Since good posture is one of the factors that helps preserve adult continence, the question comes to mind, can chiropractic treatment help keep you continent? With even the tiniest changes is posture severely affecting everything in your body, it makes sense that if your backbone is tight or crooked, as you get older you may begin to have problems with adult continence.

Not only does your posture affect your back, neck, knees and even breathing, it also affects the alignment of your pelvis, which houses all of your internal organs. If the angle of your pelvis is slightly off, then your organs including your bladder, may not be properly supported.

When you are young, your pelvic floor muscles are generally strong enough to compensate for bad posture, so you may never give the chiropractor a second thought. As you age, however, and the tissues throughout your body weaken, unfortunately that will include the muscles of your pelvic floor as well. This is where you may want to stack the deck in your favor with good posture.

By maintaining good posture as you age, you may be able to maintain your continence much longer than you ever expected. Of course you will want to keep your core muscles as strong as possible, but incontinence typically responds well to the pressure relieving benefits of a good chiropractic adjustment. To understand why an adjustment works, you will want to consider for a moment what is actually happening during the adjustment.

When the Chiropractor makes adjustment to your spine it can affect your entire body. The spinal cord meets the brain and this makes up your entire nervous system, which controls everything in your body. These nerves control all motor movements, and this includes urination. So if understand that the central nervous system is actually protected by the backbone and the skull, it may begin to make sense why adjusting your backbone can help keep you from becoming incontinent.

When a Chiropractor makes the adjustment to a joint in your backbone, he may be relieving pressure on one of your nerves, which may have suffered bad communication with the brain as a result of the pinching pressure. When the pressure is relieved, normal communication is restored, and with normal communication comes normal body function.

Since urinary incontinence can be caused by improper nerve function, and adjusting the backbone can correct the function of the nerve, it turns out that having a well-adjusted spine along with your good posture can really help you stave off the onset of adult urinary incontinence. Even with weakening muscles as you age, having all of the nerves running along your backbone properly functioning can give help you to retain or even regain your adult continence.

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