Work, Family and Finances can Impact how we Feel and Cause Stress
Feeling stressed out? Welcome to America! It is not unusual
that outside our nation's capital and in my case specifically Germantown, MD
that people have a lot of stress. Everything from work, family, finances,
etc can have a huge impact on how we feel. And somehow this still shocks
people that this can affect their bodies.
You can go back over a decade and start to see articles, even in the
New England Journal of Medicine, find that a person's inability to adapt to
stress can cause physiologic changes that can be dangerous. Some of the changes
include higher blood pressure, increased blood sugar, increased cholesterol,
increase in the hormone Cortisol, and increased abdominal fat. As a
Chiropractor, I can feel that increased tension in your neck and upper back.
Each episode of stress can be over very quickly, or can become chronic.
Our responses are dependent upon our individual development, genetic
makeup, life experiences, and personal behaviors, such as diet, smoking,
drinking, and exercise. Typically when a stressful event occurs our
bodies respond, and then return to normal. Chronic stress is when our
bodies maintain their stressful state and does not return to normal.
Problems that can arise are insulin resistance, heart disease, memory
loss, immune system dysfunction, decreased bone density, and from my
perspective, misalignments of the vertebrae in your neck and back.
While chiropractic is not a treatment of diseases, it can help
with the misalignments in your spine. When a patient is "out of
whack", adjusting them can help normalize the motion of these individual
vertebrae, and in doing so help the associated muscle tightness, the physical
manifestation of the stress, begin to return to normal. And if you start
to feel physically better, don't you think that may be a small burden off your
mind.
To learn more about chiropractic health and wellness, please visit our website at www.cramerchiropracticrehab.com.
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