The most common stress-related ailments are headaches, muscle tension, digestive distress, stomach and bowel problems, fatigue, and sleeping disorders. Stress can be physical, chemical or emotional in origin. The result is always damage to a person’s nervous system, particularly in the areas where the nervous system is already overloaded, irritated, or damaged.
Chiropractic reduces the physical damage stress can cause to a person’s nervous system. When the nervous system is overloaded or the spine is traumatized by falls, accident, poor posture, or lack of exercise, a condition called “subluxation” occurs. A subluxation is a minor misalignment of the segments of the spine causing nerve interference and related loss of function.
Chiropractic adjustments increase your body’s ability to handle and adapt to stress. When you encounter any type of stressful situation whether it is physical, emotional or chemical stress, your body reacts in a way to protect itself. Blood is sent away from your digestive system to you muscles (to give you more strength), your pupils dilate (to improve your sight), sugar is released in to your blood (to give you more energy), and many hormones are released to help facilitate these changes.
These changes are absolutely necessary at the time the stress is introduced; however, once the stress is gone these changes should subside. The only real problem is when this “stress reaction” occurs when your body is either not reacting appropriately (too strong or weak a response) or when the body does not switch back to a non-stress mode when the stress is gone.
Chiropractic helps the body react more appropriately to stress and return to a normal physiological state faster.
