Chiropractic Services:
Chiropractic care is a discipline which emphasizes the inherent recuperative power of the body to heal itself without the use of drugs and surgery. Each year more than 15 million Americans chose chiropractic care for safe, natural and effective relief from back pain, neck pain, headaches, extremity pain, poor overall health, low energy levels and much more. Our chiropractor at Indian Springs Holistic Center is trained in the latest treatments available, and provides gentle care. (Blue Cross Blue Shield is accepted.)
What is Chiropractic?
Along with medicine and osteopathy, chiropractic is one of the western world's three major healing disciplines; working with subluxations, misalignments, derangements and fixations of the human frame – especially of the spine. The following are the three fundamental principles of chiropractic:
Importance of the nervous system: Chiropractic doctors recognize the overriding importance of a properly functioning nervous system in the body's maintenance of its own health.
Spinal subluxations (misalignments): Chiropractic doctors recognize that pinched or otherwise irritated spinal nerve impulses and thereby cause pain and disease conditions – not only in the back – but elsewhere in the body.
Chiropractic adjustments: Chiropractic doctors recognize that when spinal nerve irritations are cleared by means of chiropractic adjustments and other chiropractic care, the nervous system's normal flow of impulses can resume and direct the bodies own efforts in recuperation from pain and disease and help in the continuing maintenance of the body's health.
What Causes Misalignments or Subluxations?
Almost everyone gets misalignments of the spine or subluxations from time to time. Some subluxations are caused by accidents and injuries, but there are many causes. Here are some of them:
Injuries - Other Causes:
Birth Injuries Weak Ligaments
Childhood Injuries Muscle Spasms
Falls Congenital Defects
Home Injuries Unequal Leg Lengths
Sports Injuries Spinal Imbalance
Workplace Injuries Emotional Tension
Auto Injuries Mental Strain
Overuse Injuries Fatigue
Weekend Warriors
Who gets Subluxations?
Almost everyone develops spinal subluxations in their life as common as a cavity. Fortunately, most of these subluxations correct themselves when one relaxes or lies down to sleep. When spinal subluxations are severe or persistent they require chiropractic diagnosis and treatment.
The four major causes of vertebral subluxations:
Congenital Instability: About one out of three people are born with some kind of congenital malformation, defect, or anomaly of the spine which, if severe enough, produces a basic instability in the spine and predisposes that person to frequent or repetitive vertebral subluxations.
Injury: An injury need not be severe to produce a vertebral subluxation. The spine can be injured in many ways: during the birthing process, as a result of sports injuries, overuse, auto accidents, etc. Children at play frequently stumble, tumble, and fall, which automatically puts them at high risk of injury and vertebral subluxations.
Fatigue: As fatigue sets in, muscle coordination dwindles and awkward uncoordinated movements can cause injury and vertebral subluxations.
Reflex reactions: Just as a person automatically blinks when something comes near the eye, a startling or awkward movement can cause one to jerk the head, neck, or back and produce a vertebral subluxation.
What are the effects of subluxations on the body?
A spinal subluxations alter normal nerve impulses and thereby cause pain and disease conditions, not only in the back, but elsewhere in the body. The nerve impulses travel along the nerves and exit the spine heading toward all of the internal organs to help control their function and different parts of the musculoskeletal system.
The following is a partial listing of conditions or symptoms which frequently result from subluxations and often respond positively to chiropractic to chiropractic treatment:
Allergies
Arm & Hand Pain
Arthritis (some forms)
Asthma
Back Pain, Backache, Low Back Pain
Bed Wetting (Enuresis)
Blood Pressure, High or Low
Bronchial Conditions
Carpal Tunnel
Bursitis
Colitis
Spastic Colon
Constipation
Chronic Cough
Diarrhea
Disc Problems
Diverticulitis
Dizziness (Vertigo)
Emphysema
Cold Feet
Feminine Problems
Gallbladder Dysfunctions
Glandular Dysfunctions
Hay Fever
Headaches
Hip Pain
Impotence
Indigestion
Injuries – Auto, Home, Work
Insomnia
Joint Pain
Kidney Dysfunctions
Knee Pains, Leg Pain, Cramps, Tingling, Numbness
Migraines
Nervousness
Neuralgia
Pleurisy
Poor Circulation
Prostate Dysfunctions
Sciatica
Scoliosis (functional)
Shingles
Shoulder Pain
Sinus Problems
Stiff, Painful Neck
Stomach Problems
Stomach Ulcers
Thyroid Dysfunctions
Whiplash