July 10, 2008
Your Miraculous Spinal Cord
By April
Here at our Charlotte University chiropractic office we strive to educate our patients about their spine. Your spinal column greatly affects your health because the spinal cord is enclosed within it. The cells in the spinal cord transmit messages from your brain to various tissues, muscles and organs throughout the body. As long as the spine remains in its normal position, the messages travel unaffected. However, if the vertebrae shift or are jolted out of alignment they put pressure on and irritate the nerve bundles. This in turn affects the way the nerve cell bodies react to messages from the brain. Normally messages from the brain stimulate nerve cell bodies in the spinal cord to send a signal either exciting or inhibiting an action in the part of the body which that nerve cell serves.Here at the Charlotte chiropractor, we know Irritation from misalignment’s in the spine make the nerve cell bodies in that segment of the spinal cord overly sensitive. This causes the cells to over-excite or over inhibit that action in the body. When severe, the nerve cell can be so sensitized by the misalignment that they may continually excite ( or inhibit) an action even when no message from the brain tell it to do so.
Thus a nerve may excite a muscle to contract constantly even though no message from the brain for this action is present. What you get is a sore muscle, constantly contracted, or some healing process that is constantly contracted, or some healing process that is constantly inhibited. Chiropractors can help this and correct it.
Even slight misalignmentof the spine can cause problems in a given area or organ of the body, and with it, a deterioration in your health. As a university area chiropractor, our goal is to guide the vertebrae back into their correct position, allowing painful muscle spasms to relax and allowing your natural healing mechanisms to work again.
Topics: The Spinal Cord |
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