We know that chiropractic treatment has positive effects on your body’s ability to function properly and to heal itself. Chiropractic care can help you reduce pain and prevent injuries. It can help you sleep better and reduce stress. Chiropractic care also helps your brain to learn new things and adapt, an ability known as neuroplasticity. Let’s take a look.
What is neuroplasticity?
To understand how chiropractic care helps your brain, we need to know: What is neuroplasticity? It is your brain’s ability to adapt to changes in your environment by forming new neural connections over time. It’s how children learn to walk, talk, read, dress themselves and much more. Even as adults, we learn new skills and recipes; we adapt to new situations and process information to adapt to new ways of thinking. Our brain’s ability to process information and stimuli and convert that into thoughts, behaviors and abilities relies on being able to form new neural connections, which is neuroplasticity.
The role of neuroplasticity
Neuroplasticity usually happens on its own, with no need from outside help. Many people struggle with neuroplasticity, especially those with Alzheimer’s or dementia, stroke victims and victims of head or spinal injuries. Losing abilities to speak, eat and remember things is known as negative neuroplasticity, which also leads to negative impacts on emotional and mental health.
Some negative neuroplasticity can be changed, though. Otherwise healthy people who are generally pessimistic or depressed can change the way they think and react to situations and emotions. To do that, though, your brain has to be healthy and be able to form new neuropathways. Chiropractic care treatments can help.
Chiropractic care treatments and neuroplasticity
Chiropractic care treatments can have a positive effect on brain activity. Chiropractic adjustments ensure that your spine is perfectly aligned. When your spine gets out of alignment, blood flow and messages between the brain and the body get interrupted. Chiropractic care treatment restores these pathways to ensure proper flow of blood and information, which has a positive effect on neuroplasticity.
Dr. Chris Walker believes in providing chiropractic treatments to help your body heal on its own and function at the highest level. Contact us today for more information.