Chiropractor Vestavia, Alabama
Chiropractic
is about helping people live healthier, fuller lives. Chiropractors
exam the spine to determine the presence of spinal misalignments.
When the misalignments are present, adjustments are made to the
vertebral column to affect the nervous system. According to Gray's
Anatomy, the nervous system is the master system in the body which
controls and coordinates all other systems such as respiratory,
digestive, muscular, and immune.
The nervous system includes the brain, spinal cord, the spinal
nerves that exit the vertebral column through openings on the side
of each vertebra, and all the peripheral nerves that branch off to
serve organs, tissues, blood vessels and muscles. Information from
the environment, both external and internal, goes through the spine
to get to the brain. In the same manner, information and decisions
made in the brain go through the spine to affect certain outcomes.
It is a two-way flow of information.
The philosophy of chiropractic is that health, not merely the
absence of symptoms, comes from within the body, not from the
outside. It is the innate, or inborn, intelligence of our bodies
that does the healing.
Source:
parkercc.edu |
