37 Surprising Benefits of Chiropractic Care
By Dr. Brent Wells, DC
Although most people are at least vaguely familiar with chiropractic care, there are a lot of benefits that aren’t common knowledge. The only time you think about visiting a chiropractor is if you have a back-related injury or pain. While that’s a start, chiropractors do more than just fix back or spine issues. Much more. They can help you with all kinds of issues safely, naturally, and without unwanted side effects. Read on to discover 37 surprising benefits of chiropractic care.
A Break Down of Chiropractic’s Benefits
Improves Joint Function, Mobility, and Health
Promotes Healthy Muscles
Can Help Treat Arthritis
Improves Circulation and Reduces Blood Pressure
Helps Remove Waste Products from Muscles
Helps Injuries Heal Quickly
Improves Overall Nerve Function
Helps Boost Immune System
Helps to Reduce Stress
Increases Sense of Well-Being
Improves Quality and Length of Sleep
Improves Flexibility
Promotes Relaxation
Helps to Treat Depression
Boosts Energy
Provides Mental Clarity and Focus
Helps Relieve Pregnancy and Postpartum Pain
Can Help Promote a Smooth Birth
Helps Prevent Injury
Decreases the Need for Potentially Harmful Drugs
Is Low Risk and High Reward
Can Eliminate the Need for Addictive Prescription Drugs
Helps Increase Bodily Awareness
Improves the Body’s Ability to Handle and Process Pain
Helps Decrease Chronic Inflammation
Enhances Overall Organ Function
Improves Physical Performance
Promotes Healthy Digestion
Helps Prevent Long Term Musculoskeletal Problems in Children and Adults
Helps With Healthy Eating and Nutrition Advice
Helps Decrease Overall Pain
Helps Reduce Headaches (Including Migraines)
Helps With Weight Loss
Promotes Proper Posture
Can Boost Self Confidence
Improves Breathing
Improves Overall Quality of Life
Quite the list! But, you can’t believe everything you read on the internet. Not to worry, because below we break down each of the benefits with details and links to studies done in medical journals, so you know that we’re not just listing a bunch of awesome benefits with no basis in reality.
1. Improves Joint Function, Mobility, and Health
Our joints are designed to take quite a beating, but sometimes they need a little help. Chiropractic care deals a lot with the spinal joints that allow us to bend, stretch, sit, walk, and run the way we do. But doctors of chiropractic are also trained to help improve knee, wrist, shoulder, ankle, and hip joints, as well. With a combination of tactics, they can help improve joint function, health, and mobility.
2. Promotes Healthy Muscles
The skeletal system works hand-in-hand with muscles, so it’s no wonder that chiropractors can help promote healthy muscles. Whether it be through massage, electrical muscle stimulation, hydrotherapy, nutritional advice, or one of many other chiropractic modalities, you can expect fewer strains and healthier muscles.
3. Can Help Treat Arthritis
Arthritis is a degenerative disease that can make everyday tasks difficult by inflaming your joints. It’s common in knees, hips, hands, and wrists, but it can also affect the spinal joints. No matter where the painful arthritis is, chiropractic care can help. In fact, according to the Arthritis Foundation, seeing a chiropractor is a safe and effective treatment option. (1)
4. Improves Circulation and Reduces Blood Pressure
Studies have shown that a spinal adjustment can significantly reduce blood pressure in those with hypertension. (2) Chiropractic care has also been shown to help improve circulation. While the reasons for these reactions aren’t completely understood, it’s clear that chiropractic care can help in ways we’re still discovering.
5. Helps Remove Waste Products from Muscles
Chiropractic massage helps clear waste products from the muscles and eventually from the body. When the waste products, such as lactic acid, are flushed, nutrients and oxygen can move in. This allows the body to function optimally in a number of ways.
6. Helps Injuries Heal Quickly
Chiropractic care can help injuries heal quickly in a couple of ways. The first is by getting the body into proper alignment. It seems when the spine is out of tune, the body has a hard time healing, even if the injury isn’t anywhere near the spine. Second, since chiropractic modalities like massage and muscle stimulation remove toxins, they promote nutrients and oxygen flow, helping the body heal at a cellular level.
