Pain Is a Signal
Hey, I’ve got a secret for you. Pain is not your problem. It’s a signal of another problem you have. Like the check engine light isn’t the thing that’s a problem in your car—it’s that you have a misfire in cylinder four.
When you’re having pain, you have a couple of options. You can go the route of scalpels, injections, and pills, or help your body function in its biomechanical fashion. Tough choice, I know.
Why People Are Afraid of Chiropractic Adjustments
Here’s the reason people tend to be a little afraid of chiropractic adjustments: They don’t like the twisting and the popping, and they’re afraid that it’s going to cause more damage than it is going to relieve pain.
All right, so let’s talk about that.
Why We Focus on Your Spine
The reason we focus so much on your spine isn’t that we just like a lot of pops. It’s that it’s your central nervous system superhighway.
Everywhere in your spine, you have nerves exiting. You have the spinal cord running through the spinal canal.
If your spine is stuck where your hips are—maybe because things aren’t moving very well—then your lumbar spine is going to respond, trying to get you back to center. Except then you’re going to develop a counterbalance in your thoracic spine, and then your head is going to be sitting a little goofy.
What It Means When Your Spine Is Not Aligned
All right, that’s what it means when your spine is not aligned. The bones are all sitting where they belong, but they’re not working the way that they ought to.
All right, so let’s get into an adjustment and show you how we’re going to fix all of that.
