Injury Recovery with Nutrition and Chiropractic In Coeur d'Alene ID

When you incur a strain or sprain injury in Coeur d'Alene ID due to a fall or car accident, your spine and extremities along with ligaments, tendons and cartilage can be affected. The ligaments are flexible structures that hold adjacent bones together. During a fall, lifting or even a sudden incorrect movement, a ligament or joints can easily become torqued or thrown out of alignment. This can result in overstretched or torn ligaments, tendons and/or muscles.

How your body reacts in Coeur d'Alene ID

Your body’s protective response is to increase the special cells and fluids of the immune system. This causes the natural responses of swelling and redness(inflammation). When you are recovering from an injury, nutritional needs are greater for certain key nutrients, including vitamin C, zinc, manganese and silicon. Research shows that these nutrients along with bromelain, can help in reducing inflammation, and heal faster. It is best to take a whole food supplement to receive the most natural and beneficial form that your body can utilize. We recommend Standard Process and Nutrition Response testing that can help evaluate your body’s specific needs, so that you only take what is necessary for your body to recover. If you are interested in finding out more, give our office a call at (208) 966-4425.

You should also have your spine evaluated by a Chiropractor after a fall or car accident, even if you do not have any symptoms. Many symptoms do not show up for weeks or months following an injury and then degeneration and weakness has already began to develop. Stop the problem from progressing, early detection is the key to the best recovery possible.