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What problems does a Vertebral Subluxation cause?

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The vertebral subluxation first changes your ability to turn and bend. Next, the muscles may become tight and go into spasm. The tight muscles and lack of motion directly affect the nerves exiting at each level of a spinal vertebrae (bone). This may cause symptoms to appear elsewhere in the body. As the body tries to correct the problem we often find inflammation in the area of the vertebral subluxation. The area of inflammation will be tender, swollen, warm, and perhaps red in color.
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What Is A Vertebral Subluxation?

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In its simplest explanation, a subluxation (a.k.a. Vertebral Subluxation) is when one or more of the bones of your spine (vertebrae) move out of their proper position and create pressure on, or irritate spinal nerves causing those nerves to malfunction and interfere with the signals traveling over those nerves. How does this affect you? Innate intelligence uses your nervous system to control and coordinates all the functions of your body.
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Walker Chiropractic Center - Frequently Asked Questions
A vertebral subluxation is a misaligned vertebra causing interference with nerve messages between your brain and your body. Accordingly, the goals of chiropractic joint adjustments or manipulation are not only to correct musculoskeletal dysfunction, improving range of motion and reducing pain, but also restore normal function in the nervous system.
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They surround and protect the spinal cord, which is the main "communication cable" the brain uses to send messages to and from the body. Nerves exit between each pair of vertebra. They are like wires connecting the spinal cord to the rest of the body. Vertebrae can become misaligned, due to trauma or other stresses, causing a short circuit in the nerves. This is called a vertebral subluxation. The result is interference in the communication between the brain and the body.
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interference with the nervous system can occur when you have a spinal misalignment referred to as a vertebral subluxation. When a subluxation is present, it interferes with this communication and the body cannot maintain its innate (inborn) ability to stay healthy.
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There are 24 movable bones in your spine. A vertebral subluxation results when one of these bones loses it's normal alignment or motion, causing it to disturb nerve structures in your spine.
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When a vertebra misaligns to the degree that it interferes with the proper function of the nerve system (subluxates), the inborn, self-regulating mechanism of the body cannot function as it should. This results in a decrease in the quality of life. Chiropractors correct these subluxations.
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A vertebral subluxation is a condition in which one or more of the twenty-four moveable bones of the spinal column has twisted or slipped out of place, interfering with the delicate nerves that exit between the spinal bones. This causes irritation to the nerves and impairs their ability to transmit or receive vital nerve messages from various parts of the body. For more information, read our newsletter article: What A Subluxation Does To You. [back to top]
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When spinal bones lose there normal position and motion, nervous system interference results. The cause can be from stress, trauma, or chemical imbalances. More specifically, it's referred to as the Vertebral Subluxation Complex and is made up of five components: Histopathology: Inflamation of the tissues, increasing blood flow, swelling, edema, all can cause permanent damage to the spinal discs and other soft tissues. