Relieving Arthritis Symptoms With Chiropractic Treatment

Relieving Arthritis Symptoms With Chiropractic Treatment

Arthritis or joint inflammation can be crippling. It can affect your daily activities and keep you from doing what you love. Although you can treat the condition with medication, it is preferable to use chiropractic treatment. It has numerous benefits for your health and well-being. These include the following:

Reduce Inflammation

Chiropractic care aligns the function of your joints and spine through manipulations and adjustments. These help reduce the buildup of protein that triggers your immune system, causing inflammation. 

However, your chiropractor may find an infection in your system contributing to the inflammation. They will prescribe medication for you to deal with this before getting any chiropractic adjustments or manipulation.

Relieve Joint Pain

Improvement of overall joint function through chiropractic care helps deal with joint pain. Research shows that patients who get chiropractic care twice every week for six weeks experience significant relief. The stretches and therapy help realign your joints and remove any blockages. However, the results may depend on the severity of your situation. 

As the chiropractor treats you, they will determine whether your pain is due to inflammation or movements. Sometimes, you may adapt these movements to compensate for inflammation, or they may be due to habit. When you get chiropractic adjustments, they deal with these mechanical issues. It restores function to your body and joints.

Improve Flexibility

Moving your feet or legs when you have arthritis is difficult due to the stiffness. Once the chiropractor deals with the pain and inflammation, they can recommend treatment for the stiffness. 

They will use therapy and exercises to restore flexibility to your joints. They will also teach you stretches that you can perform at home. These will help bring relief and continue to improve flexibility.

Increase Range of Motion

Chiropractic care will not only reduce inflammation and pain or improve flexibility. It will also broaden your range of motion. Your chiropractor will work with you step-by-step to achieve this. Increasing your range of motion will ensure you do not get hurt as you conduct your daily activities. It will also deal with pain, inflammation, and stiffness. However, keep up with the treatments, exercises, and stretches. These are key to keeping the symptoms at bay.

No Medication

Chiropractors have several ways of working out joint problems without medication. These include:

• Joint mobilization

• Ultrasound

• Massages and stretches

• Heat or cold therapy

• Transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation (TENS) therapy

• Low-level or cold laser

• Infrared sauna

The joint mobilization, massages, and stretches are more traditional hands-on therapy under adjustments and manipulation. However, the other treatments involve the use of machines and technology to bring relief to pain, inflammation, and stiffness. 

Therapies like ultrasound use sound waves that penetrate your joints and produce a massaging effect. It reduces swelling and stiffness. TENS delivers mild electrical pulses to your nerves and muscles. They treat soft tissue injuries that may cause joint inflammation. Cold laser therapy uses light to reduce inflammation, while infrared sauna uses controlled heat.

For more information on relieving arthritis symptoms, visit Ogden Wellness Center at our office in Ogden, Utah. Call (801) 406-3949 to book an appointment today.