1. Get adjusted. It’s important to make your chiropractic appointments in order to keep your spine fluid and moving nicely. Keeping your spine in balance keeps those muscles in balance. When any physical, chemical, or emotional stress happens, the spine has to absorb that stress and deal with it. A lot of times, the spine will go into what’s called a compensation pattern—where the body is misaligned and several other areas of the spine become misaligned in order to compensate