What is Chiropractic?

Chiropractic is a practice of alternative medicine that aims to achieve healing and optimal health to your body through targeting and adjusting the musculoskeletal areas, rather than using drugs and surgery. A licensed and skilled chiropractor will be able to help locate the source of your pain and use various methods to relieve the tension, pain, and pressure – this is done with no additional harm and does not place the patient at any risk.

Alternative medicine focuses on the belief that the body has the ability to heal itself -if given the proper care and support. Optimal health is achieved when all parts of the body are working together normally, this includes your musculoskeletal system. Our brains transmit messages throughout our bodies by using the nerves and spinal cord – a misalignment of a vertebrae within your spine may corrupt proper communication causing pain or other conditions.  Chiropractors pays special attention to the connection between your spine and nervous system and works to adjust your spine into proper alignment, correcting subluxations.  This may be achieved using hands or special tools to provide a spinal adjustment or correction to allow your nervous system to function properly.

Why is It Important?

Chiropractic provides a non-invasive approach to alleviate pain affecting the musculoskeletal system and restore or maintain the health of the muscles, joints, and nerves. Chiropractors works to enhance the way healthcare is delivered to patients by maximizing the use of human health resources and embracing technology to develop new and effective modes of care delivery.

This type of alternative medicine works to improve your overall health by providing a detailed postural assessment, as well as gathering lifestyle habits to provide a proper diagnosis and treatment plan that is specific to you. A chiropractor will obtain vital information, regarding the problems or biochemical imbalances that are potentially causing the root issues, by taking notice of your natural body position and the habitual movements you may have.  Treatment by a chiropractor has many potential benefits including:

• Improving posture
• Relieving pain and aches
• Reducing symptoms of chronic conditions
• Increasing the range of motion in your spine and other joints
• Headache relief
• Improving overall health
• Combatting muscle stiffness and tension

Relieving and treating musculoskeletal pain and conditions will positively impact your daily life and allow your body to heal itself without the intervention of drugs and surgery. With a detailed care plan that is specific to your body, you’ll be on the way to overall health and wellness.

How is Chiropractic Care Different?

When it comes to evaluating and treating patients, the medical approach focuses more on treating the symptoms of a condition rather than the actual root of the condition. In contrast, chiropractic aims to identify the cause of the condition or symptom and treat it at the root.

This type of alternative care believes that correcting the cause of the problem instead of only treating the symptoms will have significant positive long-term benefits and will promote overall body health.

Chiropractic is always improving, and chiropractors or students of all disciplines are able to learn together with shared curriculum as well as from each other’s roles and scopes. They focus on the patient and makes treatment decisions based on knowledge of anatomy, physiology, and biochemistry to optimize patient care. Chiropractic care strives to build on practitioner-patient relationships to ensure proper communication and a comfortable, friendly environment in which to treat patient symptoms. A chiropractor will aim to reduce your stress and explain your treatment plan in a simple way to keep you relaxed and positive – this promotes positive hormones to help your body heal.

This type of alternative medicine offers many benefits to your body and overall health and wellness. Alternative medicine allows your body to heal itself with assisted adjustments to ensure your brain is communicating to your body properly. Talk to the team at Absolute Chiropractic Wellness Centre for more information and to see how you could benefit from chiropractic care.