Cosmetic Chiropractic???

Not only can chiropractors keep your spine aligned, they can keep your look aligned. Chiropractic helps with your posture, your health and your body composition allowing you to not only look better but to feel better. The following are steps that your chiropractor may use to help you look younger, more attractive, and healthier.

1. Exercise recommendations
Whether this means losing weight, building muscle, or improving body symmetry, a fitness regime that implements corrective exercises will help you not only look better but also feel better. Studies have shown that people perceive those with more symmetrical bodies to be more attractive.

2. Nutritional recommendations
Most people know, whether they like to admit it or not, that what they eat plays a part in what they look like. By looking at your current diet, a plan can be created that can help you achieve weight loss, increased energy levels, and a healthier appearance.

3. Spinal adjustments or mobilizations
After a small injury where you twisted wrong, lifted a heavy item, or simply slept the wrong way you may notice that your posture is thrown off. A crooked neck is not considered attractive and only provokes a look of sympathy from most. By adjusting your neck or low back, the chiropractor can get your spinal joints to move again allowing you to assume a better posture.


4. Myofascial release therapy
Myofascial release therapy involves the release of muscles which have tightened due to an injury or chronic postural strain from long days sitting at the computer. When you have tight muscles, it shows! Is it attractive for your shoulders to be hanging off your ears? Probably not, but when the muscles in your shoulders and neck get tight you may notices your shoulders heading north. Releasing those tight muscles through myofascial therapy will help lower the shoulders thereby making the neck look longer. Of course if you’re a body builder, it may not have the same effects.


5. Gait training and Custom Orthotic prescriptions
The way you walk shows your confidence and this in turn affects how attractive you are to other people. People tend to associate waddling and limping with old age and may consider this to be less attractive than an even heeled strut. There are many conditions that can affect the way a person walks and by determining what the problem is, a treatment plan including gait training and custom orthotics can be implemented.