Denver Chiropractor Dr. Brad Pennington & Denver Chiropractic 970-688-0097
Denver Chiropractor answers: How Does Chiropractic Work?
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Despite the fact that millions of people "know" that Chiropractic
works, many don't know "how" or "why" it works. And why does it work for so many different kinds of situations
and conditions that seem to have no relationship to your spine?
The short version. 1. Your body is a self-healing mechanism. Cut your finger - it heals. Cut the finger of a corpse - it does not. Life heals. 2. Your nerve system is the master system of your body. Every aspect of the human experience is processed through the nerve system. Every other system, organ and cell in your body is controlled by your nerve system. 3. Your nerve system is responsible for monitoring and adapting your external and internal environment, creating and maintaining health. 4. Improperly functioning spinal segments cause interference in the signals of your nerve system. (Like static on a mobile phone.) This limits your ability to properly create health. (My computerized testing demonstrates this to you) 5. As a chiropractor, I locate and correct those interferences. When signals move properly between brain and body, you can create optimum health. A slightly expanded explanation. Research has revealed that the nervous system controls well-being. The
nervous system reads what is going on in the environment and then acts to adapt the whole body to its best survival response. If the nervous system overloads, it responds to its best
ability; however, continued overloading will cause an unbalanced neurological pattern to develop. This unbalanced or abnormal
pattern (the chiropractic words: interference or subluxation) has consequences. The body's systems respond to the abnormal neurological messages and will malfunction until signs
or symptoms show up that something is wrong.
Medical response is to render treatment to remove the signs and symptoms.
The modern Chiropractic approach is to focus on restoring normal neurological function. This is not a new concept, but after more than
100 years, science has finally caught up with Chiropractic and can prove that Chiropractic adjustments alter brain activity
and helps restore normal health responses.
The response to stressors is the nervous system's job, and the effectiveness
of this neurological function can actually be measured. Today, neural scientists understand that inappropriate responses to stressors are
the cause of illness and disease. It is no longer the concept of germs and / or bad parts, but rather a breakdown in the body's
systems that lead to illness, including the immune system which is controlled by the nervous system.
The Chiropractic adjustment stimulates a neurological response that
registers within the central nervous system, which in turn allows the body to alter its abnormal neurological patterns. Repetition
or retraining is required and these new neural patterns can be seen and measured with todays sophisticated technology. Chiropractic
can truly alter old behaviours and dis-ease processes, and create new and healthy normal functions within the body.
1. Model-Based Therapeutic Correction of Hypothalamic-Pituitary_Adrenal Axis Dysfunction. Amos Ben-Zvi (Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada), Suzanne D. Vernon (The CFIDS Association of America, Charlotte, North Carolina, United States of America), Gordon Broderick (Department of Medicine, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada) 2. New Science Behind Chiropractic Care - Press Release: NZ Chiropractors Association, 23 November 2007 3. Stress, Hypertension And The Metabolic Syndrome - An Interview with Bjorn Folkow, MD, PhD - By Paul J. Rosch, MD, FACP. The American Institute Of Stress - This interview appeared in the April 2005 issue of Health and Stress, the Newsletter of The American Institute of Stress 4. Cervical spine manipulation alters sensorimotor integration:A somatosensory evoked poetntial study Heidi Haavik Taylor - Bernadette Murphy. Clinical Neurophysiology 118 (2007) 391-402. |
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