Yes, we said; your chiropractor not only can help with your back pain but also with your constant sneezing, runny nose, and recurring sinus headaches. Then again, when you really think about the extensive list of ailments that a chiropractor can assist with, you might not be shocked that this is just another area of medicine that a holistic practitioner can tackle. Our chiropractor at Premier Chiropractic Center, serving Bessemer, AL, and the nearby region, would like to explain.
General Information About Allergies
Before discussing how care from our Bessemer chiropractor can help, it’s helpful to understand what happens whenever allergens enter your body and why you respond the way you do but others don’t.
If any allergen enters your body, your immune system reacts by releasing histamine into the body. Essentially, your body believes that the allergen is a foreign invader.
When histamine levels increase too much, you’ll suffer from a number of unpleasant symptoms, which vary based on the severity of your allergy, the amount of the substance you came in contact with, and how you were exposed to the substance.
Allergies aren’t a sign you have a weak immune system. In fact, it’s basically the opposite — your immune system is overreacting to a substance it came in contact with that is thought to be negative.
Unfortunately, when your body is busy warding off the allergens, it’s possible other dysfunction will occur in other systems of the body, even if they seem unrelated to the initial problem. For instance, you may notice issues with your musculoskeletal and nervous systems around the same time.
How a Chiropractor Helps
If your allergies would happen to trigger other issues in your body, a chiropractor most certainly could target them through alignments and exercise therapy.
However, our practitioner can take it one step forward and reduce your allergy symptoms through natural means, helping you to be less reliant on over-the-counter or prescription allergy medications. One uncommonly known benefit of chiropractic care is to strengthen your immune system by correcting any misalignments. The practitioner will particularly focus on the neck. Ultimately, the body will have more “fight” when warding off the allergens.
Another benefit is that chiropractic adjustments can improve respiratory system function by easing pressure on the nerves that stimulate the nerve impulses in the lungs. As a result, your breathing quality will improve, and you, in return, will have less severe lung-related allergy symptoms.
Part of our care may also include lifestyle advice to lessen your symptoms. For instance, this may consist of our chiropractor determining possible triggers and helping you learn to avoid them through lifestyle changes. In cases where this isn’t possible, our practitioner may recommend methods to lessen your exposure.
The entire goal of chiropractic care for allergies is to provide you with some degree of symptom relief and to do so in a way that’s natural and works with the body. In other words, we aim to target your allergies rather than encouraging you to take a medication that could make you drowsy or cause other side effects while not getting to the source of the problem.
While immunotherapy has been shown to have positive results for some patients, this isn’t the case with everyone. Therefore, you may not have many alternative treatments to turn to.
At Premier Chiropractic Center, serving Bessemer, AL, and the surrounding region, we offer patients an alternative treatment to standard allergy care. Our treatments are natural and work with the body to help ease your symptoms.
If you’re tired of sneezing or any of your other allergy symptoms, contact us today for relief by calling 505-519-4024 or using our form.
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