7. Improves Overall Nervous System Function
Your spinal health is directly tied to the health of your nervous system, which allows your brain and body to communicate. If you have even a slight spinal subluxation, your nervous system could be a bit out of whack. This is why spinal alignment has been proven effective at balancing the nervous system. (3) And when your nervous system is healthy, your body can effectively function and help protect itself from numerous diseases.
8. Helps Boost the Immune System
In addition to balancing the nervous system— which in turn allows the immune system to function properly— chiropractic care is a kind of preventative medicine. Since chiropractors look at the body as a cohesive unit, they can ensure everything is functioning correctly and at optimal levels, helping boost the immune system.
9. Helps Reduce Stress
It’s no secret that stress can wreak havoc on the body. Some people even go so far as to say that stress is a slow killer. The fact is that most people carry stress on their shoulders and back. This can have a negative effect on posture, joint function, and muscle spasms, not to mention the negative mental effects. Modalities like chiropractic massage are excellent for relieving stress and undoing the damage stress does to your body.
10. Can Increase a Sense of Well-Being
Since the mind and body are so closely linked, any problems in the body, even if they’re subconscious, often become manifest in the mind. This means that if you have slight misalignments, the tension in muscles, or a pinched nerve, your mental state will probably change to reflect that.
But when those issues are cleared up with regular chiropractic care, and everything in the body lines up as it should, your mental state will reflect these changes as a sense of well-being and energy. This is not to say that chiropractic care can cure all mental health issues, but it can definitely help.
11. Improves Quality and Length of Sleep
There are many things that keep people up at night, but stress and pain are two of the biggest. They can both interfere with your natural sleep cycles, creating a negative feedback loop that continues until something changes. This is why many people experience more restful sleep after only a few sessions with a chiropractor. Stress and pain relief can do wonders for getting to and staying asleep.
12. Improves Flexibility
Whether you’re starting to feel your age with a loss of flexibility, or you’re an athlete trying to take your performance to the next level, chiropractic care can help you. Depending on where your flexibility issues lie, a chiropractor may use several different modalities to address the problem. Chiropractic massage, spinal alignment, and specific exercises are just a few ways that seeing a chiropractor can help provide this benefit.
13. Promotes Relaxation
A great byproduct of reduced stress and an increased sense of well-being is the ability to relax. When your body is telling your brain that all is well, it can be that much easier to take a little time for yourself or stop and smell the roses instead of feeling a constant nagging suspicion that something is wrong or unfinished. But chiropractic adjustments don’t stop at mental relaxation. One study showed a 25% reduction in muscle activity after a chiropractic adjustment. (4)
14. Helps to Treat Depression
It’s not uncommon for people to feel less depressed after a chiropractic session. In fact, one case study showed remarkable long-term improvement for one woman, prompting the need for more studies about how chiropractic care helps with depression. (5) Again, this comes down to the way that chiropractors look at the body as a whole.
Pain is often a significant cause of depression, but it’s usually not the only thing. While not a replacement for the advice of a mental health professional, chiropractic care can help reduce depression and its associated symptoms.
15. Boosts Energy
Pain and discomfort can drain our energy, even if we don’t consciously realize it. Most of the time we simply ignore minor pain until it goes away. Eventually, we get used to it, but that doesn’t mean the pain or the cause of that pain has gone. We end up feeling tired and run down most of the time, attributing it to “getting older” or being “too busy.” However, when you do see a chiropractor who can address the underlying issue, you can experience energy you thought you had lost for good.
16. Provides Mental Clarity and Focus
In much the same way that chronic pain and discomfort can sap our energy, it can also make it hard for us to achieve mental clarity. This is one benefit that surprises many people after they receive chiropractic care. When the body is healthy, the mind can focus on what’s important.
17. Helps Relieve Pregnancy and Postpartum Pain
Pregnancy can cause all sorts of musculoskeletal issues, both during and after the pregnancy. Hormones help to loosen joints so the body can adjust to the changes. Plus, the position of the fetus and the birth itself can throw everything out of whack, causing pain and discomfort. This is why chiropractic care is excellent for women during and after pregnancy. It’s safe and highly effective in treating pregnancy-related pain.
