What is a subluxation?

This seems like a good place to start if you are new to chiropractic. If you come to my office you will hear the word “subluxation” on a regular basis. There is a poster in my waiting room titled “Some of the causes of vertebral subluxation”. There are other articles on this web page that mention it. I think it’s imperative that all my patients have a good working understanding of the vertebral subluxation.

First, you must understand that your body works according to certain natural laws. There is an intelligence that God has put into every living thing that governs the way all of the cells and tissues interact in order for it to be considered a “living” thing. For example, you are born knowing how to breathe, how to sweat, how to digest food, how to produce insulin, how to assimilate nutrients and build new tissue with them,… and literally millions of other things that are essential to life. This intelligence is transmitted to the cells of your body by the nervous system. These “life message” flow from the brain, down your spinal cord and out the spinal nerves which divide and divide until it infiltrates every portion of your body. Without this continuous flow of information from the brain the cells would start to die. As more cells die, then whole tissues become involved, then organs and eventually the whole body dies.

As your spinal cord descends from your brain it passes through the column of bones known as your spinal column. The spinal column is made up of twenty-four bones known as vertebrae. The fact that your spine is made up of a stack of individual bones is what allows us to bend, twist and move. Unfortunately, these bones can become misaligned and actually put pressure on the nerves that it is designed to protect. This is a vertebral subluxation. The correction of these subluxations is the sole objective of chiropractors. We simply move the bones to relieve the pressure on the nervous system thereby restoring the flow of life messages. Your body takes it from there.

If you have any questions, please feel free to call or email me.

Todd Jolibois, D.C.