How Does Chiropractic Work?

How does chiropractic work? Coming right up.

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stay away from poison ivy so how does chiropractic really work so often people

tell me that oh I believe in chiropractic or I don't believe in

chiropractic but it's not whether you believe it or not it's do you understand

how it works it's simple physiology it's simple neurophysiology so first of all

the brain controls everything about you it controls your blood pressure your

digestion your hormone regulation your ph balance it controls your thoughts and

it controls the posture and the muscle tone and everything about how your body

behaves in gravity and the way that the brain can do that is because it receives

feedback from the body that's called proprioception and the brain receives

somewhere on the order of a billion bits of information of proprioception every

second and the brain turns things on and off in response to that proprioception

and the sum total is called regulation and it allows the body to return to

homeostasis and to proper posture so chiropractic is not about moving the

bone it's what happens in the brain as a result of moving the bone how does the

adjustment affect proprioception how does the adjustment improve

proprioception see if the world looks like this but the brain is told it looks

like that then the brain doesn't have a true picture of reality and the

depends on how the spine is moving how all the body parts are moving if the

different body parts are not moving properly if they don't have a full

smooth range of motion then they're not signaling correctly to the brain and the

brain does not have a true picture of reality and now the brain cannot manage

the body accurately so when we make an adjustment we're identifying an area

that has less than optimal feedback and then we make an adjustment and we

improve that feedback by putting pressure on receptors we stimulate

receptors we stimulate pressure receptors and motion receptors joint

mechanoreceptors muscle spindle cells and in doing that we give the brain more

information more precise information and the brain has a true picture and the

brain can do its job so it doesn't matter if you do a twist or pop

adjustment or if you do an activator adjustment with a little spring-loaded

pin or if you do what I do mostly called an Arthostim which is a powered

adjusting tool that pulses 12 to 15 times per second all of it is about

stimulating receptors giving the brain more information and based on some

research that they've done an adjustment can increase the activity of the frontal

lobe by about 30% so you're increasing the activation of the frontal lobe the

frontal lobe is the main manager of the rest of the body so that is how

chiropractic works it is not whether you believe it or not it is whether you

understand it or not the techniques don't matter so much all chiropractic

techniques work some of the time nothing works all of the time but an experienced

doctor can find the appropriate solution more of the time hope that helps you

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