18. Can Help Promote a Smooth Birth
Chiropractic care can also help the birth itself by making sure the mother is in proper alignment for smooth delivery. Plus, making sure the mother is healthy, comfortable, and relaxed can benefit everyone involved— including the new baby.
19. Helps Prevent Injury
We mentioned above that chiropractic care can help you heal from an injury quickly, but did you know it can also help prevent future injuries? When the body is in alignment, it’s better prepared to protect itself. Compare it to driving a car with a low tire. The chances of a blowout or something going wrong with that tire increase when everything’s not as it should be. The same goes for the human body.
20. Decreases the Need for Potentially Harmful Drugs
We’ve all seen the commercials for prescription drugs where the side effects are often worse than the disease. These are indicative of the risks people take when they get on prescription drugs.
But for many different injuries and ailments, the body simply needs the correct encouragement to heal. This is often a combination of things like chiropractic alignment, massage, traction, hot and cold therapy, diet, exercise, laser therapy, and stretches. Many chiropractors believe that natural options should always be tried before chemical options.
21. Is Low Risk and High Reward
When compared to other typical modern medical options like surgery and prescription drugs, chiropractic care is very low risk and high reward. This is because chiropractors take an all-natural approach to healing. And that approach has been verified time and again by studies and happy patients.
22. Can Eliminate the Need for Addictive Prescription Drugs
The fact is that many people don’t believe their chronic pain can be healed by chiropractic care. Instead, they have prescribed pain medication and often fall into a cycle of addiction and recovery while trying to deal with their pain. While it’s true that there is no cure for some causes of chronic pain, there is hope in chiropractic care.
Regular sessions have shown results in reducing chronic pain naturally, if not altogether eliminating it. One study showed that patients with spinal pain who saw a chiropractor were almost 50% less likely to get a pain prescription filled. (6)
23. Helps Increase Bodily Awareness
When you choose to work with a chiropractor to enhance your health, you’ll start to develop a deeper awareness of your body. Many people report that they feel more in touch or in tune with their bodily functions, meaning they can better take care of themselves.
24. Improves the Body’s Ability to Handle and Process Pain
Pain is a strange sensation, as there’s no objective test for it. It’s subjective, and often heavily influenced by our individual chemistry, experiences, and exposure to repeated pain. However, chiropractic care and adjustments have been shown to positively affect how the brain perceives pain. (7) Therefore, the benefits of pain from chiropractic care are both mental and physical in nature.
25. Helps Decrease Chronic Inflammation
Inflammation is good when it’s happening to help the body heal. But chronic inflammation can cause pain instead of helping to eliminate it. There are many different causes of chronic inflammation, including diet, bone misalignment, arthritis, stress, lack of sleep, and obesity. Different chiropractic modalities deal with all of these underlying causes in different ways, helping reduce chronic inflammation and the pain that comes with it.
26. Enhances Overall Organ Function
While organ function is not wholly dependent on the spine’s health, there does seem to be some correlation there. After all, the autonomic nervous system communicates with the brain and organs via nerves in the spinal column. So, if you have a spinal subluxation that prevents effective communication, it may affect organ function and health.
This is a reason why chiropractic care is becoming more popular as a preventative practice instead of a reactionary treatment.
27. Improves Physical Performance
Many athletes already know the surprising benefits of chiropractic care. When your body and your physical performance is your livelihood, it’s important to get the right care. Chiropractors help to reduce recovery time while improving the range of motion and ensuring that the musculoskeletal system is in balance and healthy.
28. Promotes Healthy Digestion
The way we digest foods can make a big difference in how we feel much of the time. Stomach issues and indigestion are no fun for anyone. Surprisingly, spinal adjustments seem to help some people’s digestive issues. According to one study, as many as 25% of chiropractic patients self-reported that chiropractic care helped them with their indigestion issues. (8)
29. Helps Prevent Long Term Musculoskeletal Problems in Children and Adults
Chiropractic care can and has been safely and successfully used on newborn infants and children aged 1 to 18 for years. Sometimes during childbirth, an infant’s musculoskeletal system can undergo trauma, with the need for chiropractic care following. Plus, the use of handheld technology by increasingly younger children may necessitate chiropractic help for posture issues. Just as it’s natural and safe for adults, chiropractic care remains the same for children, as well.
