Do you know the benefits chiropractic can have on your physical and emotional well-being? Discover with Momentum Quiropràctic what chiropractic is and how its philosophy can help you benefit from natural care that will help you achieve the level of quality of life you deserve.
If you’re reading this post, it’s probably because you’ve googled: ‘what is chiropractic’ or maybe you’ve been curious to know more about “that kind of massages” that your friend or relative has started to go to on a regular basis.
No matter how you’ve arrived at this post, we have good news for you!… You are just a couple of lines away from discovering chiropractic; a natural care that will allow you to take control of your health and enjoy a full life. Shall we get to it?
We will start by answering your biggest question: what is chiropractic. To do this, we will try to explain to you in the least technical, but most professional and understandable way possible what this health care profession consists of.
As stated by the WHO (2005), chiropractic “deals with the diagnosis, treatment and prevention of disorders of the neuromusculoskeletal system and the effects of these disorders on general health”.
Although you can get a grasp of the concept… How about if we explain it to you as we explain it to our patients?
Chiropractic is the speciality that is responsible for aligning your spine so that the brain can send without interference every message it emits to the different parts of the body through the spinal cord and the nerves that extend through our body.
In this way, by aligning the spine, which consists of 24 vertebrae that allow us to move and at the same time protect the spinal cord, we will be able to enjoy full health potential thanks to the fact that the neurological information will be transmitted through the nervous system in an optimal way.
It is for this reason that the Momentum team often reminds us that chiropractors are considered brain specialists, rather than back specialists. But we will tell you more about this in more depth in another post 😉
As mentioned in the previous point, chiropractic adjustments restore the ability of the nervous system to function correctly. Thanks to this, our body benefits by optimising our physical well-being. Therefore, chiropractors take care of finding the cause of your possible health problems and remedy it naturally.
And yes, although it is common to go to the chiropractor for the first time due to possible ailments such as back pain, herniated discs, joint pain or migraines, it is ideal that you go to the chiropractor before you feel pain. If you are wondering why… Hippocrates, the father of modern medicine, already said it:
“Look well to the spine for the cause of disease”
You should know that only 10% of the nerves in the nervous system have pain receptors, so it can happen that sometimes you have no symptoms and your body does not warn you that something is not working properly. This is why it is important to consider chiropractic as preventative care and benefit from chiropractic adjustments before you have pain.
Chiropractic adjustments allow you to not only live pain-free, but also to enjoy a higher quality of life with more vitality. And did you know that chiropractic has benefits beyond physical well-being? We are about to explain you more about it!
As we have been mentioning throughout this post, chiropractic also has a positive impact on emotional wellbeing.
Because chiropractic helps our body to better adapt to our environment, with chiropractic adjustments we are able to manage the different types of everyday stress (physical, emotional, chemical).
And what is the relationship between emotional stress and chiropractic? Such stress, we can experience due to our relationships with friends, co-workers, family or economic concerns, work that result in negative emotions such as sadness, guilt or envy, among others. These emotions are generated in the brain and are expressed by the autonomic nervous system (Belmonte, 2007) … And as you might have noticed… once again we find the spinal column responsible for transmitting the information generated in the brain to the different parts where the somatisation of emotions is sent to the different parts of our body. For example, the somatisation of emotional stress due to stress or pressure at work in dorsal or cervical muscle contractions.
Therefore, if we facilitate the adaptation of our body with chiropractic adjustments, we will have more capacity to manage emotional stress and we will be able to enjoy a greater emotional well-being.
In conclusion, chiropractic must be understood and practised respecting its philosophy of preventive, proactive and holistic care for your physical and emotional well-being. For this reason, at Momentum Quiropràctic we understand and practice chiropractic with a soul, which acts for your good so that you can enjoy a full expression of life and always accompanies you in the process of inner growth.Our approach at Momentum Quiropràctic is that you understand how your body and chiropractic care work so that you can enjoy your life with optimal wellbeing.
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