What is Chiropractic Spinal Adjustment?

Chiropractic care focuses on the manipulation of vertebrae and their surrounding muscles to relieve pain, restore function and improve your quality of life. A chiropractor’s goal is to help you optimize your spinal alignment so that you can have an improved range of motion, reduced back pain symptoms, healthy nerve function, and a more stable spine.

Who Can Get a Chiropractic Spinal Adjustment?

Chiropractic spinal adjustment is typically recommended for people who experience back pain, neck pain, headaches or migraines. Chiropractic care can also help relieve tension headaches and chronic neck pain. The chiropractor will first assess your condition and determine if a chiropractic spinal adjustment is the best treatment plan for you.

Benefits of a Chiropractic Spinal Adjustment

Can Help With Neck and Lower Back Pain

Chiropractic spinal adjustment is a type of chiropractic treatment that uses manual adjustments to the spine. The aim of Chiropractic spinal adjustment is to restore alignment and improve function in the lower back, neck, and head. Many people experience pain in these areas due to poor posture or other underlying health conditions. Chiropractors believe that chiropractic spinal adjustments can help reduce this pain by restoring balance and correcting the positioning of the vertebrae in the spine.

By improving alignment and function in these areas, chiropractic spinal adjustment can help improve neck and lower back pain symptoms. Many people find relief after just one or two visits, and some even experience long-term relief from regular treatment. If you are suffering from difficulty sleeping due to chronic neck pain, a Chiropractor may be able to provide you with complementary treatments such as therapeutic massage therapy or Joint mobilization/effleurage.

Improves Joint Function, Mobility, and Health

Chiropractic spinal adjustments can help to relieve pain and improve joint function, mobility, and health. Chiropractic spinal adjustments can ease tension in muscles and tendons throughout your whole body, providing relief from chronic pain or morning headaches, improving your posture, reducing stress levels, and more.

Lowered Blood Pressure

Chiropractic spinal adjustment can help lower blood pressure by correcting misalignments in the spine that may be causing inflammation and pain. Chiropractic spinal adjustments work to restore mobility and function to the spine, which can improve nerve function and reduce inflammation throughout the body. When combined with other lifestyle changes (such as diet and exercise), chiropractic care may be an important part of a comprehensive treatment plan for reducing blood pressure levels.

Improves Overall Nervous System Function

Spinal adjustments can help improve nervous system function by correcting any imbalances in the spine. Chiropractic spinal adjustments are used to adjust the alignment of vertebrae, which may improve nerve transmission and balance within the body as a whole. They also provide relief from tension headaches, subluxations (misalignments), pinched nerves, TMJ pain, chronic neck pain, carpal tunnel syndrome, and more.

Helps Reduce Stress

There are several ways it can help relieve stress. First, it helps restore balance and harmony to the nervous system by addressing subluxations of the vertebrae. Second, it improves blood flow through the spine due to its relaxing effect on muscles and fascia. Finally, Chiropractic spinal adjustment stimulates nerve growth and regeneration in areas affected by chronic inflammation or injury.

Improves Quality of sleep

Treatments can help improve the quality of sleep for people who suffer from chronic pain or other conditions that affect their sleep. Some studies have found that spinal adjustment is a viable treatment option for people with mild to moderate neck pain, migraines, and other headaches, asthma symptoms, problems with snoring or insomnia due to stress or anxiety. 

Immune system

Chiropractic spinal adjustment can help improve the function of the immune system. Chiropractic spinal adjustments work by restoring balance and harmony to the spine, which in turn helps restore balance and harmony to the entire body. This can help reduce inflammation, pain, and stress throughout the body. In turn, when your body is working properly it boosts the immune system.

Improves Overall Quality of Life

Chiropractic spinal adjustment is one of the most effective treatments for improving Overall Quality of Life. Chiropractors believe that the benefits of Chiropractic spinal adjustments extend beyond the immediate environment in which it was performed - they view it as a tool for restoring overall balance throughout the body.

What Does a Chiropractic Adjustment do to Your Spine?

Chiropractic spinal adjustment is a chiropractor’s primary treatment modality for the relief of back pain and other spine-related issues. During a chiropractic adjustment, the chiropractor will use his or her hands to carefully manipulate vertebrae and surrounding muscles. This adjustment can help improve your range of motion, reduce back pain symptoms, and restore nerve function.

Do Chiropractic Adjustments Work Permanently?

There is no one answer to this question because chiropractic care is tailored specifically to each patient’s needs. However, most chiropractors believe that chiropractic spinal adjustment can help relieve pain and improve function in the short term. Ultimately, whether a chiropractor adjustment provides permanent relief will depend on the individual's underlying health condition and treatment plan.

Final Thoughts

There are many anecdotal reports from people who have experienced significant improvements in their overall health following chiropractic spinal adjustment treatment. These include improved flexibility, better range of motion, reduced inflammation, and improved sleep quality. Chiropractors believe that the benefits of chiropractic spinal adjustment extend beyond the immediate environment in which it was performed - they view it as a tool for restoring overall balance throughout the body.

Learn more about spinal adjustments in Oklahoma City by calling ChiroHer at (405) 213-1072 or scheduling an appointment online to see if a spinal adjustment can help.