30. Helps With Healthy Eating and Nutrition Advice
Many chiropractic practices have a certified nutritionist on staff. Sometimes the doctor of chiropractic has studied nutrition him or herself, while other times it’s a different individual. Either way, you can expect to get expert dietary advice that is tailored to you and your needs because one of the best ways to ensure long-term health is through healthy dietary habits. (9)
31. Helps Decrease Overall Pain
Since chiropractic is concerned with the body as a whole, one of the best benefits is a decrease in overall pain. Whether it be muscle, disc, nerve, or tendon pain, or even simply everyday aches and discomfort you thought would never go away, chiropractic care can help ease pain.
32. Helps Reduce Headaches (Including Migraines)
Headaches are one of those annoying kinds of pain that seem to come out of nowhere. Migraines, on the other hand, can make it impossible to function in a normal capacity. Whether you suffer from mild headaches or occasional migraines, chiropractic care can help. Many chiropractors have seen excellent results in reducing the frequency and severity of headaches with spinal adjustments and other modalities. (10)
33. Helps With Weight Loss
Many people who suffer from chronic pain, especially low back pain, have a hard time losing weight. Chronic pain can make it nearly impossible to exercise. Plus, those in constant pain often seek temporary relief in the form of processed foods. In many cases, after a few adjustments, the pain starts to fade, and exercise becomes a possibility again. Chiropractors often encourage simple exercises at home and even nutrition advice.
All of this combines to help patients lose weight and become generally healthier, taking the excess pressure of their joints in the process.
34. Promotes Proper Posture
Your is arguably your biggest asset. But it can be hard to maintain proper posture, especially when you’re sitting at a computer most of the day. Luckily, chiropractic care can help by aligning your spine properly, helping to loosen tight muscles that could be contributing to poor posture, and strengthening weak muscles essential to a straight spine. Proper posture can help eliminate back pain and even reduce the chances of spinal arthritis.
35. Can Boost Self Confidence
When you feel unhealthy or you’re in pain most of the time, it’s easy to lose your self-confidence. Many studies show a strong association between pain and poor self-image. But when you start to become healthier and your pain fades away, you may see a rise in your self-esteem.
Keeping an upright and confident posture can also transfer to your mental state, which chiropractic care can definitely help with. When you’re pain-free and standing tall, it’s easy to be confident.
36. Improves Breathing
One reason chiropractic care may improve breathing has to do with posture. When we’re hunched over with rounded shoulders, it’s more difficult for us to breathe deeply in a natural manner. Many chiropractic patients have reported improved breathing after a session.
There’s also some emerging evidence that chiropractic care could be an alternative treatment for people with asthma, reducing or eliminating the need for drugs. (11)
37. Improves Overall Quality of Life
All of the surprising benefits above combine into one ultimate benefit: improved overall quality of life. Imagine if you had less stress, more energy, better sleep, a healthy body, and the drive to exercise and eat well. With the help of a chiropractor, you can improve your life and focus on what’s important instead of worrying about what’s not.
Understanding the Health Benefits of Chiropractic Care
Recovery from injury becomes a primary need for many patients. Healing after an injury is a huge portion of what happens with chiropractic care. Injuries come to us in many forms and may be due to a car accident, athletic endeavor, or wrestling with the kids. Simply tripping on a step can cause a minor injury that may not seem to need attention but later turn into something that requires assistance for healing to occur.
Injury
Recovery from injury becomes a primary need for many patients. Healing after an injury is a huge portion of what happens with chiropractic care. Injuries come to us in many forms and may be due to a car accident, athletic endeavor, or wrestling with the kids. Simply tripping on a step can cause a minor injury that may not seem to need attention but later turn into something that requires assistance for healing to occur.
Athletes
Athletes may seek care for the purpose of maximizing what their bodies may be capable of accomplishing. Caring for the spine and its attachments is a wonderful addition to any workout regimen. Intensive physical activity brings stress to the joints. Maintaining proper care of the muscles, joints, and mechanisms in the body is highly beneficial for maximum performance.
Chronic and Degenerative Pain
Chronic pain sufferers may find themselves exhausted from their pain. Perhaps, an injury that originally started the pain has diminished and you are left with lingering pain that just does not want to go away. Chiropractic can help ‘reset’ the pain signals in the body and work to decrease the pain that occurs.
