Most people turn to chiropractic care to relieve pain and improve their mobility. Lower back pain, joint weakness, and leg and foot pain all benefit from manual adjustments.
But adjustments won’t be able to address overall health, especially chronic fatigue, allergy-like symptoms, and poor nutrition. In these cases, chiropractic care must extend to other modalities and methods to address the whole body, head to toe.
And when people want to feel healthier over the long term, holistic wellness becomes the goal.
What Is Holistic Wellness?
Holistic wellness takes into account the root causes of illness, weakness, fatigue, and pain rather than addressing symptoms alone. Underlying factors like nutritional deficiencies, ineffective or harmful emotional reflexes, and excessive exposure to electromagnetic signals are often the source of illness.
When we take into account these various environmental and physiological factors, we quickly see why adjustments alone won’t address all the issues we may be experiencing. One specific approach addresses all these factors in six important steps.
The Brimhall Approach to Wellness
Dr. John Brimhall pioneered holistic wellness for chiropractic care through his development of the Six Steps to Wellness Protocol™. Beyond manual adjustments and musculoskeletal integrity, Dr. Brimhall saw the need for nutritional and environmental interventions to reverse damage and achieve long-lasting wellness instead of only addressing surface-level concerns.
1: Structure
The root causes of illness, pain, and disease may actually be symptoms of interference with the body’s natural energy flow. That interference can cause pain when the electrical impulses in our muscles and tissues can’t communicate properly.
Where most people see chiropractic care ending is where it starts in Brimhall’s approach to wellness. Structural integrity is the foundation of healing the body, so chiropractors often start with manual adjustments.
2: Electrical Pollution
Our bodies have their own electromagnetic fields (EMF), as do all objects. But when electrical signals in the environment interact with our body’s EMF, it can distort the body’s polarity.
In our modern world, with all the connectivity and electronic devices around us every day, there are many opportunities for electrical pollution. Common sources of this pollution can include appliances, computers and televisions, power lines, and devices like cell phones.
When the body’s EMF is confused, people can experience exhaustion, vision issues, difficulty repairing injuries, and illness. Chiropractic care helps to reset cellular polarity, balancing the body’s EMF.
3: Nutrition
Our modern diets leave out many essential vitamins, minerals, and nutrients. Processed foods, coloring, additives, and artificial ingredients further complicate the effects of deficiencies, leading to slow healing, gut health issues, and several other illness-like symptoms.
Eating well is the first step in improving overall nutrition and achieving better holistic wellness, but many people need more than healthier foods to feel healthy. Supplementation is a key part of combating the typical modern diet. By replenishing gut flora and rebuilding foundational nutrients in the body, we can improve digestion, nutrient absorption, and energy levels for long-term health.
4: Allergies and Sensitivities
There are an estimated 35 million allergy sufferers nationwide. Most people turn to conventional treatment options like medications and allergy shots, but the symptoms might stem from a much deeper source than just environmental substances.
Pets, pollen, foods, and heavy metals can all trigger allergy-like symptoms, but the real culprit is an immune system reaction. These immune responses can cause sneezing, itchy eyes, skin rashes, and breathing issues, but they can also create reactions that look like a wide range of diseases and disorders.
Natural allergy symptom relief methods help rebalance and reprogram the body’s immune responses so that these otherwise harmless stimuli have little to no effect on the body.
5: Emotions and Stress
Our minds hold a complex field of energy, and it’s influenced by both environmental inputs and emotional reactions. It’s designed to recognize and create patterns, but some of those patterns can be detrimental to overall health and wellness. These emotional reflexes can create interferences in our energy fields, leading to poor perceptions of day-to-day situations.
The role of chiropractic care for emotional health and stress management is to reprogram the body’s emotional responses, reconfigure the stress responses, and reset the adrenal system to get our bodies back to a better state of holistic wellness. Through supplementation and various therapy approaches, the body can better handle stress-related reactions and manage reflexive physiological responses more appropriately.
6: Toxicity
Food additives, pollution, and exposure to heavy metals can cause root symptoms that seem like many other diseases and disorders. Our bodies can’t break down these complex chemicals properly, so they end up sitting inside our tissues for extended periods.
In small amounts, these toxins can cause mild symptoms like headache, fatigue, and joint pain. But in higher amounts, toxicity can lead to rashes and eczema, asthma-like symptoms, and allergy-like symptoms. Neurotoxins like MSG and mercury can even affect brain functions, including memory, processing, and mood.
Detoxification helps the body eliminate these substances safely, permitting the body to heal and function properly.
Holistic Wellness: A Better Standard for Quality of Life
Each of these six steps to better wellness can help you feel healthier, but it’s the combination of all six that brings long-lasting wellness benefits instead of just momentary relief. Holistic wellness doesn’t look at temporary fixes for chronic pain, illness, or fatigue. Instead, it seeks to find the root causes of those symptoms, reset the body’s natural processes, and establish a strong foundation for continued health and nutrition.
Rebalancing
Chiropractic care focuses on rebalancing the body’s natural systems so that energy can flow more freely through the body. With better balance in electrical fields, nutrition, and endocrinal functioning, our bodies can use energy more efficiently.
Supplementation
By replenishing vital nutrients through natural supplements, our bodies can better cope with stress, injury, illness, and fatigue. When we fuel our bodies properly, we feel more energetic and experience fewer illness-like symptoms.
Stress Management
By addressing the body’s reactions to stress and stimuli, we can reprogram responses to be less traumatic. Holistic wellness addresses nervous and endocrine inefficiencies like adrenal fatigue and blocked energy pathways to help reduce stress-related pain and weakness.
Detoxification
Removing toxic chemicals and compounds from the body can reduce inflammation, headaches and migraines, fatigue, joint and muscle pain, and asthma and allergy symptoms. Detoxification allows the body’s tissues to heal better while simultaneously improving the immune system by reducing stressors in the body.
Start Your Holistic Wellness Journey with Live Well Chiropractic
Many people turn to chiropractic simply to alleviate pain or improve mobility. But pain and reduced mobility can be symptoms of an unbalanced or malnourished body. Adjustments will help temporarily, but true healing happens only when the body achieves proper balance.
If you’re ready to find holistic wellness beyond temporary relief, Live Well Chiropractic of Sioux Falls is ready to help! Our treatment plans address all aspects of wellness, and each plan is custom-designed for your specific needs.
Set up a free consultation today to learn more about our services and how they can help you reach holistic wellness and a higher quality of life.
