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do you suffer with a Pinched Nerve?
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"Pinched" nerves
do not go away by themselves. No amount of painkillers or muscle relaxants
can fix them.Where Do Nerves Go?Individual nerve fibers are microscopic. although they may be many inches long they are so thin you need a powerful microscope to see them. Nerve fibers are also found in large bundles called nerves, which you can see. Billions of nerve fibers are bundled inside your spinal cord, an extension of your brain, which passes through your spinal column. Nerves branch off from your spinal cord through openings between the vertebrae to connect to every nook and cranny in your body. Life Without NervesYour nerves connect you to the world. Without them you couldn't see, hear, touch, taste or smell or feel hot, cold, pleasure or pain. Your body would be the ultimate sensory deprivation tank; no messages could come in-and no messages could go out; without nerves no muscles could move; you'd be a prisoner within yourself. Nerves Keep You Alive And Healthy Nerve messages also help regulate your body activities such as breathing,
heartbeat, digestion,
excretion, and your blood pressure and immune system so that
you can respond to germs,
changes in temperature and all kinds of stress. In addition to
nerve impulses, nutrients flow
over your nerves to nourish your muscles and tissues. If this
flow is blocked it may cause If your nerves are "pinched," "impinged" or otherwise
interfered with, the flow of messages Lowered resistance to disease, infection, colds, flu, allergies, ulcers, constipation, diarrhea, asthma, fevers, headaches, seizures, bedwetting, hearing, balance or visual disturbances and many other health problems have been related to an unhealthy nervous system. How Do Nerves Get Impinged Or "Pinched"Your skeletal system, especially your spinal column, protects your spinal cord and other nerves. If your spinal bones (vertebrae) are misaligned even slightly they may "pinch," impinge, irritate, compress or stretch the nerves they are supposed to protect. This in turn can affect other structures in the area including blood vessels, discs, ligaments, joints, muscles, fascia, tendons and meninges. As mentioned earlier, this is referred to as a subluxation.
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Is A "Pinched" Nerve Making Your Life Miserable?Being "pinched" hurts, but to pinch a nerve? Ugh! That must feel like a severe, sharp, intense pain-and it often does. "Pinched" nerves could happen nearly anywherel and affect nerves that go to your arms, fingers, wrists, neck, head, back, shoulders, legs, muscles and internal organs. "Pinched" nerves can affect your health, posture, vitality, resistance to disease, even your emotional health. "Pinched" nerves can make your life miserable. "Pinched"?Do nerves really get "pinched"? Actual pinching is quite rare. What is much more common is what chiropractors call the vertebral subluxation complex or subluxations. Other terms for this are nerve impingement, nerve irritation, nerve lesion, spinal stress and meningeal tension. Even though there may be no actual pinching, people like the word because it's so descriptive. It can really feel like something is being pinched in there. Some health professionals even use it. People at times enter a chiropractor's office saying their MD, osteopath, massage therapist or other healer referred them because they had a" pinched" nerve and should see a chiropractor to get it "unpinched." What Can Cause Subluxations? Nearly any kind of stress can cause a
subluxation: a fall or an accident, even a
very I:nild one that happened years ago; a Most "Pinched" Nerves Don't Hurt Most people with "pinched" nerves are not in pain
since most nerves do not carry pain messages.
Chiropractors sometimes say that people with painful"
pinched" nerves might be considered lucky-they
know they have a problem and they (hopefully) will But what of those not "lucky" enough to have painful "pinched" nerves?They may watch their body suffer and their health deteriorate for years without the faintest idea that the problem may be coming from their spine. These people desperately need to see a chiropractor but because they don't have spine or nerve pain they may never receive the care they need. This is the big job facing chiropractors today; educating people about vertebral subluxations and the need for periodic spinal checkups. Correct Your "Pinched" Nerves"Pinched" nerves do not go away by
themselves. No amount of painkillers or
muscle relaxants can fix them.
Only doctors of chiropractic are able to
analyze your spinal column for "pinched" Only a chiropractic spinal analysis and spinal adjustment can relieve your body of vertebral subluxations-nothing else will do. |
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