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Proactive Chiropractic Santa Fe

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Are Chiropractic Adjustments Painless Or Painful?

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Chiropractors work their best to align your spine. Your poor posture is the primary reason why your spine becomes misaligned and moves from its proper position. As your spine dislocates from its position, you may experience discomfort and pain.

Let’s take a look at what chiropractors do to relieve you of your joints, back, and muscle pain.

What Does a Chiropractor Do?

A chiropractor manipulates and adjusts your spine to bring it back to its correct position. These experts rely on their hand-eye coordination to adjust the human body’s musculoskeletal structure.  People ask “does chiropractic hurt?’ Well, let us first tell you how adjustment and manipulation work.  

Adjustment and manipulation of the spine is done so that mobility of the joints is restored.  Many things like a tissue injury, traumatic event, falling, and sitting without support can restrict the free movement of the muscles and joints.

When chiropractors use their practices on a person, his/her pain is relieved as the ligaments, cartilage, and tendons become free to move.

Do Chiropractic Adjustments Hurt?

If chiropractic adjustments are done using right angles to restore the motion in the muscles, they rarely cause any pain.  This depends on the severity of the pain, too.

It is important that a chiropractor use short lever adjustments on the patients. If the inflammation is too much, some patients might experience a little pain from the pressure.  Hence, sometimes, an adjustment might feel a little uncomfortable due to such extremities.

Generally, the adjustments and manipulations help the patient relax.  The pressure releases endorphins and creates a positive sensation in the body.

If you are getting these adjustments for the first time, you may feel soreness or discomfort for the first two days.  However, you can easily minimize the pain through icing and stretching.

Conclusion

While there are so many other methods to relieve joint, muscle, and back pain, chiropractic adjustments to your spine are the best resort. You can rid yourself of pain by having a chiropractor adjust and manipulate your spine to restore movement in your muscles. When an expert chiropractor carries out the practice on a patient with a normal pain threshold, the therapy is unlikely to cause any pain.

Have more questions? Ask away!

Filed Under: SPINE HEALTH

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Dr. Peter Unverferth is going into his 30th year of practicing chiropractic medicine. The last 22 years of his chiropractic practice have been here in Santa Fe, NM.

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    1925 Aspen Drive, #400-B, Santa Fe, NM 87505

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