How Our Body Is Connected

Your body communicates with your brain which then determine how all your parts work together to make you healthy and whole.

Your internal organs send messages to your brain and your brain sends messages back to your internal organs. This back and forth goes through a vast communications cable made up of hundreds of millions of nerves: your spinal cord. This is how your parts are connected.

This incredible "cable" of nerves or spinal cord goes down your back. You can't see your spinal cord because it's encased in a protective boney canal called the spinal column made up of 23 bones called vertebrae.

Your spinal column includes 7 neck or cervical vertebrae, 12 mid-back or thoracic vertebrae and 5 low back or lumbar vertebrae. Under the lumbars is a fused triangular bone called the sacrum and below that is your tiny tail bone or coccyx.

Also let's not forget that between your vertebrae are discs - little shock absorbers to prevent your bones from crashing into one another every time you walk.

Watch out! Injuries, accidents and stress of all kinds can misalign your vertebrae so they won't move properly. If that happens you might have nerve irritation that can interfere with the function of many nerves, glands, muscles and organs. The result is a subluxation causing lowered immunity and detoxification, pain, and less balance, strength and energy. With subluxations your body parts are less connected to each other.

Your chiropractor's job is to make sure your vertebrae are in the right place and are moving properly so that there is no nerve stress.

Using various tools (and years of specialized training) doctors of chiropractic can locate spinal nerve stress or subluxations and, using their hands or various instruments, realign the vertebrae and reduce spinal nerve pressure. This is called an adjustment. The adjustment reconnects your body to your brain and your brain to your body.

Millions of people are disconnected from themselves. They are carrying spinal nerve stress in their bodies and don't even know it. Do you or your loved ones have this condition? Your chiropractor can find out with a simple analysis. It could make the difference between a life of health and vitality and one of dis-ease and weakness.