Specific Chiropractic techniques have been shown to be more effective at lowering high blood pressure that two prescription medications combined.
That’s right, chiropractic can lower your blood pressure. There are more that 65 million Americans that deal with high blood pressure and are at risk for heart attack, stroke or cardiac failure. So look around you. For every three adults that you see, one of them has high blood pressure and those risks are a reality. Wow, that is bleak. There is hope, however!!! I study showed that specific chiropractic adjustments to the top part of your neck can lower high blood pressure up to 14 mm Hg. That is really amazing considering that it usually take two prescription medication in combination to lower it that far. George Bakris, MD published this study in the Journal of Human Hypertension.
How is this possible that chiropractic can really lower your blood pressure? The adjustment performed in this study was to the top most vertebra in the neck called the Atlas. By many authorities this is the most crucial part of the spine and acts as a sort of fuse box for the body. With the many muscles influenced by this vertebra, the blood vessels traversing around it ascending into the brain as well as the nerve centers for blood pressure just above in the brain stem; it is no wonder the results that were realized.
Are you taking medications for high blood pressure. Would you like a less invasive approach with virtually no side effects? It is a whole lot easier to just pop those pills than make lifestyle changes. Changing your diet and implementing an exercise routine have all been shown to be effective in lowering high blood pressure. Then you need to make sure the integrity of your spine is in place and not interfering with your nerve or vascular system and keeping that pressure up. The risks of continuing the way you always have are listed above; heart attack, stroke, cardiac failure. The statistics are gloomy as heart disease is the number one killer in America. The risks of trying something outside the box are practically null, but may have tremendous benefits unrealized.
