Chiropractic Adjustment – All About Subluxations

If you’re experiencing back pain, neck pain, headaches, or pain in the joints, subluxations of the spine may be responsible. This is the field in which your chiropractor specialises. In very simple terms, a vertebral subluxation is when one or more of the bones in your spinal column (vertebrae) move out of alignment, aren’t moving properly, or are undergoing physical changes due to degeneration, which therefore irritate your spinal nerves which are found between each of your vertebrae. Because of the irritation or pressure, it causes the nerves to malfunction and interfere with the signals travelling along the nerves. Even a very small amount of pressure can have a profound effect on the functioning of the nerves. So how does this affect you? Firstly, it’s important to know that your nervous system controls and coordinates all of the... [Read more...]

Chiropractic Adjustment – What is a Spinal Adjustment?

A chiropractor will treat vertebral subluxations by way of a “spinal adjustment”. To do that, the Chiropractor applies simple pressure to the bone and restores it to its normal pattern of movement, freeing up the vertebrae, and allowing it the room to align itself correctly. Many people believe that the chiropractor forces or pushes a vertebra back into alignment, but only an individual’s own body will know for sure the correct positioning of each bone. With freedom of movement, the body can do its job and ease them back into the correct position. Unfortunately, if the vertebrae have been out of alignment for some time, the muscles connected to subluxated vertebrae become locked in their positions and tend to pull the bone back out of alignment. This is why it may take several chiropractic visits before the adjustment “holds,”... [Read more...]