There was a time when chiropractic care was considered controversial, but those days have long since passed. Aside from the millions of people enjoying first hand the benefits of a quality chiropractor, there are many other reasons that chiropractic medicine ha gained such a strong following. Not only do you have millions of people who swear by the fact that it works but chiropractic doctors won a conspiracy case against the American Medical Association (AMA) in the 1980s when the chiropractors claimed that false rumors were being spread about their practice to keep them down. They won the case – and conspiracy cases are next to impossible to win.
In other words they proved well beyond a shadow of a doubt that all the false stories about chiropractic medicine not being safe or not working was just that: false stories that were intentionally spread with malice. Chiropractic medicine has long been used as a way to treat a variety of problems, not just the most common of the back or neck!
The first thing to understand about chiropractic medicine is that it takes a whole body approach that Western medicine all too often fails to consider. That means that chiropractors understand how the nerves, muscles, and nerves throughout the body are all connected in one large system and when one minor thing is off, that can end up screwing up everything else.
In other words, a few pinched nerves in the upper back can affect your neck and shoulders, and that extra strain could have a lot to do with feelings of numbness in the wrist or hands, or other symptoms that can be similar to what you feel with carpal tunnel syndrome.
This philosophy of understanding how connecting nerve clusters work in the body help chiropractors treat a wide variety of different ailments. The back and neck are where the spinal cord takes everything from the brain to every part of the body. The muscles there connect with the muscles that then connect with every other part of the body. The nerves throughout the body work the same way.
This is why having your spine and your neck in their healthy and natural position is critical to make sure all the different nerves, muscle groups, and everything else in your body is functioning at its best. Even the smallest problem in your back or neck can push one thing out of place, wish pushes out another, and suddenly there’s a chain reaction causing pain, discomfort, and over-compensation that results in just more of the above.
Chiropractic care has been an incredible blessing to millions of people looking for a relief from back and neck pain, but it’s also done so much more. From helping to hit the actual root cause of the pins and needles feeling outer limbs sometimes get to random phantom pains that can be traced back to pinched nerves in the back.
Chiropractic care is something that all people should consider to help improve their health as well of their quality of life.