frequently asked questions

Chiropractors work directly with your spine, which houses the bulk of your nerve system! Your nerve system receives signals from your environment via nerves. These nerves act much like wires, and send signals from your environment, through the spine, up to the brain for your body to interpret into something we can understand. For example, the weight, texture, temperature and size of a coin is different from that of a piece of bread, right? How do we know this? The nerves that are receiving the signals from what we are holding have to be sent from the nerves in our hands, through our spine and into our brains in order for us to understand what it is we are holding. If there are issues in the spine, which we call “blockages” (or subluxations, if you’re familiar with chiropractic terminology), these nerve signals can become partially “blocked” and it will change the way we interpret our environment and therefore can negatively impact how we adapt to our environment. This is why many people associate chiropractic with pain relief - when we are in pain, it is simply our bodies not interpreting signals the way they should be, which causes pain! Re-establishing proper signaling helps to decrease the amount of pain we feel. By working with the spine and specifically identifying where these blockages are, we are able to remove these blockages with gentle, specific adjustments. This directly influences the nerve system and improves the way it is interpreting and adapting to everything it comes into contact with every second of our day, including the foods we eat, the stressors we encounter and the germs we are exposed to! On top of that, it also helps to coordinate our muscles and movements properly, which can greatly reduce pain levels! Imagine this: you are trying to make a video call on your cell phone and you have 5 bars of service - full reception! Making this video call would be seamless. You would have no problem connecting to the person you are trying to call, and would have no problems seeing them on the video or hearing the things they were saying to you! That call would be great because your phone is communicating perfectly with the cell tower and so, is working with full service, and therefore, as effectively and efficiently as it possibly can. Now imagine you are trying to make this same video call but only have 1-2 bars of service, meaning your phone does not have full reception. You would probably still be able to place the call, and may even still be able to connect to the person you are trying to call, but the picture would likely be glitchy (if visible at all), and you would likely be unable to hear everything the other person was trying to say. Your phone is not connected to a service tower at 100% so its efficiency/effectiveness is not as good as it could be. This is exactly like your body and your brain trying to communicate when you have blockages in your spine and nerve system - your body is physically unable to function as well as it should be when there is blockage in the spine that is stopping your brain and nerve system from communicating appropriately.