Can Chiropractic Help Blood Pressure?
Many Americans take medications to lower their blood pressure. High blood pressure is said to be the cause of stroke, congestive heart failure, and kidney failure. Therefore, this forces people to take medications to control a bodily function for fear of what might happen in the future.
Often times, in an effort to help the patient, doctors prescribe these medications, without fully discovering the reasons why the blood pressure is high to begin with. However, it seems logical to many chiropractors that there may be other reasons why your body requires more blood flow than usual at any given time.
Most hypertension medications fall into one of four categories; diuretics, beta-blockers, ACE inhibitors, and calcium channel blockers. However, these drugs do not have healing properties or abilities, they simply cover the symptom of an unidentified situation. In some cases, even the least toxic drugs are known to have very serious and sometimes fatal side effects.
Chiropractic care may be known to cure back pain and headaches. However, there are other benefits of upper cervical chiropractic care. If there is an imbalance in the brain stem, it can affect the entire nervous system. The brain stem is responsible for the control of the entire body. The things we don’t think about, like breathing, digestion, immune system, and blood pressure, just to name a few, are controlled here!
In certain situations, there is a body mechanism that reacts when life is threatened. This is commonly known as fight or flight mode. Due to our busy lifestyles, our bodies are under stress and we are likely to stay in this mode. Ultimately, this causes recurrent high blood pressure. This is further complicated by poor diet and lack of exercise. However, not all doctors recommend a more natural approach to dealing with increased blood pressure, such as reducing stress, better food choices, and more exercise.
Reducing stress on the brainstem is the real key to reducing the body’s pressure on the arterial and venous systems. This is done by specifically fitting the bone at the top of the neck called the Atlas, where the brainstem is located. During this process, the vagus nerve is stimulated, which helps to slow down the heart rate and lower blood pressure. To keep things simple, this article aims to explain to those who want an alternative or natural help for high blood pressure. Chiropractic upper cervix corrections can be done to help with this, and they have now been shown to do exactly that in many cases!
If balance can be restored in this area, blood pressure may drop, but more importantly, the body can heal as God intended. If proper communication between the brain and the body can be restored, the body can regain its natural healing ability and much more than just aches and pains can be helped in the body.
