Your nervous system helps regulate every single activity in every organ and cell of your body including the brain. It is made up of the brain, spinal cord, and nerves. Your nervous system allows you to do things like walk, speak, swallow, breathe and absorb new information. It also controls the fight or flight response in emergency situations.
The nervous system controls:
- Brain growth and development
- Hearing
- Touch
- Perception
- Thoughts
- Emotions
- Processing new information
- Memory and retainment
- Movement, balance, and coordination
- Sleep
- Healing
- Stress
- Aging
- Breathing and heartbeat
- Body temperature
- Digestion, hunger, and thirst
- Puberty, reproductive health, and fertility
When your nervous system pathways become blocked or impinged signals do not go through so easily. Much like water flows through a garden hose, if you step on that hose the flow stops. These electrical impulses also work very much in the same manner.
This is why the nervous system benefits so greatly from chiropractic adjustment. Chiropractic removes the “kinks in the hose” allowing subluxations (misalignments) to once again move out of the way of the natural electrical impulse flow. When your spine and skeletal system is fully in alignment energy flows naturally. This gives rise to your greatest possible health as all of your organs are then receiving all of the information your body is attempting to send to them.
The Effect of Chiropractic on the Nervous System
Chiropractic is not only corrective care it is preemptive proactive care to help your body stay strong throughout your lifetime. If an organ remains cut off from communication by way of a long-standing misalignment it can lead to disease in that affected organ.
If you aren’t feeling your best and cannot figure out why you may have postural issues that need to be corrected. They may be blocking your body’s ability to heal and repair itself and are easily corrected by way of either a single session or a series depending on the extent of the issue.
Come see us in Fort Myers, Florida. The office of Kaster Chiropractic and Associates can be reached by calling 239-332-2555 to schedule your appointment. www.kasterchiropractic.com.