Learn How An Aspen Chiropractic Office Is Helping Those With Emotional Stress Learn To Relax

By Derick Scartel


Chiropractic wellness care is a preventative measure against spine and nerve disorders. The focus in the healthy individual is to maintain that excellent state of health. The busy adult may allow emotional stress to tighten the muscles and allow anxiety to set in. An Aspen CO Wellness Chiropractor has care methods that can improve this condition.

The environment around us can cause stress. Worry over job performance and loud traffic can be stressors. Bodily stress has physical sources such as an automobile accident or a disease. Poor eating habits and lack of sufficient sleep are physical sources.

Emotional stress is harder to understand. It includes things such as a reaction to outside influences. Various methods to alleviate it can affect different people in different ways. Some people try meditation, yoga or deep breathing exercises.

Due to what is called the fight or flight response to stress, hormones secreted by the adrenal glands chemicals can build up in the body. When they build up and there is no outlet for them, it can cause harm. This response is useful during times of danger, but, in our modern society that type of danger is rare. People seldom have to run away from a wild animal that wants to kill them.

The chronic stress causes tension and contraction of the muscles. This, in turn, exerts pressure against the skeletal system. The spinal column can be subluxated, the chiropractic term for a misalignment. Chiropractic care for that condition is a series of adjustments that move the spinal bones back into place.

This is one reason why wellness care is important. If a subluxation goes undetected, further damage can occur. One example is a herniated disc that can result from pressure caused by the misaligned vertebra. A routine check-up would detect the subluxation.

No care can be offered until an assessment is completed. Range of motions tests and measurements of strength are done. The spine is palpated. A record is kept of the findings. A medical record is started. After the evaluation is completed, the client begins a series of spinal adjustments to readjust the vertebrae.




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