How Often Should You See a Chiropractor?
How Often Should You See a Chiropractor?
Chiropractors are medical professionals who work to help reduce a patient’s physical pain by making adjustments through ‘spinal manipulation’. This means that they help reduce pain in soft tissues and muscles, and can help conditions such as chronic back pain or neck pain, pinched nerves and arthritis. Chiropractors are not doctors in the traditional sense – they do not give scientific medical advice – but they provide treatment plans to help relieve tension across the neuromusculoskeletal system.
Chiropractors conduct spinal manipulation by exerting a significant force into a spinal joint, either with their hands or with an instrument. Despite the force used, chiropractors are trained professionals who know how to deliver treatment painlessly! Once the spine is back in its proper alignment, any pain felt by the patient should reduce gradually over time.
How often should I get spinal adjustment from a chiropractor?
Patients often begin seeing a chiropractor for one of two reasons. Firstly, they could be suffering from acute pain as a result of an injury such as a car crash. This would usually result in multiple appointments per week following an initial consultation to create a treatment plan. Alternatively, people might visit a chiropractor after suffering chronic back or neck pain for some time. Headaches are another reason to visit. Sufferers of chronic pain could expect to start seeing a chiropractor on a weekly basis to begin with.
After the initial treatment has begun to lessen the pain felt by the patient, chiropractic appointments could be reduced to a monthly or even yearly schedule. Sticking to the treatment plan outlined by your chiropractor significantly lowers the chance of re-injury or recurrence of chronic pain.
Regularly visiting your chiropractor is a great way to keep your body in top condition, and fight any pain before it has a chance to become a chronic condition. Athletes and sportspeople should consider visiting a chiropractor slightly more often to ensure peak physical performance. Just remember to keep your appointments spaced out enough to give your body a chance to recover between treatments.
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