Overview
Our world is stressful and each and every one of us experience it every day. The pressures of job, family, finances, relationships, guilt and grief are just the start. Now, we are even more connected than ever on a worldwide level, hearing about things that are occurring half a world away. With advancements in technology, such as new web services such as Twitter and instant push notifications on our mobile devices we get instant notifications of worldwide events. This causes even more stress in our everyday lives!
Common Causes for Stress and Its Effect on Your Health
Stress of any kind affects our bodies and leads to health issues. Stress is when pressure is put on something else, such as in the engineering world it might be when one bridge truss puts stress on another. In our body, it’s when one part of the body is affecting another part. When our blood pressure rises or when our muscles tighten up, we are not just putting additional pressure on the organs involved, but we putting additional pressure on our nervous system. Forty-three percent of adults suffer from adverse health effects from stress, including headaches, upset stomach, back pain, trouble sleeping, and a weakening of the immune system. Stress triggers a systemic physical reaction in our bodies. We react to the stress of dodging a speeding car and dealing with our debt with the same physical reactions.
Stress Treatment
The medical world treats stress by treating the symptoms, but not the cause of those symptoms. They prescribe mood altering or psychotropic drugs that keep your mind from perceiving the stress and then letting that affect your body. At the same time, other drugs are prescribed that would lessen the effects of the stress that does get through. Blood thinners, blood pressure medications, sleeping aids and anti-inflammatories are then prescribed. Each of these drugs alone has its own side effects. Together there are even more dangerous side effects that come along.
Chiropractic Treatment for Stress
The Maximized Living approach does not just cover up the symptoms but helps you to treat the causes of the stress in your body. We cannot make work, family, and your environment less stressful, but we can provide treatment that provides a healthy response to stress. Uneven muscle tension causes nerve stress and nerve stress causes additional muscle tension. By removing the nerve stress, we help to heal the muscle tension that is one of the noticeable physical effects of stress. At the same time, the reduction of nerve interference helps to your body to break the chain from the systemic physical stress reaction of stress and start promoting healing. Using modern technology to scan your spine and nervous system to check for diminished nerve supply we remove those stresses, which then allow your body to heal at 100%. The Maximized Living approach also provides advanced workshops to teach you how to fuel your body, how to remove biotoxins, and customized nutrition that move your body back from dis-ease to health.
This article was written by Dr. Phillip Barnwell.
