The Digestive Zone and Zone Technique in Woodstock, GA

Chiropractic Care In Woodstock, GA

Subluxations are vertebral bones out of place, which cause interference to the nerves exiting the spine and the glands, organs, and muscles they innervate. Subluxations also cause restricted motion and function of the spine. Subluxations are usually painless as only 11% of the nerve transmits pain. The other 89% controls muscles, glands, organs, and blood vessels. These subluxations can cause many health problems as the body cannot heal, function, or adapt properly.

We use the Zone Technique and the Cranial Release Technique to gently and specifically locate and correct subluxations. Chiropractic adjustments, mostly done with instruments due to their speed and specificity, are used to balance the subluxated spinal segments as identified during the Zone Technique analysis.

Research shows that the brain is most open to change 12-20 minutes after an adjustment. Rather than send you back into the world, we finish each visit in our Transformation Station.

• Zero Gravity Chair – relieves the pressure of gravity on your spine (as the brain uses 90% of its energy to keep you upright in posture).
• Earthing Technology – helps balance your body’s energy and eliminate inflammation.
• BrainTap Headset – stimulates your brain with light and sound while you listen to soft music and guided imagery designed to help you reach your health goals, from weight loss to better sleep.

The Transformation Station amplifies and locks in the chiropractic adjustment you just had, so your healing and progress are accelerated.

GERD

GERD stands for Gastroesophageal reflux disease. Some of the most common symptoms of GERD are heartburn, bad breath, regurgitation, dental corrosion, chronic cough, hoarseness, laryngitis, and asthma. GERD occurs when there is inadequate closure of the lower esophageal sphincter, allowing acid and stomach contents to leave the stomach and go up the esophagus.

The inadequate closure of the lower esophageal sphincter can be caused by poor nerve supply, so once the nervous system is balanced, the nerves going to the sphincter can function properly, restore adequate tone to the sphincter so it opens and closes the way it was supposed to, resolving GERD.

IBS

IBS is also known as Irritable Bowel Syndrome. Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) is a common disorder that affects the stomach and intestines, also called the gastrointestinal tract. Symptoms of IBS include cramping, abdominal pain, bloating, gas, diarrhea, and constipation. The exact cause of IBS isn’t known; however, factors that play a role include muscle contractions of the intestine, issues with the nerves in your digestive system, severe infection, early life stress, and changes in gut bacteria, fungi, and viruses.

Balancing the nervous system allows the digestive system’s glands, organs, and muscles to receive proper signals and function optimally, restoring muscle tone to the intestines. With good nerve flow to the digestive system, the gut pH can return to normal, allowing normal bacteria, fungi, and viruses to return to their proper levels.

Crohn’s Disease

Crohn’s disease is a type of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) that causes swelling of the tissues (inflammation) in your digestive tract, leading to abdominal pain, severe diarrhea, fatigue, weight loss, and malnutrition. When the disease is active, symptoms typically include diarrhea, fever, fatigue, abdominal pain and cramping, bloody stools, mouth sores, reduced appetite and weight loss, and pain or drainage near or around the anus due to inflammation from a tunnel into the skin.

The exact cause of Crohn’s disease remains unknown. Previously, diet and stress were suspected, but now doctors know these factors may aggravate but don’t cause Crohn’s disease. Several factors likely play a role in its development, including the immune system and heredity.

Through balancing the nervous system, chiropractic can help to normalize immune function, which can help with Crohn’s disease. A balanced nervous system can help the body properly digest food and allow proper processing of stress, which could minimize flare-ups. A properly functioning nervous system can positively affect your epigenetic potential. Epigenetics is the study of how your behaviors and environment can cause changes that affect how your genes work, so this could also help address the hereditary aspect of the root cause of Crohn’s disease.

Constipation & Diarrhea

Constipation most commonly occurs when waste or stool moves too slowly through the digestive tract or cannot be eliminated effectively, which may cause the stool to become hard and dry. Chronic constipation has many possible causes, including blockages, nerve supply issues, colon muscle problems, and hormonal imbalances.

Several diseases and conditions can cause diarrhea, including viruses, bacteria and parasites, medication, lactose intolerance, artificial sweeteners, and other digestive disorders. By normalizing nerve flow to the organs, glands, and muscles of the digestive system, chiropractic care addresses the root causes of both constipation and diarrhea.

Bloating & Gas

Gas in your stomach is primarily caused by swallowing air when you eat or drink. Most stomach gas is released when you burp. Gas in your abdomen forms in your large intestine when bacteria ferment carbohydrates — fiber, some starches, and some sugars — that aren’t digested in your small intestine. Bacteria also consume some of that gas, but the remaining gas should be released when you pass gas. Certain foods, medications, or diseases can also cause bloating and gas.

Bloating and gas can feel like intense pressure, cramps, or knotting in your stomach and lower abdomen. By balancing the nerves going to the digestive system, your digestive organs can begin to heal and function normally so that gas expels like it should and doesn’t build up in the large intestine.

Dyspepsia

Dyspepsia, the medical term for indigestion, refers to discomfort or pain in the upper abdomen, often after eating or drinking. Common symptoms include bloating, discomfort, feeling too full, nausea, and gas. Common causes of indigestion include dietary factors, smoking, obesity, and stress. By restoring proper nerve flow to the digestive system, normal function can return, resolving dyspepsia.

Lactose Intolerance

Lactose intolerance is the inability to digest the sugars in milk completely, resulting in diarrhea, nausea, vomiting, stomach cramps, bloating, and gas. Lactose intolerance occurs when your small intestine doesn’t produce enough of an enzyme (lactase) to digest milk sugar (lactose).

Chiropractic care can balance the nerve supply to the digestive system, allowing for the proper environment for bacteria that produce lactase to flourish. This, along with appropriate probiotics, can repopulate the digestive system to resolve lactose intolerance.

Ulcerative Colitis

Ulcerative colitis is an inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) that causes inflammation and ulcers (sores) in your digestive tract.

Ulcerative colitis symptoms can vary depending on the severity of inflammation and where it occurs. Signs and symptoms may include diarrhea with blood or pus, rectal pain and bleeding, abdominal pain, urgency and inability to defecate, weight loss, fatigue, and fever. In children, it can cause failure to grow.
The exact cause of ulcerative colitis remains unknown. Previously, diet and stress were suspected. However, researchers now know these factors may aggravate but don’t cause ulcerative colitis. Immune function and heredity are considered possible causes.

Through balancing the nervous system, chiropractic can help to normalize immune function, which can help heal ulcerative colitis. A properly functioning nervous system can positively affect your epigenetic potential. Epigenetics is the study of how your behaviors and environment can cause changes that affect how your genes work, so this could also help address the hereditary aspect of the root cause of ulcerative colitis.