What is Stress?
STRESS
Many patients who arrive at the McMullin & Stark, Los Alamitos, CA
office present with symptoms
of neck pain, back pain or headaches. But one thing common to all of us
is stress and it can even be the root of our physical symptoms.
As Chiropractors, we educate on the topic of Wellness, which is taking
care of ourselves when we are HEALTHY as well as when we are sick.
However it is human nature to wait until we are in pain to want to
address the cause of the problem. While many patients come in as the
result of a physical cause of the pain (or physical stress), many of our
aches and pains can come from a mental cause or mental stress. Our
bodies begin to break down or fail when we are not able to handle a
stress in our environment. Whether this is: a) physical stress, (e.g.
car accident), b) mental stress, (e.g. work or relationship stress), or
c) chemical stress, (e.g. environmental pollutants or poor diet), once
our body cannot tolerate the stress we end up with dysfunction that can
result in muscle spasm that doesn’t go away. Take mental stress for
example. If your co-workers or employer give you feelings of stress day
in and day out, eventually it creates tension within the body and for
some of us goes to our shoulder/neck area or gives us a muscle tension
headache. In this case you’ve gone from a mental stress and turned it
into a physical stress or symptom.
In our office the goal is to assess your physical health and alleviate
the symptoms whether the cause is a physical, mental or chemical stress.
Treatment includes identifying and adjusting any spinal misalignments (subluxations).
We also recommend looking at dietary and environmental factors that
affect your health.
Contact :McMullin & Stark
located in Los Alamitos, CA for treatment of stress and stress related illness(es)
or condition.