In order to properly understand what chiropractic is all about, lets take a look at an analogy to shed some understanding. Imagine a battery that is connected to a light bulb by a pair of wires. One wire is connected from the positive end of the battery to the light bulb and one is connected from the light bulb to the negative end of the battery. If the circuit is cut or broken anywhere along either wire, the light bulb will not light up. Either the message or electricity from the battery is not getting to the light bulb or the light bulb is not able to send a message back to the battery depending on which wire is cut. This is the same thing that happens in our bodies. The battery is like our brain and the light bulb is like any other part of body, whether it is the heart, lungs, fingers or toes. If the wire going from our brain to our body is cut or if there is any interference, the message will not be properly sent. The heart, lungs, fingers or toes will not know what to do. Likewise, if there is problem with the connection going from our body back to the brain, the brain will not know what the body is doing and therefore will not know how to respond.
Most people know Christopher Reeves was Superman. He fell off a horse and broke his second vertebrae in his neck severing the spinal cord and leaving him paralyzed. Many people do not realize that his body shut down because his brain could not tell the rest of the body what to do. He developed diabetes because his pancreas stopped functioning. He developed kidney failure because his kidneys shut down. His body shut down because it did not know what to do because the message from the brain to the body could not be sent. While Christopher Reeves is an extreme case, many people suffer from slip and falls, car accidents, and minor stresses of daily living. These can all cause misaligned spinal segments that are not moving properly, irritating or putting pressure on a nerve interfering with the communication between the brain and the body. These misalignments are called subluxations. If the brain and body cannot communicate properly, disease and sickness occurs. A chiropractor will remove the interference caused by a subluxation using gentile spinal adjustments, thereby allowing the brain and body to once again communicate properly and allow for the healing process to take place.
Jeremy Rosner, D.C. is a local chiropractor practicing at Wellness 4 Life Chiropractic in Hartland, Michigan. He can be reached at 810-632-5252 or via www.Wellness4Lifechiro.com.