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When some people think about the benefits of chiropractic care, they think: “It’s good for your back … I think.” Many others wonder: is chiropractic good for you at all? The truth, of course, is always much more complex. In a nutshell, chiropractic benefits are far-ranging – and even very surprising. Yes: it’s true that most people will book in because they think the benefits of chiropractic adjustments will help their troublesome shoulder, neck or back pain. But also true is that they often keep coming back indefinitely, because they discover that chiropractic care is much, much more beneficial than they ever imagined.

In short, some of the more surprising benefits of chiropractic care are that:

1. Chiropractic care boosts your immunity

To fight off viruses and bacteria, you don’t in the first instance need medicines and antibiotics – rather, you need a strong and healthy immune system. But chiropractic misalignments can throw off your entire immune system – making good overall health one of the key benefits of chiropractic adjustments.

Top fact: A recent study showed that just one chiropractic adjustment to the spine can improve your immunity to the common cold.

Find out more here:

https://www.lrcc.com.au/benefits-of-chiropractic-care/

Health providers across the globe have become quite familiar with the body’s response to the new technology of the 21^st Century, and the last two years appear to have had a considerable impact on our joints and alignment in the hands, neck, shoulders, and upper backs including additional loading on the low back.

In conversations with our patients, we have noted a great deal of poor ergonomic desk setup that has occurred due to working at home requirements during the lockdowns, as well as greater demands of the companies/businesses on their employees, equating to more time in front of a computer, often with poor posture adaption.

Most students have spent more time in their rooms, particularly in the last two years. Laptop usage at school has also become commonplace. These days, most teenagers and University students lives revolve around staring at their laptops or their phones. This is not new information for everyone!

Clients and patients often present to chiropractors and other health practitioners with the classic signs of a bulging disc in their lower back because they knew which symptoms to watch out for. Pain when sitting, sciatica pain radiating down the leg, and pain when pushing, pulling and sneezing. Much less well understood, however, are the classic symptoms of bulging neck discs.

Why’s that? It’s purely a numbers game. While 8 in 10 people will experience lower back pain at some point or another in their lives due to problems with the intervertebral discs, similar neck problems including the offending neck disc bulge – known collectively as cervical spine issues – are somewhat less common. On average, problems with the discs in the C1-C7 region – the neck – affect only 30-50% of the population, making the classic symptoms of a bulging disc in neck less well understood.

Find out more here:

https://www.lrcc.com.au/bulging-disc-in-neck-symptoms/

Have you been diagnosed with a bulging disc? Hearing that you have a real-life injury involving your vertebrae and potential affecting your spinal cord can be incredibly confronting and worrying – let alone painful and debilitating. The good news is that back, neck and referred pain associated with a bulging disc is extremely common – but it could be a lot worse. Better still, your friendly Sydney chiropractor at Longueville Road Chiropractic Centre (LRCC) is specially trained and highly experienced and proficient in implementing treatment for a bulging disc that can really make a difference.

What is a bulging disc?

First, the good news. A herniated disc means the outer covering of the vertebral disc – a strong elastic pivot for each of your spine’s individual joint segments providing stability, protection and motion – has actually ruptured or torn. The jelly-like innards – the nucleus pulposus – then leaks out into the actual spinal canal, causing a whole range of potentially serious problems. 

Find out more here:

https://www.lrcc.com.au/bulging-disc-treatment/

If you suspect you may be experiencing sciatica symptoms, you’re probably not wrong. That’s because the sensations and pain – ranging from mild to severe, sporadic or constant, acute or dull – are highly unique. In this analysis, we’re going to take a closer look at the most striking sciatica pain symptoms to watch out for – and what you can do next to get back to the life you love!

What does sciatica feel like?

• Shooting, searing or dull pain deep in the buttock?
• Similar pain radiating down the back of your leg?
• Numbness, tingling, burning, electric-like sensation along the sciatic nerve?

Many people refer to the feeling as electricity-like, which is no surprise given that it’s got everything to do with the sciatic nerve. The trouble usually starts in the lower back due to the pinching, touching or irritation of any of a series of nerve roots that can radiate their messages down the sciatic nerve, through your buttocks, your legs and even all the way to your toes. And if you’re feeling it predominantly on just one side of your body, such as pain shooting down a leg, it’s almost certain sciatica pain.

Find out more here:

https://www.lrcc.com.au/sciatica-symptoms/