What is a Family Wellness Chiropractor?
Typically when someone mentions "chiropractic" it brings to mind thoughts of back or neck pain, perhaps the result of an auto accident or a work related injury; but there is so much more to chiropractic care. Thomas Edison once said, "The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will instruct his patient in the care of the human frame, in diet and in the cause and prevention of disease," and this truly sums up the goal of wellness chiropractic care. Not to be "anti-medicine," but to assist patients in living a lifestyle that will rarely, if ever, require it.
What is Chiropractic?
Based on the Greek word "Chiropraktikos," the word chiropractic can be broken down to the root word chiro, which means "hand" and the word praktikos, which translates to "practical science". So chiropractic, in its most basic form is "to practice scientific work by hand."
The Family Wellness Chiropractor doesn't give medicine or shots, but instead, they give advise on how to properly care for your body, treating it with respect, and recognizing that we have within us everything we need to live healthy and thrive.
What do Family Wellness Chiropractors Help?
Your Doctor of Chiropractic can help everyone, form a newborn just hours old to a toddler or teen, adults of all ages and pregnant women. At every stage of our lives, things happen that can affect your spinal alignment. Even the process of being born may cause a slight misalignment of the spine resulting in colic, digestion and elimination issues, breastfeeding difficulties and more.
Toddlers just learning to walk spend a lot of time falling, potentially causing repetitive stress to the spine resulting in subluxation.
Teens playing sports may experience the same, and, or course, adults who've never seen a chiropractor are going to have subluxations resulting from these very same childhood spinal trauma on top of strains from lifting or turning wrong, falls, or other typical adult spinal challenges.
The Chiropractic Difference
There is so much more to chiropractic than neck and back pain relief. Dr. Paunicka is dedicated to the overall health and wellness of your entire family through wellness lifestyle instruction and education.
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