Long Life Chiropractic & Wellness of Manchester, TN is your source for chiropractic care in Manchester to increase PERFORMANCE in all aspects of life! At Long Life Chiropractic & Wellness, Dr. Long and his staff are dedicated to providing the community with the highest quality of chiropractic care. We are conveniently located just off the square in Manchester at the corner of Highway 41 and South Woodland St.

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The mission of Long Life Chiropractic & Wellness is to promote optimum health, increased longevity, and improved performance in the lives of the community through chiropractic care. Dr. Long seeks to empower the community to take their health into their own hands to live the life they want to live! It is a vitalistic and proactive form of health care. Each patient will undergo, if deemed necessary, a case history, diagnostic exams and imaging, chiropractic care and adjustments, therapeutic modalities, recommended exercise regimens, nutritional recommendations and education, nervous and musculoskeletal system education, and postural education to improve health, longevity, and performance throughout life.

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At Long Life Chiropractic & Wellness, our approach is simple. We believe that health is our most valuable possession to continue living the life we want to live. There are many aspects that encompass health including; nutrition, physical activity, mental, emotional, and spiritual well-being. It is also imperative to make sure that the body is structurally and functionally sound through chiropractic care. Most people tend to seek chiropractic care due to acute or chronic back and neck pain which leads to less active lifestyles, degeneration, difficulty with daily activities, and overall a decrease in health. Chiropractic care can help decrease acute or chronic back and neck pain and get you to moving and living life again to its fullest (read stages of care to learn more), but it goes much further than that. Sometimes pain is the very last symptom alarming us that there is a problem. The health of the spine is important to the overall health of the body for two broad reasons outside of simply decreasing back and neck pain.

For starters, the spine must be in proper alignment and free from joint dysfunction so that the musculoskeletal system can function to allow for proper biomechanics (movement) of the entire body. Without this proper alignment, muscles and joints of the body start to compensate in tonicity (activation of muscles) and compromised movement patterns (lack of motion). This leads to degeneration, joint dysfunction, muscular imbalances, and decreased physical/athletic performance. Secondly, the spinal cord travels nearly the entire length of the spine after exiting the brain and is protected by each vertebra in the spine. At the top and bottom of the spine, the nervous system is anchored to the structure through small connective tissue attachments. Misalignments in the spine can put torque and tension on the nervous system due to this fact and can even impair spinal fluid flow. In addition, nerves travel out from the spinal cord through small openings between each vertebra and these nerves go to every muscle, organ, and tissue in the body. These nerves control every function in the body including but not limited to muscular recruitment/activity, joint proprioception (where joints are in space), digestion, heart rate, breathing, and even immune function. Misalignments in the spine can create impaired functioning in these bodily systems contributing to a number of different symptoms outside of pain alone. Proper alignment of the spine is important so that true health can be realized and not just the absence of pain or symptoms. As chiropractors, our job is to analyze the spine to look for these misalignments and joint dysfunction, which we call subluxations, so as to correct the root problem to improve health!

Physical, mental, or emotional stressors in our day-to-day lives can lead to these subluxations and our commitment to the patient is two-fold; provide the highest quality care possible and ultimately to get you living the life you want to live. Our care treats the whole family so whether you're an adult seeking to increase performance in your daily activities, an athlete seeking improved performance in sports, a mom-to-be seeking to have a healthy pregnancy (through prenatal care), or a parent seeking to increase performance and health for the whole family (including pediatric care), we can provide quality chiropractic care that you can trust!