While there’s a general perception that chiropractic treatments are primarily for back pain, this is really just a happy coincidence. While chiropractic adjustments often provide fast relief for many types of back pain, this was never a direct target of the discipline.
Dr. Heath Hancock of Hancock Chiropractic in Salina, Kansas, doesn’t set out to heal specific medical conditions. Instead, Dr. Hancock focuses on bringing your body back into balance. Life and living cause tiny misalignments called subluxations that interfere with the efficiency of systems like blood vessels and nerve tissue.
Restoring balance to your musculoskeletal system allows your body's natural healing abilities to work effectively. Chiropractic care is a means to a natural recovery end.
With your back pain in mind, you may visit us first, but you may soon find other positive effects emerging. Are you sleeping better? Many patients say goodnight to insomnia with chiropractic treatment.
When you think of the things that keep you awake at night, it may sometimes seem like a miracle that you can sleep. Staying in a strange place, minor aches and pains, tension, and much more can keep you from getting the rest you need.
Consider that these are minor grievances. When you’re dealing with chronic pain or serial stress, your sleep patterns may be dysfunctional at the best of times.
Restoring efficiency to the body’s natural healing has a second-hand positive effect on insomnia. Just as you might prepare your bedroom to become a restful sleep chamber, chiropractic care prepares your body for truly restful sleep. Here’s how.
Think of a subluxation as a partial dislocation. You may still be able to move a joint, but it may not feel right. The bones of a joint experiencing subluxation don’t fit together in a balanced and even way.
This cascades through the soft tissues that support your bones. Ligaments, muscles, and tendons all come under tension as they try to compensate for the misalignments. Instead of fully relaxing, muscles stay partially contracted, and ligaments and tendons remain stretched.
This leads to irritation and inflammation of soft tissues, resulting in aches and pains. Blood vessels and nerve tissue can be compressed by these dislocations, compromising healing since blood carries the raw materials of natural body repair, creating pain and weakness as nerves no longer work freely.
Correcting subluxations aligns your body's framework to its optimal balance. Think of how much better you sleep when an adjustment eases your back pain. Removing musculoskeletal tension is part of the process, and it provides benefits all over your body.
Releasing nerves and balancing joints reduces the load on your nervous system. Correcting your posture, balancing your body, and simply relaxing is easier. When you consider the importance of relaxing before sleep, this is a big and obvious advantage.
The pressures of living aren’t limited to emotional and mental effects. Your body produces a hormonal reaction in response to stress, releasing cortisol, a chemical that’s beneficial for short-term fight-or-flight responses.
However, these chemical changes take a toll on your body when stress becomes chronic. Cortisol is another by-product of musculoskeletal tension that chiropractic care relieves.
Taking pain medications, muscle relaxants, or sleep aids can themselves introduce side effects that contribute to insomnia. Replacing drug-based therapies with all-natural chiropractic care minimizes the chance for medications to interfere.
Contact Hancock Chiropractic to find out more about chiropractic treatment for insomnia. You can also book an appointment online or by phone with our Salina, Kansas office today.
