Seasonal Affective Disorder is a form of depression that typically happens in the fall or winter due to lack of sunshine. Reduced sunlight can also cause your serotonin levels to drop and melatonin levels to become unbalanced, which can play a role in your sleep patterns and mood.

If you have SAD, you may experience some of the following symptoms:

  • Lack of energy
  • Trouble concentrating
  • Sadness
  • Anxiety
  • Weight gain
  • Irritability

Of the 16 million affected, 75% of those are women.

Red Light Therapy is one of the most exciting tools we can add to our health arsenal.

Who can benefit from Red Light Therapy?

Seasonal Affected Disorder

Red Light Therapy (LLLT) is shown to boost your alertness, mood, energy, and concentration. It’s important to use Red Light regularly to achieve and maintain results.

Depression

By helping your circadian rhythm and balancing serotonin levels, research shows that light therapy may improve depression and mental clarity.

Sleep Disorders

Research is showing that using light therapy can positively affect melatonin and serotonin levels in your brain. This allows for a more restful and deep sleep which will allow for a more consistent sleep schedule.

People taking Anti-Depressant Medication

If you’re taking an antidepressant, think of using light therapy in partnership with your medications. By balancing out serotonin levels on top of your current medication, it will amplify the affects.

Studies in animals and humans have shown that depression and anxiety coincide with certain mitochondrial alterations—including changes in cellular respiration and the generation of ATP, the energy currency of all cells.

So, it might not come as a surprise that low-level laser therapy, targeting mitochondria, can have an impact on these conditions! The first clinical trial of red light therapy for depression and anxiety found that a series of treatments with an 810 nm laser led to improvements in their depression and anxiety scores at the two-week follow-up.


Inflammation

Chronic inflammation is a condition that can affect many people around the world. This condition can occur when your immune system becomes overactive, resulting in chronic and unhealthy levels of inflammation throughout the body.

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Fortunately, there are treatments available for chronic inflammation, including chiropractic care. Our chiropractors work by addressing the underlying causes of chronic inflammation and helping to regulate your immune response, thereby potentially helping to reduce inflammation and restore health to your body. We at Chiropractic Wellness Center, serving Kansas City, MO, Prairie Village, KS, and Overland Park, KS, are here to help you get control of your immune response.

How Chiropractic Care Can Help

Chiropractic care is a natural and holistic approach to chronic inflammation that can provide lasting relief without the use of dangerous medications or invasive treatments. Chiropractors specialize in correcting misalignments in the spine, which can help improve your overall posture, reduce chronic pain from inflammation, and restore balance to the body’s nervous system. Through spinal manipulation, our chiropractors can help treat chronic inflammation by releasing imbalanced pressure on joints and muscles, as well as reducing tension on nerves that may be contributing to chronic inflammation.

Spinal manipulation is a key component of chiropractic care. It is a hands-on treatment technique that helps to reduce chronic inflammation and pain by releasing tension on joints, muscles, and nerves. By gently manipulating the spine, our chiropractors can help restore alignment to the bones, joints, and muscles in the body.

Spinal manipulation works by targeting specific areas of chronic tension or misalignment. This can help reduce chronic inflammation by allowing for better blood flow to the affected areas and helping to improve nerve communication within the body. Additionally, spinal manipulation can help restore balance to the musculoskeletal system.

Our chiropractors can use a variety of techniques during spinal manipulation, such as applying gentle pressure with their hands or using special instruments to apply pressure or make adjustments. The types of manipulations used depend on the patient’s condition, medical history, and how chronic their inflammation is.

Exercises and Lifestyle Advice

In addition to relieving chronic inflammation through spinal manipulation, chiropractic care also helps promote overall health by providing lifestyle advice such as diet modifications and exercise suggestions that can further reduce chronic inflammation in the body and improve overall wellbeing. By understanding how chronic inflammation affects the body’s structure and function, and how spinal manipulation can be used to treat it, our chiropractors are able to provide relief without dangerous medications or invasive treatments.

Treatment Techniques

We can provide treatments such adjustments, spinal decompression, TheraLight 360, red light therapy, and potentially more. We can combine a variety of treatments to help make sure that you get care that is personalized for you.

Visit Us for More Information from a Chiropractor on Our Team

If you are in Kansas City, MO, Prairie Village, KS, or Overland Park, KS, and looking for chiropractic care, call us today. We at Chiropractic Wellness Center are here to help. Call us at (816) 561-7035 for a chiropractor on our team.

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