Are You Coasting?
Remember riding your bike up a hill so you could coast back down? There was an exhilarating sense of freedom as you accelerated to the bottom. When it comes to your health, are you coasting?
Coasting is a surefire way to invite a return of your original problem.
Imagine that your goal is to participate in a 10K fun run. To get in shape, you decide to run every day. When race day arrives, you’re able to run the full 10K without stopping. If you were to stop training would your ability to successfully run a 10K race remain with you until next year? Of course not.
Spinal health is like that too.
Discontinuing your care once you feel better (coasting) inclines your spine to return to old, unhealthy patterns. That’s why many people choose to continue with some type of ongoing supportive care. It helps them stay well after they get well.
Tension Headaches: Cause and Relief
Here are some basic facts about tension (stress) headaches. They usually affect women more often than men. Generally, you feel them coming on slowly, usually in the middle of the day. Today’s chiropractic care is often remarkably helpful for tension headache sufferers.
Tension headaches can be triggered by stress, fatigue or depression. As can certain activities in which you hold your head in the same position for a long time, such as working on a computer. Anxiety, PMS, anger and sleep issues are common triggers. Misalignments in the spine are even more common culprits.
Many who experience tension headaches rely on non-prescription medications. Ironically, overuse of these drugs can actually trigger tension headaches!
If you know someone who suffers from tension headaches, be sure to mention it on your next visit. Let’s figure out the best way to introduce them to today’s safe and natural chiropractic care.
The Art of Chiropractic
Curious how I shape and mold your care plan? How many visits and how frequent should they be? This is where experience and the "art" of chiropractic come into play.
During the exam, your condition, your age, lifestyle, attitude and many other factors are evaluated, recorded and compared with similar cases. Each plays a role in the recommendations we make for the first phase of your care.
A plane needs enough speed to take off. So too with our initial recommendations: If the visits are too far apart, we won't create enough momentum to reverse the downward trend. If the visits are too frequent, the body doesn't have enough time to put the adjustments to use. There's a real skill in picking the right balance between too frequent and not frequent enough.
Sometimes we may need to re-evaluate, but the goal is always to help you achieve true wellness.