Many people who seek chiropractic care can benefit from quality stretching and exercise. Utilizing exercise with chiropractic care can help improve your range of motion and flexibility even more. Living a pain-free lifestyle can be achieved with low-impact exercises and working with a licensed chiropractor.

Chiropractic alone can help limit your pain, but many patients also seek holistic healing and low-impact exercises to help them continue to improve in all aspects.

Elevate Wellness wants to help you gain more motion and work on building up your muscles without injuring you. Chiropractic is safe and a noninvasive way to help improve your body. Avoid surgery or strong medications by combining exercise with chiropractic care. 

Pool Exercises For Bad Joints

If you are just beginning chiropractic treatment, pool exercises may help limit your pain and give you the ease of moving while in the water. Pool exercise with chiropractic care can help you build muscle and get your heart pumping without being so hard on your joints. 

Some common pool exercises that can help limit pain include:

• Walking in shallow water and doing lunges
• Jogging in place
• Standing knee lifts
• Hip kicking 
• Pool planking

Improve Your Motion And Flexibility

More and more people lose flexibility from sitting at a desk, bad posture, text neck, or other sedentary days. If you don’t practice flexibility stretches and move your body daily, you can lose flexibility and range of motion earlier than you should. 

Even stretching before you begin exercising can help limber your joints and prevent injury during exercise. Doing stretches before hard exercise and stretches after chiropractic treatment will help limit your pain and muscle tension. Static and dynamic stretches can help you in multiple ways when you are seeking chiropractic treatment including limiting back pain, improving your posture, and boosting your mood. 

Some flexibility exercises that you can combine with chiropractic care include:

• Standing hamstring stretch
• Triceps stretches
• Frog stretch
• Butterfly stretch
• Knee to chest stretch
• Seated rotational stretch

Strengthen Bones And Muscles

When your spine is aligned your bones and muscles work better together and become stronger. When bones function properly, you take away extra stress and discomfort. Strong bones and muscles can help you feel younger and may even help limit pain in certain areas. 

Chiropractic care can help your muscles function more systematically and prevent muscle injury. Aligning bones and joints help your brain be able to send signals to them effectively and helps build them up. Chiropractic can help with diseases like osteoporosis, musculoskeletal deformations, low blood cell counts, and more that can be life-altering.

Boost Your Mood And Self-Esteem

Regular exercise with chiropractic care can help improve your mood and help with mental health as well as physical health. Moving your body in any way can help release endorphins, improve your sleep, and help you recover faster from illness. All of these benefits can make life much more enjoyable and help you feel productive. 

Chiropractic adjustments can also release endorphins from aligning your spine. These endorphins can come from pain relieving or reducing inflammation. Combining exercise with chiropractic care will help boost your self-confidence and energy levels throughout the day and give you a better quality of life for years to come. 

Elevate Wellness loves to help patients feel better and wants to help them avoid intensive treatment. Working with our office should help you feel seen and improve your understanding of your body. 

Exercise With Chiropractic Care With Elevate Wellness

Everyone in our office wants to help patients have a better quality of life. Our chiropractor, Dr. Casey Simmonds, knows firsthand how chiropractic can help after an injury. If you are experiencing major pain or limited motion, combining exercise with chiropractic care can help you avoid unnecessary surgery or medication. We work with you to narrow down your goals and how you want to feel during your treatment with us. Talking about your health history and how your pain manifests will help us treat you in the best way possible. 

Even if you are not currently having symptoms or just want to improve your immune system function, chiropractic is still right for you. Check out what injuries we treat and how our office can help patients of all ages by checking out our site. Schedule an appointment in our Bountiful office today!

Visiting the chiropractor leads to adjustment, and lining up joints, and may even come with cracking and popping noises as a chiropractor works on your neck, back, and spine. How do chiropractors know where to adjust? How do they know just the right points to limit your pain? In this blog, we will discuss how our chiropractor with Elevate Wellness works to improve your mobility and knows what areas could be leading to your pain. Chiropractors do go through training and education to know how to safely adjust the spine, it is best not to try chiropractic techniques at home without the proper training. 

1- The Difference Between Adjustment And Cracking

When you crack or pop your joints at home, you are not fixing the problem. What happens when you hear a crack or pop is you pop a gas bubble in your joints. This only provides relief because it releases endorphins but it only moves your weakest joint. 

Although you may feel better for a minute or a couple of days, doing this consistently is not helping subluxations and can actually further damage your body. Cracking your back at home can lead to muscle strain, tears, stretched ligaments, or arthritis. This can make your pain worse or limit your motion even further. 

Chiropractors work to identify the subluxations that can lead to pain and will make adjustments that help the weak and stronger joints to work together. 

