How Chiropractic Care Helps Keep You Healthy During Winter

How Chiropractic Care Helps Keep You Healthy During Winter

Winter is among the seasons when you can experience many health problems. From severely coughing to experiencing injuries from skiing, winter can take a heavy toll on you. But with all the setbacks you can get during the winter season, chiropractic care can improve the quality of your life and allow you to enjoy winter like any other season.

Body Stiffness and Joint Pain

Your body has an innate mechanism that shields you from adverse outside conditions. For example, as the temperature levels drop during winter, your body contracts its muscles in an attempt to keep you warm. Unfortunately, this muscle reaction causes a lot of stiffness and lack of flexibility, giving you so much discomfort and an increased risk for injuries.

Harsh weather conditions during the winter season can have adverse effects on the joints in the body. Extreme cold can cause pressure inside the fluids in your body and restrict their free flow. Due to this, your muscles contract and hinder flexibility.

Chiropractic care can help by adjusting your spine. Spinal adjustment relieves body stiffness and allows you to have your normal range of motions with ease.

Colds and Other Illnesses

Your chances of suffering from a cold or flu are high during winter. Most people get sick throughout winter because of the high prevalence of flu, stress, compromised immune systems, or sleep deprivation. Spinal adjustments done in chiropractic care help give your nervous system a boost, and in turn, empower your immune system to fight illnesses.

Seasonal Affective Disorder Symptoms

Changes in season can cause SAD — seasonal affective disorder. The common symptoms of this are:
 

• Sadness.
   

• Worthlessness and hopelessness.
   

• Irritability.
   

• Low or high appetite.
   

• Hypersomnia or insomnia.
   

• Restlessness.
   

• Fatigue.
   

• Suicidal thoughts.
   

• Lack of interest in hobbies or leisure activities.

SAD has no cure. However, chiropractic care can boost your nervous system by regulating your hormone production. Your spine is the principal communicator to your nervous system. Thus, spinal adjustment helps control your emotions, feelings, and thoughts.

Sports Injuries

Winter has fun sports activities like snowboarding and skiing. Such sports can increase your risk of injuries because of the high snow downpour, stiff muscles, and joints.

Chiropractic care can help realign and loosen up your body before you venture into the season’s activities. Your chiropractor can help minimize your chances of being prone to injuries during the season. If you sustain an injury during the season, chiropractic care is crucial to help you regain your coordination and body strength.

Stress Management 

No matter the season you are in, stress is a part of life. Winter is exciting when one is happy, healthy, and stress-free. Your muscles contract whenever you feel stressed. As a result, tension builds up in your neck, shoulders, back, and other muscle groups in your body. 

Muscle tension harms your nerves, ligaments, joints, tendons, and bones. Your chiropractor can administer chiropractic care by adjusting your spine. Spinal adjustment helps relieve pressure and gives immediate relief, freeing you both mentally and physically.

For more on getting chiropractic care during winter, visit Ogden Wellness Center at our office in Ogden, Utah. You can call (801) 406-3949 today to schedule an appointment.