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How Subluxations Work

When I say nervous system I am talking about the brain and all the nerves that are in the body. Now if you look at this plastic model here, where looking at the spine from the side now. This is where the brain sits here. The spinal cord goes down through the spine. It’s actually inside the spine and it goes all the way down to about to the top of the lower back here. These are the nerves and these nerves are actually like extensions off of the brain. The brain is actually sending itself as a spinal cord down through this spine here and then they branch off and they go to every single cell and every single tissue and most importantly ever single organ in the body. Now as long as the brain can communicate with these organs through the nerves, we have a healthy situation there.

But, let’s say for some reason the spine was to get out of its normal alignment and it started to actually put pressure on one of these nerves. There was a research study done at the University of Colorado and they would place very small amounts of pressure on a spinal nerve. I believe it was 10 millimeters of pressure, which is about a much pressure you can barely feel your touch on your eyelid. Ten millimeters pressure on a spinal nerve. They found that much pressure would actually decrease the amount of electrical energy across that nerve by 60%.

So let’s say for instance this nerve was going to your heart and we got a little bit of pressure on that nerve, just a little bit, now we only got 40% of the energy the information and the intelligence being transmitted across that nerve going to your heart. That’s not a good situation. So our definition of health then would be when every single tissue, cell, organ of your body is when your body is receiving 100% potential nerve flow that’s there.

Ok, just to reiterate we got a spinal column here. The brain is in communication with all the different organs via the spinal cord and spinal nerve. There are 33 pairs of spinal nerves and each one goes to a certain organ and controls that function. Let me give you an example, this top vertebra up here, these nerves that come out of here radiate back up into the head. They also go behind the eyes and they also control the sinuses. So if we have a misalign vertebra, we call that subluxation, if we have nerve that is being pinched there its actually going to block the signal coming off that nerve and somebody can get one heck of a headache as a result of that. They can also start to develop allergy problems or sinus issues because their sinuses aren’t being innervated (supplied by nerves) properly by those nerves.