Hope everyone is enjoying a little less snowy February than last year! I was thinking about last winter and a stat that we realized. Finn Chiropractic Group was never busier than last March. We had a ton of injuries due to the snowstorms that rocked Pittsburgh in February 2010: slips, falls, shoveling and car accidents. Luckily no one was badly injured.
One thing stood out though. Not one of our maintenance patients, that is patients who come in 1 or 2 times per month for a regular adjustment, was injured. None of our maintenance patients threw their back out, none fell and got hurt, yet tons of people were calling in with injuries.
Coincidence? I don't think so! An event like this proves the necessity for regular, symptom free adjustments, as prescribed by your doctor, if you are to have a healthy spine. Remeber, the cause of your symptoms is a subluxation. But what caused that subluxation? Your daily activities, of course! The sitting at the computer, the snow shoveling or the repetitive lifting of a child can and does cause tension and stress to build in your muscles, pulling the spinal bones out of alignment, leading to symptoms!
The point of regular checkups is to never allow the spine to be pulled out, thus limiting your symptoms and long term limiting arthritis, degenerative changes and all around bad stuff. Think of maintenance care as dentistry for your spine. You don't wait for the tooth ache, right? You go evry six months to prevent the tooth ache, the drill and all the pain that goes along with it.
Same goes for your spine. Don't wait....Think Chiropractic before pain! Stay on your regular maintneance plan. If you have not been doing this call us right away. We will get you started on maintenance right away!
You never know when the next snowstorm is around the corner.....
