Hey, everyone. Dr. Bryce Benson with Northern Lakes Chiropractic. I want to go over how the chiropractic adjustment can help with shoulder pain.
This is a question I get a lot in the office: how chiropractic can relate to shoulder pain and really how it can help with it. So we’ll go over those specific ways it can help.
Adjusting the Spine to Help With Shoulder Pain
One of the biggest things we start with is actually adjusting the spine.
So, all of your nervous system starts, obviously, up here in the brain. All of your signals come down through the spine and go out through the spine and tell all these muscles and everything around it how to work.
The big problem that can happen is when we get these joints that fall out of place, they can interfere with the nerve communicating with the muscle.
So what we do right away is find those areas that are out of place, and we move those joints into a proper position to allow the nervous system to express itself freely.
How the Spinal Adjustment Works
So the way that’ll work, we’ve got a joint right here that is just not moving well. We’ll have you drop your arms here and take a big breath in and a big breath out.
There we go.
And that table’s going to just move down a little bit. We’re just going to guide that joint back into place, allowing that system to work properly.
So now signals from the brain to that shoulder can communicate more properly.
Adjusting the Shoulder Joint Itself
Another big one is the joint itself of the shoulder.
So that joint can move too far forward. It can actually be stuck backwards. It just doesn’t sit in the socket properly.
The most common I see is the joint sitting too far forward.
There are a few ways we can adjust that. I’ll show you one right here.
So I’ll have you flip over onto your back.
Using the Table to Adjust the Shoulder
First, what I’m going to show you is a way that’s a little less invasive.
So honestly, it’s one that’s going to just move that joint into proper position without having to use so much force. We’ll actually use this table to help with that.
So the table’s going to pop up right here. It’s going to pop up, and then what that’ll do is bring that table up.
So then when we move that joint, the table’s going to pop down, and we can shift that joint back into place.
So the way it works is I’ll take the joint here. We’ll use that little area right there, and that table will just start to pop down right through here, just like that.
And what we’re doing is we’re guiding that joint back into place.
Manually Adjusting the Shoulder Joint
Another way is we actually take the joint itself, and then we move that more manually, and we click that joint back as well.
That’s a way that we can actually adjust both the spine and the extremity to get that joint back into place and help with shoulder pain itself.
Getting Help With Shoulder Pain
If you have any questions with that, feel free to schedule an appointment. We can go over that more specifically with what your case looks like and how exactly we can help that shoulder pain.
