Saturday 12th October
While it is true that chiropractors can often help with these things, chiropractic is also about so much more… more than just pain! Chiropractic care is about total health and wellbeing. It is about helping people to feel great and get the most out of their life by functioning at their best, at their optimal level.
So, our focus is on the spine, as your spine contains the nerves that go to everywhere in your body. It acts as the central road, with lots of different smaller roads coming off from it. The spine protects the spinal cord, which is a major part of the central nervous system.
The spine, like a shield of armour, is made up of lots of interlinking segments allowing it to bend and move with the body. In between each segment, are discs which act as spacers and allow nerves to exit from the spine, to continue all around the body.
The nervous system allows your brain and body to communicate, by acting like a network of wires. The nerves send messages to the brain, and the brain sends messages to parts of the body via the nerves.
Sometimes the wear and tear of daily life can impact the way your spine functions. This can cause segments to adapt their movements in a different way to normal, in a dysfunctional way. There are many ways this can happen, for example gradually over time, such as through bad posture, or more suddenly, such as from sporting injuries. Because of the close relationship between your spine’s movement and the nerves, a dysfunctional spine can cause an interruption in the flow of information, which is an issue, and then confuse the communication between the brain and body.
But chiropractors can help! By making fast gentle adjustments, precisely where needed, to the spine, and thereby restoring the natural movement to your spine.
