Stress Reduction and Chiropractic Care

10 REASONS TO VISIT YOUR CHIROPRACTOR DURING THE HOLIDAYS (THE SECOND 5)

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6. COLD AND FLU

Bad weather & less time spent outside equal weakened immune systems.  Seeing your chiropractor will help boost your immune system, promote lymphatic drainage, eliminate toxins by removing any subluxations (aka misalignments).  Get a head start on cold and flu season by taking some extra vitamin D and get in to see your chiropractor ASAP to prevent sickness from happening.

7. DEPRESSION

Remember that lack of sunshine and vitamin D causing sickness?  Well, it can also cause seasonal affective disorder.  This causes depression symptoms related to seasonal changes.  It can take all of your energy and make you feel moody and irritable.  Instead of taking a medication these symptoms, visit a chiropractor to get your nervous system balanced and ease these daunting symptoms naturally.

8. SHOPPING PAINS

Standing in countless lines, on concrete floors may cause aches and pains throughout your body.  Carrying heavy shopping bags around from store to store can begin to hurt your shoulders, elbows, and wrists.  With the opening of Fort Collin’s new shopping mall, we are certainly here to pick you back up after you shop until you drop.

9. HOLIDAY DECORATING

Whether you are decorating inside of your house or braving the weather to decorate the outside, either can work your body in ways you normally don’t.  Is your body used to cutting down a tree, dragging it to your car, setting it up, and stringing lights from it? Is your body used to having your arms above your head while you put lights around every gutter, window frame and garage door? Probably not!  You may have the best house on the street, so make sure you have the best spine on the block.

10. IT FEELS GREAT

Who doesn’t want to feel pampered over the busy holiday season?  Chiropractic care makes you feel good.  It gets you out of pain, relieves headaches, improves digestion, clears your mental state, improves your immune system and so much more.  Who wouldn’t want to experience that?  Give yourself that gift, or someone who you love and see a chiropractor regularly.  If you need help on recommendations, we happen to know two really great doctors right here in Fort Collins, Colorado!

 

Did you miss part one of this blog series? Check it out to see the first 5 reasons to visit your chiropractor over the holidays!

IS STRESS RAISING YOUR BLOOD PRESSURE?

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Does chiropractic care help stress? 
Does chiropractic care help stress?

Entering early adulthood can be stressful.  Work, bills, and home-life all change and begin to take a toll on your body.  This added stress load is also associated with developing high blood pressure later on in life.

Another piece of the unfortunate puzzle with blood pressure is its association with childhood obesity and being overweight at a young age. A research study was done comparing young males with healthy BMIs and stressful lives against young males with high BMIs and stressful lives.  The study showed that the men with high BMIs were three times more likely to have high blood pressure later on in life.

Chiropractic care can help you deal with the stressors of everyday life.  Stress in good in small amounts, but long term can have negative effects on your body.  Chiropractic adjustments stimulate your parasympathetic nervous system, or in simpler terms, your break pedal system. This break pedal is where we want you to be for most of your everyday life.  This is where you rest, digest, heal, and grow.  Stimulating this part of your nervous system will help to decrease stress on your body, and also help you cope with everything that comes your way.

REDUCING STRESS

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During the winter months, stress accumulates in nearly all households.  It’s inevitable that life produces stress, and we need to be able manage it. Impact Chiropractic can help you and your family get back to healthy and happy lives.

“We all need to do more to overcome the effects of stress. We have to learn to find balance in our work and personal lives. Certainly there are some things that you simply cannot do anything about such as the unexpected death of a loved one, natural disasters, and accidents. However, everyone can and should carefully examine their lives and make an honest attempt to reduce the stress producing circumstances that make unnecessary demands upon them. Determine which things you can do something about and concentrate your time and energy on them rather than on things you cannot control. We need to emphasize wellness, relaxation, and positive thinking, whatever the circumstance.

Chiropractic should also play an important role in your stress management. When a stress-inducing event occurs, muscles contract, breathing becomes faster and deeper, heart rate increases, and digestion is halted. Continually contracted muscles cause subluxation, which lowers your ability to deal with stress. Of course, just as different situations produce varying amounts of stress for different people, different stress management techniques will have varying degrees of effectiveness. Some people may benefit from exercise while others respond to meditation, deep breathing, or spending time on an enjoyable hobby. Chiropractic, however, can work for everyone because it reduces nerve system stress. Reducing nerve system stress allows the body to adapt to our daily stress overloads more efficiently.

Chiropractic care, positive thinking, and other stress management techniques can create a sense of well-being and lead to a longer, more productive, happier, and healthier life.” – Jeff Ptak, DC. Pathways to Family Wellness magazine, Issue #08