It's Flu Season - Get Healthy With Your Chiropractor

It's flu season! Viruses, bacteria, colds, flus, and respiratory and ear infections are abound.

Did you know that chiropractic care can help you improve your overall health and reduce your chances of getting ill? Did you also know that chiropractic care can help stimulate your immune system against infections such as respiratory and ear infections when you do become sick?

Approximately 21 million Americans use chiropractic care to get healthy, stay healthy, and greatly improve the quality of their lives. Chiropractic healthcare is holistic, drug-free, and nonsurgical. It is safe and effective and has helped people of all ages and degrees of need.

A major component of chiropractic care is balancing and aligning the body. When this is achieved, all organs and systems work more efficiently and overall health improves. One of the systems that helps keep you healthy during flu season is a healthy immune system. Chiropractic care can help keep your immune system happy by releasing stress on the nervous system, which in turn reduces stress on the immune system. When your immune system is uncompromised it is free to function at its best, giving you a better chance of staying healthy during flu season.

Sinus, respiratory, and ear infections are also common during cold and flu season. In fact, the most common reason for a visit to the pediatrician is an ear infection. Adolescents are particularly prone to ear infections because their eustachian tubes are shorter and more horizontal than an adult's, which means fluids can become more easily trapped. Trapped fluids can then cause pressure, inflammation, and ultimately infection.

Chiropractic care can provide relief for ear infections including chronic, recurring ear infections. Chiropractors use manipulations known as adjustments of the ears and cervical vertebrae, also known as the neck,to treat ear infections. A chiropractic manipulation can adjust a misaligned vertebra that is causing pressure on the structures that surround and drain the middle ear. A misaligned vertebra is often the culprit keeping the middle ear from properly draining fluid. Chiropractic manipulations can help realign the vertebra and relieve pressure on the ears. This results in the trapped fluid being able to drain and the inflammation to subside.

People who suffer from seasonal allergies and other ear, nose and throat irritations may also find relief from chiropractic manipulations.

A chiropractic manipulation is a healthcare treatment and should only be performed by a licensed Doctor of Chiropractic. Visit your local chiropractor for more information about how chiropractic can help you get healthy, stay healthy, and improve the quality of your life.