Most people understand that chiropractic care can help you align your spine, and reduce the strain on your body, but did you know that chiropractic care can also help your mental health? While it may seem strange, chiropractic care for mental health actually gets to the core of your body and health, by utilizing the mind-body connection. In this month’s blog post, we’re going to examine this connection in detail, to inform you about the mental health possibilities of chiropractic care. 

The Mind-Body Chiropractic Connection 

While we often consider the mind and body as two separate entities, it’s common to forget that there’s an obvious meeting point for the two of them: the brain. Your brain acts sort of like the physical host for your mind, thoughts, and personality, and as the connection to the rest of your body, through your nervous system. This means that any barriers we put between the mind and body are artificial. 

Realizing this empowers us to treat both our physical health problems through mental health techniques, and our mental health problems with physical health techniques. Petett Chiropractic utilizes this two-sided coin of holistic health to bring the body into harmony, through chiropractic care for mental health. 

Chiropractic Care For the Mind 

Now, we’re going to examine a couple main mental health problems, to see how chiropractic care can benefit people who suffer with them.

• Anxiety: Generally speaking, anxiety occurs with an overstimulation of the nervous system, keeping you on edge, worrying about the future, living in the kind of fight-or-flight situation that exhausts you and your mental health. Chiropractic care works to relax your body, lower your blood pressure, and promote positive hormone flows through your spine. 

• Depression: Pharmaceuticals are one of the main ways we currently treat depression, but unfortunately, these often have other negative side effects that kick your mental health problems down the road. Chiropractic care is a non-invasive, side effect-free way to support relieving your depression, by promoting regular blood flow, and removing painful nerve blockages around your body. 

Why Petett is Passionate About Mental Health

Here at Petett Chiropractic, we always go beyond chiropractic care to achieve a fully holistic approach to health. When we do a chiropractic adjustment, we understand the comprehensive potential for mind-body healing that it creates. If you’re looking for chiropractic care for health issues, contact the Petett Chiropractic team today!