Five reasons why you should use chiropractic for neck pain relief.

Do you have neck pain? Neck pain can be very disabling, and if you have neck pain, you know exactly how painful and interfering it can be in your day to day life. Dr. Lloyd, of The Joint Cottonwood Heights, has spent 15 years studying how the neck works, how it can interfere with other areas of the body, and how the patterns of pain radiating from the neck can occur.

So, you have neck pain? Does the pain restrict your neck movement? Is the pain radiating down your shoulder blades or arms? You need to cure it as fast as you can. Here are 5 reasons why chiropractic care should be your first stop for neck pain relief:

1. Chiropractors will do orthopedic and neurological tests to discover a specific diagnosis for you. If needed, we will order x-rays or MRI studies to look at the structure of your neck. With thorough detective work, we can narrow down what is the exact cause of the pain.
2. Chiropractic care is cost-effective. While physical therapy appointments or general practitioner appointments can run into $100 or more, an appointment at The Joint chiropractic clinics in Salt Lake City is only $29. Even better, your first visit is only $19. And if you anticipate more care, you can reduce the price even more. Sure a few ibuprofen pills are only pennies each, you still aren't getting the lasting biomechanical correction that chiropractic care offers.
3. Chiropractic care restores range of motion and reduces muscle spasms. If your neck pain is restricting your range of motion because your muscles are guarding so tightly, a chiropractic adjustment will help you stop the pain-spasm cycle and allow your body to relax the pain away. 
4. Your improved range of motion in your neck will help deliver more nutrients to the soft tissues in the joints in your neck. The discs and other structural parts of your neck are weight-bearing. Since they carry weight and other strong forces, they cannot have a network of blood vessels to supply nutrients. They soak up nutrients from the bone next to them like a sponge, and your body relies on movement for this to happen. When our adjustment restores movement to your spine, your body receives more of these nutrients, allowing you to heal naturally. 
5. Chiropractic care works with reflexes in your spinal cord and parts of the brain to inhibit pain and to provide more information about movement and balance. This is why you feel such pain relief when you get an adjustment. And this is why others experience collateral effects from their adjustments such as fewer and less intense headaches, better sense of balance, less TMJ (jaw) symptoms, and clearer thinking. Many of these effects are documented in the medical literature, like the time German researchers found that chiropractic care is the treatment of choice for "cervicogenic" dizziness.

How will you feel if you can restore the full articulation of all of the joints in your neck? What would it be like to have that sense of ease in your neck muscles? Will you get a better night's sleep? Will you be able to safely back your car out of a parking spot?

Or, will you choose to mask the symptoms with more ibuprofen? 

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The Joint Cottonwood Heights
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6910 S Highland Drive, #9
Salt Lake City, UT 84121