02/10/2025
🧠✨ How Chiropractic Care Affects Your Brain and Wellbeing ✨🧠
Did you know chiropractic care can do more than help your back and neck?
A 2024 study by Haavik et al, looked at how chiropractic adjustments affect your brain and overall health — and the results are pretty amazing!
👥 76 people with chronic low back pain were studied. Half of them received chiropractic care, the other half did not.
📈 The researchers measured:
Brain activity (using EEG brain scans)
Nervous system responses (SEPs)
Sleep and movement (via Fitbit)
Quality of life (using PROMIS-29 surveys)
🧠 What changed after chiropractic care?
✅ More balanced brainwaves — increases in calming Alpha, Beta & Theta waves, and a decrease in Delta (often linked to dysfunction).
✅ Improved brain function in the Default Mode Network — a key area tied to rest, recovery, healing, and emotional regulation.
✅ Nervous system changes — reduced activity in the N30 response (linked to sensory processing), showing the brain-body connection was shifting.
✅ Better sleep quality, especially in light sleep stages.
✅ Less pain, anxiety, depression, and fatigue
✅ Improved overall quality of life
💡 The bottom line:
Chiropractic care doesn’t just help your spine — it may actually reboot your brain to help your whole body feel and function better.
👐 It's more than cracking backs — it’s about supporting your brain-body connection.