2- Patient Assessment And Manual Therapy

Chiropractors will speak with each patient about what they want help with and ask them questions about their posture, range of motion, and more. Answering these questions will help a chiropractor to know where misalignments are occurring and where to apply pressure when working with you. Chiropractors often adjust on symptoms and what they have learned from schooling or past experience.

Once they are ready to adjust, they use manual therapy which helps to move body joints and the spinal column into its proper order. Doing this and realigning the spine will help limit pain. Controlled pressure will help achieve this and you may hear some cracking or popping.

3- Utilizing X-Rays And Other Scans

Another tool used by chiropractors is x-rays, which can help them look for internal inflammation, bulging discs, scoliosis, or other issues that occur in the spine and bones. Using this tool will help them show you where your pain is originating from, and know where they need to focus to improve your range of motion. X-rays can also help them determine how long you may need to seek treatment and they may give you exercises to complete at home. 

Depending on what pain you experiencing or other issues you have, a chiropractor may order an MRI, CT scan, or other external tests to make sure that they can safely treat you. This will help them develop a plan for what areas need the most help and how to move forward.

Chiropractic Adjustment With Elevate Wellness

Elevate Wellness discusses your health history, does X-rays, and uses technology to make sure we make the right adjustments. Doing these steps will ensure that all adjustments and alignments are necessary and do not lead to further pain. We specialize in treating neuropathy, back pain, sports injuries, neck pain, whiplash, headaches, and more. 
Our chiropractor knows firsthand the benefits that can come from working with a properly trained chiropractor and now helps those in our community have better health. If you are looking to start chiropractic treatment, fill out our contact form here.

Seeing a chiropractor is more often than not, a long-term commitment to keep your body healthy. Some patients see a chiropractor for an injury, while others do it to relieve constant body pain. How do patients know when they are fully recovered and no longer need to seek treatment? When is the right time to cut back on appointments? Elevate Wellness wants our patients to know when their health has improved and how our care can help them throughout their lifetime. This blog will discuss different injuries and what the timeline for chiropractic care looks like for each. 

Weekly Or Monthly Chiropractic Appointments

Consistency is key with any health journey or something new if you want to see results. Weekly and monthly chiropractic sessions can help with the most painful conditions and help the most in the long term.

Waiting to seek treatment for pain will lead to body deterioration and the longer you wait to align your spine, the more pain you can experience. Feeling better physically and mentally is possible even just with a few chiropractic sessions. If you are looking to just feel better or improve your immune system, only a few appointments will be needed. 

Auto Injuries

Whiplash, broken bones or sore muscles from a car accident can be something that you are fully recovered from. Chiropractic care can help aid in the healing process and make your recovery process much simpler. Depending on what injury you have experienced, you may only need chiropractic adjustment once a week for a few months until you are fully recovered.

Herniated Discs

Patients with herniated discs can see improvement in 1 to 3 sessions every 2 to 4 weeks. Excruciating pain is going to be treated on a case-by-case basis and each person will need different techniques to help. 

Back Pain

80% of Americans experience back pain, so seeking medication or stretching for back pain is common. Lower back pain often is treated in 6 to 12 sessions during a 2 to 4-week cycle. After your symptoms have improved, chiropractors may suggest other exercises that you can complete outside of the chiropractic office and may limit the number of sessions you need on a weekly basis. Many patients may not ever consider themselves fully recovered from back pain, but learn to better manage the symptoms. 

Migraines

Chiropractic can help limit migraines and find relief without the need for medication. Each case will vary and some chiropractors will use stretching, massage, or a combination of multiple methods and holistic approaches. If you have genetic predispositions to headaches, you may need more chiropractic appointments. 

Stages Of Chiropractic Care

After an injury or consistent pain, your spine will need repetitive treatment in order to regain proper alignment. Below are the phases of chiropractic care and how they work to improve your body. 

Initial Intensive Care: Intensive care immediately addresses pain and symptoms. This requires frequent chiropractic sessions to help a patient find relief. Spinal adjustments can be combined with other exercises, diet changes, and lifestyle improvements. 

Rehabilitative Care: Acute symptoms will need to be reduced before you move into this phase. This is the phase where you will complete healing is possible and your body gains more strength. During the rehabilitative phase, lifestyle changes are even more important to maintain your health and progress. 

Wellness Care: This is more of an elective phase in the process and refers to when a patient is completely free of symptoms. Gaining progress during the other two phases is only maintained when you stay conscious about good health. 

Recovery With Elevate Wellness

Our team at Elevate Wellness looks forward to improving the health of the community. Improving your body and immune system can be accomplished with a chiropractic adjustment. No matter where you are on your health journey, we are here to help you accomplish your goals and work to make patients feel they are fully recovered.

Even if you don’t currently have symptoms, chiropractic can help you feel more energetic and improve your quality of life. Regular chiropractic care keeps your nervous system in check and helps you to live your best life, pain-free.