Missoula Chiropractor: Your Health-The Road to Wellness. Article #2 Feet
Dr. Shaun Stuto | January 25, 2010As a health and wellness clinic, Transformation Chiropractic Missoula MT works with patients on their overall wellness. Wellness is scalable to the individual and every patient starts somewhere. Pain patients make up a modest percentage of the patient population. There are many health problems that result in pain in different parts of the body. And there are so many causes for them. Challenges like back pain and headaches,as you will learn in this article, may be occurring from an often overlooked part of the body, the feet.
The foot is a great masterpiece from nature. Aside from enabling you to walk upright, it also supports your weight and plays a role in your balance and posture. The foot has a specialized design, with 26 bones and 33 joints. Though compact is size, it is a very complex system, and aside from bones, they also have a network of tendons, muscles and blood vessels.
The foot is designed to withstand a lot of pressure, especially when walking and running. As we walk, the foot absorbs the shock as it hits the ground. With the network of tendons and muscles, the impact should be negligible. If the foot is dysfunctional, the cushioning properties get weaker and disperse the impact forces to other bones and organs in your body.
If the foot dysfunction continues, you might begin to experience chronic pains in those other previously mentioned parts of the body. Walking could become a literal pain in the back. If left unattended, this could result in many complications. Is the logical answer a cortisone injection in the back to numb the pain? How about an aspiring to make the headache go away? Seems kind of like pulling the batteries out of the smoke detector doesn’t it? Just because the beeping is gone doesn’t change the fact that the house is on fire.
Back pain is mostly caused by improper posture putting stress on the spinal column. A foot disorder like flat footedness can also be a major cause of back pain. If you have flat feet, your feet will bear excess weight in places that it was simply not designed for. This would decrease its shock absorption abilities. And this finally leads to the shock travelling up to your spinal column, where it may put it out of alignment or create a subluxation. The opposite of flat footedness, highly-arched but rigid feet, can also contribute to the pain in your back by resisting too little shock. With little resistance, the shock can travel upwards reaching your back, your neck, and even your head.
With effects like these, it is important to start caring for our feet now with or without pain. It may seem that foot problems occur naturally and go away, but that is far from the truth. And as we grow older, the symptoms of these minor foot problems will likely worsen. When this happens, correction becomes much more complicated.
Transformation Chiropractic Missoula MT can help you with problems like these. They offer chiropractic services that can take care of neck pain, headaches, back pain, and foot pains. More importantly, they will help you to get beyond your pain so you can truly live a life of abundance. They utilize Applied Kinesiology, Nero-Emotional Technique, and other techniques to assess and maximize a patients overall level of wellness.
True health is much more than a lack of symptoms; rather, it is a decision. Transformation Chiropractic of Missoula MT believes you want and deserve the finer things in life. This includes bounding energy and vibrant health. They can help you transform your body and mind and achieve outstanding health.
Dr. Shaun Stuto is a Missoula NET Chiropractor and the founder/owner of Transformation Chiropractic in the heart of beautiful downtown Missoula, Montana. Visit our website today and find out how you can start living a life of abundant health!













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