Wilmington Nutrition at Chiropractic Central

Dr. David Lude's Chiropractic Central in Wilmington, NC is a full service clinic that is dedicated to pain relief, healing and overall wellness care. We treat back pain, headaches, herniated discs, auto accident injuries and personal injuries using a combination of chiropractic techniques combined with physiotherapy, lifestyle advice, massage therapy and nutritional advice. Dr. David Lude's motto is "your needs are central to my care."

Good nutrition is imperative to maintaining a healthy lifestyle and to healing any type of back pain or soft tissue injury. This is one of the main reasons why we offer nutritional counseling to our patients. Eating the proper foods in the appropriate amounts has been proven by numerous medical studies to be essential for healing many different types of wounds and injuries. The human body requires a balanced diet of proteins, fruits, vegetables, carbohydrates and fats to remain healthy and active.

Vitamins and minerals are also essential for optimal health and healing. Unfortunately, many of the foods people eat are high in calories but are devoid of nutritional value. A nutritionally poor, high calorie diet is a double-edged sword. Carrying extra weight burdens the spine and joints and leads to back problems. At the same time the lack of vitamins and minerals makes it impossible for the body to heal itself and this further exasperates the pain and leads to other serious medical problems. Taking a good quality vitamin supplement is beneficial but it will not make up for poor eating habits and an imbalanced diet. Although basic good nutrition has been standardized, every patient is unique and optimal nutrition varies depending on a person’s age, lifestyle, sex and a variety of other factors. Moreover, certain diets are very helpful for treating certain types of injuries but are not beneficial for others. In addition, some people have food allergies to things like wheat and milk that can aggravate back and joint pain and cause headaches and stomach issues. In short every individual is unique so we do tailor each nutrition plan to the needs and goals of each patient.

Wilmington Chiropractor Provides Individualized Nutritional Plans

During your care here at the clinic, our chiropractor will design a nutritional plan to heal your injury. The nutritional counseling will not only promote healing it will help you feel better and add to your overall strength and health. In some cases, such as chronic headache, the pain is actually a symptom of a common food allergy like chocolate that you may not be aware of. Migraines in particular are often triggered by food allergies and they can be effectively treated using a combination of exercises, massage therapy and diet.

Chronic spinal pain and joint pain is also sometimes related to food allergies and nutritional counseling is very beneficial in such cases. Our approach at our Wilmington clinic is always to provide our patients with pain relief and wellness care that will give them more energy and promote a happier and healthy lifestyle. Good health, healing and nutrition are all interrelated and once we start you down the path to healing you will not believe how much better you feel. Call us today at 910-795-4604 to schedule a nutritional consultation.