Function and health

by DocBill

It is well established from research that exercise improves health.  You find out your blood pressure is starting to go up and you start an exercise program and the blood pressure  comes back down.  Same with cholesterol.  Bone density improves with exercise.  I could go on.  As far as I have been able to find, ALL the measures we take of the human body improve with exercise. 

So, here is the conclusion health is a CONSEQUENCE of exercise.  Movement, function, exercise.  

Chiropractic is a movement based intervention.  When your mobility is reduced from problems with posture, sitting, small repetitive activities or injury, movement changes.  You can't have hunched shoulders and have normal neck mobility.  You can't have a swayed low back and not have mobility issues. You can't sit for hours and hours and expect to have healthy tissues.   EVERY tissue will deteriorate when mobility is altered.  Muscle, disc, ligament, cartilage, even bone are all going to deteriorate from altered movement.  You bend over one day or wake up with pain and wonder "what happened"?  You think in terms of "I didn't do anything."  You show up at my office, I check your posture and movement and find long standing changes.  Your x-rays show long term changes.  It is the straw that breaks the camel's back.  You are in pain now from a long standing problem. 

What do you want to do?  Take meds and hope the pain goes away?  Have surgery to cut the tissue that is degenerating?  How about get under a program of care to restore the altered movement?  Remember exercise and improved health?  When movement is restored, tissues heal.  Pain is  a signal that something is wrong.  The pain itself isn't the problem, the tissue that can no longer support a load is the problem.  

If this makes sense to you and you are ready to get moving, give me a call.

Dr. Bill Houghton, Chiropractor

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