Chiropractic focuses on ensuring that your body’s nervous system works at its optimum level. Your nervous system controls everything in the body, so a failure of it to communicate with the muscles, joints or organs can result in decreased function. On a mechanical level this manifests as weak muscles and poor reflexes such as balance.
If you don’t detect forces and movement correctly you will be prone to getting injured. This leads to a compensation and further injury, eventually manifesting as wear and tear. Chiropractic care removes the interference to the nerves allowing you to heal and function correctly. So Chiropractic helps you to achieve the best conditions possible for optimal health.
Explaining Chiropractic
Imagine listening to a guitar that is out of tune, to look at you’d feel nothing was wrong and yet when you play it the tune would be recognisable but wouldn’t be enjoyable. This is what a poorly functioning nervous system is like. The message (or sound) gets through but it isn’t accurate and therefore the end result is not optimum performance.
What Chiropractic does is finely tune the spine. Or for example you are listening to the radio and your mobile phone is next to it, the interference means you can still hear the radio but it is disturbed by the other signal, this is similair to what happens when your nerves aren’t signalling correctly and bad reflexes start to fire causing a switching off of muscles, sometimes just when you need them.
When the neurological circuits have integrity, your body works as it was designed. When spinal vertebrae pinch or choke nerves, affected tissues don’t work the way they should and ill health may result.
When the oil light in your car comes on that means that you have probably run out of oil or maybe there is another problem. If you were foolish enough to put a sticker over the bulb you could think everything was OK for a while until you grind to a halt. It is exactly the same as you taking painkillers to cover up skeletal pain. You are simply covering up your oil light on your warning system.
If you think of a nerve as a hose pipe, there is a flow of nutrients down the nerve similar to the flow of water. Mild pressure in one or two places will reduce the flow and affect the health of the end organ, whether that be a sensory receptor such as pain or an organ itself. Chiropractic helps to remove pressure from the nerves and allows them to keep the end organ or muscle in good health.
If you had a vintage car that was showing signs of rust, would you just paint over it repeatedly or would you strip it back, grind out the rust, treat it, prime it, undercoat, paint several coats then lacquer to keep it protected?
This is similar to Chiropractic, if you keep getting headaches, back aches, neck aches etc would you carry on taking medication that gives only temporary relief if it works at all, but will most definitely not solve the problem, only ease the pain. Or, would you fix the cause of the problem and live without pain?
A Chiropractor fixes the cause of the problem/s enabling life without pain and even better than that optimal function!
