When it comes to chiropractic care, there is often a lot of misinformation and confusion surrounding the benefits, treatments, and expected outcomes. So, what should you know about chiropractic care? Working with the right team can make all the difference in your attitude toward all future visits. Your provider will have a large influence on whether you leave with a better understanding of the value chiropractic care can add to your life, or if you leave never wanting another adjustment again. While there are many variables involved in receiving the best care, working with the RxWellness Spine & Health Rockville team can relieve some of your hesitation.
What should you know about chiropractic care?
The most important thing that you need to understand about chiropractic care is that it is holistic and noninvasive. Chiropractors practice the philosophy that under the right circumstances, the body has everything it needs to heal itself. Problems arise when complications like subluxations, injuries, tight muscle groups, or just wear from aging interfere with the body’s optimal communication network and reduce its ability to efficiently communicate. The goal of a chiropractor is to remove, relieve, or lessen those interferences and help recreate that ideal environment for the body to freely function. When you work with a chiropractor they can improve joint Alignment, neural communication, long-term health, and are also a great source of preventative care. 
Joint Alignment
Your joints fit together like puzzle pieces and are designed to move in a very specific way. Repetitive stress, injury, misalignment, and tight muscles can affect the positioning or the alignment of those joints; and when the joints are not in their correct position, it can make movement difficult, restrictive, and oftentimes painful. Chiropractors utilize adjustments, which are gentle techniques designed to correct misalignment, as a way to treat joint misalignment and pain. Regular adjustments can also reduce inflammation surrounding the joints and improve your range of motion. Chiropractic care is also very gentle, relaxing, and non-invasive.
Improves Neural Communication
When you work with the RxWellness integrative medical team, we utilize spinal adjustments to improve nervous system communication. Spinal adjustments are designed to reduce pressure off the neural system pathways that may be interfering with neural signals and contributing to pain. The goal of chiropractic care is to create optimal nerve system communication by reducing interferences like subluxations, inflammation, and tight muscles. 
Improve Long-term Health
Regular chiropractic adjustments can effectively improve long-term wellness and promote a healthier lifestyle. The joints are designed to move together in a very specific way, and any deviation from that design will reduce their efficiency, increase the rate of wear, and possibly contribute to chronic pain. Regular spinal adjustments are a great way to correct any misalignment and help the spine/joint move together in the most efficient way. When the joints and spine are in their correct alignment this will prevent them from applying pressure on nearby nerves or pulling on surrounding muscles.
Great Source of Preventative Care
One of the major benefits of routine spinal adjustments is their effect on long-term joint health. Regular adjustments keep the joints operating at their optimal levels and can improve the range of motion, reduce inflammation, and increase flexibility. This puts the joints in a better position to handle the various obstacles present in life. For example, as we age our joints naturally wear, but misalignment can cause them to wear at a faster or uneven rate. If the issue is not corrected, simple tasks like climbing the stairs become difficult sooner than they should, and something as simple as a misstep off a sidewalk can sprain the ankles. Regular adjustments keep the joints limber and movable, which is the most important characteristic in preventable care. Joints that are stiff and have limited mobility have a higher risk of injury.
RxWellness Spine & Health
When you work with the RxWellness Spine & Health integrated medical team, we will work hard to provide you with the best care possible. Our goal is to help you better understand chiropractic care and the positive impacts it can have on your overall wellness. Your doctor can add the most value to your health by helping you become more aware of bad habits that influence your health and then teaching you how to correct them. When you work with the RxWellness Spine & Health care team, we will help you become more aware of your body and how to make the best decisions for long-term wellness.
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So, what should you know about chiropractic care? The most important thing you should understand about chiropractic care is that the goal is to help your body become more efficient at completing its natural processes. Chiropractic care does not try to change or alter, it merely tries to correct. When you work with the RxWellness Spine & Health team, we will work hard to help you better understand your care options as well as what to expect from chiropractic care in the short and long term. If you have any questions, please give us a call at (240) 556-5721 or book a consultation online. We are located at 15001 Shady Grove Rd Suite 140, Rockville, MD 20850.