Beginning your day with stretching, yoga, a workout, or meditation can help improve your immune system and help your muscles wake up and start your day. Individuals that feel muscle tightness, achy, or weak in the morning, will often skip morning stretches. Stretches can help safeguard the body from injury and help relieve tension. Here are 7 stretches that chiropractors feel can be beneficial to start your morning. 

Chest Stretch

For those who sit at a desk every day, this stretch can be essential to alleviate stress. Sitting and looking at a computer screen can create tension in the shoulders, neck, and back. 

In order to do this stretch, start by raising both arms until they’re level with your shoulders and out from your body, forming a T-shape. Learn through a door frame with your hands and arms pushing against the wall while your body leans forward through the door. This moves the stretch into the front of your chest. 

Hip Flexors Stretch

This stretch starts with using a chair or dresser for balance. Bend one knee and grab the ankle behind your thigh. Push your hip forward on that side to feel the stretch at the front of your hip, then repeat on the opposite side. 

This stretch helps to loosen hips and tension in the legs from sitting all day. 

Lower Back Stretch

In order to complete this stretch, lie on your back and bring your knees up to your chest. Next, pull both knees down toward your chest, relax, and hold for around 30 seconds. 

All back stretches can help limit debilitating back pain and help improve mobility and motion. 

Pelvic Tilt

Lie on your back with knees bent, the small of your back should not be touching the bed or floor. Tighten your abdomen so that the small of your back now touches flat the floor or bed. Hold the position for 5 seconds and then release. Repeat the stretch at least three or four times. 

This stretch can help relieve back pain, tighten abdominal muscles and increase the strength of pelvic floor muscles.

Piriformis Stretch 

Piriformis stretches are used to help with knee and ankle pain and help your joints to stay more stable. 

To perform the stretch, lay flat on your back with your right leg crossed over your left. Gently pull the right knee towards the chest until you feel the stretch in your buttocks. Hold the stretch for 30 seconds, release and repeat 3 times. Then repeat three times on the opposite side of your body.

Spinal Twist

Keeping your legs facing forward and firmly planted, turn your upper body to the right while you place your right hand behind you for stability. To push the stretch farther, you can place your left hand on the outside of your right thigh. Hold the stretch for 10 seconds and repeat on the other side. 

Performing the spinal twist stretch can increase blood flow and circulation. Twists also reduce back pain and help with flexibility. 

Neck Mobility Stretch

Start by sitting with your legs together and then begin rotating your neck in a circle. Imagine your ears touching your shoulders and rotating slowly five times in each direction. 

Using this stretch can help improve the range of motion in your neck, and reduce muscle soreness in the neck, shoulders, and back. Tension often builds in the neck and shoulders, so this stretch can help relieve the tension before you start your day. 

Chiropractic Treatment With Elevate Wellness

Chiropractic treatment can help treat a variety of issues including back pain, ear infections, asthma, Sciatica pain, Tendinitis, whiplash, and more. We help patients who are facing all kinds of tension, muscle weakness, and more, with a unique care plan designed specifically for you. Our team wants to serve your needs and help to get you back to feeling better from day to day. 

Chiropractic care has been shown to limit the use of medication, avoid surgery, and bring back the range of motion. During your first visit, we discuss your health history and establish some goals that you want to accomplish. We often begin treatment during the first visit and help implement your customized care plan. Contact Elevate Wellness to schedule your appointment today!

Elevate Wellness offers many chiropractic services for those of all ages. Pregnant women often don’t think about seeking chiropractic care, but the benefits of prenatal chiropractic care are too good to pass up. Chiropractic treatment helps the body to heal more naturally and maintain proper alignment. 

During pregnancy, the body and organs tend to move around to make room for the fetus. This can cause pain and discomfort for many expecting mothers, especially during labor and birth. Elevate Wellness wants to help our clients know more about the specific benefits of prenatal chiropractic care. 

Benefits

Pregnant mothers turn to chiropractic treatment to help with pain and discomfort during pregnancy. Growing a human comes with the moving of organs and bones to help give the fetus to have room to move in the womb. Prenatal chiropractic care helps limit the pain of stretching and moving in the body.

While pain relief is a big factor in choosing chiropractic care, there are actually more benefits to proper alignment. Having chiropractic alignment can actually shorten labor times and help the labor and delivery process go much smoother. Mothers who have sought chiropractic treatment saw that they needed less assistance during labor, pelvic bones and spines were more aligned and less painful, and had average labor of about 4 hours. 

Adjusting the spine and pelvis to their correct positions can give the baby more room to move and adapt in the womb. Chiropractic treatment can help the baby move into the pelvic bowl correctly and provide them with room to grow. 

Other benefits that can come from prenatal chiropractic care include:

• Controlling symptoms of nausea
• Relieve neck, back, and joint pain
• Lowering potential of cesarean delivery
• Maintain a healthier pregnancy

Webster Technique

When researching chiropractors and prenatal chiropractic care, look for one that is certified in Webster Technique. Dr. Simmonds with Elevate Chiropractic is Webster Technique Certified. This technique is a pre-natal chiropractic procedure that focuses on the pelvis and surrounding structures. This technique helps to support the growth and development of your baby and yields excellent results. 

