4 Things More Important Than Chiropractic for Back Pain
It’s common knowledge that chiropractic care helps adults with back pain, neck pain, and headaches. While many adults may begin to seek out care for their constant headaches, sciatica or back pain, we often find that adjustments improve their overall quality of life, not only their original symptom. At our office, patients of all ages notice improved sleep, decreased anxiety, better stress management, improved mood and stronger immune and digestive systems.
Many people don’t realize that chiropractic care can have these same incredible effect in newborns and children. As a pediatric and family focused chiropractors in Clarendon Hills, we wanted to share the top four reasons that families choose chiropractic care.
- Stress
It may look different, but we all have stress- from babies to children to adults. When our nervous system is constantly exposed to stress, it gets stuck in a sympathetic state, or what’s referred to as our “fight or flight” response. For babies, stress presents as irritability, difficulty sleeping, and even constipation. In children, it may be chronic bed-wetting, gastrointestinal issues, and behavioral challenges such as ADHD. In teenagers, it can be anxiety, depression or even decreased athletic performance. In adults, we often see weight gain, difficulty sleeping, racing thoughts or tension in the upper back and shoulders. Gentle and specific chiropractic adjustments can help to interrupt this shift into the “fight or flight mode” by activating the opposite, calming response of the nervous system, or the parasympathetic mode.
- Sleep
Ever lay in bed and think about all of the laundry you have to do or how you’re ever going to keep your kids busy all summer long, and before you know it, its 1:00 am? You’re not alone. Sleep is something so many people struggle with. Additionally, parents tell us how much their children struggle to sleep at night! Whether your child has a hard time going to sleep, staying asleep, or is waking up tired and cranky, it’s all difficult. Sleep is so important for everyone but especially our babies and children! Their brains are developing and growing at such rapid speeds and sleep allows them to rest, repair, and keep up with these neurological changes. Getting regular chiropractic adjustments helps turn your brain off and ensures your body is healing, relaxing, and restoring while you’re asleep.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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- Sick
Seasonal allergies, constant colds, the flu, coughs and respiratory infections, ear infections, viruses. You name it, it seems like illness sometimes just won’t stay out of our houses! Specific neurological chiropractic care has the amazing ability of boosting your immune system’s ability to fight off germs and illness, so you can do the things you love instead of worrying about constant illness.
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- State of mind
Life can bring about highs and lows for all of us. Our mood, behavior, and overall demeanor can be affected by stress at work, home, and school. We can’t tell you though how often we hear our patients tell us that getting adjusted helps improve their mood! The say they feel calm, connected, and not as quick to anger.
Are you interested in adding chiropractic care to your family’s wellness lifestyle? As an essential healthcare provider, Root & Bloom Chiropractic has re-opened with precautionary measures such as tele-health phone consultations, all staff and patients required to wear face masks, limiting those within the office to one doctor, one support staff, and only the patient/family at the scheduled time, and implementing “Parking lot reception”, to name a few.
As parents, you have been working so hard playing the role of the teacher, the friend, and the worker, all while taking care of your family. We want to treat you to some much-deserved self-care. That’s why when you come in for a consultation and doctor’s report before July 15th, we are purchasing you a 90-minute facial at Pure Skin by Peg.* Interested? Call us at 630.537.1781 to get scheduled!
Dr. Lauren Molinaro Shelton is the doctor and owner of Root & Bloom Chiropractic in Clarendon Hills. She practices alongside her husband, Dr. Weston Shelton. Together, they specialize in neurologically-based family-centered chiropractic care that is gentle, specific and tailored to the age of the person- from moms and dads, to toddlers, infants and everyone in between! Their revolutionary care utilizing advanced technology garners extraordinary results.
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This article is sponsored and written by Root and Bloom Chiropractic. Opinions in this article do not reflect those of The Local Moms Network. As a reminder, I am not a medical professional and all medical care should be at the direction of a medical professional. The Hinsdale Area Moms Network does not endorse any specific business listed on this site. The information contained on thehinsdaleareamoms.com is for general information purposes only.