Research shows significant, immediate increase response time to perform complex movement in Special Forces Personnel after ONE chiropractic treatment.
The study military subjects were asymptomatic with no pain.
Improving performance is a key part of chiropractic benefits.
Yes, we’re great at helping injuries recover and getting them out of pain…
BUT this is just the tip of the iceberg.
As this study adds to the growing evidence, chiropractic doesn’t just make you feel better, chiropractic care helps you to BE better.
Quoted from the Special Forces study…
Spinal manipulation, the primary treatment delivered by doctors of chiropractic is thought to impart some of its therapeutic benefit through several complex neurological mechanisms involving both spinal and cortical regions of the central nervous system.
Research indicates that spinal manipulation causes plastic changes in sensorimotor integration within the central nervous system in human participants, particularly within the prefrontal cortex.
Spinal manipulation appears to alter the net excitability of low-threshold motor units, increase cortical drive, and prevent fatigue.
These neurological mechanisms may explain improved reaction time, movement time, motor control, and muscular strength following spinal manipulation.
Kelly et al. found a significant improvement in a complex reaction time task after receiving spinal manipulation.
Both Smith et al. and Passmore et al. reported that hand and head movements in response to visual stimuli were completed more quickly after participants received spinal manipulation.
Daligadu et al. reported results from 10 volunteers with subclinical neck pain who completed specified keypad input sequences more quickly after receiving spinal manipulation.
No adverse events (AEs) were reported in any of these studies.
Conclusions From Special Forces Study
A single session of chiropractic manipulative therapy was shown to have an immediate effect of reducing the time required for asymptomatic special forces personnel to complete a complex whole body motor response task.
Effect of chiropractic manipulative therapy on reaction time in special operations forces military personnel: a randomized controlled trial.
https://trialsjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13063-018-3133-
Chiropractic For Performance, Health, and Wellness
Chiropractic care is often associated with injury recovery from car accidents (whiplash), work injuries, sports injuries, migraines, other headaches, neck pain, back pain, other extremity pain, disc injury recovery, and ‘pinched’ nerves.
There is considerable more to chiropractic benefits beyond injury recovery and pain relief as this article clearly demonstrates.
Chiropractors definitely help with pain.
However the greatest benefits from chiropractic lay in improving function, health, and wellness.
It should be noted that there is much more to chiropractic care than spinal adjustments. Some chiropractors do only adjust the spine.
Others like Dr. Hagebusch work with extremities including shoulder, elbow, wrist, hips, knees, ankles, and feet.
We work with rehabilitation of problems that people are experiencing in our office through a variety of means.
Plus Dr. Hagebusch helps people with lifestyle factors that can make a huge difference in how you look, feel, and perform on a day to day basis.
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