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Hi Dr. Steve Battaglino here. Can chiropractic remove stress from my life?

Well no it can’t. We’re always going to have stress in our lives and we have a lot of different types. We’ve got physical stress, chemical stress and emotional stress. And they are surrounding us both in our external environment and our internal environment all the time.

What we can do is maximize the ability of the nervous system to deal with this stress. The nervous system, if you recall, lives inside the spine. Most of it does and exits through there through these nerves at each level. This is important because structurally when things are out of place whether it’s a disc or other structure, when it’s out of place it can put pressure on these nerves and that hampers the nervous systems ability to deal with stress.

Now when we’re stressed we’re typically in sympathetic dominance. What that means is we’re a fighter flight mode. Our nervous system has a mode that it goes into where it’s ready to run or fight. Let’s say there’s a tiger or you hear a noise down a dark alley. A lot of times even though we don’t have a tiger or a dark alley around us we still are in that fight or flight mode. And we know because we’re stressed about deadlines or all the different things in our lives, or we’re drinking too much coffee, it kind of wires us out. It simulates that fight or flight response.

And so, what we can do in chiropractic is help the body restore proper balance to the nervous system so that it can be more adaptable and less prone to being in fight or flight mode, by restoring proper structural alignment. And we do this with a series of specific corrections that will really take a lot of stress off of the nervous system and that will allow your body to work better and adapt better to those stresses of life.

I’m Dr. Steve Battaglino with Battaglino Chiropractic. And this has been your Health Minute.