Clients suffering from degenerative pain conditions often find great that their symptoms become lessened. If complete eradication is not possible due to the nature of a condition, it is very likely that symptoms can be greatly improved. Chiropractic supports the health of clients by offering improved quality of life. The earlier that care begins, the greater the benefits that may be discovered by a patient.
Repetitive Stress
Repetitive stress injuries may need to be addressed in order for a client to continue with daily work activities. Chiropractic care helps to provide recovery methods that enable a patient to stay employed and continue working. Care plans may review the ergonomics related to a client’s specific work environment and related tasks. Typing and heavy lifting requirements can be addressed and techniques reviewed as appropriate for a client’s needs.
Overall Health Goals
Personalized health goals are often a portion of why clients seek chiropractic care. Maximizing the body’s ability to function properly has benefits for the soccer mom wanting to play with her kids, the dad who wants to have energy after work, and the fieldworker looking to maintain physical health so they may stay employed. Improving health in the tiniest mechanisms in the body helps the body to function well on its own, no matter what we choose to do in life.
Pregnancy
Mothers to be maybe looking to safely maximize health for themselves and their unborn. The benefits of chiropractic care during pregnancy are generous. They include providing support for the spine, creating and maintaining a healthy environment for the unborn inside, and providing a relaxed sense of well-being during pregnancy. A healthy mother to be is a huge step toward a healthy newborn.
Infant Care
The process of birth can be rough on us. We may not remember it, but our bodies once endured the process in some form or another. Even from birth, our bodies begin to take on pressure and stresses that do not have to remain. Chiropractic care offers a safe and gentle sense of movement for infants providing them with the best start to life possible.
Unclear Pain Sources
Perhaps, you have no idea what is at the source of your pain. Chiropractic care offers patients the ability to start care without knowing the sources of their pain. A diagnosis can be provided and a care plan developed based on that information and a client’s preferences. Knowing the cause of pain in advance is not required for treatment to begin. A chiropractic physician can help you find the source of your pain and then help provide a solution for your specific health needs and goals.
Seeing the Benefits in Action
Placing oneself in the direct line of care that retains the ability to bring health to those who need it most is quite rewarding. It is the ability to provide these benefits for individual clients that brings some desire to earn a doctorate in chiropractic. Care providers understand that every person’s story will be different. Each client will encounter a different set of benefits because each one’s story starts out differently.
Understanding and the science of spinal care allows chiropractic physicians to maximize the benefits for individuals as needed. It is the science behind the benefits that draws some into a deep fascination for the field of chiropractic. Taking this knowledge and applying it to the lives of individuals who need it serves as a great reward for many chiropractic physicians.
Pain Relief. Preventative Care. Pain Management.
Common pain conditions that may find great benefit in chiropractic care include arthritis, back pain, bursitis, carpal tunnel syndrome, disc problems, fibromyalgia, headaches, migraines, neck pain, pinched nerves, scoliosis, sciatica, shoulder pain, spondylosis, sprains, strains, stenosis, subluxations, tendonitis, whiplash, and many others.
So how is it possible that one field of care is able to provide an improvement in – or the elimination – of so many conditions? Chiropractic does not focus just on the injury or ailment that may cause discomfort. Rather, it takes a serious look at what is causing the discomfort.
We often categorize pain conditions for the purpose of communication and diagnosis, and to mark the location that needs attention. But these are really just labels that provide us with the knowledge that may be beneficial for identifying what is happening in the body. So what do many of these pain conditions have in common?
They all interact with or are a part of the musculoskeletal and neuromuscular systems in the body. They all require care of the joints, muscles, nerves, and skeletal system in some fashion or another. This leads to why chiropractic benefits such a wide variety of pain conditions. Treatments do not focus on the labels, but rather on the underlying issue that has allowed the label to become a part of the patient’s life.
For example, treating arthritis with chiropractic does not seek to simply treat the pain itself. Rather, chiropractic goes to the source of the pain and seeks to eliminate the source of arthritis pain. Decreasing inflammation becomes the focus. This may be accomplished through physical rehabilitation, chiropractic adjustment, and other noninvasive techniques that help to slow the process of degeneration.
