Chiropractor For Skin Conditions in Woodstock, GA

Comprehensive Consultation and Exam

In our practice, we listen to you to understand your issues and how they affect your life. From there, we perform multiple computerized exams to determine how your nervous system is functioning and use this information as a benchmark to improve upon and choose the best way to work with you.

Getting to the root cause of the problem is essential. Without doing so, your issues will continue to exist and manifest in other ways. If a smoke alarm goes off, you can pull the batteries out to silence the annoying beeping and go back to sleep, but the fire will continue to rage. Your body is no different. If you try to eliminate only the symptom, the cause will continue to smolder in your body, causing damage.

Specific Chiropractic Care In Woodstock, GA

The nervous system is intimately connected to our skin, helping to coordinate roles in protection, sensation, elimination, healing, and more. Nerve interference via subluxations can cause the skin not to function on many levels, from how it feels to how it functions and heals. Chiropractic adjustments will allow the nervous system to work interference-free so that your skin can function, adapt, and heal as it was meant to.

Chiropractic care focuses on optimizing the way your nervous system functions so that you can heal yourself, whereas most conventional treatments focus on symptom relief, and they may not address the cause.

Nutrition and Supplementation

Diet plays a significant role in healthy skin, from proper hydration to the foods we eat. The best diet varies from person to person, but eliminating processed foods and foods high in sugar or seed oils is always a good start. Whole, organic foods are better for your skin than processed, synthetic ones, especially those high in sugar. Some people may have different sensitivities, such as nightshade foods like eggplants and tomatoes, so there is no one-size-fits-all approach to diet.

Vitamin A and Vitamin D are good supplements, especially from fish oil. They are fat-soluble vitamins, meaning you can overdose on them, so don’t overdo them, but they are important for skin health.

Zone Technique

Utilizing the Zone Technique in chiropractic care can be transformative for individuals suffering from chronic skin conditions. This specialized approach focuses on balancing the body’s vital energy zones, promoting overall well-being and aiding the body’s natural healing process. For chronic skin conditions, targeted adjustments within the affected zone can help reduce symptoms and promote optimal spinal alignment. By identifying and addressing the specific zone(s) related to chronic skin conditions, chiropractors can enhance circulation and nerve function. This tailored technique not only mitigates symptoms but also fosters long-term healing, allowing individuals to regain mobility and resume their daily activities with improved spinal health and healthier skin.

Natural Stress Management

Stress can contribute to skin issues through various mechanisms, be it directly through hormone regulation or indirectly with stress-eating highly processed and sugary foods. Chiropractic care balances and regulates your nervous system, pulling you out of the “fight or flight” mode that most people are in every day and allowing you to enter the “rest, heal, and repair” mode that we need to heal and regenerate.

Chiropractic gets to the root cause of stress, the nervous system. An overstimulated nervous system stuck in “fight or flight” must be pulled from that cycle into a “rest, heal, and repair” one. Deep breathing techniques are also great for that. These non-invasive methods don’t further stress the body with the addition of drugs.

Acne

Acne is a skin condition that occurs when your hair follicles become plugged with oil and dead skin cells. It causes whiteheads, blackheads, or pimples. Acne is most common among teenagers, though it affects people of all ages. Depending on its severity, acne can cause emotional distress and scar the skin.

Many issues, including hormonal changes, poor diet, stress, and certain medications can cause acne. Chiropractic doesn’t treat acne breakouts but allows the body to better function and heal itself. A balanced nervous system can help balance hormones, lower stress, and better process waste from your diet.

Psoriasis

Psoriasis is a skin disease that causes a rash with itchy, scaly patches, most commonly on the knees, elbows, trunk, and scalp. Psoriasis is a common, long-term (chronic) disease with no cure. It can be painful, interfere with sleep, and make it hard to concentrate. The condition tends to go through cycles, flaring for a few weeks or months, then subsiding for a while. Common triggers in people with a genetic predisposition to psoriasis include infections, cuts or burns, and certain medications.

