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

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Dr. Lisa Goodman, DC · Answer

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, the 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 is over training, over doing it, competing or training through an injury or through pain that 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 who's resting on appropriate rest days, who's training and fitnessing not through pain in appropriate ways, and kind of has that nice balance. Maybe they're training three to five days a week on days that they're not training heavy and 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.

Dr. Gabrielle Manto, DC · Answer

The question is how does the lifestyle of a patient affect the success of chiropractic care? So great question your 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 or with chiropractic care rather so we categorize stress into three categories Physical chemical and emotional stressors so physical meaning 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 state 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 if that's 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 disruptors so on and so forth, right? That's also huge to sort of any products that you could potentially switch all these lifestyle changes as far as a nutrition exercise Good sleep 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 sedentary lifestyle so on and so forth.

Dr. Sean Burkhardt,DC,FIBFN-FN,CCSP,CFMP,CSCS,CSPS,TSAC-F,PES,CES · Answer

Hey everyone, Dr. Sean back here. My question reads, how does the lifestyle of a patient affect the success of chiropractic care? Well my question back is, did the lifestyle of the patient require them to come in for chiropractic care in the first place? So when someone comes into my office, I can pretty much control the variables that happen within this environment, but when someone leaves I lose that control. So having a greater understanding of what's going on in that patient's life, so I can understand what epigenetic or lifestyle factors played a role in their condition, I can help educate them to mitigate those when they leave the office. So I usually tell people you can't heal in the same environment that made you sick. So the lifestyle should reinforce their goal and if that's a healthier lifestyle, better posture, injury rehabilitation, increased cognition, whatever their goal is, that needs to be applied every day and make it easy and sustainable when they leave this office. So things in here help to reinforce that. So simply put, they come in here for a reset, when they leave there, the clinic, they reinforce what we did, whether that's through active treatment themselves or lifestyle changes.

Nicky Kirk, DC, MS · Answer

There are, depending on which authors you read, 7, 9 or 12 domains of wellness, one of which relates to physical conditioning. The rest relate to lifestyle factors, social, mental, spiritual, nutritional, sleep, and so on. And for that reason, we contribute to a certain extent in the physical realm, but we also have the opportunity to work and educate with patients to at least bring awareness to the fact that what they spend the balance of their time doing or not doing will largely impact their health. And in the end, a lower back problem that occurs atraumatically could be related to a loss of strength or doing something too much. So it largely contributes to the success or otherwise of a patient and their outcomes.

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