Each pain condition has its own set of underlying issues that will be addressed for the full benefit of each client. When multiple pain conditions are present, care plans can be altered to provide greater efficiency and increased health for the body as a unit. Chiropractic is able to treat a wide variety of pain conditions because it focuses on eliminating the source of the discomfort and pain felt.
How Is This Accomplished?
Clients can feel pain due to miscommunications in the central nervous system. Communications may have been interrupted due to an injury or be rooted in an underlying condition. The body requires intricate messages to be sent from the brain and through the spine for proper functioning.
Chiropractic treatments work to provide the nerves with an environment that allows them to operate within their original communication parameters. The brain and body must be able to communicate efficiently. As the information superhighway in the body, the central nervous system needs good roadways on which to send its messages.
A healthy spine helps to retain a sense of community and wellness in the body. The brain controls every action in the body. If the spinal column and central nervous system are not able to properly send messages to and from the brain, signals may be sent to alert an individual that something needs attention.
We recognize these signals as pain. Chiropractic targets these alert signals – and the reason for them – and works to solve them through the care of the spine, joints, muscles, and nerves. Treatments work to align joints and restore their connections for proper communication throughout the limbs and torso. Injuries, chronic pain conditions, and degenerative conditions can all be improved through chiropractic care.
But Does It Work?
Chiropractic brings healing by bringing forward the body’s ability to heal itself. The human body has a wonderfully intricate design. It retains its own mechanisms for healing. Treatments focus on helping the body do its originally intended jobs in the neuromuscular and musculoskeletal systems for promoting wellness. Yes! Chiropractic works very well! See what patients have to say in Alaska.
Mental Benefits of Chiropractic Care
The positive mental benefits of chiropractic care become a side effect that can work to generate a cycle of health in the body. This is in opposition to the cycle that sometimes happens when chronic or degenerative pain conditions begin to take their toll on us. We can easily become exhausted and may decide that we just cannot overcome the pain.
Chiropractic works to help decrease pain. What often happens is that as a portion of wellness returns to the body, the patient’s brain begins to recognize what is taking place. This can provide the brain with a healthy boost that is needed to further provide a positive sense of wellness. Intricate mechanisms in the body are more capable of completing tasks.
In turn, we find ourselves with an increased ability to enjoy the things that we love in life. Having the freedom to fully enjoy our loved ones and their endeavors can be the difference for many individuals suffering from chronic and degenerative pain conditions. Providing our bodies with the tools to be well, increases our ability to actually be well.
The brain likes to send and receive communications noting health and wellness in the body. Our mental habits may become somewhat tinged by discomfort and pain. When chiropractic is allowed to help regain a sense of wellness in the body, the brain returns the favor with an increased sense of health – both mental and physical. The cycle is beautiful!
Considering a Multidisciplinary Approach to Chiropractic
Chiropractic care facilities will usually include spinal manipulation, spinal decompression, traction, adjustments, and joint care in their offerings. Care centers in some locations have begun to offer additional treatments based on specific skills and interests. Specific options will depend on the resources and view of each facility. Consider your health goals when seeking a chiropractic facility.
The field of chiropractic seeks to provide the best care possible for the musculoskeletal system as it reaches the whole body of a patient. Philosophies on how to accomplish this will vary some from facility to facility, but the basic premise often includes a holistic approach to providing wellness in the body through the care of the spine, joints, muscles, and nerves.
Advanced chiropractic facilities may also offer chiropractic massage therapy, physical rehabilitation therapy, the DRS System, and the Alaska Back Pain Protocol. Be encouraged to inquire about the care that you wish to receive. Benefits will vary based on the particular interests and endeavors of chiropractic physicians at each facility.
Having the option to attend treatment at more than one location may be preferable for individuals that find themselves in transit regularly. Finding a chiropractor with whom you are comfortable is important. Be sure to inquire with your practitioner regarding individualized benefits that may be available in your area.
You may choose to seek chiropractic care to address pain conditions, or you may wish to prevent future health conditions. Care treatment plans can be personalized and made to fit the needs of each client. If your condition is severe, a multidisciplinary plan that includes spinal decompression, physical therapy modalities, and chiropractic massage therapy may be found very beneficial.
