Chiropractic care can help relieve back, shoulder, neck, head, and leg pain following an injury. Chiropractors can help following various types of injuries, including sports injuries, auto accidents, falls, and more. This article discusses the reasons to consider chiropractic care as a part of your injury treatment plan.
People who choose chiropractic care after an injury often report less inflammation, improved range of motion, decreased discomfort and reduced scarring. Additional benefits that people do not always get from other treatment routes include a reduction in the person’s stress level and a non-invasive treatment solution.
The body starts to heal itself after an injury occurs, which leads to swelling. While this is not necessarily a bad thing, too much swelling can cause stiffness and discomfort. Chiropractors can help relieve inflammation after an injury through spinal adjustments that realign the spinal cord and help reduce the body’s inflammatory response. There are other chiropractic procedures that also aim to reduce inflammation.
A loss of flexibility is common after sports and auto injuries. As previously mentioned, this is partly due to increased inflammation. Misaligned joints and scar tissue can also contribute to a limited range of motion. Chiropractic adjustments and other common chiropractic procedures can help increase the range of motion after an injury or following surgery to correct an injury.
Chiropractic care can help relieve pain by allowing for reduced inflammation, better blood flow, and by naturally allowing for the increased release of pain-reducing hormones in the body through chiropractic adjustments and other treatments and therapies offered by chiropractors.
Those who choose chiropractic care as a part of their injury treatment plan often see faster healing and recovery times as chiropractic services are designed to help increase blood flow and range of motion in the body. Chiropractors can also help patients recover through an exercise and therapy plan, as well.
Stress relief is an often overlooked benefit of chiropractic care. Many chiropractors offer services such as massage therapy and acupuncture that help to reduce stress as well as speed up the body’s natural healing response after an injury.
Chiropractic treatment may be an alternative to medication or surgery for minor to moderate injuries, or it can reduce the invasiveness of the medical treatment plan in other cases. Many people prefer to take as little medication as possible following an injury due to how addicting many of the pain medications can be for many patients.
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