Arthritis & Rheumatism

Osteoarthritis (OA)

Osteoarthritis also known as degenerative joint disease, is the most common arthritis of all. Almost everyone over the age of 50 has a touch of it. “It is almost as inevitable…as graying of the hair.” In many people there are no symptoms, others have pain and some can be incapacitated by it. OA often results from an unbalanced spine creating stress on the joints. Your body grows extra bone material in the joints (“Lipping and spurring") to help deal with this stress. Sometimes the growths help deal with this stress. Sometimes the growths compress nerves, causing pain and affecting internal organs. 

The Chiropractic Approach 

For over a century arthritic patients have benefited from chiropractic care. Chiropractic care has even reversed osteoarthritis something previously considered impossible. Chiropractic is not an arthritis treatment. It is a system of healthcare that improves the function of your entire body by removing or releasing blockages from your spine called vertebral subluxations. Vertebral subluxations weaken your nervous and immune systems, thus weakening your entire body. This can set the stage for sicknesses and diseases of all kinds, arthritis included.