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If like me you began your new year with a promise to yourself to get healthy and move more but niggling little pains seem to thwart your every plan, then a visit to the chiropractor might be the answer to help get your body in tip-top shape before you begin new movements.
According to Michael Sexton from Sexton Chiropractic in Carlton you should start early with chiropractic visits to look after the wellbeing of your body. In fact, you should start having your spine checked regularly from childhood.
The journey to wellness should start from the moment you are born and continue throughout your life. Sexton says in his practice he sees 2-day-old babies and 95-year-old grandmothers.
“The highest priority in our practice is to treat children. Making sure they grow with a healthy, balanced spine,” says Sexton.
“Minor imbalances in the position or movement patterns of spinal bones may cause few obvious symptoms in children, yet these subluxations may have a significant impact on nerve function and therefore health ... both now and in the future.
“Children with healthy spines are healthier children.”
Sexton recommends that babies should have their spines checked after birth whether they are healthy or not. He says that many conditions of infants respond very well to chiropractic care. Colic, irritability, allergic reactions, sleeping and feeding problems and even weakened immune function can often be linked to nerve irritation caused by spinal dysfunction.
Visits to a chiropractor should be attended on a regular basis, much like visiting a dentist yearly, he explains, as a preventive measure.As Chiropractors our main focus is on the
| health of your spine and nervous system. The nervous system essentially runs every aspect of your wellbeing. It is one of the most neglected aspects of health care out there.
“If your spine is better balanced then your nervous system always functions better.”
According to Sexton, the single most important factor in wellbeing is the health and function of your nervous system. The nervous system is the master system controlling and co-ordinating the function of virtually every cell, tissue and organ in the body. Interference to normal nerve function will interfere with your health.
When there is an imbalance in the spine it can interfere with normal nerve function. Chiropractors call this a subluxation. It’s when the bones of the spine lose their normal position or movement. This can place extra stress on bones, discs, ligaments and muscles of your spine leading to degenerative wear and tear. Most significantly, however, it may compromise the normal function of your nervous system and diminish health.
Subluxations may be caused by many factors such as poor posture, knocks, falls, car accidents, and even the birth process can be a major cause of subluxation in the newborn child. Stress, whether it is physical, emotional or chemical, is one of the most common causes of spinal subluxation.
Subluxations are treated by chiropractors through specific adjustments to correct imbalances in the spine and restore normal nerve function.
Sexton Chiropractics Carlton
1st Floor Lygon Court, 380 Lygon St
Carlton, Vic 3053 Ph: (03) 9347 3838
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