Can I Be Adjusted After Surgery?
You want your body to rest and heal in the way that it innately knows how. So should you get a chiropractic adjustment or not?
You want your body to rest and heal in the way that it innately knows how. So should you get a chiropractic adjustment or not?
Sharing an article found on CircleofDocs.com with our theme this month exploring surgery. Come back for the next two weeks for fascinating information and an encouraging story!
In her early sixties, Catherine was beginning to resign herself to the reduced mobility of a much older person. She required daily pain medication to function at her office job, and had been on increasingly higher doses of the prescription for the last two years. Catherine was interested but only cautiously optimistic, when she got her first chiropractic examination.
You go to your general practitioner, who sees you are in distress and wants to help. You get a prescription for a strong opioid painkiller and an anti-inflammatory. Once you are taking the drugs, a few things are happening without you realizing it.
According to a recent study carried out by the Yale School of Medicine at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, chiropractic care is today contributing toward an almost 50 percent reduction in opioid prescriptions issued in the United States.
Are you feeling rusty? Does it take rubbing on some Bengay or a hot shower to get your frozen joints working?
Asthma sufferers do not take for granted the air they are able to breathe. Studies show that chiropractic can be beneficial in reducing symptoms, increasing physical activity, decreasing medication use.
With the prevalence and severity of ear problems, alternatives to mainstream medicine, including chiropractic, are worth researching to treat and prevent ear infections.
As Chelsea was getting putting on her jacket to leave for her next adjustment, her husband said, “Why do you have to go again? Haven’t you gone like five times now?”
This is not an uncommon question as patients begin chiropractic treatment plans. Often they have come in for pain or a specific problem that has existed for years.
In Dr. Ryan Dopps’ practice, he has seen how beneficial chiropractic can be to correct the curve to a patient’s neck. As the pressure on her spinal cord was relieved, her body’s nervous system could function better and heal itself. Her MS lesions actually began to heal and even to disappear.