Full Body Integrative Care: Why You Need Extremity Adjusting & Spinal Adjusting

Your body not only needs to work for you, but it needs to work all together for the manifestation of your full health, performance and function. Adjusting both the spine and extremities with provide overall increased health benefits. Chiropractic adjustments to the spine can profoundly enhance your overall health by not only reducing pain, but also reducing the risk for illness and other health problems. Did you know that extremity adjusting is just as important as spinal adjustments? Extremity adjusting and spinal adjusting are natural complements; together, they help enhance all aspects of your health.

4 Ways Extremity Adjusting Enhances Your Health and Minimizes Pain

Could you benefit from full body integrative care? Here’s what you need to know about the benefits of extremity adjusting:

#1: Heal a frozen shoulder, treat tennis elbow, runner’s knee and more. One of the best ways to rapidly recover from sports' injuries and get back to your activity of choice is to get your extremity joints into proper alignment. Extremity adjustments are beneficial for a number of common health problems, including frozen shoulders, tennis elbow, and runner’s knee. Extremity adjustments improve flexibility, enhance joint movement, reduce extremity pain and minimize the likelihood of injuries to the extremities. Many patients find that their injuries heal faster and that they can reduce their reliance on prescription painkillers and OTC medications.

#2: Improve nervous system function. When the spine is properly aligned, the nervous system is able to operate in a state of “ease”, freely sending messages between the brain and the body’s organs. Together with extremity adjustments, this helps the body function in an optimum state.

#3: Naturally enhance whole body health. Chiropractic adjustments are completely natural. There’s no medication, injections, or invasive procedures with risky side effects. Chiropractic adjustments also do not interfere with traditional medical treatments, which means you can receive spinal adjustments or extremity adjustments in complement with traditional medical care from your family doctor.

#4: Minimize pain. Aligning the extremity joints can also help to minimize the pain or discomfort your may experience from walking, running, standing, climbing stairs or even sitting. With extremity adjustments, many of our patients also report sleeping better at night. Extremity adjustments also address pain, weakness and numbness in the arms and legs that is associated with carpel tunnel syndrome, tennis elbow or other conditions affecting the extremities.

Dr. Mary Reimer is a National and State Board certified Doctor of Chiropractic and also holds two postgraduate degrees: Certified Chiropractic Sports Physician and Graston Therapist.

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