Subluxation

Before you learn what a subluxation is, let’s discuss how your body works.

The purpose of the brain and nervous system is to control and coordinate the function of all organs , glands and tissues in the body. The brain directs and controls all organ function, muscles, and joint movement by sending messages along the nerves to the various parts, then back again. Any interference in this communication results in reduced organ function, movement, and health.

A subluxation, also called misalignment, is a structural misalignment of your vertebrae. This misalignment causes interference with your nerve communication system because it can cause the opening from which your nerves exit to become narrowed. A narrow opening may compress the nerve. The nerve may become damaged, and affect body function and your health. If there is interference with the messages being sent from the brain, along the nerves to all parts of the body, your body cannot function properly.

How do you know if you have a subluxation?

If you have the “pinched nerve” type of subluxation, it is evident because this type is typically painful. However, the more common type of subluxation is silent, with no symtoms. Just like a cavity before it becomes painful, you don’t know know it is developing until significant damage has been done. A subluxation can go unnoticed while still putting pressure on the nerves. An undetected subluxation can affect the function of any of your organs, glands, muscles and joints. This will eventually affect your health adversely.

How do people get subluxations, anyway?

Most people may think it takes something as severe as a car accident to cause a subluxation. This is not true. What might seem to be insignificant traumas, like childbirth, childhood falls, repetitive motion, childhood posture, sleep positions,occupational posture (hours of sitting doing paper work or computer work), occupation lifting (improper lifting, bending, awkward positioning). Stress affects tension in muscles. Spinal muscles are responsible for the proper alignment and movement of spinal bones (vertebrae). When the muscles are tight or pulling unevenly on the spine, it eventually affects your posture and your vertebrae. Outside the body chemicals like poisons, food additives, allergic agents can affect your body. Inside the body, chemicals like adrenalin, histamines, stomach acid, insulin are all good except if they are over or under produced (like the overproduction of histamines when pollen is present). If chemicals, whether inside or outside the body, negatively affect the muscles, joints, or nerves, they can be a factor in causing subluxations.