Chiropractic Care
As human beings, it is essential for us to move well, think well, feel well and eat well for a healthy, happy and productive life. As chiropractors, we have the opportunity to work together with the people who seek our care toward moving better, thinking better, feeling better and eating better. It is very exciting to help people who are ready for change!
What you are about to read is how your brain perceives movement and lack of movement and how that impacts your expression of life either positively or negatively. It is the explanation to why exercise makes us feel better. The same explanation holds true for how chiropractic helps our life experience.
Very simply put, great movement feeds our brain the required “movement nutrition” it needs for the coordination and balance of thought, memory, learning, organ function, mood and emotions. Movement nutrition is known scientifically as “proprioception”. Full body movement stimulates the brain in a very positive way while at the same time inhibiting inappropriate stress response. An example of inappropriate stress response is when a colleague, friend or family member asks us the most benign question and we growl back at them! Appropriate stress response is when we jump out of the way of a moving car (our hearts beat fast, our blood pressure goes up to help remove us from a threatening situation). Exercise and chiropractic adjustments facilitate the good inner workings of our bodies, while decreasing irritating inputs.
Poor movement (lots of sitting, lack of exercise, unresolved physical traumas, blocked areas of the spine that chiropractors term subluxation) result in irritating input to the brain called “nociception”. Nociceptive input in the brain is like a really irritating colleague at work or a really uncooperative player on your sports team – they can prevent you from concentrating, focussing, laughing, being present and productive, and create irritability in body and mood. Just removing that one person from your team brings tremendous relief.
Chiropractic is about relief. Chiropractic is about soothing. Chiropractic is about removing nociceptive (irritating) input to the brain and promoting increased proprioception (movement nutrition).
A properly and full moving spine results in happier (yes, many of our patients experience tremendous improvements in mood!), healthier and more enjoyable lives. This is why we love practicing chiropractic. It is an honour and pleasure for all of us.