With their extensive study and training, continuing education, and years of experience, chiropractors have a great ability to provide realignment and healing for your body. Yet, our team at Excellence in Health Chiropractic & Rehabilitation Clinic wants you to get the maximum benefits from every visit. How can you do that? With therapeutic exercise between treatments, you can improve your condition and become healthier overall. Here's how exercise helps.

Would you like quality chiropractic care with guidance on between-treatment exercise? Reach out today to schedule a consultation at EIH.

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Is Chiropractic Treatment Combined with Exercise Effective?

Many people would rather not exercise at all, especially if they fear causing their pain to increase. Certainly, it is important to avoid the wrong types of workouts at a time when your body is trying to heal. Yet is safe exercise also effective?

The answer is yes. Therapeutic exercise does have positive effects. Studies have shown that patients benefit when a chiropractor devises a personalized therapeutic exercise program and patients follow it between treatments. By combining expert chiropractic treatment with therapeutic exercise, patients achieve better results for the treated condition as well as their total body health.

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Specific Benefits of Therapeutic Exercise

Although it might be understandable that exercise could help, you may wonder, "Yes, but what exactly does it help?" Knowing the goals of your exercise plan can motivate you to complete your exercises regularly to achieve the best results. Here are a few of the specific reasons between-treatments are so vital.

Promotes Healing:

One of the most important reasons to follow your chiropractors' exercise guidance is that it will promote healing. Most patients come to EIH with a specific health concern or injury. For example, you might need help with issues like:

• Whiplash
• Concussion treatment
• Migraines
• Car accident injury
• Car accident rehabilitation
• Headaches

Each of these conditions indicates a need for healing. Your chiropractor provides focused professional treatments to realign your body, relieve pressure, and increase circulation, all of which promote healing. However, when you add the therapeutic exercise recommended by your treatment team, you heal even faster and more completely.

Strengthens Muscles, Joints, and Ligaments:

Athletes, bodybuilders, dancers, and others engaged in active occupations recognize how exercise strengthens the body. In fact, nearly everyone else knows the same thing, though they don't always follow that knowledge with action. However, when you have suffered a car accident injury or other physical trauma, strengthening your body is more important than ever.

A skilled chiropractor can achieve much during your treatment time. However, building strength takes more time, and it is something you need to do regularly, continually, and faithfully. Over time, your muscles, joints, and ligaments become stronger. Daily tasks, work, and all your normal activities become easier and much less painful as you get stronger.

Prevents Future Injuries:

Therapeutic exercise can help prevent injuries in the future. A part of this is due to the strengthening effects mentioned above. When you put together chiropractic treatments with the right exercise program, you achieve and maintain better body alignment, good balance, and joint flexibility. Then, when something happens that could cause an injury, your body will be better equipped to protect itself and become more resilient overall.

Improves Mobility:

Achieving better mobility is often a challenge, no matter your age. Mobility can become quite impaired after a car accident injury. What you are doing when you engage in therapeutic exercise is stretching your body and increasing your range of motion.

While your chiropractor's treatments focus on eliminating the cause behind your pain, your exercise program increases your body's basic mobility strengths. Together, you and your chiropractor solve the problems directly related to an injury and mobility issues that may come indirectly from a car accident injury.

Warms You Up for Your Treatment:

One excellent benefit you can get from therapeutic exercise is that it prepares your body for treatments. If your car accident chiropractor includes a pre-treatment exercise routine, they usually do it so that your body will more easily get the best benefits from the alignment or other treatments they offer.

After all, if you come in with too-tense muscles and extra-tight ligaments, the chiropractor has to resolve those problems before addressing your auto injuries specifically. However, if you come in with your muscles relaxed and looser, the chiropractor can spend more time eradicating the source of your pain, headaches, or stiffness.

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Does the Type of Exercise Matter?

Most people these days know at least a bit about exercise. Maybe you have exercised as a part of a weight loss program. Or, perhaps you work out regularly to stay fit, healthy, and feeling strong. If so, that's great for your body when you are healthy. But should you do the same types of exercises before and after chiropractic treatments?

The truth is you need a special therapeutic exercise program designed to address your unique needs. It also must protect and maintain your health as your body recovers. After a car accident injury, your body is more vulnerable until it heals. Therefore, you need a professionally created exercise plan at this time.

Customizing the Exercise Plan for Your Condition:

Creating a customized therapeutic exercise plan requires the expertise of a skilled chiropractic team. To choose the right exercises for you, the team needs to determine your goals, your weaknesses, and your strengths. They need to be mindful of the injury, the pain and discomfort it causes, and how it affects your whole-body health.
The team will also consider other factors while creating a plan that is right for you. Some of these include:

• Your overall fitness
• Current muscle strength
• Current joint issues
• Current level of endurance
• Any equipment you might need and whether you have it
• Your schedule

Most importantly, though, your chiropractic clinic should consider what type of treatment the chiropractor will provide during the appointments. Many therapeutic exercises complement a variety of treatments well. However, your chiropractor may suggest changes to physiotherapy and home exercises when they are doing other types of treatments. The best thing to do is to follow your chiropractic clinic's exercise plan, asking questions any time you don't understand or have a concern.

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The EIH Approach

At EIH, we see our patients as partners. Our intent is to work together with you so you can attain much better overall health. We bring our expertise and understanding to this collaboration. You bring your concerns and your commitment to your own well-being. Then, together, we work towards healing your injuries and building a healthier, happier life for you.

Excellence in Chiropractic & Rehabilitation Clinic offers complete chiropractic services. Dr. William Ross and Dr. Blue Ross head the clinic, guiding its staff to ensure patients experience the best in treatments and the most caring attitude. In order to provide excellent treatments for more people who need them, we accept most insurance plans. Educating our community is another goal we pursue continuously. If you need a personal injury chiropractor, your chiropractor is waiting for you at EIH.

Are you ready to embrace whole-body health? Schedule a consultation with EIH now to find out how we can help meet your unique needs.