Is Chiropractic for you?

Neck treatmentYour nervous system consists of your brain, spinal cord and millions of nerves. Your brain is well protected by the skull but the spinal cord is vulnerable while it passes through 24 moving vertebrae. Many everyday activities can stress the joints of the spine producing abnormal joint movement and nerve irritation. Chiropractors are trained to locate the spinal joint dysfunction and restore normal movement.

Common problems

Neck, mid back, low back and pelvis problems are the most common treated by chiropractors. Research has shown chiropractic is an extremely effective treatment for these sort of problems.

If the neck spinal joints are dysfunctional, the nerves leaving the neck to the arm may be irritated. If a nerve is irritated it cannot transmit signals properly and in this case can cause arm dysfunction:

Analogy

Your spinal joint is a dimmer switch. Your nerve is electrical wire. Your hand is the light bulb.

If your spinal joint is dysfunctional, it is similar to turning the dimmer switch down resulting in less energy passing down the nerve/electrical wire causing a “dull” light bulb or a problem in your hand such as pain, pins/needles or numbness.

Chiropractors treat many conditions which at first may not appear to relate to the spine.

These include:

  • Headaches
  • Dizziness
  • Shoulder/arm pain
  • Hand/wrist pain
  • Carpal tunnel syndrome
  • Repetitive strain injury (R.S.I.)
  • Hip pain
  • Knee pain
  • Foot/ankle pain
  • Sciatica
  • Slipped disc
  • Pins and needles and numbness
  • Sports injuries
  • Whiplash
  • Colic/unexplained crying/poor sleep patterns in babies