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How Does a Chiropractic Get You Out of Pain

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Hadriel Sam
How Does a Chiropractic Get You Out of Pain
Being a second generation chiropractor Joint Complex 4000 Review I have been able to watch the profession of chiropractic evolve for over 30 years. We have always known that a chiropractic works, just look at the amazing results we get. It has not been until the last 15 to 20 years that we have come to understand "why" what we do works. The decade of the 90's was the decade of brain research, and with that research came the understanding of how a chiropractic adjustment is so powerful in reducing pain.
 
Chiropractors are not at all "bone doc's" or even "joint crunchers" as we have been described in the past. A more accurate view of what a chiropractor is would be a "doctor of the nervous system" as this is what we primarily affect. Bear with me in this next paragraph as I dive head in to how we affect the nervous system so powerfully to decrease your pain, I promise I will bring it back around to something we can all understand.
 
If a joint becomes stuck in place, or what we call fixed due to injury, poor postures, and so on, a number of things occur with in the nerves. This "joint fixation" or immovability will decrease the rate of firing of the joint mechanoreceptor in turn decreasing the rate of firing of the large diameter 1A fibers of the nerve. This decrease of the rate of firing decreases the inhibition of C fibers, or the pain fibers of the nerve which will increase activity of these C fibers. This process leads to an increase in pain.
 
As a chiropractor I daily work on INCREASING the frequency of firing of the joint mechanoreceptors, increasing firing of the 1A fibers, which inhibits transmission to the C fibers all leading to a decrease in pain! Clear as mud right OK lets bring it out of Neurology 101 and back to the pain you have in your neck. Many times that pain is due to the joints not works properly which irritates the pain nerves. As a chiropractor I work on getting the joints of the neck working right which takes the irritation away from the nerves.
 
 
 
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