Chiropractic Care and Stress
If your life has become way too stressful lately, it’s something you should address as soon as possible, because prolonged stress can be extremely detrimental to your long-term health and well-being. At the Align Wellness Center in Northbrook, IL, we have a number of highly skilled chiropractors who will be able to relieve your stress, and set you back on the path to a good overall state of wellness. Here are some ways that our specialists might be able to help relieve your stress.
How stress is manifested
There can be any number of ways that stress shows up physically in our daily lives, including neck and back pain, joint pain, muscle pain, and especially headaches and migraines. In this era of coronavirus, there are even more stresses being exerted on people in their daily lives than ever before. Many people have lost their jobs and have been forced to scramble to seek other employment. Whatever it is that is stressing you out, our chiropractic specialists can reduce muscle tension in your body, and help restore normal functionality to the nervous system.
How stress develops
The muscles in your body will carry out whatever tasks are assigned to them and which get messaged to them by nerves. Whenever there is any kind of interference with the signals transmitted by those nerves, it will result in some kind of muscle tension, or inability to perform. Stress is completely capable of causing that kind of interference between your nervous system and the muscles of your body, and that means you simply won’t be able to carry out normal activities efficiently.
Our chiropractors are quite adept at working with patients on techniques for relaxation, and on postural stretches which help to relieve muscle pain and tension brought on by stress. When your body is stressed out, it may also affect your ability to have a good night’s sleep, which in turn will contribute even more stress to the next day. By relieving the source of your stress, and restoring good communications between nerves and muscles, we can help get you back on the road to sound health and wellness.
How chiropractic care relieves stress
Stress can be so pronounced in a person’s life that it almost can be disabling, and it can completely inhibit your ability to carry out all the normal tasks necessary for day-to-day living. This makes it essential that someone bothered by severe stress recover a more normal state of well-being, before stress completely takes over and runs your life. Relaxation techniques administered by our skilled practitioners can go a long way toward eliminating some of the stress you’re experiencing.
Some of these relaxation techniques address physical issues, while others focus more on your state of mind. Both will help to bring about a more relaxed and calm focus in your life, so that not only will your stress level be reduced, but you will be better equipped to handle stresses which pop up daily. Postural stretching can also be an invaluable tool in lowering your stress level, because it can relieve any pressure which spinal vertebrae are exerting on nerves in the region. When these two techniques are combined, the cumulative effect can be very powerful in helping to relieve your stress.
If you are feeling aches and pains from everyday stresses give us a call at (847) 860-6599 or schedule an appointment online.
