It’s a new year and that means everyone is striving to better themselves. New Year’s resolutions are renowned for being great goals – but goals that are often abandoned before January is even over. This is because many people make big goals that are daunting when not broken down into smaller, more easily achievable steps that add up in order to eventually reach the ultimate goal. You can achieve your New Year’s resolutions with chiropractic care’s aid. How so? Doesn’t chiropractic care just help your spine and with joint issues? How can it help you achieve your New Year’s resolutions when more likely than not “keep my spine in alignment” isn’t one of them?

You can reach your New Year’s resolutions with chiropractic care because chiropractors are good for more than fixing alignment problems. Plus, misalignment can interfere with your goals, making them harder to achieve. Here’s what you need to know about how you can reach your New Year’s resolutions with chiropractic care.

Weight Loss

One of the most common New Year’s resolutions in the United States is weight loss. Many people want to lose weight, whether it be just a few pounds or a more significant amount. If that’s one of your resolutions, chiropractors can advise you on treatment plans for the kind of nutrition and exercise that can get you going on the right path. Additionally, there are so many issues that can prevent or simply complicate weight loss. 

If you suffer from back pain, this is often from problems around your spine, which chiropractors can resolve. This will make it easier to maintain good posture and to exercise, leading to an increase in mobility and flexibility, which will make the movement portion of the process of weight loss far less strenuous on your body. Plus, if weight loss is among your New Year’s resolutions, with chiropractic care, adjustments can help to reduce adipose tissue which also assists with making you look more toned.

Improving Fitness Levels

Gym memberships spike at the start of the year because everyone wants to lose weight, get in better shape, or both. Exercise is hard if your body is stiff and in pain though, and many people injure themselves when they don’t take proper precautions when exercising, through stretching and checking to ensure that they are doing exercises correctly and not pushing themselves too hard. Is improving your fitness levels one of your resolutions? You can help reach this, and other New Year’s resolutions through regular chiropractic adjustments. 

There’s a reason why so many athletes see chiropractors, after all, and that’s because through keeping your body in alignment, it makes it easier to stick to your fitness goals, because your body isn’t as stiff or in pain. If you suffer any injuries, this greatly impacts your ability to get back to the gym. Chiropractors can help with sports injuries too, with a variety of treatment methods. By adding in chiropractic visits, you can help yourself reach your fitness goals by taking care of your body. 

Improving Overall Health And Happiness

We all want to be healthier and happier, especially when fast food is the norm and depression and other mental health issues have become so prevalent that people wearily joke about them and just accept them as something they have to deal with. Ergo, trying to be healthier and happier is quite a common resolution. Meeting these New Year’s resolutions with chiropractic care may seem strange, but your nervous system is located in your spine, and if there are problems affecting it? That will surely impact your health, for the worse.

Plus, if you’re in pain or struggling to move, your mental health will likely take a beating. Through regular chiropractic visits, you can help your overall happiness by ensuring that you are having issues that could be contributing to poor mental health treated. Improving health and happiness are made more achievable New Year’s resolutions with chiropractic care.

Saving Money

Huh? How does paying for an extra service save you money? With the dawn of the new year, many people resolve to save money and be more fiscally responsible, but achieving these New Year’s resolutions with chiropractic care that you have to pay for? The fact of the matter is that chiropractic care can catch and treat smaller problems before they have the chance to become more serious issues that you need to see a medical professional for. And with how expensive medicine and doctor’s visits and treatments are in the United States? 

Prevention is the name of the game in order to save you money on medical expenses – and regular chiropractic visits certainly help keep your body in better condition, helping it be more resilient to potential problems. And if you have issues like back pain or sprains or the like, chiropractors can get to the root of the problem and help you both feel better and equip you with the knowledge to prevent these issues from springing up again. If saving money and being more financially responsible are among your goals, you’ll be better equipped to achieve these New Year’s resolutions with chiropractic care. 

