You have 24 vertebrae in your spine. They each articulate with the the vertebrae above and below itself. Your spinal cord travels down your spine and transmits nerve impulses out intervertebral foramen (holes in the side of each joint interaction) to control all aspects of your body’s ability to function. Each one of those vertebral joints require two things in order for you to be healthy. Good motion and good alignment. Let me explain.
The central nervous system (CNS), or the brain, spinal cord, and nerves represent the control center for the body. It is constantly sending efferent signals to the tissues and receiving afferent signals in return. “Tissues” represents everything else; your skin, your muscles, your stomach, your digestion, your movement, your heart, your lungs, your sexual organs, your senses, and the list goes on…
If the signals reach the tissues and a signal also gets back to the CNS unimpeded then essentially you have good communication. Your body can function with ease.
If there is stress in your body in the form of physical, chemical, or emotional stress, then there is the potential to disrupt the good motion and good alignment of the spine, thereby having a negative impact on that communication between the CNS and the tissues. When this interruption occurs, chiropractors reference that as the subluxation.
If the signals have difficulty reaching the tissues and also have difficulty returning that signal back to the CNS, then essentially you have poor communication. Your body has now begun to dys-function which will further lead to dis-ease.
Chiropractors search for that irritation on the nervous system through spinal misalignment and poor motion and specifically attempt to restore that proper motion and alignment so that the body can have it’s best opportunity to express health.
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