Your body is a self-healing and self-regulating organism. It has the intelligence to effortlessly perform life sustaining tasks continually while we go about our days. We can go to school and learn or go to work to earn a living trusting in our bodies to keep us functioning. We can even go to sleep with the reassurance that the body’s intelligence will silently manage all of our life sustaining functions. We don’t need to think about beating our heart, filling our lungs with oxygen, filtering our blood, creating new cells or digesting our dinner. Why? Because our body’s do it automatically!
All of the bodies systems (parts) are controlled and coordinated by the Nervous system. It is the single most important organ in our body because without it, no other organ tissue or cell would be able to function. Many people question this by asking what about the heart, “We couldn’t live without the heart”. They are correct, like other organs it is known as a vital organ. It beats continually, pumping blood around our body, without it we could not survive. But for the heart to beat it must have a nerve impulse telling it to.
The nervous system is made up of the brain, cranial nerves, spinal cord, spinal nerves and peripheral nerves. Do you remember the old telephone lines before mobile? The nervous system acts like these – a line connecting every household allowing message to come and go. In the body every single cell (that’s all 75 trillion of them), tissue, organ and muscle is connected with the nervous system which sends and receives messages about how the body is functioning.
Nervous system tissue is very vulnerable to pressure and to protect it, the brain is encased in a hard skull and the spinal cord lies in a canal inside the spine. Surrounding the brain and the spinal cord is a fluid called cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) which also provides some protection.
The spine is made up of 24 movable bones (vertebrae) each separated by a disc. Between each vertebra there are exit holes for the spinal cord to send out branches (spinal nerves) to the body. These exit points up and down the spine are where the nervous system becomes most vulnerable and where Chiropractors focus their attention to.
A Vertebral subluxation can be broadly defined as a complex of functional, structural, or pathological joint changes that compromise neural integrity and may influence organ system function and general health.
In a physical sense a subluxation occurs when the body experiences a stressful force which causes a vertebral bone to be pushed out of its normal alignment. A subluxation will cause interferences to the nervous system interrupting and distorting normal communication between the brain and the body.
Initially the body is able to cope with a little interference but as it accumulates, due to further stressors, they body starts to provide signals that things aren’t right. These signals are usually in the form of symptoms like pain, weakness and changes in sensation – all these signals will in the end prompt you to seek help when you find they don’t just go away on their own.
After adjusting the misaligned vertebrae that have become locked out of place, the body is then able to begin healing, firstly by correcting the subluxation allowing proper nerve communication to occur.
Repeated adjustments over time will help the body effectively heal as it allows the surrounding muscles to relax and allow the vertebra to stay in their normal positions. The muscles were tight because they weren’t getting told to relax by the nervous system.
As proper nerve communication becomes a normal feature in your body again so too does normal function. Normal heart regulation, normal digestion and normal immune response. This is why regular Chiropractic adjustments are so important – They promote and facilitate optimal function within the body.
Wem Family Chiropractic enjoys helping people with a natural approach to health and well-being focusing on healthy nervous systems in conjunction with nutritional and exercise advice. CALL NOW to schedule your free (no obligation) consultation to see if we can help you.
Wem Family Chiropractic, Trading from: 52 High Street, Wem - Phone 01939 230 998
Dr Glenn Fredericksen – Chiropractor of Wem, Shrewsbury
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