Is It Safe?

Visiting a chiropractor who is certified to work with pregnant women is safe and effective. Chiropractors have been trained to work specifically with pregnant women and have unique tables to accommodate protruding stomachs. 

Prenatal chiropractic care techniques also focus pressure away from the abdomen and give exercises that are safe to perform during pregnancy. Stretches and exercises are known to help those who are pregnant and improve the quality of birth. Chiropractic can help amplify the good things that you are already doing. 

Elevate Wellness And Pediatrics

After birth, you and your child can receive chiropractic alignment in our office. Children also experience spinal misalignment that affects the function of their bodies. Many children come get brought in for other reasons such as colic, reflux, ear infections, nursing difficulty, digestive problems, and constipation. 

Children are resilient but they can still have effects on their nervous system. Trauma from birth or other falls and bumps can cause stress on the body. Spinal misalignment can affect the growth of the child and the development of their nervous system. Dr. Simmonds is also a member of the International Chiropractic Pediatric Association (ICPA) and has the training to know how to properly work with children. Please bring your child into our office today to learn more about all that we can offer. 

More About Our Office

Elevate Wellness Chiropractic started in 2020 in Bountiful and Dr. Simmonds has brought a passion for care to the community. We are a family-based business and want to treat our patients like family. We treat a variety of issues and pain that occurs in the body besides providing prenatal chiropractic care. 

Elevate Wellness also prides itself on helping athletes and sports-related injuries. Dr. Simmonds knows firsthand how helpful chiropractic care can be for those who have had sports-related injuries. Healing naturally can make all the difference in getting back to normal life. We are here to help you on your health journey and listen to your needs. 

Each patient has a unique healthcare plan and we only perform procedures that are best for you. Coming in for treatments can help reduce the risk of injury and pain. Studies have shown that chiropractic care is beneficial and can help the body’s natural healing process become more automatic. Contact us today to schedule an appointment.

Some patients may be hesitant to seek chiropractic care. Knowing more about a treatment or the process of something can put our minds at ease. Elevate Wellness wants to share more about our practice and the history of the industry and how chiropractic treatment and alignment, came to be. 

The word “Chiropractic” is derived from the Greek words cheir which means ‘hand’ and praktos, meaning ‘done.’ Put together meaning done by hand. Alignment and adjustment have been traced back to the Greek physician, Hippocrates. In the 16th-19th century, spinal manipulation was commonly associated with “bone setters’ who learned the craft passed down from family generations. These bone setters also treated joints that were out of place, called subluxations. 

In 1895, Canadian doctor Daniel David Palmer started work to bring more spine care into the open. He learned more about alignment and helping with pain in the lower back and spine. Palmer became the “founder” when he “adjusted” the spine of a deaf janitor and claimed to restore his hearing. 

Fight For Acceptance

Palmer went on to found the Palmer School of Chiropractic, where he taught his methods to the first eager students and showed them the practice. Statutes to practice chiropractic care as a profession were not set until much later. It was common for those who practiced alignment to be jailed or fined for practicing without a license before the 1960s. 

The conflict between chiropractors and organized medicine took time to resolve. Chiropractors were often charged with violating the medical practice act and were not seen as real doctors. At the peak of the struggle, around 450 chiropractors were sent to jail in a single year. 

While there are fewer legal actions taken against chiropractors today, many interested patients have mixed feelings about whether or not the treatment will work for them. Many patients are satisfied with the care they receive but a study in 1973 in Utah found that patients see this as part of their overall healthcare. 

Chiropractic and alignment care have transitioned from being seen as “alternative medicine” to a more mainstream form of physical healthcare throughout history. More people visit a chiropractor today and consider it a viable option for their condition. 

Why Work With Us?

Dr. Simmonds is our licensed and trained chiropractor who has received training and knowledge from other doctors and education. We work to provide our patients with a comfortable experience and teach them about what chiropractic alignment can do for their whole body.

If you are interested, we can tell you more about our history, and how we got to where we are with our practice today. Chiropractic care was seen as alternative medicine because it is a non-invasive and natural treatment. This helps patients to avoid surgery, taking painkillers or other medications for their symptoms.

The goal of chiropractic care, as well as what we strive for, is to get your body to heal in the most natural way possible. Dr. Simmonds practices the latest techniques and helps remove nerve interferences due to misalignments in the body. Proper chiropractic care can help to relieve stress, improve pain symptoms, help the body heal from injury and help you have more energy. 

Symptoms do not even have to be present for you to get the most out of our treatment. We work with each patient to develop a custom plan for what they want to accomplish. Proper chiropractic treatment helps maintain proper spine health, increase the function of the nervous system and helps you have a stronger immune system. Chiropractic treatment helps you to feel better in more than just one area of your life.

If you have been hesitant about chiropractic treatment, feel free to visit our office in Bountiful, UT, and speak with Dr. Simmonds about any questions you have. Learning more about treatment will help to calm your nerves and finding an office that you are comfortable with can be a big step. Contact us today!