Let Us Help You Achieve Your New Year’s Resolutions With Chiropractic Care

Carlile Chiropractic knows exactly how beneficial chiropractic care is for your overall health and happiness. We offer a number of different chiropractic treatments, and with our expertly trained professionals, you can rest assured that we can help you reach your New Year’s resolutions with chiropractic care. Do you want to make them more attainable? Contact us today to schedule your first chiropractic appointment! 

With the arrival of winter also comes excitement for those who participate in winter sports from skiing to snowboarding to ice skating and more. Every sports season comes with injuries, though, so you want to ensure that you are taking the necessary precautions in order to protect yourself from winter sport injuries. Here are some of the ways you can keep yourself healthy and safe all winter long. 

Wear Appropriate Gear

Ill-fitting gear can result in winter sport injuries because if it doesn’t fit properly or function as it should, you can end up with avoidable injuries, like slipping and falling because your boot is too big. You want to ensure that you have the right gear for your sport of choice, like goggles, knee pads, helmets, padding – whatever your sport may require in order for you to stay safe.

Stay Hydrated

A hydrated body is a healthy body, so you want to make sure that you’re drinking enough water before, during, and after your exercise. 

Warm Up Properly

Many winter sport injuries occur when people don’t warm up beforehand. You need to warm up your muscles so that they can do whatever you ask of them more easily. If you try to exercise with cold, tight muscles, this puts you at higher risk for strains and injury.

Conditioning

Winter sports often involve a lot of strength, endurance, and conditioning. Set yourself up for success by conditioning your body before you hit the slopes with exercises like squats and skaters that will help you have the mobility, agility, and strength you need in order to perform.

Check Your Equipment

Before stepping out onto an ice rink or heading up the mountain, check your equipment to make sure that everything is in good working order. A dull blade on an ice skate or a malfunctioning piece of equipment can result in winter sport injuries. You only ever want to do a sport if you have the right equipment and if said equipment is in good condition, in order to ensure your safety.

Watch For Debris

Trees are a common obstacle for those more advanced skiers and snowboarders, and those, as well as other obstacles, can present problems for sledders too. Do your best to avoid debris and obstacles in order to avoid winter sport injuries and a trip to the emergency room.

Watch How You Fall

Often when you start learning sports with a high chance of you falling, like everything with snow or ice, your instructor will show you how to fall in order to reduce your risk of winter sport injuries. This is typically back on your butt, in order to avoid the force of your body weight coming down on your wrists and hurting them.

Common Winter Sport Injuries

Sometimes, no matter how careful you are, you can still get hurt. Chiropractors can help with many common winter sports injuries, such as:

• Wrist injury
• Knee Injury
• Concussion
• Sprains
• Spinal Injury
• Neck Injury
• Dislocation

How Chiropractors Can Help Winter Sport Injuries

While sometimes, you need a doctor in order to treat injuries, there are some cases in which chiropractors can offer alternative care that could lessen your risk of needing surgery. We’re no stranger to the influx of injuries winter brings with it, and are trained in order to be able to help winter sport injuries, especially those related to the spine or the joints. Some of the ways we can do that include adjustments and spinal manipulation. 

Adjustments

If you sprain something or hurt your neck or some other area of your body, resulting in soreness, spasms, or inflammation, chiropractic adjustments may be able to help. Through adjusting your joints, we can help reduce inflammation and promote your body’s natural healing process to assist with any soreness and spasms.

Spinal Manipulation

Falls can throw your back or neck out, as can poor posture when you’re exercising. Chiropractors can perform spinal manipulations to shift your spine back into alignment, which can also help with any back or neck pain that you may be experiencing. 

Do You Need Chiropractic Help With Winter Sport Injuries?

Carlile Chiropractic understands the excitement the onset of winter brings for those who participate in winter sports. We want to help you stay healthy and strong, so you can enjoy them as long as you can before winter turns to spring and you have to wait another year to be able to do them again. For more advice on preventing winter sport injuries or for any questions about our chiropractic care, please contact us at Carlile Chiropractic today!

