About Chiropractic Care
It may be seen that chiropractic care is only there to treat the times when back pain becomes unbearable and affects your ability to work, move or sleep. Although while this is a key reason to see a chiropractor, this form of treatment can be used to treat the whole family. With an experienced practitioner from The Melbourne Chiropractor, this form of care can be factored into the family healthcare routine and your family can begin to benefit from this treatment.
What does it involve?
Our Chiropractors use a drug free way to make changes to a patients posture, acute or chronic pain issues and sports injuries. By using a hands on approach Chiropractors are able to decrease muscle tension, mobilise joints and stretch out the body to help restore mobility to joints, relieve pain and decrease the feeling of tightness.
Who can benefit from chiropractic care?
Sedentary Lifestyle/Senior Citizens
This applies to those who spend copious amounts of time in front of a computer/electronic device, or equally to a younger family member who is studying for exams. If most of the day is spent sitting down, either revising or working in a chair that is not ergonomically suited to the individual, the bodies posture will start to suffer from the stress its under. Even for seniors who have limited mobility by sitting incorrectly and not maintaining a good posture, the body becomes stiff causing pain and tightness. Thankfully chiropractic care can be beneficial in getting the body back on track and help decrease remissions in the future.
Chiropractic care can benefits people by alleviating pain and increasing mobility which helps individuals to live a pain free lifestyle. Exercise is an effective tool for older people who are feeling stiff and sore as it enables the body to move and decrease overall pain. Chiropractic care can also help by creating a tailored program which can also help an older person with balance, thus avoiding falls.
Teenagers
Slouching in teenagers around the home is a familiar sight to parents. This is where they begin a lifetime of poor posture habits, meaning that by educating children at a young age about the benefits of chiropractic care and “postural awareness” they can combat the effects of postural strains (scoliosis) and future aches and pains!
Typically, sporting injuries occur around this time as well, so chiropractic care does have various benefits for teenagers. It can be used for pain relief, reduce inflammation. increase flexibility, relax muscles to prevent further sprains or injury and decrease or prevent headaches. More importantly, it does promote and boost the body’s natural immune system.
During these teenage years adolescents also have to deal with the pressure of exams and puberty, and stress plays an important role in physical and emotional wellbeing. Chiropractic care can help with stress management by improving breathing through relaxation techniques and boost the bodies immune system which is a great benefit for all teenagers!
Mothers and Support Workers
Pregnancy is a cause of fluctuated hormones in the body which cause the spines joints to become more flexible to cope with the growing baby. Once the body has recovered from childbirth, a mother spends a lot of time lifting and carrying the child. For those who also have to look after elderly parents or a child with a disability, there is a lot of bending, twisting and stretching. Back pain is quite common and a lack of sleep gives increases the chances of headaches. Thankfully our team at The Melbourne Chiropractor can help those suffering from these issues!
