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Did you know… chronic stress – especially chronic holiday stress – can contribute to health challenges like anxiety and even back pain?

Why?

When your body is in a constant state of stress, it produces hormones that can disrupt almost all of your body’s natural processes.

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Your stress level and spinal health are linked through your nervous system. Just think about what happens to you physically when you get stressed out. More specifically, think about how holiday stress affects the body.

Your muscles tense, your breathing patterns change, and often, so does the way you move.

As the leading neck and shoulder tension chiropractor in Lavaca County, we know that last part to be especially true. Changes in your posture, for example, can lead to neck pain, back pain, shoulder pain, and more – all in response to the stress you’re feeling.

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As the leading chronic pain chiropractor in Hallettsville, I know a thing or two about stress and the effects it can have on our neighbors before, during, and after the holiday season.

Stress can actually be a good thing. If a lion were chasing you, an increase in heart rate, muscle tension, and focus would hopefully help you escape unharmed! Thankfully, you don’t need to worry about being chased by a lion today.

However, it might be someone cutting you off on the way to pick up your holiday gifts that could also put your body into the same fight or flight mode.

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When back pain strikes, your first instinct might be to sit down or lie down until your discomfort subsides. But get this. Recent studies strongly suggest that medications and rest are actually a couple of the least effective ways to find relief!

What’s more, research also tells us that it’s often a lack of daily movement that causes back pain to begin in the first place! And, actually, most of us already know that, don’t we?