What is Subluxation?

The wisdom of your body (also called your innate intelligence) directs your life energies that travel over your brain, spinal cord and billions of nerve fibers to your every nook and cranny. This flow of communication is necessary for breathing, digestion, heartbeat, excretion, immune system function, glands, muscles and thousands of other activities to work properly. If your nervous system is irritated, this fantastic communications system is "short-circuited," your energies are disturbed and you suffer from disease or a lack of harmony. The most common cause of a "short-circuit" in your nervous system is a vertebral subluxation. (A damaged nervous system can also occur if you have a stroke, are brain-damaged or have various diseases of the nervous system.)

Vertebral Subluxation
A vertebral subluxation is a spinal abnormality that interferes with your nerves. It can create disease, lowered resistance to disease, pain, imbalance, fatigue and can pave the way for ill health. It is sometimes called the "silent killer" because it can slowly eat away at your health and vitality for years without your having the slightest awareness of it. Doctors of chiropractic specialize in locating, analyzing and correcting vertebral subluxations.

What Exactly Is A Vertebral Subluxation?
A vertebral subluxation is a misaligned vertebra causing interference with nerve messages between your brain and your body.

A vertebral subluxation includes the following:
1)  Spinal Kinesiopathology - Your vertebrae are jammed and either less mobile than they should be or, conversely, too mobile ("noisy joints"). You are unable to comfortably turn, bend or twist your neck, hips or back in every direction.

2)  Neuropathophysiology - Your nerves are impinged and you may feel pain, tingling, numbness and/or pins and needles. The impulses traveling through your nerves are altered and important chemicals that flow over your nerves may be blocked.

3)  Myopathology - Your muscles are chronically tight, in spasm, weak, overly sensitive and/or sore.

4)  Histopathology - You have swelling, tenderness, "trigger points," painful spots and other soft tissue changes. Ligaments, cartilage, discs, tendons and internal organs may be affected.

5)  Pathophysiology - Your muscles, ioints, ligaments and organs show signsof wear and tear and premature aging, fatigue, less resistance to disease and lack of physical and mental vitality

If you are interested you can read more on Causes of Subluxations and Correcting Subluxations