Dealing with Stress-Related Pain

The typical American spends most of his or her working life dealing with moderate to high stress. It is rare to find someone who has a relatively peaceful lifestyle. Many pressures are mounted on a typical adult, including career position, job security, finances and debt, health, and social issues. When this stress never stops, it becomes chronic stress. Luckily, at Live Proper Chiropractic in Westerly, RI, our team of professionals can help you deal with stress.

Chronic Stress

Stress is a normal human reaction to pressures, whether they are physical challenges or mental issues. As one builds experience, age, and maturity, he or she develops resilience and can take on more stress. However, like anything, one needs rest after a challenge to recover, heal, and get stronger. When stress continues day after day without a break, then the body and mind never get a chance to rest, and permanent damage starts to occur. That damage can physically occur in a variety of symptoms, ranging from ulcers to body pain. Mentally, it can develop into anger management issues, depression, anxiety, and serious mental problems. Chronic stress has become so prevalent and damaging that it now represents the number-one workplace injury in the nation.

Pain from Stress

When your body is healthy and in good condition, it responds to pain quickly. Low level pain can be recovered from quickly. If you rest, high level pain can heal and go away. However, with chronic stress, the body begins to lose its ability to rest and cannot heal adequately. This turns into a vulnerability, and ongoing pain starts to set in. Chronic-stress related pain can come in many forms, including headaches, neck and backaches, spinal problems, trouble sleeping, and more. The body will try to shut down to force healing, usually through exhaustion and a sense of overwhelming fatigue. However, if a person pushes past this point, muscular, nerve, and skeletal damage can start to occur.

Chronic pain doesn’t just stay put, either. It can spread to other parts of the body as well, creating a cascading condition. The stress system already within the body gets overloaded with pain sensations that don’t have any time to rest. This can cause the nervous system to start to malfunction. We feel that as body pain that just seems to be stuck and won’t go away. Cramping, repeated strains, and nerve-pinching due to swelling are some of the most common signs of chronic stress pain.

Chiropractic Relief for Chronic Pain

With chiropractic care, your body can return to its normal functioning. Our chiropractic treatments can reduce muscle tension and realign the spine, and our team can counsel you about nutrition. We may use massage therapy or physical therapy to help reduce inflammation and tension in your body. All of our treatments are safe and will benefit your whole body.

Visit Our Facility

Live Proper Chiropractic can help patients in Westerly, RI overcome their chronic pain and get back to a normal life. We don’t just alleviate your pain, but we also make sure that it doesn’t reoccur. To learn more or to schedule an appointment, call us today.