A patient just this afternoon shared what happened at her house over the weekend. She had twenty people from her church come over to their house and they all worked together to do yard work, including tearing out years of overgrown raspberry bushes and tearing out a old deck and building a new one.
And when they all worked together it happened very fast. in fact they were done in one day. Wow. That’s the power of many units working together for the mutual benefit of the whole.
Your spine is composed of twenty-four vertebrae. Together they are not only responsible for your height and posture, but they work best when they are working together. That is a very important concept to remember, because if even one of them decides to not pull it’s own weight in it’s motion or alignment, then the rest of them have to work harder. And what happens to anything that has to work harder that it was intended for? It breaks down faster.
And your joints breaking down faster means not only more stress on your spine, but more stress on your nerves. More stress on your nerves means more stress on your organs and tissues. More stress on your organs and tissues means not only are you suffering more with pain, but you are suffering more with dysfunction. And that ultimately means that you are getting older way faster than you need to. There is definitely no need for that!
And to think that it can all start with just one of the vertebrae in your spine not working well with joints around it. Questions then arise. How does a joint get out of working alignment and motion? Can you always notice when a joint is not working at its optimum? And what can you do about it?
One answer at a time.
Joints get out of their healthy working alignment and motion because of an accumulation of stress, whether they stem from physical trauma or neglect, chemical toxicity, or emotional distress.
Joints that aren’t working as they should almost never cause pain from the outset. It can manifest itself as an occasional irritation at best that most people shrug off or ignore, hoping it’ll just go away. It’s sort like mold in the bathroom. If you don’t tend to it, it will not go away. It will only grow with time.
What can you then do about it? Well that is what your regular visits to your chiropractor is for. Not to just help pain when it happens, but to make sure that all your joints are working together so that your body and your life can go forth with as much ease as possible.
After all many hands make light work.
Share This Post...