If you are looking to decrease the risk of pain conditions, or just increase your spinal health, care plans can be developed that consider short and long-term health goals. Someone that has been in a car wreck may experience a rather dramatic observation of the benefits of chiropractic. Seeking to promote the body’s natural resources for healing itself through chiropractic prior to surgical endeavors may be found very beneficial for pain sufferers.
Preserving spinal health is needed for anyone seeking to minimize deterioration – but it is beneficial for anyone with a spine. Just as any mechanical object requires regular attention, so does the spine. The spine loves the attention that it gets from chiropractic treatments
Getting the Bigger Picture
The tasks that we choose in life often bring stress to our bodies. Life will bring us bumps and dings. We must find ways to help minimize the effects of these encounters if we wish to increase our quality of life. Everyday tasks may bring us to encounter the pain of many types.
Our bodies are not designed to last forever. Yet, we may seek to make the best of the time that we have in our physical bodies. Just because the body is not readily equipped to last for hundreds of years does not mean that we should allow it to deteriorate in a rapid fashion.
We may encounter an injury that brings us to seek a more innovative option for recovery. This may alert us to the notion that we are finite creatures that require gentle care and attention. Restoration does not have to originate from an injury. Perhaps, we simply want to live well.
Chiropractic works with each of these concepts alleviating, eliminating, and preventing pain through direct care to our naturally ailing bodies. Care of the body does not have to be complicated and stressful. Rather, it can be a process that is effective, efficient, and pleasant through chiropractic.
The Benefit of Insurance Coverage
Insurance companies love to prevent the need to spend more money. Chiropractic uses a set of techniques that promote internal healing in the body. This, in turn, helps to prevent the need for surgery in many pain conditions. The benefits of chiropractic continue in their endlessness by offering an alternative to surgery for many individuals. Hospital recovery times become nil and insurance companies do not have to pay for a costly surgical procedure.
What Benefits Does Better Health Alaska Offer?
Better Health Alaska offers a comprehensive approach that includes advanced treatments and individualized care plans for recovery from pain conditions. Specialized care techniques involve highly innovative procedures designed by Better Health physicians for increasing the benefits of chiropractic care. Solving the mystery of pain is possible!
Preventative care is available and may include chiropractic massage, spinal manipulation, and treatments to fit a client’s health goals. If you are still developing your desired health goals, we can help with that too! Perhaps, you wish to create a realistic health plan for yourself or a loved one. We can help you develop care plans that fit your goals and your budget.
Not sure where you are in the mix? We are happy to help you decide what type of care is best for your health needs. As a top-rated chiropractor, let me help you get the treatments that will most benefit you. Teams of trained chiropractic physicians and technicians stand at the ready to provide clients with stellar care designed just for them.
Better Health Alaska adds another level of care to the field of chiropractic with these benefits and options:
- Two locations: Anchorage and Juneau
- Online resources: request an appointment, gain information, learn about our chiropractic physicians
- Early morning and late evening hours at some locations
- Innovative care options include the DRS System and Low Back Pain Treatment, the Alaska Back Pain Protocol, and MCU Neck Pain Therapy
- In-house billing, group and private insurance, workers’ compensation, and auto insurance coverage
- Non-surgical treatments
- Comprehensive care plans offer treatments from multiple disciplines including chiropractic care, rehabilitative therapy, occupational therapy, and massage therapy.
- Patient education through appointments and free health care seminars
- Committed Staff and Physicians who desire to continue pursuing knowledge for the benefit of patients
- A connection to the wider medical community that works to provide the best care for patients inside and outside of our offices
Our multidisciplinary approach helps to expedite recovery for the benefit of our clients.
Effective, efficient care is at the core of what we seek to provide for patients. At Better Health Alaska, we welcome those interested in considering care to come and visit us in person!
Or give us a call at 1.877.346.5255 to schedule your first appointment. Let us help you start encountering your own chiropractic benefits!
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Dr. Brent Wells has been a trusted chiropractor since moving his family from Oregon to Alaska back in 1998 and founded Better Health Alaska – B.S. from Univ. of Nevada, Doctorate from Western States Chiropractic College, volunteer for Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy Foundation, and member of the American Chiropractic Association. As a chiropractor his focus is on family, including his 3 children and wife of 20+ years, his clinics, and ongoing education.
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