Your body has the amazing ability to heal itself provided nothing gets in the way.

However, often over time painful conditions which develop in the back, neck, shoulders, and elsewhere can overwhelm this healing ability.

You might pull a muscle or stretch a ligament and then other muscles get taut and painful to support the body where the pulled muscle is not doing the job. Until you get the original pulled muscle working again, other muscles will remain taut and sore. Perhaps the spine might adapt badly to poor posture over time and start to impinge on one of the nerves that branch out from it and the continued poor posture prevents healing.

We look for the cause of the pain, for what is preventing the body from functioning normally and healing and we try to restore normal function with adjustments, exercises and other methods so the body can do the actual healing. It is not just back or neck pain either. The spine can impinge on the spinal cord and the nerves leaving it and prevent healing in most any other part of the body as well.

Healing can take time, and we may need to adjust your body repeatedly for a few weeks, but in the end it is your body that repairs itself without needing surgery or long term use of pain medications. Your body can heal many painful conditions if you keep things from interfering with that process and chiropractic care works to facilitate this and unlock your healing potential.