Chiropractic Care and Its Effect On Your Sleeping Patterns

Sleep is an essential part of life. That is common knowledge. Saying so is equivalent to saying that the sky is blue, the ocean vast and water transparent. It is an irrefutable fact of life.

There is a reason for it. Most people may be aware of the fact that sleep is important for one’s health. But, the fact remains that they do not know the magnitude at which lack of adequate sleep affects the body’s ability to work.

Sleep revitalizes our brain and prepares us for the new day. In fact, it is the only reason we are able to function every day. The inability to achieve an adequate amount of sleep on a regular basis has extremely detrimental effects on one’s health. But that is not all. If your irregular sleeping patterns persist for a while, the probability of you suffering from one of the following increases, quite a lot:

• Depression
• Heart disease
• Decreased immunity
• Obesity
• Type 2 diabetes

What’s the Most Common Way People Are Dealing With Sleep Loss?

In this day and age, where keeping up with the pace of the world around you is more important than to get a good night’s rest, choosing work over sleep is inevitable. Now, while it is true that the only way to combat the detrimental effects of lack of adequate sleep is to regulate your sleep patterns, dealing with the issue that is keeping you awake in the first place is a good start. But, you should learn to put your mind at ease before you go to sleep every night in order for that to be effective,

Currently, millions of people around the world flock to the nearest pharmacies with doctors prescriptions containing names of hefty drugs that have the potential to knock them out cold with just one dosage. According to a study published in 2015, it was reported that Americans spent an estimated amount of $41 billion on sleeping aids alone. What’s worse is the fact that this figure has the potential to rise to a staggering $52 billion within the next 5 years [1]. This shows that the issue of achieving a good night’s sleep is prevalent for people, but they are still unclear on the ways to achieve it.

Chiropractic – Same Effect, Lesser Side Effects

Just like the various issues that ail an individual and keep a good night’s sleep at bay, there are various ways to ensure that you fall sleep and stay asleep throughout the night and reap the full benefits of your 7 hour sleep cycle. While people may fool themselves into believing that they are more than capable of functioning on anything less than 7 hours of sleep, rest assured that their lack of sleep will catch up with them sooner rather than later.

With that being said, one of the most recommended ways to deal with the issue of sleep loss without losing yourself in a pharmaceutical haze is chiropractic care. Not only is it being hailed a miraculous solution, but there is legitimate research being published about it constantly. A research of 221 chiropractic patients was conducted to see whether chiropractic care helped with sleep and a mind-blowing 98% reported that they were witnessing much better sleeping patterns [2]. Here’s how chiropractic care can help with your sleep.

Releasing Hormones

Chiropractic spinal adjustment can release some very specific sleep related hormones which help people sleep better. A person can improve their hormone chemistry by adjusting the misaligned areas of the spine. This also makes one capable of improving spine mobility and its coordination with the nervous system.

Realigning the Spine Helps Neurons

The copious amounts of neurons that lace the spinal cord not only protect the spinal cord from injury, but it also directs the functions of the nervous system. So, a newly fixed misaligned vertebra can not only fix your posture and help with your back issues, but it can also keep the transference of static type message transduction to other organs and tissues in the body. This transduction is primarily responsible for the release of sleep hormones that help an individual sleep soundly all night.

Treating Subluxations

Chiropractic care can also aid with the areas of interference within the spine. These areas are called the subluxations and are responsible for hindering the body’s way of communicating through hormones. Subluxations restrict the communication between the spine and the brain, thus crippling half of the communication in the body. This affects the potential within our body to communicate, perform all tasks at maximum capacity and even interfere with the natural healing process of the body. Thus, with the help of an in-house chiropractor, you can insure a good night’s sleep.

Treating Chronic Pains with Chiropractic

Sleep can be a huge problem if you’re facing some sort of chronic  pain. This is especially true in the case of patients with issues in their back. How can you possibly lie on the bed and sleep soundly when there’s a throbbing pain in your back? Chiropractic care can relieve most of those pains, or at least reduce their severity to the point where they’re bearable.

Closing Thoughts

The numbers are there, the research is there. There’s tons of evidence saying that chiropractic care helps with sleep and absolutely none that’s saying the opposite. So, we encourage everyone to at least try out a few sessions and see how the effects are almost instant…

[1] https://www.consumerreports.org/sleep/why-americans-cant-sleep/

[2] Jamison, JR. Insomnia: does chiropractic help? – J Manipulative Physiol Ther. 2005 (Mar-Apr); 28(3): 179-86