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How does the lifestyle of a patient affect the success of chiropractic care?

The lifestyle of a patient greatly affects the success of Chiropractic Care. Patients who have an inactive lifestyle will experience less relief from adjustments than those with an active lifestyle that has appropriate rest days and active rest activities. Furthermore, patients who overtrain or train through pain may also experience less relief than those with balanced activity levels. Finally, one's work lifestyle can also affect the success of Chiropractic Care, so it is important to incorporate movement into one's daily routine.
 
Transcript: "How does the lifestyle of a patient affect the success of Chiropractic Care? Think about this on like a bell curve. If you have a patient who is incredibly sedentary, they relief experienced from a chiropractic adjustment is probably not going to last as long because the effect of them being sedentary will have a greater effect. And then on the other end of the bell curve, if you have a patient who's overtraining overdoing it competing or training through an injury or through pain. Maybe they should be focusing more on rest. The Chiropractic Care is also probably going to create a short-lived benefit positive benefit and then in the middle of that bell curve, we've got everybody else who's not who's resting on appropriate. Rest days, who's training and fitness saying, not through pain and appropriate ways, and kind of has that nice balance, maybe their training, three to five days a week on days that they're not training. Be in the or doing a part of their extreme training program. They're doing what we call Active, rest days, they're taking their dog for a walk or doing something that's a little bit more of an active rest, and then they are taking real rest days as well. Mixed in with that is going to be your work lifestyle. Are you sitting a lot at work and how can we challenge that so that we have a little bit more movement involved there? I hope that helps."
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Dr. Lisa Goodman, DC

Pediatric & Sports Chiro, Youth CF Coach
How does the lifestyle of a patient affect the success of Chiropractic Care? Think about this on like a bell curve. If you have a patient who is incredibly sedentary, they relief experienced from a chiropractic adjustment is probably not going to last as long because the effect of them being sedentary will have a greater effect. And then on the other end of the bell curve, if you have a patient who's overtraining overdoing it competing or training through an injury or through pain. Maybe they should be focusing more on rest. The Chiropractic Care is also probably going to create a short-lived benefit positive benefit and then in the middle of that bell curve, we've got everybody else who's not who's resting on appropriate. Rest days, who's training and fitness saying, not through pain and appropriate ways, and kind of has that nice balance, maybe their training, three to five days a week on days that they're not training. Be in the or doing a part of their extreme training program. They're doing what we call Active, rest days, they're taking their dog for a walk or doing something that's a little bit more of an active rest, and then they are taking real rest days as well. Mixed in with that is going to be your work lifestyle. Are you sitting a lot at work and how can we challenge that so that we have a little bit more movement involved there? I hope that helps.
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Dr. Gabrielle Manto, DC

Pediatric and perinatal chiropractor
The question is, how does the lifestyle of a patient affect the success of Chiropractic are so great question and a chiropractor, should be educating you on different things that you can do at home. Refer you out to people who specialize in nutrition hormones, stretching exercise, so on and so forth. So that you can have the best success under chiropractic care with Chiropractic Care, rather. So we categorize dress into three categories, physical chemical and emotional stressors. So Physical me, like how are you moving your body? That's super conducive for the success rate of your chiropractic Journey, for sure and making sure that you're moving, that is conducive for the sake of your nervous system. Secondly chemical stressors. So looking at nutrition supplementation. If necessary, making sure that you are eating a diet that is conducive for you for your overall health and well-being, supplementation is that's nest if that is necessary. Under the guidance of someone who is trained in that area that is also going to contribute to the success of your chiropractic Journey as well. Looking at anything that you're putting in or on your body that could be toxic endocrine disruptor. So on and so forth, right? That's also a huge to sort of any products that you could potentially switch, all these lifestyle changes, as far as nutrition exercise, good sleep, Gordo, good Hormone Health switching out products. This is all going to benefit and increase your ability to have a successful Chiropractic Journey rather than doing the opposite like eating junk, not moving center lifestyle. So