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What
is a SUBLUXATION?
A Subluxation is when one or more of the
bones of your spine move out of place and put dangerous pressure on your spinal
cord and spinal nerves that come out between each of the bones of your spine.
This severe pressure and irritation causes the spinal cord and nerves
to malfunction and interferes with your body's communication and therefore
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How
do subluxations affect you?
Your central nervous system CNS (brain and spinal
cord) controls and coordinates all of your body's
function, similar to a "motherboard" for a computer.
Almost all of your body's functions are done automatically
like breathing, heart beating, digestion, kidney function,
hormone balance, blood pressure regulation, balance,
smell, and vision. There are approximately 3 trillion
impulses that travel to and from your brain, spinal
cord and body per second. If this vital information
is interrupted or altered it drastically affects the
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That is why subluxations are hazardous. They cause a noxious
interruption or alteration of imperative information which affects your body's
function even down to how cells are produced. Recent research has shown that it
only takes the weight of a dime on a nerve to affect the nerves conduction as
much as sixty percent.
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How can
you tell if you are subluxated?
Most people think they are healthy by how they feel.
Unfortunately, they are extremely mistaken. You could actually feel great yet,
be very sick having no symptoms or any warnings signs of disease. Can you feel
high blood pressure, diabetes, cancer, strokes, heart attacks, aneurysms, or
high cholesterol developing? The truth is by the time you have symptoms it
might be to late.
Subluxations are very similar in the fact that you
can usually not feel them. Subluxations are a silent killer for many years
causing destruction throughout the body by depleting the body of essential and
critical nerve supplies.
There is a quick and easy subluxation home
check for someone who wants to do it themselves. You need to check your
posture. To begin, stand in front of a full length mirror, march in place for a
few seconds with your eyes closed. Then stop marching and stand the way you
feel straight. Next, open your eyes and without moving your head or body notice
what you see. Do you see one hip or shoulder higher than the other, is your
head tilted to one side, are your shoulders rounded, does your head jut out
from your body? If you see any of these or other postural differences you
should be concerned. Your posture is a direct reflection of your spinal
alignment. If your posture not balanced, then your spine is balanced,
indicating a subluxation which may be applying dangerous stress to your spinal
joints, discs, muscles, spinal cord and nerve supply.
The best and most
accurate way to get checked for subluxation is by a chiropractor. It is the
responsibility of the Doctor of Chiropractic to locate subluxations, and reduce
or correct them. This is done through a series of chiropractic adjustments
specifically designed to correct the vertebral subluxations in your spine.
Chiropractors are the only professionals who undergo years of training to be
the experts at correcting subluxations
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How Are
Subluxations Corrected ?
Doctors of chiropractic learn a number of different
chiropractic techniques and procedures to correct vertebral subluxations. Most
of the procedures involve the application of chiropractic spinal adjustments to
the affected vertebrae.
Chiropractic adjustments involve the application
of a quick but gentle corrective force into the "subluxated" spinal vertebrae.
The adjustment can be delivered manually through the hands or can be applied
through the use of a specialized tool. Subluxations generally require multiple
treatments or adjustments for complete normalization to occur. Similar to
straightening teeth, correcting malfunctioning and misaligned vertebrae
requires time for the tissues to accept this new position as
"normal".
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What Causes Subluxations?
Vertebral subluxations have a great number
of different causes all of which the average individual is exposed to daily.
These causes can be described in terms of physical, chemical, and emotional
causes.
Physical causes include
gravity, improper sleeping, sitting, lifting, standing, exercise, work
stations, poor postural habits and even the birthing process itself to mother
and child. Other physical cause of subluxation include acute traumas to the
body like auto accidents, sports, slips, falls, repetitive motions and weak or
imbalanced spinal musculature.
Chemical causes include poor dietary and nutritional
practices, drug and alcohol use and abuse, and the ingestion of chemical toxins
in the foods we eat, air we breathe, and water we drink. Chemicals which are
harmful to the body decrease the body's ability to function optimally and
reduce the ability to successfully adapt to and withstand internal and external
stresses - making us more susceptible to spinal subluxations and the
consequences of these subluxations.
Emotional causes refer to stress. Excessive stress
or inadequate stress management skills can deplete the body of the ability to
sustain normal functions. The impact of emotional stress on physical health is
well documented in the medical research and can have devastating effects on the
immune system, making the body susceptible to injury and disease.
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