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Aging
Doesn't Mean Bad Health
Do you
think growing older means you will inescapably be destined to
pain, discomfort and disabilities? It won’t if you learn how
to stay well and give yourself a better chance of feeling well
later in life.
Living long
and being vigorous and vital means maintaining overall physical
and emotional wellness. It means functioning at as high a level
as possible, with physical and mental functions diminished only
moderately, if at all. Most older individuals are concerned
about their diet and digestion. They worry about sleeping well,
seeing and hearing adequately, looking good, controlling their
weight, experiencing as little pain as possible, maintaining
their mental acuity, not being depressed, and remaining active
and independent. These are all, to varying degrees, reliant on a
person’s musculoskeletal health.
It is
imperative that you do all you can to protect yourself from
degeneration, illness and accidents that can rob you of many
additional years of healthy and happy living. If the joints,
muscles and nerves that make up your musculoskeletal system are
not kept functioning properly, you may be jeopardizing your
overall health and well-being. Chiropractic is designed to
maximize musculoskeletal health so that you can feel better over
the entire course of a long life.
Chiropractors
are the best suited and positioned health care professionals to
care for an aging population. This is not an overstatement,
because chiropractic is a health care system that for more than
a century has been devoted to conservative care featuring
minimal intervention and limits on costly hospitalization and
potentially dangerous and disruptive medications. Most of all,
doctors of chiropractic are trained in maintaining wellness by
gentle, reassuring, safe and effective techniques and counseling
that can play a role in suspending or reversing the aging
process. Chiropractic is as committed to anti-aging as it is to
pain relief.
Chiropractors
realize that aging and older patients require special assessment
of their problems, with support, treatment and management goals
tailored to their unique health situation and needs. Moreover,
chiropractic is especially useful in restoring and maintaining
joint, muscle, nerve and soft tissue health, which is
fundamental to keeping older people fit and flexible, feeling
good and functioning at their highest potential.
Chiropractic
adjustments are well suited to safely and effectively addressing
and preventing a wide range of problems encountered by the
elderly. Increasingly aging men and women rely on doctors of
chiropractic to remove some of the underlying skeletal and
muscular causes of the distress, debilitation and depression
that plague so many older individuals. Chiropractors have the
skills to reduce pain and infirmity, give older patients greater
mobility, more robust good health, and a more-confident
expectation that the future can encompass many more fulfilling
years of functioning better--and feeling younger. |