Relieve Stress with Chiropractic

There has been plenty of things to stress about this year and even though stress is a normal part of life, it isn’t something to ignore. Today is Stress Awareness Day, so it’s the perfect time to learn how chiropractic can help manage stress. Here’s what you need to know.

Stress and Your Body

Stress can have a negative effect on your health, both physically and emotionally. From irritability and lack of focus to sleep problems and headaches, stress is something to pay attention to. One organ that stress is particularly tough on is your heart. Your heart rate is one way to determine how healthy your nervous system is and how much stress your body is under, specifically heart rate variability.

Heart rate variability is, simply put, a measure of the variation in time between each heartbeat. It is the balance between the fight or flight response of your sympathetic nervous system and parasympathetic nervous system.

Chiropractic has been found to have a positive impact on both heart rate and heart rate variability. If you’ve been following our blog, you know chiropractic does so much more than treat neck and back pain. With chiropractic care, your health and wellness can improve as a whole and will help your body deal with stress more effectively.

Chiropractic and Stress Management

Chiropractic care takes on a whole-body approach to health and promotes the body’s natural body to heal itself. With regular adjustments, chiropractic can help give your body the opportunity to heal from the stress you experience.

One way that stress physically manifests itself is through muscle tension. Muscle tension can eventually cause decreased health and function of your spine and central nervous system (CNS)> When your CNS isn’t functioning optimally, then neither can the rest of your body. By helping to treat muscle tension due to stress, the chiropractors at Williamsburg Chiropractic can help to improve the health of your entire body. When you feel better physically, you will be better able to handle stress that comes your way.

If you deal with stress, you don’t have to just suffer through it. To learn more about how chiropractic can help with stress management, click here to contact your local Brooklyn chiropractor.