleviate muscle pain, tension, and spasms that cause migraines. The chiropractor will use light pressure on the shoulders, neck, and back area.
 
  • Traction therapy – Traction therapy is also used to help alleviate muscle pain, tension, and spasms that cause migraines. The chiropractor will use a table with two metal bars on either side of the patient’s spine for about 10 minutes per day for 3-4 days in a row.

Having regular adjustments may help avoid injuries from happening in the first place. Many people use chiropractic as a preventative approach, receiving regular maintenance even when not in pain.
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What are the benefits of chiropractic adjustment?
Everyone seeks chiropractic care for different reasons. Chiropractic care is one of the best methods for overall pain management while producing other positive mental and physical effects.

Chiropractic care can help patients with a wide range of health problems like headaches, asthma, back and neck pain, fibromyalgia, and chronic lower back pain. Chiropractors are trained in various techniques that will help your body heal itself from the inside out.

The top benefits of chiropractic adjustments include:
  • Headaches & Migraine Relief - Headaches and migraines are caused by several factors, including a misalignment in the neck or spine. Chiropractic treatments can help improve blood flow, increasing oxygen supply to the brain.

  • Pinched Nerve Relief - Chiropractors thoroughly understand your nerves and joints, allowing them to relieve pain from tension and pressure points in your body without invasive procedures.

  • Lower Back Pain Relief - Chronic back pain affects over 80% of the population and is the most common reason people seek chiropractic care. Chiropractic treatments can improve alignment, ease pain, and restore spinal or joint movement.

  • Reduce Inflammation - Inflammation is a leading cause of pain, joint issues, and tension. Chronic inflammation has been linked to diseases like heart disease, chronic pain, and cancer.

  • Maintain a Healthy Blood Pressure - Chiropractic adjustments may be a good option if blood pressure medications give you unfavorable side effects. A study published in the Journal of Human Hypertension revealed that chiropractic adjustments could lower blood pressure. Adjustments have been known to help people dealing with low blood pressure and two medications.

  • Improve Athletic Performance - Many professional and college sports teams employ chiropractors to help keep their athletes in top shape. Reducing inflammation, pain, and other similar conditions helps boost performance and helps keep players competing on the field.

However, you don’t have to be a professional athlete to enjoy the benefits of chiropractic care. Your joints, connective tissue, and ligaments change and deteriorate as you age. Chiropractic can improve joint mobility while reducing your chances of suffering joint and cartilage deterioration later in life.

Let us help you improve your quality of life.
Pure Health and Wellness can help you with pain and other disorders through effective chiropractic care tailored to your needs. We offer chiropractic care for people of all ages wanting to feel better faster, improve their health, and live pain-free lives.

Visit here to learn more about how Pure Health and Wellness can help you.
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