The relationship of the individual to his or her environment is dependent upon a clear and flexible nervous system. The individual who is clear of interference in his or her nervous system has a more effective connection between his or her emotional, physical, and spiritual aspects. Chiropractic spinal adjustments remove interference to the nervous system’s tension and function.
The brain and spinal cord are one connected unit. The spinal cord, as it passes through the neck and back, is the main conduit from the brain for energy relay and coordination. This soft, vital spinal cord is protected by hard bones called vertebrae. Between the vertebrae are shock absorbing cushions know as discs. Vital spinal nerves emanate from the cord, pass through openings between the vertebrae, and relay the life force directed by your innate intelligence.
Through an extensive nerve network, your innate intelligence (inborn wisdom) coordinates all functions and regenerates and animates all body parts.
Every cell of the body is stirred to life by its reception of this vital life energy, and its reality is determined by the quality and quantity of nerve impulses.
When individuals function with a clear and flexible nervous system,
they are better able to recover from life’s challenges.
They adapt to changes more easily and better to heal and express their true health capacities.
Malpositioning of the spinal cord, nerves, and vertebrae can create mechanical tension. This may interfere with the flow of vital life force and the coordination of all life processes. When these things occur, it is called a vertebral subluxation.
Chiropractors are concerned about the presence of vertebral subluxations. They seek to detect and correct these interferences to the flow of life through spinal adjustments.
WHAT CAUSES IT?
What causes vertebral sublux- ation? Any stresses that your body cannot deal with at a point in time may produce a vertebral subluxation.
Changes in your environment (be they physical, chemical, mental, or emotional) create stress. Your brain must access the situation and react to it. We have a capacity to respond to stress as a part of normal, everyday life. However, when we exceed our capacity, we must either change for the better and grow, or we may express symptoms and disease.
Your brain and body can handle an enormous amount of stress. Beyond a certain point, your system becomes overloaded. The combined effect of a variety of stresses and the inability of the nervous system to deal with them can produce vertebral subluxations. These subluxations involve elongation,twisting, or compression of the system resulting in a persistent misalignment of the spinal vertebrae. The resulting interference disrupts the nervous system’s natural ability to assemble and sort out neurological instructions. Like a computer, if the input (messages to the system) is distorted, then the output (messages from the nervous system to the body cells) will also be distorted.
WHAT CAN YOUR CHIROPRACTOR DO ABOUT SUBLUXATIONS?
According to the type and location of the vertebral subluxations and the level of care you are experiencing, your practitioner will use the method of adjustment to which you best respond. The “adjustment” is created by the body’s response to the chiropractor’s applied force. This force utilized to reduce and correct the vertebral subluxation may be gentle, or firmer, depending on what your body needs.