Our modern lifestyles demand commitment during every single moment. This means whether intentionally or not, you’d be spending most of your time working on something or being social. The constant work vs. play aesthetic looks great from the outside but, has a lot of pitfalls when viewed from the arena of health. Long term activities where you can’t regulate how you’re using your muscles creates fatigue and makes you become much weaker than when you started. At first, this is just tiredness washed away by workouts and some good stretches, but, with a prolonged effort to hold the same posture and be productive, you can easily end up with chronic pain and other issues. Chiropractors offset this pain by using a variety of techniques to help relieve the stress in and around your muscles so, that you gain your old sense and range of movements and can work optimally for longer hours without any problems.
Modern lifestyles demand that we work almost 24/7 at one thing or the other, and it never relents in seeking for the perfect workmate. This is where the techniques like ART employed by Chiropractors come in, Active Release Technique (ART) restores blood flow and treats muscle pain when you can’t function optimally because of your lifestyle constraints. These are a few reasons why you need a chiropractor.
1. To help alleviate chronic pain
Chronic exposure to stress for any one muscle group can dramatically alter its shape and functionality. Over a mere period of weeks, it might start showing signs of fatigue and cause pains. Over a period of years, as is usual in our daily lives, it easily complicates and leads to chronic pain. The technique of ART was developed by a sports doctor to deal with problems like Carpal Tunnel. When it came to translating the technique to daily life it became much different. However, the principle of the technique, that is the fact that it stretched out and relaxed overused muscle groups so that people could function optimally over time remained.
The chiropractor helps you identify groups of muscles which are exhibiting pain and the groups which are likely to show these signs in the future. After identifying, they selectively target these muscle groups so, that they can be revascularized and the pain can be alleviated over the period of some sessions.
2. To help restore movement
Long term fatigue not only causes pain, but it also restricts the functionality of individual groups of muscles restricting them and affecting your ability to move. Over years these restrictions can lead to more restrictions and finally serious problems that have to be eased out through years of physiotherapy and other medicines. Some people have to deal with regular pain medication intake just to get through the problematic muscle groups and try to live a better life. This is where a chiropractor comes in, they help restore a greater degree of movement into these muscle groups by stretching them and helping them to function without the usual limitations.
3. To help you work better
Look, not all of us can move up and about and change our lifestyles in a matter of days. Chiropractors help us do exactly that without causing undue stress in our day-to-day lives. Yes, the first few sessions are usually painful. These are sessions dedicated to finding out groups of muscles of yours which are the most affected by overuse and fatigue and are more likely to be causing chronic pain over the weeks.
After that, the sessions are dedicated to helping you manage better. The chiropractor is much like your therapist in this way, they not only help you alleviate the immediate problem areas but, also help in creating a space where you can live your best lives without worrying about the pain recurring.
