Twin Cities chiropractic doctor explains how chiropractic relieves pain

Hi...I'm Dr. Harlan Mittag and I'm a chiropractor,become irritated or inflamed. You wake up with a
acupuncturist and nutritionist and founder of Mittagsore and stiff neck.
Holistic Chiropractic in Minneapolis Minnesota.Chiropractors learn through years of study, to
I'm asked frequently what a chiropracticidentify joints that are not moving right and how
adjustment is and what it does.with a gentle adjustment to reposition them.
Let me use an example to better explain what aChiropractors can assess the movement of all of
chiropractic adjustment is and what it does. Ifthe joints in the body, in the neck, back, shoulder,
you've ever had neck pain, while you were hurtingelbow, wrist and fingers, hip, knees, ankle and
rubbed your neck to relieve the pain. When youfeet. By correcting the abnormal movement in
did so you probably felt that the muscles werejoints and reducing the friction, the inflammation
tight and sore. If you pressed harder on the backand pain is relieved. This is why patients often feel
of your neck, you may have also felt some sorebetter immediately after a chiropractic
hard spots on your spine. What you were feelingadjustment.
is the inflamed joints of the spine. This was theThere are many other types of treatments that
underlying cause of your neck pain.chiropractors use to promote healing of painful
But how and why does a joint in the spine getareas so that the pain is not only relieved but
inflamed? There are many causes. It can be asresolved permanently. For instance, as a
simple as sleeping on it wrong. If your neck getschiropractor I use acupuncture, cold laser,
in a strained position while you’re sleeping,massage, exercise, pain relieving herbs and
you don’t know it. In this position the jointsnutritional supplements as part of my holistic
are pulled out of their normal alignment andtreatment plan for my patients.