In chiropractic, we begin with the spine, because when you were conceived you were given a brain and a spinal cord first. It is so vital and delicate it had to be encased in an armor of bone. A bony armor if you will. Our bony armor consists of 26 bones, 23 discs, over 100 joints, hundreds of muscles and thousands of ligaments. It is nature’s most powerful and intricate architectural masterpiece. The spine is built for protection and stability, flexibility, locomotion, respiration, and for achieving super-conscious states
of being. Now the balance between two opposing requirements, such as the need
and desire for flexibility along with the need and desire for protection, means you have to take extreme care of this important instrument. This is because the spine is at the core of everything. Everything is suspended to the spine. It is the infrastructure of the body. It is a support. It has a tendency to collapse if mistreated on a physical, chemical, and/or emotional level. If you break your big toe it is a bummer. If you break your spine you are in trouble.
Chiropractic is focused on restoring and maintaining proper spinal motion, alignment, and posture in order to restore and maintain healthy spinal tissues and healthy nerve flow between the body and brain. The ancient teachers of health and the chiropractors of today understood that healthy spinal bones and joints and free flowing spinal nerve transmission depend on normal spinal motion and alignment. A disruption and decrease in spinal motion and poor posture will result in architectural/ structural (bone, joint and tissue) degeneration, along with poor spinal nerve energy flow. The scientific term for this condition is known as a vertebral subluxation.
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