Can Chiropractic Help Anxiety?
Anxiety is the most common mental illness in the US. It can be triggered by environmental or emotional factors. It can be associated with specific situations or items. Anxiety attacks and feelings can hit us at the most unexpected of moments. It takes an emotional toll on us to manage our anxiety.
Stressors that are associated with anxiety are controlled by a chemical process that goes into our bodies. Information flows through our nerves to release chemicals in an attempt to create balance and harmony within our system. These stressors create imbalance and can alter the way we feel, the way we act, and can also change the way our bodies function.
What is Anxiety?
Generalized anxiety disorder, or GAD, is often manifests through strong feelings of worry, fear, apprehension, and nervousness. There is the feeling to expect the worst for no clear reason at all. Unknowingly, we might already experience anxiety in our day-to-day activities. It is possible that we may be better off in controlling the symptoms, but that doesn’t mean that we should endure and get used to living with it.
People with anxiety have a long list of symptoms. They may have a racing heartbeat, shaky hands, chest pains, and tension in the neck. They may also experience headaches, excessive sweating, and indigestion. Other symptoms are lightheadedness or slight dizziness, difficulty in swallowing since there is dryness of throat, difficulty in breathing, feeling of closed-in, excessive worry and fear, feeling of impending doom, insomnia, nausea, poor concentration, sensation of an abnormal heartbeat, or trembling.
People who suffer anxiety usually find normal daily activities like work or shopping or even spending time with those they love, worrying. Most of them cannot stop the worry cycle and feel it is out of their control. They also frequently anticipate that something bad might happen anytime and are often overly concerned with issues related to work, family, and health. A person is typically diagnosed with anxiety disorder when he or she experiences excessive worrying for at least six months.
Anxiety and the Way it Presents in Your Body
Your chiropractor can help relieve some of those symptoms. Indeed, anxiety is an expression of our lifestyle on how we react to stressors. Stress is the imbalance in our central nervous system which is expressed as anxiety or fear of what will happen. Therefore, stress is the starting point that leads to the condition called subluxation, or a misalignment of the spine.
Chiropractic adjustments regulate brain activity to restore balance to the nervous system. The treatment works by adjusting the spinal column to ensure that all nerves are transmitting messages correctly. Individuals who have slight misalignments in the vertebrae experience health problems that are psychological in nature such as anxiety.
The pressure on the brain stem, caused by misaligned vertebrae can also affect neurological functions. This pressure causes chemical interference that may cause ‘mood disorders’.
Our minds and bodies are connected in complex ways. Emotional distress can take a toll on physical health, just as physical ailments can cause mental anguish. Chiropractic care can reduce spinal misalignments, thus taking a step toward physical health which will lead to improved mental health.
The Chiropractic Care to Relieve Anxiety
Individuals suffering from anxiety often turn to prescription drugs for treatment. These medications may relieve some of the symptoms, but side effects and safety risks should always be considered. Alternative treatments like massage, acupuncture, and chiropractic adjustments are helpful in reducing the problem naturally, hence, people switch to these therapies instead of medication.
Chiropractic care is a natural, medication-free method that might relieve anxiety, especially for people that get little results with prescription or over-the-counter medications. It is proven to reduce stress and help the body to calm down. It lowers blood pressure and restores the body to its natural state of function.
Chiropractic is the key to a healthy nervous system. Patients feel generally relaxed following chiropractic adjustments due to hormonal changes. Neck adjustments can improve the blood flow to the brain, which is essential to mental health restoration. This has helped people who suffer from anxiety to improve their emotional and psychological health.
Chiropractic adjustment gives immediate pain relief and reduces stress symptoms. It helps restore the health of nerves and joints to heal the body naturally. It can be extremely relaxing, thereby releasing body tension and removing anxiety. Indeed, chiropractic is the healthier option in treating anxiety. It is a safe, holistic, and effective management of pain affecting the musculoskeletal system of people of all ages.
Without the negative effects of medication, chiropractic ensures proper physical condition and addresses the underlying factors affecting anxiety. A practical and long-term solution in treating the disorder.
Chiropractic care at Dover Health Care Center offers a wide range of benefits, most of which help reduce stress and anxiety. Alleviating physical pain caused by subluxations can help improve the overall quality of life, which transcends to improved mental health. Spinal subluxations, incomplete or partial dislocations of the spine that restrict movement, can cause migraines, digestive problems, stress, and anxiety. Spinal adjustments can help naturally restore the body back to its healthy state, and improved nerve functions.
Living with untreated anxiety is not an option and a long list of symptoms seems not worth it. You should not live to endure anxiety. Your DHCC team will provide you life-giving adjustments