If sports are so important for them, why aren’t they for you as an adult? Everyone needs to have some sort of exercise they do on a regular basis to stay healthy. Families lives are focused on kids sports and activities. What do they do when they get home? Sit more. Too many people spend most of their day at work sitting. If it doesn’t work–that’s the number one reason. If you miss one out of three appointments each week, you are only getting 65% of the treatment I recommend. Your adjustment schedule, while inconvenient at times, is really important to keep. I need to see you in my office to change anything. Unfortunately, we can’t give you an adjustment in a pill form for you to take home.

If we can’t touch you, we can’t affect any change. What can you do to help yourself? Keep your appointments. Your body is learning new patterns of mobility and until the new ones can take over for the old ones, the changes from adjustments will be short-lived. That is why adjustments need to be repeated again and again. All muscles have memory and your body wants to go back to its old patterns instead of creating new healthy ones. Changing your posture, changing your spine’s ability to move, changing your muscle health and structure take time. Short term pain relief of an hour or two or even a couple of days comes quickly. Sooner or later, you end up with pain and need to see a chiropractor.Ĭhiropractic takes time to work. What most don’t realize is that the shape of the spine actually starts to change and small problems with your posture become more set in and difficult to change without help. Overtime when your body develops muscle imbalances and the mobility of your spine changes. It may have happened so slowly you didn’t even notice or maybe you did notice and chose to ignore it instead. While you might not have felt pain, slowly your spine lost its ability to move correctly and your muscles shortened and lost their flexibility. It may have occurred to you that countless hours on a laptop, iPad or behind the wheel of a car weren’t the best thing but a necessary evil. You may have thought, “I really should stretch more” or “maybe someday I will get back in shape or take up yoga”. While the pain wasn’t present, the stiffness and lack of flexibility were starting to creep in and the process that led to the pain was probably building for years. While this may be true, most people have simply not been aware of how stiff and immobile they have gotten over the years. Most people “just got this neck pain” or “back just started hurting yesterday”. While everyone knows there is no magic off button for pain relief, everyone wishes that there was one. Ever wonder why chiropractors keep you coming back again and again? It seems this has been a common question in my office lately.

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