Design a Year of Abundant Health

Health Doesn’t Happen By Accident.

Designing a year of abundant health starts with ensuring you’re setting SMART goals and taking proactive daily steps to help your body function at its best.

And this starts with movement. Motion is life!

Movement and exercise are the essential foundations to living your best life and improving your health.

Not only does motion help you feel better physically – research also shows daily movement and exercise can help your brain stay sharp and focused.

Exercise is protective against some of the most common and devastating chronic diseases we experience ranging from neuro-degenerative diseases like Alzheimer’s dementia to cancer, cardiovascular disease, diabetes, chronic pain, and more.

Your Body Must Be Prepared For Exercise To Reduce Your Risks Of Injury.

Before you can begin a daily exercise routine, you should ensure your spine and joints are moving well.

If any of your joints aren’t moving properly, it’s going to be difficult to move through your entire range of motion safely and painlessly.

In fact, when any number of joints aren’t moving properly, that usually means other joints have had to compensate, which means they may become overloaded, which puts you at an increased risk for injury.

The improper function of the joints will cause changes in how you move during exercise that can create big problems due to abnormal stresses on the joints. The spine is especially susceptible to injury because it is involved in stabilizing your body during all movements and being actively involved in many others.

Maintaining The Following 3 Types Of Movements Is Key To Optimizing How Your Body Functions And Improving Your Health In The New Year And Beyond….

• Segmental. As the foundation of your spinal motion, segmental movement describes the motion that happens between each set of bones in your spine. These are small joints that each have very specific movements. Chiropractors are experts in identifying problems within these small joint movements.
  
• Regional. Your spine is divided into four primary regions: cervical (neck), thoracic (upper to mid-back), lumbar (low back), and sacral (tail bone) which attaches to the pelvis.
  
• Whole Body. When you combine the segmental and regional movements of your spine with the movement of your extremities, you have whole-body motion. This is how your body moves as a whole rather than simply individual parts.

Abundant Health Starts With Moving Well And Feeling Great.

Each of the movement types builds upon the other.

Problems with segmental motion can cause problems with your regional type movements and whole-body movements. In order to have optimal whole-body movement, you should ensure that both your regional and segmental motion are in tip-top shape.

So, if you notice any pain or losses of movement and you’re near Texarkana, schedule a visit with us today to find out what’s wrong and how to reduce your risks of injury!

Science Source(s): How Simply Moving Benefits Your Mental Health. Harvard Health. 2016.