How often should I go to my chiropractor?
Published: 2009-10-31 07:59:29
Author: Brian G Blower | The Bahamas Weekly | October 11, 2009
As a chiropractor with over thirty five years of licensed practice I have been asked this question many times. For some of us spinal and extremity manipulation seems foreign and unusual. Let me enlighten those of us that have this “generation’s old way of thinking” clouding our mind.
Our gifted body has over three hundred joints. They may be of various descriptions but all of them are present for a purpose and all of them have function. Function means to do work. Remember that for us to be “healthy” then all of the parts must be able to do their work. And to do work all of the parts must have an adequate nerve supply.
Nerves nourish, they nurture and enable tissues to work. In our bodies muscles, nourished by nerves, do most of the physical work. Muscles attach to bones and when all the muscles work the bones are able to move through a range of motion and come back to the centre of the joint axis and rest there.
That’s healthy, all of the muscles worked to lever the bones correctly. The joints slide and glide easily at birth and quickly learn a range of motion that describes to the brain how they are being loaded and their current position. We don’t have to have our eyes looking at our arm to know where it is. If the joints stay this way then over the years they won’t break down rapidly
Think of it this way. You fall and strike your “funny bone.” Not really funny but for this example let’s suppose it will all feel OK in a moment or two. But at that moment are you able to pick up and swing a hammer with your wounded limb? Would you feel like standing and polishing a window? No, of course not and you are now by definition unhealthy, you cannot perform work with your part. It is unhealthy to have nerves not reaching the parts.
The fall has jarred and caused the joint and it’s surrounding tissues to change, the shock has stunned the periosteum, the nerve enriched covering of the bone. The ensuing scattering and dispersal of other nerve signals that cannot use the bruised pathway take away the ability of the now un-nurtured part, the muscle, to respond to the brain, it cannot go to work.
After a short period of time the nerve pain decreases and we are then able to move the joints of the hand and elbow again. It may be a few more days before swinging a hammer is accomplished. Meanwhile you did have a fall and the twelve to fifteen pound head at the top of the spine had to be held at the moment of impact by the muscles and bones of the neck and upper chest wall. We don’t necessarily “feel” these stressors at the time.
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Published: 2009-10-31 07:59:29
Author: Brian G Blower | The Bahamas Weekly | October 11, 2009
As a chiropractor with over thirty five years of licensed practice I have been asked this question many times. For some of us spinal and extremity manipulation seems foreign and unusual. Let me enlighten those of us that have this “generation’s old way of thinking” clouding our mind.
Our gifted body has over three hundred joints. They may be of various descriptions but all of them are present for a purpose and all of them have function. Function means to do work. Remember that for us to be “healthy” then all of the parts must be able to do their work. And to do work all of the parts must have an adequate nerve supply.
Nerves nourish, they nurture and enable tissues to work. In our bodies muscles, nourished by nerves, do most of the physical work. Muscles attach to bones and when all the muscles work the bones are able to move through a range of motion and come back to the centre of the joint axis and rest there.
That’s healthy, all of the muscles worked to lever the bones correctly. The joints slide and glide easily at birth and quickly learn a range of motion that describes to the brain how they are being loaded and their current position. We don’t have to have our eyes looking at our arm to know where it is. If the joints stay this way then over the years they won’t break down rapidly
Think of it this way. You fall and strike your “funny bone.” Not really funny but for this example let’s suppose it will all feel OK in a moment or two. But at that moment are you able to pick up and swing a hammer with your wounded limb? Would you feel like standing and polishing a window? No, of course not and you are now by definition unhealthy, you cannot perform work with your part. It is unhealthy to have nerves not reaching the parts.
The fall has jarred and caused the joint and it’s surrounding tissues to change, the shock has stunned the periosteum, the nerve enriched covering of the bone. The ensuing scattering and dispersal of other nerve signals that cannot use the bruised pathway take away the ability of the now un-nurtured part, the muscle, to respond to the brain, it cannot go to work.
After a short period of time the nerve pain decreases and we are then able to move the joints of the hand and elbow again. It may be a few more days before swinging a hammer is accomplished. Meanwhile you did have a fall and the twelve to fifteen pound head at the top of the spine had to be held at the moment of impact by the muscles and bones of the neck and upper chest wall. We don’t necessarily “feel” these stressors at the time.
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