Psoriasis can affect health because it is painful skin condition and can cause sleep loss, which adds to the emotional stress of having this skin condition. Chiropractic adjustments can help balance the brain and nervous system, allowing the body to better heal itself, adapt, and regulate, positively affecting psoriasis.

Dermatitis

Dermatitis is a common condition that causes swelling and irritation of the skin. It has many causes and forms and often involves itchy, dry skin or a rash. Or it might cause the skin to blister, ooze, crust, or flake. Three common types of this condition are atopic dermatitis, contact dermatitis, and seborrheic dermatitis. Atopic dermatitis is also known as eczema.

Dermatitis symptoms can be:

• Itchiness
• Dry, cracked skin
• Rash
• Blisters
• Thickening skin
• Dandruff
• Small raised bumps

A common cause of dermatitis is contact with something that irritates your skin or triggers an allergic reaction. Examples of such things are poison ivy, perfume, lotion, and jewelry containing nickel. Other causes of dermatitis include dry skin, a viral infection, bacteria, stress, genetic makeup, and a problem with the immune system.

Dermatitis can affect physical health because repeated scratching that breaks the skin can cause open sores and cracks. These increase the risk of infection from bacteria and fungi. Mental health can be affected due to embarrassment from outbreaks and dandruff.

Chiropractic doesn’t treat dermatitis, but a properly functioning brain and nervous system due to chiropractic care can better regulate the skin and potentially reduce sensitivities to what may normally cause someone’s dermatitis.

Eczema

Atopic dermatitis (eczema) is a condition that causes dry, itchy, and inflamed skin. Eczema symptoms can appear anywhere on the body and vary widely from person to person. They may include:

• Dry, cracked skin
• Itchiness (pruritus)
• Rash on swollen skin that varies in color depending on your skin color
• Small, raised bumps on brown or black skin
• Oozing and crusting
• Thickened skin
• Darkening of the skin around the eyes
• Raw, sensitive skin from scratching

People with atopic dermatitis are at risk of developing food allergies, hay fever, and asthma, which are all immune system issues. Besides the annoyance of itching, the emotional tolls of being embarrassed and covering up to hide flare-ups can negatively affect mental health.

By balancing the brain and nervous system, the body can begin to heal and function properly, in most cases eliminating the underlying cause of eczema.

Rosacea

Rosacea is a common skin condition that causes flushing or long-term redness on your face. It also may cause enlarged blood vessels and small, pus-filled bumps. Some symptoms may flare for weeks to months and then disappear. Rosacea can be mistaken for acne, dermatitis, or other skin problems.
The cause of rosacea is not known. It could be due to genetics, an overactive immune system, or things in your daily life. Rosacea is not caused by poor hygiene, and you can’t catch it from other people.

Rosacea can affect physical health by not only aggravating the skin but the eyes and nose as well. The mental stresses of rosacea extend beyond the discomfort in the physical appearance of someone with it to frustration with the many triggers that need to be avoided, such as wind, hot drinks, spicy foods, exercise, emotional stress, hot or cold weather, and more.

Chiropractic doesn’t treat rosacea, but having a balanced brain and nervous system thanks to chiropractic care can allow for better healing and function of the skin in general.

Skin Allergies

When you encounter something your body thinks is dangerous, it is called an allergen. Your immune system overreacts and releases antibodies to fight off these “invaders.” That fight triggers symptoms like a rash or swelling.

Contact dermatitis is the most common skin allergy. Symptoms can range from redness and swelling to rashes, cracking, blisters, and bumps. These are due to an overreaction of the nervous system.

Skin allergies can affect physical health due to the skin being covered with rashes and swelling and mental health due to the effects of the discomfort and visual changes in skin that one can be self-conscious about.

Skin allergies have been tied to an overactive immune response. The immune system is controlled by the nervous system. A properly balanced nervous system due to chiropractic care can help alleviate skin allergies.