Get The Most Out of Your Adjustments

January 13, 2020 Posted in: CHIROPRACTIC

Relax

When getting adjusted the more relaxed you are during, the better your body is able to move because of the lack of resistance. The better your body moves, the greater the effect of the adjustment. One point of the adjustment is to induce or restore motion. Another point of the adjustment is to stimulate proprioceptors in the joints. Proprioceptors are sensory receptors that receive stimuli from within the body that responds to position and movement. Motion and stimulation of the proprioceptors of the joint occur with greater ease when the one receiving the adjustment is relaxed.

Get into your own routine of taking a few breaths and turn your palms facing up (this will drop your shoulders and you’ll stop unknowingly resisting). Lastly, simply rest and try to be present in the moment. Finding your own practice here can turn these few minutes into a few moments of respite during your day. That, in and of itself, can be deeply healing.

Engage

Talk with your chiropractor. Ask questions, be curious as to how you can promote health and longevity with certain practices in your daily life. Let them know what is going on with your health and ask if there are additional things you can add to your routine to boost the effects of the adjustments and mitigate the stress of your daily life. Then listen, truly listen, to the doctor’s response. Then go home and apply the recommendations. Optimal health is a journey and it requires active participation. Continuing the same patterns and behaviors that have not served you well this far in life aren’t going to create a new result no matter how often you get adjusted. So engage with your chiropractor to learn new patterns and behaviors that will serve you well.

Best patient practices are like playing a competitive sport: show up to the game having practiced with regularity, have an attitude of wanting to be present, be willing to do the work, and then actively engaging and correcting your course as needed. Chiropractors want to help you live your best life. Your body has an amazing ability to help you carry that out. But in order to do that, you need to support your body in the process. Stop into Adelaide Clinic and let Dr Nicholls help you help yourself in the journey.