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Posture

One fo the keys to evaluating one's health lies in properly evaluating your posture. Our posture portrays an accurate representation of our spine's actual alignment, and is not merely a poor habit. If your spine is misaligned, a chiropractor can correct the stress placed on the nervous system.

Posture and X-ray analysis are the two proven ways to evaluate spinal alignment. Professional spinal check-ups by a chiropractor are recommended at least once per year to people of all ages to ensure that spinal misalignment is not occuring.

"Posture affects and moderates every physiologic function from breathing to hormonal production. Spinal pain, headache, mood, blood pressure, and lung capacity are among the functions most easily influenced by posture."
American Journal of Physical Medicine, vol. 1 Jan. 1994. N. Sheady, MD, R. Cady, MD.

Chiropractic Care Q & A

How do infants benefit from chiropractic care?

Chiropractic for infants? They have low back pain? Hardly - yet infants need chiropractic care to ensure that the stress of labor and delivery hasn't damaged their spines and delicate structural systems. Other stresses can involve falls - statistics tell us that nearly half of all babies have had a fall from a height (off the changing table, off the bed, etc.). Chiropractic care will help ensure a healthy baby with better resistance to disease and better ability to discharge toxins. Also, correcting subluxations may help a baby who is ill return to health more quickly and more comfortably.

There are many case histories of chiropractic helping children with all kinds of conditions - asthma, colic, difficulty breastfeeding, ear infections, autism spectrum disorder, vision and hearing disorders, neurological conditions no matter what conditions babies may have, chiropractic care can help them grow into healthy, happy children.

How do children benefit from chiropractic care?

Childhood is a rough time, full of falls, trips and even traumas. A physical, emotional or chemical (toxic) trauma experienced as a young child could cause subluxations that affect internal organs, mental health, overall resistance to disease, strength and balance. Chiropractic helps keep children healthy naturally. As with babies and infants, every child needs periodic chiropractic checkups in order to grow up healthy and happy.

How do students benefit from chiropractic care?

Chiropractic care, by releasing stress from the brain and nervous system, may improve concentration, attention span, grades and interpersonal behavior. Chiropractic has been shown to increase IQ, to help coordination and self-esteem and to improve body function. No matter what health problems a student may have, chiropractic will help improve their chances of healing naturally.

How do adults benefit from chiropractic care?

Physical, emotional and chemical stresses accumulate as we age. For more energy and for improved function of the immune system, digestive system, eliminative system, cardiovascular system and other systems, your body needs unobstructed communications. For a healthier life, periodic chiropractic care is absolutely necessary. Chiropractic helps people live free of obstructions caused by subluxations ~ structural distortions that interfere with internal (nerve) communication and energy flow.

How does chiropractic help women?

The pelvic area receives an intense amount of nerve communications. The ovaries, uterus, tubes, kidneys, adrenal glands and other internal organs all need a healthy nerve supply to function properly. Clinical studies show chiropractic helps women with menstrual pain and discomfort, menstrual irregularities, sexual function, fertility and menopause.

How does chiropractic help pregnancy and post-pregnancy?

If there's any class of patients that need chiropractic care the most it's pregnant women. Pregnancy changes a woman's balance and can make distortions more severe which can cause pain and exhaustion. Chiropractic can help ensure that the body is balanced and that the pelvis is relaxed and open so the developing baby has the maximum amount of room in which to develop. Clinical research reveals that breech presentations have been corrected, with the fetus turning into a healthy position, as a result of chiropractic pelvic-balancing procedures. Clinical reports show chiropractic also helps with breastfeeding and the return to a pre-pregnancy figure.

How does chiropractic help sports performance?

Many top athletes from all over the world rely on chiropractic to keep their body structure balanced, their nerve system healthy and their muscles functioning at their peak.

Chiropractic can help prevent sports injuries but can also help an injured player return to the game or competition faster. Of course you don't need to be an Olympian to go to a chiropractor; anyone who uses his/her body needs it to function al its peak.

How do the elderly benefit from chiropractic care?

The elderly are among our most drugged citizens. It is not unusual for someone to be taking many different medications and suffering from serious reactions to them. Many times people are taking drugs that interact in ways that are more damaging than if they took them individually. Chiropractic offers a drug-free alternative to an over-drugged population. Why? Because your body is the world's greatest drugstore, able to make every drug and chemical you need. Chiropractic helps turn on this internal pharmacy.

In conclusion

Infants, the elderly and everyone in between all need a healthy structural system, free from subluxations and nerve stress.

Chiropractors are specially trained in locating and correcting tiny distortions that interfere with energy and information traveling over your nervous system and body. These distortions, referred to as subluxations, can occur as a result of any kind of stress: physical, emotional or chemical (toxins, etc.).

The most important thing to remember is that most subluxations are painless. You may have many in your body and not know it.

Chiropractors spend thousands of hours learning how to locate and correct these health-damaging distortions in your body.

For a healthier pregnancy, infancy, childhood, adolescence and adulthood, keep your body free of subluxations: see your chiropractor for periodic checkups.

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