How Can a Chiropractor Help with Pulled Muscles?

Don't let pulled muscles get you down! If you suffer from a pulled or strained muscle, it doesn't have to impede your daily life. Our chiropractor at Health & Healing Family Chiropractic can help you find the freedom and relief you deserve. Continue reading to learn more about how our chiropractor can help with pulled muscles.

What Is a Pulled Muscle?

All muscles have a defined level of elasticity that allows you the freedom to move. Muscle strains or a pulled muscle is when a tendon or muscle is torn or overstretched beyond its limit. These injuries can affect people of all fitness levels and ages and may occur without warning. Even if you sit behind a desk, you can pull a muscle from stretching or standing up the wrong way.

What Are the Symptoms of Pulled Muscles?

Symptoms of a pulled muscle can vary from person to person, but the pain is the most common. You'll typically experience the worst pain at the location of the injury accompanied by swelling or redness and limited movement at the site. Pain can be present when you're at rest, but it almost always worsens as you move. Other symptoms include stiffness and deep bruising. With pulled muscles, you may also have some level of muscle fiber tearing. The amount of tearing always depends on the injury. In the most severe injuries, the muscle will be torn through all the way through.

How Can a Chiropractor Help with Pulled Muscles?

At Health & Healing Family Chiropractic, we offer several treatments to help you find relief and expedite the healing process. However, it all starts with a thorough physical examination of the pulled muscle to determine the best course of action.

Many patients we treat find immediate relief with a manual adjustment. Manual adjustments work to help:

1. Reduce pain neurologically
2. Improve and restore motion and joint alignment
3. Decrease protective muscle spasms

Our chiropractors will use a unique combination of treatments to help you find relief by repairing the muscle, realigning the joints involved with the strained muscle, improving blood flow, and re-strengthening the pulled muscle.

Contact Health & Healing Family Chiropractic for Pulled Muscle Relief

If you suffer from an acute or chronic pulled muscle, you're only a phone call away from relief.

Contact the chiropractor at Health & Healing Family Chiropractic. Our number is 905-916-4325.