Headaches are one of the most common types of pain people experience. Headaches can range from a mild ache to a severe throbbing pain that is impossible to think with. Some people only experience headaches every once in a while, like if they are particularly stressed one day, while for others, headaches are frequent pain they are plagued with. Luckily, if you suffer from headaches, there’s a multitude of treatment options available to you, one of which being a chiropractor.

What Causes Headaches?

There are many potential causes for headaches ranging from a simple lifestyle factor like how much sleep you got last night to serious illness. It’s good to see a doctor if you experience frequent headaches so that they can determine the cause and an appropriate treatment method. In some causes, headaches can be treated through lifestyle changes, but in the event that they are a result of a serious problem, you’ll likely need more serious treatment.

What causes a headache varies based on the kind of headache that it is. Headaches are generally divided into categories based on their cause: primary and secondary. 

Primary Headaches

Primary headaches are the ones that are most common and that you generally don’t have to worry about, aside from how to get rid of the pain. These headaches stem from overactivity of or problems with the pain-sensitive structures of your head.

Primary headaches can be caused by stress, alcohol, your diet, sleep deprivation, your posture, and more. Some people are more predisposed to develop headaches based on their genetics, and in these cases or others, may suffer from chronic headaches.

Some of the most common types of primary headaches include: migraines, tension headaches, cluster headaches, exercise headaches, sex headaches, and chronic daily headaches, amongst others. 

Secondary Headaches

These are the more serious types of headaches which generally are a symptom of a much worse problem under the surface, although that is not always the case. These are typically the result of a condition activating the pain-sensitive structures in your head.

Secondary headaches can be caused by: blood clots, brain aneurysms, tumors, concussions, glaucoma, strokes, hangovers, panic disorders, a side effect of medications, and more. 

Some of the most common types of secondary headaches include: sinus headaches, brain freezes, external compression headaches, spinal headaches, thunderclap headaches, and more. 

Treatment Methods

How your headaches are treated may depend on the cause of them. If you have a more serious headache, a medical professional can treat it by treating the condition that causes it. For example, if you have a tumor, treating the tumor will likely treat the headache too. If you have a less serious headache, these can typically be treated in a number of different ways ranging from addressing your lifestyle to various types of therapies and massages, such as what chiropractors can provide.

If the root of your headaches is from food, adjusting your diet can treat it. Alcohol, caffeinated beverages, cheeses, processed foods, and more are all foods that can induce headaches, especially if consumed in excess. Skipped meals can also result in headaches, so it’s important to try to feed your body when it asks for food, and feed it in a good, healthy way.

Stress can also result in headaches due to the increased tension in your body. Both working to address the stress factor and to decrease tension can help with these headaches.

In the case that your headaches result as a side effect from a medication, you may consider consulting with your doctor about other potential options for you. 

Chiropractors can help you uncover the cause of your headaches as well as provide treatment. Here’s what you need to know about how chiropractors can treat headaches. 

How Chiropractors Help

Chiropractors will work with you to uncover the root cause of your headaches. Chiropractic treatment is aimed at restoring function and mobility to your body and nervous system, which can be very effective for relieving pain. Some of the ways that chiropractors can treat headaches include:

Spinal Manipulation

In many cases, irritated nerves can cause headaches. When a chiropractor manipulates your spine, they relieve the pressure. 

Spinal Mobilization

Spinal mobilization works to stretch your spine, which can do wonders for relieving tension as well as any pressure on your nervous system, both of which can help. 

Massage

If you suffer from frequent headaches, especially if it is from stress or tension, massages can do wonders to relax the muscles of your head and neck, providing relaxation, reducing stress, and easing the tension in your head. 

Do You Need Help With Headaches?

As you see, there are a number of ways that chiropractors can help. Carlile Chiropractic can help you find relief through our expert chiropractic adjustments and techniques. If you have any questions or would like to schedule a consultation, please contact us at Carlile Chiropractic today!