Chiropractic for Musculoskeletal Pain

Types of Physical pain

There are two types of physical pain - acute and chronic. Acute pain may linger for a few seconds, minutes, hours or days. Alternatively, chronic pain lingers for a few months or years.

When our body is in pain, we must listen to it, as this is our body's way of communicating to us that something is not right. The messages are transmitted through our nerves and to our brain.

We have nerves throughout our body that expands from our brain and spine to our muscles, skin and internal organs. By transmitting and accepting electro-chemical indicators, it is able to commune with our brain. All of our emotions pass through the various areas of our body to our brain because of the electro-chemical indicators in our nerves. Whenever our body is not working properly, our nerve transmits the message to our brain.

These nerves traverse through our spine, which is safeguarded by our vertebra. Since most of our nerves and nerve roots are concentrated in the spine, this makes our back to be susceptible to pain, which can be very unbearable. Our intervertebral discs, which separate our vertebrae, have nerve endings that aggravate the issue.

One of the usual methods that we adapt to alleviate musculoskeletal pain is the use of ice or heat packs. Using this method will make the pain subside, as the brain receives no stimulus that signifies soreness. However, pain will recur since this method is only temporary. Since the brain was not able to receive any message, the body was not also allowed to heal itself.

Musculoskeletal pain can be relieved with chiropractic. Restoring and sustaining the appropriate position of our vertebral joints where our nerves are located is the job of chiropractors. In doing so, the body is allowed to heal the cause of the pain. When our tendons, ligaments and muscles encircling our spinal joints are sore, we will have inflammation or muscle tremors. This can be the result of a misalignment in our vertebrae, which cause our nerves to be irritated. Once the nerves are irritated, our body cannot heal itself.

Chiropractic's role is to reinstate the proper nerve flow to allow it to properly commune with our brain; thus, making our body to respond in a natural way to achieve healing. To reinstate the proper alignment of our spine, chiropractor performs adjustments, hence the body will be back to perform its normal functions resulting to the elimination of musculoskeletal pain.

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