Stress: Helping Your Body to Cope

We often see stress as something that affects the mind but the fact is that stress can have a significant impact on your body too. For a start, your body has an inbuilt reaction to stress – it tightens the muscles. It’s trying to help you by making you ready to deal with the threat at hand. The only problem is that stress doesn’t always equate to an immediate physical threat, and when the threat isn’t physical, the body’s response to stress isn’t particularly helpful.

If you’re currently experiencing tension headaches, or just a general feeling of stiffness or tightness in the upper back, shoulder or neck, it may be the result of stress. Of course, when the problem that is causing the stress is resolved, these issues may also resolve – but in the meantime, they may be adding to your stress and contributing to other problems in your body like nerve irritation, or misalignments of the spine.

Dealing with these early physical manifestations of stress in your body may not only help your body to deal with the stress, it may reduce the level of stress you’re feeling, freeing you up to focus on the problems at hand.

Your chiropractor might be able to assist by offering a treatment designed to relieve tension in your muscles and joints, and re-align sections of the spine if necessary. It may improve the way you feel physically and, if you’ve been having difficultly sleeping, the reduction in muscle tension may improve that situation too.

Any way you look at it, prolonged stress isn’t healthy so if it’s time you did something that may improve your ability to cope, call us today for an appointment with a Chiropractor Fitzroy.