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What is Subluxation?

A vertebral (spinal) subluxation is a clinical condition affecting the relationship and alignment of spinal bones and neurological structures which impacts the overall function of the body’s natural coordinating systems. The influence of the subluxation on the body may be subtle and asymptomatic, or rather dramatic and expressive. The effects of subluxations are cumulative and global.

The model of Network Spinal Analysis classifies subluxations into two types:

1) Structural Subluxation: compression, or squeezing of the nerve as it passes through the opening between the vertebrae. It is commonly called a pinched nerve. This is the result of a mechanical or physical stress from which the body can not recover.

2) Facilitated Subluxation: an elongation or twisting of the spinal cord and associated nervous tissue. This is most likely associated with emotional, mental, or chemical stress from which the body-mind could not recover.

What causes it?

What causes vertebral subluxation? Any stress your body cannot deal with may produce a vertebral subluxation.

Changes in your environment (physical, chemical, mental, or emotional) create stress. Your brain must access the situation and react to it. You have the capacity to respond to stress as a part of normal, everyday life. However, when you exceed your capacity, you must either change for the better and grow, or express symptoms and disease.

Your brain and body can handle an enormous amount of stress. Beyond a certain point, your system becomes overloaded. The combined effect of a variety of stresses and the inability of the nervous system to deal with them can produce vertebral subluxations. These subluxations involve elongation, twisting, or compression of the system resulting in a persistent misalignment of the spinal vertebrae. The resulting interference disrupts the nervous system’s natural ability to assemble and sort out neurological instructions. Like a computer, if the input (messages to the system) is distorted, then the output (messages from the nervous system to the body cells) will also be distorted.

How do you know you have them?

Until you know how flexible, adaptable and peaceful your spine and nervous system can be, you may never know you have a vertebral subluxation. Symptoms may occur as soon as a vertebral subluxation is present. In most instances however, a person may have vertebral subluxations for many years before the cumulative effect on the body or mind is sufficient to produce a symptom. Often we are not aware that a subluxation is present unless a chiropractic examination is conducted. Your chiropractor can show you what your musculature feels like when you are subluxated.

When the nervous system is overloaded or "stressed out," it will not be as able to function and adapt to challenges in the environment. At some point, the body-mind may produce warning signs in the form of symptoms. To focus attention on combating the symptoms does nothing to increase the adaptability and functional capacity of the body. Symptoms indicate change is necessary. Improving the health and functioning of the spine and nervous system assists the body in healing.

What can your chiropractor do about vertebral subluxations?

According to the nature and location of vertebral subluxations and the level of care you are experiencing, your practitioner will use the method of adjustment to which you best respond. The "adjustment" is created by the body’s response to the chiropractor’s applied force. The force used to reduce and correct the vertebral subluxation may be gentle or firm, depending on what your body needs

Dr Elston
+44(0) 7773 799 993

Saddlers Sports Centre
122 Goswell Road London,
EC1V 7EJ

Dr Kerri Elston

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CHIROPRACTOR NORTH CENTRAL LONDON, Chalk Farm, Camden, Kings Cross, Belsize Park, Primrose Hill, West Hampstead, Regents Park, West End, Kentish Town

Please note that Dr Snell will be on leave till September 2008. Dr Elston will be covering normal hours at Chalk Farm for this period.

Dr Snell
+44(0) 7985 905 371

Fitness First for Women
81-84 Chalk Farm Road London NW1 8AR

Dr E. Jill Snell

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