How Chiropractic Adjustments Can Change Your Brain
People are often surprised to hear that chiropractic care can influence the brain. From the early days of chiropractic, B.J. Palmer who was the developer of chiropractic was involved in promoting chiropractic for both the physically and the mentally ill.
In 1926 B.J. Palmer a chiropractic psychiatric hospital, the Clear Water Sanitarium, in Davenport, Iowa, the birthplace of chiropractic. By the year 1952, cases of schizophrenia, depression, and bipolar disorder saw significant improvement after being under chiropractic care at the hospital. This was in the days before all the psychotropic drugs in use today.
B.J. had a scientific mind and he incorporated scientific analysis into chiropractic to go along with a new philosophical approach to health that interference to the nervous system could affect both body and mind. The term vertebral subluxation was coined to describe this interference.
While the philosophy is the same, new mechanisms have been discovered that not only interfere with the nervous system but influence the brain, causing neural plastic change or re-moulding of the brains connections.
Your brain receives a constant supply of messages about yourbody and the external environment from the sensory organs, These are your eyes your ears, your nose, tongue, skin and so on. With this information, your brain maintains a 3D map of your body and keeps tabs on what's going on outside of your body.
Your brain needs to interpret all of this data from your senses.
It translates the information it receives based on what it's learned from your past experiences, as well as its expectations for the future, its preferences and more. There is basically a lot of background processing that happens under the radar. So how you experience as situation may not be totally inaccurate, depending on past experiences and what is happening in your body. The brain interprets information that it perceives. So how you or your brain sees the situation may not b entirely accurate.That means your experience isn't 100% based on reality,
What if the brain responds to faulty cues? It will then respond abnormally. So how would you know this. You don’t necessarily need to experience pain. Well, you could be clumsy, have balance issues or your concentration or coordination could be adversely affected. You could also be experiencing emotional issue or loss of concentration.
So how can chiropractic reset the function of your nervous system and brain so that the brain’s mapping of the body and its environment is more accurate. To understand this you have to understand how another sensory organ influences the brain and causes neural plastic changes.
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