What is Chiropractic? How can it help me?
To best understand chiropractic we must first understand why we feel pain. Pain is a message from our brain telling us that so something is wrong. Joint and / or muscle pain most frequently comes from movement that is biomechanically incorrect. This usually comes from various sources such as car accidents, poor posture, slips and falls, improper lifting, sports injuries, and others. All of these problems cause restricted motion or fixations in the joint. The spine is very sensitive to these changes in particular because it protects your spinal cord which in turn governs the entire body.
A chiropractor is trained to find these areas of the spine that aren’t moving properly and introduce motion to the area to correct the problem. This is done by a ‘chiropractic adjustment.’ The chiropractor uses his hands or an instrument to restore motion to the joint. Once the joint is moving properly the brain will no longer need to send the message of pain to the area.
Pain is not the only symptom that can be felt due to this lack of motion or fixations in the spine. Other common symptoms are headaches, migraines, sciatica, numbness and tingling in the arms and legs, and many others. All of these symptoms are warning signs that something is not functioning correctly and most commonly it is originating in the spine.
If these warning signs are not addressed long term problems can set in. The most common of these are disc bulges or herniations, degenerative joint disease, arthritis, chronic pain and others.
To find out if chiropractic can work for you contact our office and we will offer a free exam and consultation by mentioning this article. Below you will also find a link to a video that explains more about what a chiropractor does and the chiropractic adjustment and a link to the American Chiropractic Asssociations' defintion of chiropractic.
Bradford Chiropractic
1219 E. Debbie Lane Suite 103
Mansfield, TX 76063
(817) 703-3242