The Chiropractic profession traveled a timeline marked with challenges and obstacles, largely at the hands of other health professionals and political agendas attempting to stifle the spread of a non-medicinal option to improved health. These obstacles temporarily limited the reach and influence which Chiropractic care could have otherwise provided to millions more. The passing of time and mounting research overwhelmed many detractors due to one insurmountable piece of evidence: results. Nothing furthers the Chiropractic movement more than the real results experienced by patients in offices all over the world on a daily basis. Chiropractic care delivers results for men, women, children, and infants of all ages by seeking to address the root cause of problems and disease.

Infants comprise the most uniquely impacted group of people under Chiropractic care. Some people assume nervous system care focuses on adults, but nothing could be further from the truth. The most significant and lasting impact made on the spine and nervous system takes place in the stages of childhood and infancy when the spine undergoes the process of growing and taking shape.

Children currently face some of the most significant health challenges in our world. Reports show that for the first time in history the children of today will not outlive their parents. This means that life expectancy of today’s children ranks lower than that of their parents. Many factors contribute to this issue, but the resolution requires a new and improved approach to health in order to change the current course.

Chiropractic addresses the underlying cause of specific functional problems related to the spine. Research published in 2019 evaluated thousands of children who received Chiropractic adjustments. Statistically significant improvements were reported across all aspects of infant behavior including feeding problems, inconsistent sleep, excessive crying, sleep discomfort, infant pain, and restricted range of motion in the neck. Residual outcomes included improvements in maternal ratings of depression, anxiety, and satisfaction with motherhood. 95% also reported a belief that the nervous system care proved cost-effective, and 90.9% rated their satisfaction as an eight or higher on an eleven-point system. No adverse side effects were reported.

Research not only determined the value of Chiropractic care, but also demonstrates long term effectiveness which transcends temporary pain relief in the back and neck. Nervous system care offers a proven, long term course of optimal health care for infants, children, and adults. Chiropractic care maximizes the health and function of the nervous system by improving the alignment and movement of the spine, allowing the brain and organs to provide long term health and restoration free from a reliance on drugs and medicines. Every person has a spine housing the most important system in the body. The benefits of Chiropractic care await everybody.

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Chiropractic adjustments unlock specific hormones required for better sleep. The body needs sleep in order to recover and initiate restoration from the trials and stress of everyday living. Most people know the importance of sleep but do not grasp the magnitude of sleep’s impact on health. The same people who acknowledge a need for sleep often compromise rest in favor of extra work or time spent invested in the busyness of life.  As a result, health suffers because lack of sleep detrimentally impacts every aspect of life and disease.

Regularly achieving less than adequate amounts of sleep destroys a person’s health

Continued sleep shortages contribute to depression, heart disease, lowered immunity, obesity, and type-2 diabetes. As a result, millions of people explore numerous trips to doctors and pharmacies in search of drugs and recommendations for better sleep. Americans spent an estimated $41 billion on sleep aids and remedies in 2015; that amount expects to grow to $52 billion by 2020. The issue of acute sleep deprivation impacts people more prevalent today than at any time in history.

A recent study determined that over 1/4th of people have trouble falling asleep or staying asleep

Nearly 70% of people struggle to fall asleep at least one time per week. Stress and anxiety rob people of the very remedy needed to combat diseases caused by stress and anxiety. Most people do not function well with less than seven hours of sleep. Daily routines convince people that they aptly manage on less than seven hours but the truth remains uncompromised by busy schedules. Most sleep sufferers do not realize or acknowledge the problem and never understand that better sleep drives so many aspects of quality healing and life.

Chiropractic offers a research-based solution

Research completed in 2015 linked an increase of specific sleep related hormones following a spinal adjustment. Chiropractic improves hormone chemistry throughout the entire body by adjusting misaligned areas of the spine which hinder mobility and nervous system communication. An intimate relationship between the brain and nervous system exists in every person’s spine. The nervous system directs all healing and function throughout the body by communicating through the spinal cord. The bones of the spine surround and protect the spinal cord and direct nervous system functions. Copious amounts of neurons lace the spine and communicate with the brain every single second. Clear communication requires appropriate alignment and movement of each spinal vertebra. Misaligned vertebrae produce a static-type message to all organs and tissues leading to imbalance and alterations in the release of
hormones, including sleep hormones.

Chiropractors do not cure sleep challenges. Chiropractors locate areas of misalignment and immobility in the spine which produce stress in the nervous system. These places of interference (called subluxations) hinder the body’s potential to communicate, heal, and perform at maximum capacity. Chiropractors help men, women, and children of all ages reduce stress in the nervous system through the appropriate application of specific, pain-free adjustments. The resulting benefits unlock health potential that optimizes all activities from work to better sleep.

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First of all, evaluate your sleeping posture.  If you prefer to sleep on your back, you need a pillow with the support (neck roll) under your neck.  The bulk of the pillow should not be under your head.  If your preference is to sleep on your side, you need a thicker pillow to keep your head in line with your neck.  If you are sleeping on a feather pillow that flattens out during the night or a thin foam pillow, that isn’t going to work.  You will spend a lot of the night with your head tilted towards the bed pinching off the nerves that exit your spine.  That causes you to wake up with neck pain and numbness.

Secondly,  I really like to read at night before I go to bed.  It’s a nice little ritual that helps me wind down from my day and makes me tired.  I found a pillow at Walmart here in Broken Arrow that is perfect for holding a kindle or a book.  It even has a nice pocket if you wear reading glasses.  It is shaped like a pyramid and has a little ridge around it the reader sits within.  For those of you who like books, it also has a long tassel to keep your page.  You can keep it on your lap, your table or take it to bed.  It keeps the book at an angle so your head isn’t constantly looking down.

Thirdly, ask yourself why you have neck pain and headaches.  Have you left a problem untreated for years only for your muscular imbalances to worsen?  Do you spend endless hours on devices such as laptops, phones, and tablets?  Do you have a career that restricts you to a desk and computer the majority of the day?

It’s important to ask yourself what shape you want your spine to be in 5 years from now.  If the answer is better than it is right now, you need to change your device habits and also find a chiropractor so that you can correct the damage that years of looking forward and down have caused.

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