What Is Chiropractic?

According to The Association of Chiropractic Colleges, "chiropractic is a health care discipline which emphasizes the inherent recuperative power of the body to heal itself without the use of drugs or surgery. The practice of chiropractic focuses on the relationship between structure (primarily the spine) and function (as coordinated by the nervous system) and how that relationship affects the preservation and restoration of health."

The nervous system consists of the brain, spinal cord, and nerves. The brain is divided into sections and stores and receives an incredible amount of information. Nerves, including the spinal cord are the pathway the brain uses to communicate with the 70 trillion cells that make up the human body.  The spine and skull are there to house and protect these delicate vital pathways (nerves).

What is Vertebral Subluxation/ Spinal Nerve Stress?
 
When a spinal vertebra shifts out of alignment, it may put damaging pressure on the spinal nerves causing interruption to the vital nerve flow within your body. This condition is referred to as a VERTEBRAL SUBLUXATION/ SPINAL NERVE STRESS.
 

Between the spinal bones, called vertebrae, are nerves which transport messages from the brain to all organs, tissues and cells in the body. When the vertebrae are subluxated (out of alignment), the nerve passageway is blocked, and the life energy flowing through the nerve can be choked off. Any spinal imbalance will cause areas of the spinal column to work harder in order to compensate for the area that is out of balance. This interferes with your body's innate healing ability and lowers your resistance, causes muscles to spasm, accelerates arthritic or degenerative spinal changes, and may cause pain.
 
Only 10% Of Your Entire Nervous System Carries or Perceives Pain. Up To 90% Can Be Heavily Stressed Without Any Alarm, Whistles Or Bells!
 
Vertebral subluxation/ spinal nerve stress is commonly referred to as the "silent killer" because there are usually no early warning symptoms. Since your spinal cord (which carries your brain messages) runs inside the spinal column, it stands to reason that the spinal, column has the greatest opportunity to interfere with the power of your nerve flow. In fact, that's exactly what does occur.
 
Imagine the twenty-four moveable vertebrae which make up the spinal column (including the skull, sacrum and pelvis) undergoing continuous pressure from gravity. Then add tension from prolonged or unusual patterns of sitting and standing. Go further and consider the strain from walking, exercising, or mild to significant injuries sustained. Now let's compound this whole thing with the stress that comes from personal professional and emotional tension. If that wasn't enough, it's also well known that chemical toxicity from foods, medications and the environment cause reflexive stress to your spine. It's a wonder that healthy vital messages from the brain ever get to the body at all!
 
If this condition is not corrected, your organs and glands can not function properly and this can create abnormal body chemistry, disease and accelerated deterioration.