Overcoming the Stress Rollercoaster with Chiropractic Care

drringeoc — Mon, 01 Feb 2021 09:30:14 +0000

The historic pandemic that’s suspended lives around the world has caused a huge spike in stress levels, leading to a higher likelihood of illness and injury for many. That’s why it’s essential to learn how to reduce the harmful effects of stress and protect your health.

A chiropractor’s treatments are a proven, effective way to mitigate damage caused by stress by improving your spinal structure and keeping your nervous system strong. Now more than ever, our mission at Eastern Oklahoma Chiropractic is to provide care that boosts your overall health as you cope with today’s increased load of stress.

COVID-19 and Stress

Every day, we face unpredictability. The mental and physical health of millions of people has become a major concern. The rollercoaster climbs with good news and then descends with worrisome information. Updates on new vaccines and treatments bolster our mood. Other news about the virus and economic issues ramps up our anxiety. This tension may send health downhill, but the good news is that you can be proactive in heading off harmful stress.

How Stress Leads to Illness and Injury

Stress is a natural part of life, one that our bodies are able to handle in reasonably small doses. But chronic stress from ongoing crisis situations places a big burden on our health.

When you experience anxiety, your body generates a physical reaction known as the “fight or flight” response. Blood pressure and heart rate go up, breathing becomes faster, and muscles tighten up. With long-term stress, you’re more susceptible to heart disease, autoimmune disorders, depression, and many other conditions. Stress often goes to your upper back, producing hunched shoulders and muscle tightness in the neck, jaw, back, and shoulders, creating imbalances that worsen problems throughout your entire body.

An unhealthy cycle begins: stress causes pain, and the pain, in turn, brings on more stress. Spinal misalignments may occur, impairing the nervous system’s vital communication channels between the brain and body. These misalignments can increase pain, make minor injuries more serious, lower your immunity, and aggravate arthritis conditions.

Chiropractic Adjustments and Other Natural Remedies to Manage Stress

So, how do you protect your body from chronic stress damage?

Fortunately, there are therapies and techniques to help.

Relaxation practices such as deep breathing, meditation, and progressive muscle relaxation reduce negative symptoms of anxiety.

Exercise and movement techniques like tai chi or yoga release endorphins that calm anxiety.

Chiropractic treatments align the spine and nervous system to regulate your body’s responses to anxiety and improve immune function. Your autonomic nervous system manages the fight or flight response to anxiety triggers. Science has found that controlling pain positively affects how the nervous system functions. Additionally, a patient study showed that spinal manipulation improved hormone levels, reducing pain and increasing well-being.

Your chiropractor’s adjustments eliminate interference in the nervous system and empower the body’s natural healing ability.

Set Up a Free Consultation at our Broken Arrow Office

To begin your plan to prevent and heal the harmful effects of stress, call Eastern Oklahoma Chiropractic at 918-940-4630.

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Experts ALWAYS Miss This Secret to Dealing With Stress…

drringeoc — Mon, 10 Sep 2018 20:23:03 +0000

Hint: It’s not about learning a new way to cope with it…

We are fighting an impossible battle if our goal is to eliminate stress.

Stress will be a permanent fixture in all of our lives….that’s a fact! And stress does kill!

However, the key to a healthy life and future is to properly adapt to stress.

I hate it when the experts instruct people to learn how to better cope with stress or that society must manage stress better.

What does that mean? How do you learn to manage stress? How would you know you are doing it well?

We believe that stress is not about just learning to cope with it.

In fact, there is something you were born with that has all the answers….YOU!

Think about it, you did not have to remind your heart to beat this morning, or your lungs to breathe, guts to digest, blood to travel…you get the point!

The intelligence that made you, and keeps you ticking every day, holds the answers to managing stress. Your body already contains the capacity to fully adapt to stress without you even thinking about it. The key is to remove anything that would get in the way of this innate intelligence.

Science is now showing us a secret key to unlock this innate potential to deal with stress.

Check this out…

This is a picture of a brain under MRI imaging. On the left you see the brain lit up many areas. It looks like you are flying over a city at night and looking down at all the lights.

They put this individual in the MRI and then created a stress in his body to measure how the brain responds. The spots of light represent all the areas the brain is recruiting to help adapt and handle that stress.

What happens next is revolutionary….

They took that same person out of the MRI and gave him a chiropractic adjustment. Once he was under the MRI scan again they created the same stress as before to monitor the brain’s response. The picture on the right is the same person adapting to the same stress, this time after a chiropractic adjustment. WOW!

Was there less stress? Nope, it was exactly the same.

But his scan clearly shows less areas being recruited to cope with the stress.

Chiropractic adjustments bring balance, harmony, and organization! Less energy and more efficiency in dealing with stress is a result of Chiropractic care.

It is a key component to dealing with stress!

The name of the game is Adapting!

Equip yourself properly.

Let’s tell the world about this!

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