How Does A Chiropractor Get You Out Of Pain?

I am lucky enough to be a second generation chiropractor, as my dad and two uncles are chiropractors. It has been a lot of fun to watch the profession progress over the last 30 plus years. From the very beginning of chiropractic we have known it works, all you have to look at to see this is the results we get. The question that has been asked many times is “why”? In the last 15 to 20 we have begun to find the answer to the why. The answer comes in the form of research on the nervous system. Through this research we have developed a beautiful picture of why chiropractic helps us get out of pain.

Chiropractors are not at all “bone doc’s” or even “joint crunchers” as we have been described in the past. A more accurate view of what a chiropractor is would be a “doctor of the nervous system” as this is what we primarily affect. Bear with me in this next paragraph as I dive head in to how we affect the nervous system so powerfully to decrease your pain, I promise I will bring it back around to something we can all understand.

When a joint in the body becomes stuck because of injury, poor posture, yard work, etc… it creates a chain reaction. This “joint fixation” or area that is stuck, will decrease the rate of firing of the joint mechanoreceptor in turn decreasing the rate of firing of the large diameter 1A fibers of the nerve. This decrease of the rate of firing decreases the inhibition of C fibers, or the pain fibers of the nerve which will increase activity of these C fibers. This process leads to an increase in pain. Whew…OK now that we have that out of the way…

As a chiropractor I daily work on INCREASING the frequency of firing of the joint mechanoreceptors, increasing firing of the 1A fibers, which inhibits transmission to the C fibers all leading to a decrease in pain! Clear as mud right?

Now that we got the technical mumbo jumbo out of the way lets talk about your low back pain. Many times low back pain is caused by the bones in your back not being able to move normally and this leads to pain. Your Bellevue chiropractor will get the bones moving normally which will then decrease your pain.

This is the neurological reason why the chiropractic adjustment works as well as it does.

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