Don’t chiropractors and massage therapists work against each other?

No. Actually, they should work together. The muscles attach to the skeleton. When the skeleton is misaligned, muscles must move differently than the way they were originally designed to move. Think of the muscles as tent strings, and the spine as a tent pole. When the tent strings are too tight, they pull the tent pole over. Relax the tent string and the tent pole can be correctly positioned. Also, there can be a nerve impingement due to spinal misalignment, which can keep the signal for the muscle to relax from reaching its destination. From the other side, the muscles can be so tight that they pull the spine out of alignment or are holding the spine so tight that the chiropractic adjustment cannot hold. By relaxing the muscles before the adjustment is attempted, the chiropractic adjustments are frequently made easier and hold better. Frequently the best approach is to have the massage therapist relax the muscle so the chiropractor can do the adjustment, then work with a fitness ...  more