Why You Should Add Chiropractor Visits to Your Wellness Routine

As you may have noticed, the overall wellness of Americans is less than stellar these days. Stress levels are at an all-time high and, making matters exponentially worse, many Americans aren’t feeling well rested.

By the numbers, a recent Gallup poll found that 57% of adults in the United States would feel better with more sleep, and 49% report frequent stress.

This combination of poor sleep and high stress can wreak havoc in all areas of your health — physical, mental, emotional, and social. If you add this to common musculoskeletal issues like joint and back pain, you realize that our collective wellness could use some improvement.

A great road to better overall wellness is through preventive and regular chiropractic care. Here at Atkins Chiropractic, our experienced and skilled team, under the expert guidance of Dr. Peter Atkins, takes great pride in helping to improve the health and wellness of our patients, one adjustment and massage at a time. 

In the following, we explore why regular chiropractic visits with us should be foundational for your overall wellness routine.

Aligning your health through chiropractic care

When we refer to chiropractic care as foundational, we’re being quite literal. The focus of our efforts starts with the 33 vertebrae and 23 intervertebral discs that make up your spine and form the foundation of your entire musculoskeletal structure.

On its own, the spine accounts for more than its fair share of wellness issues — lower back pain affects 619 million people around the world and is the leading cause of disability.

However, issues in your spine certainly don’t stay confined to that area and can affect other parts of your body. As an example, back pain can lead to hip and knee pain.

At the core of chiropractic care is ensuring that your spine is aligned, because when your spine is properly aligned, it helps every other hard and soft tissue in your body to function well. Misalignments not only throw off your musculoskeletal structure, but these subluxations (blockages) can also interfere with the circulation of critical resources.

With chiropractic care, we can align your spine through adjustments to improve function across your entire body.

Relieving stress and improving sleep through chiropractic care

Now, let’s return to those wellness issues we mentioned in the beginning — lack of sleep and stress. The physical effects of stress include body-wide muscle tension, which can also interfere with sleep. 

Through regular chiropractic care, we can release this muscle tension and bring your musculoskeletal structure into alignment, which can improve your sleep and reduce your stress.

As an added bonus, this release of stress in your body can also help improve stress-related conditions like tension headaches.

Other ways we can improve your wellness

While our chiropractic adjustments can do wonders for your wellness, we also offer restorative and therapeutic massage therapy that can help improve function in your body. 

In addition, we offer cold laser therapy to encourage healing in damaged tissues like your tendons, ligaments, and muscles.

Each of our therapies is integrative, holistic, and noninvasive, which is the perfect recipe for improving overall wellness.

To experience the many wellness benefits of chiropractic care for yourself, we invite you to contact Atkins Chiropractic in University Place, Washington, or use our online tool to schedule your visit today.