A Few Tips to Help With Achy Joints

Joint pain is one of the top complaints across America. There are many different causes of joint pain, and it can occur in so many parts of the body that patients often feel their joints are the main issue they face. This may or may not be the case! Joint pain is often caused by joint inflammation. Inflammation in any part of the body is a natural and helpful immune response. Your body senses an injury or what it classifies as a threat and ‘puffs up’ to protect itself. However, often the underlying issue isn’t in the joint itself at all, but actually in the spine. Vertebral subluxations are misalignments in the vertebrae of the spine that hinder your brain from communicating properly with the rest of the body. These communication errors often lead to extra stress being placed on joints such as knees, wrists, and ankles, causing our body to send out its immune response-inflammation. A classic example of this is osteoarthritis, but it can result in rheumatoid arthritis as well.

THE ROLE DIET PLAYS

In addition to vertebral subluxations leading to inflamed joints and causing pain, certain types of food can do the same. This month our office wants to help patients focus on dietary health and wellness alongside chiropractic care. Keep your eyes and ears peeled for more information on this, but for now here are some key foods that cause inflammation throughout the body, particularly in joints: processed sugar, trans fats, refined flour, gluten, and alcohol are all major issues for our bodies, but most likely they exist in your everyday diet to some degree. Working to eat more whole/real foods and steering clear of processed food is an excellent place to start to lower your bodies immune response and fight joint pain.

CHIROPRACTIC RESULTS

Pairing good nutrition with chiropractic care can lessen and eliminate joint pain altogether! As Dr. Dickason works to identify and correct vertebral subluxations through chiropractic adjustments patients find themselves with less stress on the wrong parts of their bodies and with less inflammation in those sensitive joint areas! Come see us today to get your joints moving as freely and fully as they are designed to and get yourself back on the road to living life to your fullest potential!