Can Chiropractic Care help with Long Covid-19 Symptoms?

Most individuals suffering from a lingering Covid-19, experience cough, fever, body aches, fatigue, and other flulike symptoms. Recovery typically takes between 1-2 weeks, and most people make a full recovery within one month. If you are experiencing lingering effects from being sick, this blog is for you.

Symptoms of Long Covid-19

Listed are common symptoms experienced while recovering from lingering Covid-19. These symptoms are also often present when sick with the flu! These symptoms include, but are not limited to...

• Headaches 
• Brain Fog 
• Muscle and Body Aches 
• Fatigue and 
• Cough
• Shortness of breath
• Pins and needles feeling

Why do my Ribs, Chest and Back Hurt During Recovery From Being Sick? 

• Have you ever gotten over an illness that involved a lot of coughing or sneezing and noticed rib, chest or back pain? The reason for this is that every time you cough or sneeze the muscles around your ribs and stomach contract to build up pressure. Repeatedly doing this can result in a great amount of pain due to muscle soreness and joint pain as well as rib and thoracic vertebrae misalignment(s). Expended periods of coughing and sneezing are associated symptoms when recovering from more severe illnesses.
  • Chiropractors are trained to assess, and fix any subluxation or misalignment in the joints in your body. This includes the ribs! Which anyone who has had a 'rib out' knows how annoying and painful this can be.
  • Chiropractors are also skilled in soft tissue work to differentiate if the muscle needs help lengthening and relaxing causing pain or if the muscle needs strengthening exercises because of being over worked. 

Does Being Sedentary Play a Role in my Symptoms?

• Along with the increased fatigue and other associated symptoms of being sick, comes more time sleeping and resting during recovery. The period of being sedentary often results in an increase in joint pain due to immobility. The reason for this is that each joint in your body depends on movement for health. This is largely because motion allows more hydration and nutrients to the joints. With immobility, joints will become less hydrated, stiffer and more prone to pain. 
  • Chiropractic care is designed to restore normal biomechanical movement in the joints that are immobile, causing you pain. 
  • Chiropractors are also able to palpate (feel) which muscles are tight, inflamed or involved in causing you pain, allowing them to know exactly where your body needs worked on.

Neck Stiffness and Misalignment Can Often be a Contributor to Your Headaches! 

These are known as cervicogenic headaches (headaches that originate from the neck). This is due to misalignment of the very upper vertebrae of the neck, causing muscle tension that places unwanted pressure on nearby nerves, resulting in a headache. Misalignment and immobility in the upper vertebrae can be caused from a number of different things, such as poor sleeping posture, being sedentary for long periods of time and activities of daily living such as looking down at your phone or computer for extended periods of time.

If you have been experiencing continuous headaches associated with being sick, chiropractic care may be your answer to relief. Chiropractors are trained to assess for cervicogenic headaches and have excellent results with headache relief. 

Benefits of Chiropractic Care with Common illness Symptoms

Some common benefits of chiropractic care include, but are not limited to...

1. Decreased joint stiffness
2. Improved overall mobility
3. Headache relief 
4. Back and neck pain relief 
5. Decreased brain fog and 
6. Rib subluxation correction

Chiropractors specialize in the neuromuscoskeletal system, meaning they have extensive education and training in the nervous, muscular and skeletal system. What often surprises patients about chiropractic care is the broad spectrum of conditions that it helps with! Listed above are just some of the benefits patients receive from chiropractic care when recovering from an illness.

Chiropractic care is a great way to manage associated symptoms that come with being ill. Common symptoms seen with long-term illness are back and neck pain, headaches, brain fog, muscle and body aches and pain. Schedule a consultation with one of our amazing doctors to see if chiropractic care can help alleviate some of your symptoms.

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