Are you planning a vacation with your family? Does your job keep you on the road traveling from city to city? If you’re wondering how to eliminate or prevent pain, our chiropractors at Comber Physical Therapy Fusion Chiropractic can help!
Our chiropractic team uses regular adjustments (manipulations) to ensure your body is functioning at its peak potential so you can travel pain-free and put your attention on the things in life that matter most to you.
Spinal manipulation effectively relieves pressure on joints, alleviates pain, and improves spinal mobility. Almost every bodily function is directly connected to the health of your spine. Regular chiropractic adjustments at Comber Physical Therapy Fusion Chiropractic will ensure your body is functioning at its best.
At Comber Physical Therapy Fusion Chiropractic, our chiropractors are highly skilled at restoring spine function through spinal manipulation treatments. They can guide you through the steps you need to prepare yourself to tolerate the demands of travel, whether for vacation or work.
To learn more about how spinal manipulation can help you, call Comber Physical Therapy Fusion Chiropractic today!
How to prevent pain when you travel
Are you looking forward to hitting the road but worrying that long drives will inevitably provoke your familiar back pain? Or maybe you have been planning a family vacation and know that luggage and long plane rides are coming your way. Our chiropractors at Comber Physical Therapy Fusion Chiropractic will provide strategies to eliminate and/or prevent pain from getting in the way when traveling!
Driving long distances or sitting for long flights can provoke back pain or other aches and pains that make traveling unbearable. The following strategies can help reduce the likelihood of experiencing back pain when traveling:
Regular chiropractic adjustments: If you are the one that will be lugging around the luggage and worry about straining your back or other muscles in the body, regular adjustments can make sure your joints are working correctly to ensure you can avoid any potential pain and/or injuries.
Use Good Posture: Adjustments help ensure your joints are functioning correctly, and finding and maintaining proper posture is essential to maintain mobility and minimize the risk of injury. A lumbar roll while sitting can help keep your joints aligned while traveling.
Limit Sitting For Too Long: Planning breaks, if you are driving or getting up to walk around the airplane aisle can help reduce the stress on your spinal joints and facilitate circulation throughout the body to keep the muscles working correctly. Ideally, you will limit your driving to 60-90 minutes.
Strength Training: Whether planning a long drive or riding a plane, luggage is part of traveling. Too often we stuff our suitcases so full we can barely lift them, and then we use the terrible form on top of that, resulting in pain or injury.
Training the muscles of your hips, abdomen, pelvis, and spine–your core muscles can help protect your spine and peripheral joints. Staying strong and healthy reduces your risk of injury and pain so that you can enjoy your trip!
Our team of chiropractors understand the ingredients for a successful vacation or work travel plans. We will use adjustments to help get your body functioning properly and then guide you through simple steps to keep it working!
What to expect at your chiropractic sessions
At Comber Physical Therapy Fusion Chiropractic, our chiropractors are experts in spine health who can help your spine get back to its normal level of function. Your chiropractor will check to ensure your spine is functioning at its best and identify any areas that need improvement.
Our team believes that regularly checking your spine is the key to lasting relief and injury prevention. Research has shown that regular, routine visits to the chiropractor effectively minimize the risk of recurring pain episodes.
Spinal manipulation helps you restore the natural movement of your spinal joints. When combined with education on ways to maintain and improve your mobility, strength, and posture, it will help you prevent future episodes when traveling.
Request an appointment at Comber Physical Therapy Fusion Chiropractic today!
At Comber Physical Therapy Fusion Chiropractic, our chiropractors are experts at treating all types of aches and pains associated with traveling. We’ll help you recover from an injury and give you the tools to prevent pain in the future so you can get on the road and enjoy doing what you love most!
Call today to schedule an appointment with one of our specialists!
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