Chiropractic Boosts Immunity!

Keeping your spine healthy and in proper alignment directly translates into keeping your immune system performing at its peak potential. Each one of your 33 vertebrae helps to shield and protect the spinal column and at every vertebral level, a spinal nerve comes off and goes to innervate muscles, tissue, organs, and glands. Organs like your spleen and glands like your thymus both play crucial roles in orchestrating your body's immune system. If correct nerve innervation is disrupted by a misaligned disc or vertebra, you are at a higher risk of becoming sick because your immune organs are being denied proper and vital neural input.

So just like thinking about taking some vitamin C when you feel that cold coming on, think about receiving an adjustment as well.  This will help give you a jump start to overcoming whatever bug is trying to take you out and you may avoid it all together!  And remember like any injury or illness: the sooner you address the issue, the better your results!  So don't wait until you're confined to bed and stomaching only ginger ale, make an appointment as soon as you start to fell symptoms.  Call Pure Life Clinic, your Portland, Oregon Chiropractic clinic.  Conveniently located at 118 North Killingsworth St.

Here are some interesting facts about chiropractic and immunity:

"Chiropractic care was first linked to improved immunity during the deadly flu epidemic of 1917 and 1918. The funny thing was: Chiropractic patients fared better than the general population. This observation spurred a study of the field. The data reported that flu victims under chiropractic care had an estimated .25 percent death rate, a lot less than the normal rate of 5 percent among flu victims who did not receive chiropractic care."
(http://www.psychologytoday.com/articles/200608/immune-boost-is-spinal-zap)

"People who receive regular chiropractic adjustments have immune system competency that is 200% greater than those who don't." (Dr. Ron Pero. New York Preventative Medicine Institute and Environmental Health at NYU)