Hi Hugh,
Dont know about all the plagues in Egypt? Try this.
However you have 24 vertebrae stacked on top of each other. The vertebrae are connected by joints which are innervated by nerves which also innervate the muscles crossing the vertebral joints. Sensory information is transmitted to the sensory area of the brain, by “mechanoreceptors” in the joints and muscles being stimulated by movement. This information converges on the spinal cord and is relayed to the brain as are “action potentials” from the sympathetic chain which runs down the thoracic spine ( regulates autonomic function ie heart rate).
Sceptics would argue that loss of movement in these joints does not matter, because the pain which sometimes accompanies this problem will resolve in its own time. If the object of treatment is pain relief and joint function is not important to wellbeing then the sceptics would be right, however I disagree, the function of mechano receptors is important if only for the relief of pain. “ Melzack and Wall pain gate theory”.
How do nerves effect organic function? Guy dozing off on the train, his head falls forward. The stretch on the mechano receptors in the muscles on the back of the neck, fire into the spinal cord and brainstem area to do with alertness and the guy is aroused and reacts to the stimulous.
That is not to say chiropractic cures anything however improving joint function will Effect the Central Nervous System, and I would say is worth trying before pills, however I am just a simple quack and the MD would prefer you take the pills.
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Hi Hugh,
Dont know about all the plagues in Egypt? Try this.
However you have 24 vertebrae stacked on top of each other. The vertebrae are connected by joints which are innervated by nerves which also innervate the muscles crossing the vertebral joints. Sensory information is transmitted to the sensory area of the brain, by “mechanoreceptors” in the joints and muscles being stimulated by movement. This information converges on the spinal cord and is relayed to the brain as are “action potentials” from the sympathetic chain which runs down the thoracic spine ( regulates autonomic function ie heart rate).
Sceptics would argue that loss of movement in these joints does not matter, because the pain which sometimes accompanies this problem will resolve in its own time. If the object of treatment is pain relief and joint function is not important to wellbeing then the sceptics would be right, however I disagree, the function of mechano receptors is important if only for the relief of pain. “ Melzack and Wall pain gate theory”.
How do nerves effect organic function? Guy dozing off on the train, his head falls forward. The stretch on the mechano receptors in the muscles on the back of the neck, fire into the spinal cord and brainstem area to do with alertness and the guy is aroused and reacts to the stimulous.
That is not to say chiropractic cures anything however improving joint function will Effect the Central Nervous System, and I would say is worth trying before pills, however I am just a simple quack and the MD would prefer you take the pills.