Stress and Health Part 3 - Stress and Chiropractic Care

Stress can have profound impacts on both your physical and mental health. As discussed in the previous Stress and Health articles 75% of all diseases in the US are stress and lifestyle related including heart disease, diabetes, and obesity.

Stress buildup, if not dealt with from the symptom level, can impact the nervous system and therefore cause many physical ailments including back pain, neck pain, poor posture, and all sorts of other illnesses. Chiropractors deal with physical ailments that impact the nervous system and can alleviate pain and mis-alignments through adjustments to the vertebrae of the spine.

So what does chiropractic care have to do with relieving stress? Chiropractic care can help in relieving stress in the following ways:

o Chiropractors are able to identify the areas of the nervous system that are impacted negatively by stress through the mis-alignments of the vertebrae of the spine. Chiropractors are trained to identify these mis-alignments and focus specifically on ailments to the nervous system.

o Once mis-alignments are identified chiropractors are able to adjust the spine through manual adjustments or by using a mechanical devices to remove the interference to the nervous system. Adjustments can be done over a period of time and help eliminate issues that affect a normally functioning nervous system.

o When you go to a chiropractor and are able to adjust the nervous system the body is then free to self-heal other physical ailments. Chiropractors have seen other ailments being helped out as a result of their adjustments and therefore the body starts functioning in a more normal way. Elimination of pain, more regular bowel movements, and the elimination of deafness have been results of chiropractic care.

o When physical ailments are no longer there then people are able to focus on emotional or other factors that may be leading to the stress - although stress can cause physical ailments often there is some external trigger or emotional event that causes the stress in the first place. If stress is built up for so long physical ailments can become a problem and when people are dealing with pain they often are not able to deal with emotional aspects that may be keeping them in a stressful situation. By dealing with the pain people will have the capacity to really look at the root of the stress.

Continue to look for more tools and techniques on how to deal with stress in more of the Stress and Health series.