1. How Chiropractic Care and Nutrition Work Together
Often, the best health care practices are those that combine different techniques and
methodologies to create an effective system of treatment. For example, to make your heart
stronger, it is recommended that you combine exercise, good nutrition, and stress management.
To clear up skin problems, a doctor will often recommend a combination of dietary changes,
topical ointments, and perhaps even vitamin supplements. Similarly, modern chiropractic
practices usually work with a person’s lifestyle and do not limit their scope to the scheduled
chiropractic appointments. As we learn more about the human body, it becomes clear that
chiropractic care and nutritional counseling go hand in hand.
What Is Chiropractic Care?
Chiropractic care is an area of health care that focuses on musculoskeletal issues.
Practitioners believe that by properly aligning the spine and other regions of the body, specific
maladies can be treated and overall health can improve. Chiropractors are probably best known

2. for their hands-on approach to health care. Using a variety of techniques, they manually align
your spine and other areas of the body.
Chiropractors treat a wide variety of symptoms and pains. Most commonly, they help
patients with back and neck pain, recurring headaches, and muscle spasms. They can also treat
sports-related injuries. These tend to occur along the joints of the body and a chiropractor will
work on wrists, knees, elbows, and shoulders. Beyond this, chiropractic care can also extend to
areas related to sleep disorders, asthma, digestive problems, and even menstrual conditions.
Proponents of this model of care believe that there are many potential advantages to having a
trained professional improve your alignment.
What Is Nutritional Counseling?
Nutritional counseling refers to the area of health care that focuses on changing what we
take into our body in order to improve health and wellness. A nutritionist prescribes dietary
changes, vitamins, and other supplements with the expectation that changing what is consumed
will alleviate everything from gastrointestinal problems to respiratory conditions to lack of
energy.
How Do Chiropractic Care and Nutritional Counseling Work Together?
The chiropractic and nutritional models of health care are a great fit for several reasons.
To begin with, both believe in treating the whole body. Wellness is not about one treatment, or
one magic pill. It’s about addressing issues related to what we take into our body, what we do
with our body, and how our body reacts to movement and activity. With this in mind, it makes
sense that a combination of a healthy eating plan, created especially for your body and your
needs by a trained nutritionist, and hands-on techniques geared toward aligning your spine and

3. easing musculoskeletal problems, performed by a trained chiropractor, would work well
together. They are complementary practices aimed at treating the whole body from the inside
out.
More and more, health care practitioners are working to provide their patients with a
wide spectrum of treatment options. In this vein, a chiropractor who goes on to get training in
nutritional counseling, or who hires a nutritionist to work alongside them in a joint practice,
provides patients with options and techniques that have the potential to drastically improve
health and wellness.