Chiropractic and Your Immune System

Did you know that regular chiropractic adjustments improve your immune system? The Immune system, like everything else in our body, is linked to our nervous system. Together our immune system and our nervous system must work together to create optimal responses for our body to adapt and heal.

Vertebral subluxations are misalignments of our spine. They create neural dysfunction altering the input and output of our nervous system. This causes our health to diminish. Chiropractic adjustments correct these spinal irregularities, relieving stress from our nervous system, allowing it to communicate freely with the rest of our body therefore boosting our immunity.

Multiple studies conducted over the past few decades have found chiropractic care to improve our immune system;

1. One study from National College of Chiropractic found that disease-fighting white blood cell counts were higher just 15 minutes after chiropractic adjustment of the spine.
2. Another study done out of New York's Preventive Medicine Institute found that people receiving regular chiropractic adjustments to have up to a 200% greater immune competence than the control group that did not receive chiropractic care.

Children’s immune systems will especially benefit from chiropractic adjustments. Minor traumas, from birth, to falls, to sitting in a desk all day at school, are all causing vertebral subluxations, leaving your child at risk for a wide range of health complications, including a lowered immune system.

So, next time you’re feeling under the weather, don’t cancel your appointment, come in and give your body that boost it needs to help fight off whatever’s getting you down.