When it comes to chiropractic, many people tend to utilize it as they would an urgent care facility—only when they actually start to feel pain. However, the truth of the matter is that chiropractic is focused more on maintaining the health and natural healing potential of the individual rather than just treating symptoms as they appear. Getting regular adjustments from the chiropractors at Greater Life Chiropractic is the best way to keep major aches and pains from appearing in the first place and to optimize the overall function of the body’s systems.

What Is Maintenance Care?

Just as a dentist will clean your teeth twice a year to help prevent cavities, a good chiropractor will recommend maintenance care year-round in order to keep your spinal health in check. Your adjustments will help you strengthen and heal your muscles, joints, and spine during these appointments so that they can properly execute your daily activities. The frequency of these visits is determined based on your individual needs.

What Are the Benefits?

Up until recently, chiropractic maintenance care was poorly understood by the medical community and the public at large. However, recent studies have shown that chiropractic care has notable benefits for those who attend regular appointments over an extended period of time.

Frequency of Visits

This may come as a surprise, but when comparing those who come in for regular maintenance care to those who only come in when they start experiencing pain, those who come in for maintenance care tend to only have one or two more visits under their belt per year in comparison.

This is because actively treating someone with a spinal issue will require more visits in a short span, while maintenance care tends to be more spread out. So while the maintenance care groups will go in more regularly, those who only come in for symptom care will have sporadic periods of very closely-grouped adjustments in order to correct pain-causing issues.

Less Pain

The research is in: maintenance care is proven to reduce the number of days spent dealing with lower back pain. Not only has it been proven that maintenance care can give you an average of 13 more pain-free days per year, but the pain and disability scores of those who kept up with maintenance care were lower overall compared to those only going in to treat symptoms.

With all this in mind, it’s no wonder why chiropractors in the know, such as Dr. Grant Lisetor, recommend maintenance care as part of a healthy lifestyle. If you’re in need of a Charlotte chiropractor, book an appointment with us today. Let us show you how regular care can improve your quality of life.

Sources

Axén, Iben, et al. “Chiropractic Maintenance Care – What’s New? A Systematic Review of The Literature” Chiropractic & Manual Therapies, vol. 27, no. 63, 2019. https://dx.doi.org/10.1186%2Fs12998-019-0283-6

Eklund, Andreas, et al. “The Nordic Maintenance Care Program: Effectiveness of Chiropractic Maintenance Care Versus Symptom-Guided Treatment for Recurrent and Persistent Low Back Pain—A Pragmatic Randomized Controlled Trial.” PLOS ONE 13.9 (2018): e0203029.https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0203029