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Cancer patients experience mental, emotional, and physical challenges while going through cancer and cancer treatments. The current cancer treatments are extremely aggressive and can affect the musculoskeletal system, leaving patients feeling exhausted and sluggish. Chiropractic care cannot cure cancer; however, it can help reduce pain and improve patients’ quality of life.
The most common therapeutic procedure performed by chiropractors is spinal manipulation. This procedure helps patients by restoring joint mobility in joints that have become hypomobile. There is scientific evidence that chiropractic therapy helps relieve headaches and back and joint pain in women undergoing breast cancer treatment. A systematic review of literature also shows that chiropractic treatment helps treat lower back pain. Other studies have resorted to chiropractic therapy to relieve menopausal symptoms in breast cancer survivors.
Family Chiropractic Care can take care of all your chiropractic needs. We offer a comprehensive set of chiropractic services that will help you achieve overall health without the use of surgery or drugs.
How Can a Chiropractor Help with My Pain and Symptoms?
A chiropractor can help with your pain and symptoms in the following ways:
- Chiropractic care can help cancer survivors in terms of their pain relief, mobility, sleeping patterns, energy levels, and quality of life.
- Chiropractic care can help patients going through chemotherapy or radiation by improving circulation, reducing inflammation, and strengthening the immune system.
- Cancer survivors who have had surgery often experience back pain resulting from the trauma of the operation —chiropractic treatment can alleviate such pain.
- Cancer patients may experience increased depression and anxiety, which may morph into serious musculoskeletal conditions. Chiropractic therapy can reduce symptoms of depression.
- Chiropractors specialize in helping patients get relief from chronic conditions such as arthritis, as well as migraines and headaches.
- Chiropractors can assist patients with pain management and help patients increase function and mobility beyond their diagnosis.
- Combined with other supportive therapies such as acupuncture or massage therapy, chiropractors offer holistic healing solutions for patients.
If you receive a cancer diagnosis through careful history and physical examination and would prefer a natural approach to cancer treatment, our chiropractors can help. When you arrive at our chiropractic clinic, our therapists will listen to your concerns and find a solution to any pain you may be experiencing. Using chiropractic therapy, we can help you achieve drug-free pain relief and optimal wellbeing.
What Are The Benefits of Chiropractic Care for Cancer Patients?
Some potential benefits of chiropractic care include:
- Improves Neck Pain: A chiropractor can electrical stimulation to help alleviate your neck pain by easing tension in your neck muscles and realigning your spine.
- Relieves Overall Pain: A chiropractor can use manual therapies to treat mild to severe pain. Manual therapy involves using the hands to apply pressure on muscle tissue to eliminate pain.
- Relieves Unpleasant Side Effects: Chemotherapy drugs can cause unpleasant side effects, including headaches, neuropathy, and nausea. Chiropractic care can relieve these symptoms and make chemotherapy more manageable.
- Keeps the Spine Healthy: Chiropractic care keeps the spine healthy, which, in turn, allows the immune system and the nervous system to work optimally. Even though you may never get rid of cancer, chiropractic therapy can be effective when it comes to reducing pain, compared to if you never had chiropractic adjustments at all.
- Relieves Pain in Breast Cancer Patients: Chiropractic therapy provides pain relief and comfort in women recuperating from breast cancer treatments.
- Helps the bodywork at its maximum potential after cancer surgery: Chiropractic therapy helps patients recovering from lung cancer surgery find relief. One study shows that chiropractic therapy decreases pain, abates the adverse effects of chemotherapy, and helps the bodywork optimally after lung cancer surgery.
Chiropractic care can help you maximize your health. Your first visit at Family Chiropractic Care will involve a physical exam and one of our chiropractors will ask you several questions to get a history of your presenting symptoms. Thereafter, we will establish a treatment plan aimed at eliminating your pain and maximizing your physical ability. Contact us via phone or email or pop in at our physical location and we will help you take the next step.
Can Chemo Patients Go To The Chiropractor?
Chemo patients can go to the chiropractor. There is no question that chiropractic therapy is beneficial in cancer treatment, helping ease the pain associated with the disease.
If complementary and alternative medicine is the route you have decided to take, we are here for you. We take a drug-free, non-invasive approach to pain management, which may involve chiropractic manipulation, which involves applying controlled force to affected parts of the body. We have been in the chiropractic profession since 1992 and can successfully help all non-insured and insured cancer patients achieve optimal wellness.
Do Chiropractic Adjustments Release Toxins?
About 20 percent of patients experience toxic release after a chiropractic adjustment. This may sound intimidating, but you should consider it a positive reaction to treatment. Chiropractic manipulations are releasing toxins in the body, which is good news!
Final Thoughts
Many cancer treatment centers offer chiropractic care. Before you resort to chiropractic therapy in one of these centers, you need to talk to your doctor. You should know that:
- Persons with bleeding problems or those on blood thinners may have a higher risk of stroke resulting from manipulation of the spine.
- Women with osteoporosis or weakened bones from breast cancer may be at risk for broken bones from chiropractic therapy.
Need chiropractic therapy? Family Chiropractic Care has got you covered. We are committed to providing high-quality health care to all patients.
If you need other treatments such as massage therapy, corrective exercises, or spinal and postural screenings, you can contact us too. We are here to help our patients in all areas of medicine.