What is Chiropractic Care?

Chiropractic care helps unleash your natural healing ability and inner healer and it has been a blessing many millions of people around the world. What can chiropractic care do for you?

What Does a Doctor of Chiropractic Do?

Doctors of Chiropractic specialize in the bones of your spinal column and the nerves in and around your spinal cord. It is the largest and most called-upon drug-free healthcares system in the world.

Why should we focus on our spine and nerves? In your body, is the largest, most powerful supercomputer in the entire universe! Not only does your body store a lifetime’s worth of experiences, but it’s network system controls and coordinates everything we do, telling your systems when to work, what to do and when to do it, creating a perfectly self-functioning system. How do your systems to the mainframe creating this amazing communication system? What connects all the systems together is billions of ‘wires’. Certainly not made of metal or plastic – it is mostly water which flows through a special protective, temperature controlled casings. The mainframe is your brain protected by the casing (or skull), the network of computers are your cells, tissues, organs, and systems. Your nerves are the wires connecting everything together.

Your Brain and Body

How does your brain talk to your vital systems like your heart, lungs, and stomach? The body sends information through the immense communication system of your nerves. Nerves start beneath your skull as a tight bundle and exit through your spinal cord, out to every part of you. As messages are sent and received it allows your brain to control and coordinate the millions of functions in all your billions of body parts (muscles, glands, organs, tissues and more.)

After years of intense specialty training, chiropractors learn to locate spinal vertebrae that are out of place and interfering with the nerves both around your spinal cord and brain. Using a technique called a chiropractic spinal adjustment; they locate spine and nerve stress caused by vertebrae impinging the nerves (also called subluxation). Highly specialized techniques enable them to realign your vertebrae and release pressure on your nerves and body structure.

Are You Unaware of What is Going On with Your Body?

It is quite common to be unaware of subluxations in your spine. There is a reason you do not feel pain, many nerves do not send pain messages, thus you are unaware of the stress and damage a subluxation can be causing. Remember, for example, that you will feel something happen on your skin (which is loaded with sensory nerves sending continual messages to your conscious brain) but not feel anything from your liver. This is because the liver is similar to nerves that do not send out sensory signals to the conscious brain. Thus when the nerves not connected to the conscious brain are damaged the brain will not report pain even though the damage to the nerve could be causing physical dysfunction and disease. It is easy now to understand why you would not feel anything but still have subluxations and why subluxations are sometimes called "silent killers."

Are You Getting the Proper Nerve Supply?

Any subluxations (causing impinged or damaged nerves) cause the area the nerves fed to have faulty and improper nerve supply for years. Although you are totally unaware and may feel no pain, you body may be sustaining damage to the spinal column, weakening, and nerves and organs can become damaged or diseased. Subluxations can undermine your health for years, even decades. Compare this to a tooth decay you do not feel until it is too late.

The Ones in Pain are the Lucky Ones

Do you have neck and back pain? You are, in a way, lucky because you know you have a problem in your spinal column. You may do the smart thing by receiving chiropractic adjustments. Other suffer – colds, headaches, digestion trouble, depression, menstrual cramps, seizures, skin problems, muscle pain and more – and not know that the trouble in their spine could be relieved with chiropractic adjustments making a major difference in their health.

Conclusion

There are millions who are living life with subluxations, not feeling anything wrong, never getting checked out. Would you skip your dental or eye exams? Yet these millions of people are missing the very thing that controls the health of all your senses, organs and body systems. Come in for a chiropractic exam today and check out if you need a chiropractic adjustment.