Why Chiropractic

Have you or someone you know ever had a headache? What are we typically told or taught to do for that headache? If you answered "take aspirin, Tylenol, Advil, or medication" you are absolutely right! Unfortunately, most of the time, these "remedies" only serve to cover up the symptoms . The chiropractic approach is to find and remove the cause of the problem or problems. To better understand this, it is important to know how your body really works.

Your brain is communicating with your body through your nervous system. Your nervous system is made up of your brain, spinal cord, and spinal nerves. Your spinal cord runs off your brain and down your back to about the buttocks region. Off your spinal cord are smaller cords that are called spinal nerves. These nerves supply every part of your body. The reason you can see the computer screen is because of the nerves going to your eyes. The reason you can feel your fingers touch the keyboard is because of the nerves. As you can see, the nervous system is important to us. Because of this importance, we all have a spine to surround and protect the nervous system. The spine is made up of a group of individual bones stacked on top of each other. They're stacked in an exact curved posture. The reason this exact posture is important is because there are holes in the side of the spine on either side where the nerves exit. When the spine is aligned properly, these holes are opened up maximally, allowing the nerves to exit without any interference. Your body then functions normally as the brain sends its messages down the spinal cord and out the spinal nerves to whatever part of your body that nerve goes.

From birth, our bodies undergo numerous stresses of all kinds (ie structural, chemical, and emotional.) These stressors can create misalignments in our spines. These misalignments are termed subluxations. Subluxations cause the holes in the spine to close down, which blocks communication from your brain to that particular part of your body. These blockages cause nerve interference and malfunction in the area of the body being affected. The body starts losing ease of function. Being the great machines our body's are, other areas now start to compensate for the loss of function. Left uncorrected, the subluxation gets worse, which creates more compensation and so on until 65% loss of function is achieved in that particular area of the body. You then get a symptom (headache, fatigue, pain, or numbness to name a few.) The symptom is the last thing to occur, NOT the first!

At Muskego Health & Wellness center, we are structural and chemical experts. We look at the whole person, NOT just the symptoms. Upon doing a thorough physical exam, we are able to determine if subluxations or other structural problems are causing a break down in the health of the body. Using kinesiology (a study of how muscles move the body), we are also able to determine how the body is functioning inside and if there may be underlying imbalances within the body also affecting one's overall health and vitality. By looking for losses of function, NOT necessarily disease and pathology, we are able to help many people feel better than they have in years! In fact, it is not uncommon for people to notice health benefits way beyond their expectations. All without the use of drugs or surgery!