It’s been a hectic week and it would be great if the weekend was the cocooned haven you have been dreaming of all week… imagining yourself crawling into this beckoning sanctuary only to resurface all shiny, new and invigorated on Monday morning.  Ummm … no.  In all reality you have brought work home, you have homework with the kids, dinner to cook, school projects to build, dogs to walk and a spouse to fit in there somewhere.  And then it happens…

You can feel it tingling on the side of your mouth, but you choose to ignore it because if you pretend it’s not happening, it miraculously won’t.  You avoid the mirrors and hum a tune in your head to self-soothe as you unpack the dishwasher.

Spouses, bless them, have come to know the signs well as you try to hum your mounting stress and anxiety away.  They come in for a quick comforting peck but stop mid-pucker, horrified, but it’s too late to change course and pretend they haven’t noticed ‘it’.  Fever blister introduces itself rather nonchalantly.

In a world where stress ravages our immune system, assaults our senses and bombards us with poor food choices and limited physical activity options, is it no wonder that our health care system is being overburdened?

A visit to the doctor for medication, antibiotics, increasing health insurance premiums as one’s health declines leaves very little time and money for the things one should be focused on.

Exercise, quality dietary sources and Chiropractic are an incredible triangle of health to reflect upon, consider and implement.  Chiropractic not only helps keep the brain, nervous system, and body functioning at peak condition, but it also boosts the immune system.  How?

After understanding what Chiropractic can really do for the body, many patients have come to understand and value what regular maintenance visits with Chiropractic care gives them.

By correcting the areas of the spine that are under pressure and inflamed, the body has less repair work to do and therefore wastes less energy with constantly ‘fixing’ problems.  The less energy expenditure on this ever-mounting repair work, the more energy the body has.  The body can concentrate on keeping itself functioning at peak performance instead and this puts the immune system under less strain.  Less strain on a system = better functioning of a system.

Chiropractic facilitates the body and brain to better manage stress, boosting the immune system to fight infections, increasing mental engagement at work, and allowing for easier joint movement.  This plays a vital part in one’s mental and social well-being.

When the spine and nervous system are kept healthy, it equates to less time off work, more energy, sharper mental acuity, less physical pain and better overall wellness.  On a regular maintenance programme, in the long term, the monetary outlay of overall healthcare is unequivocally less.  Sounds like a great way to keep unnecessary visits to the GP at bay, don’t you think?

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Take care,
Dr Monica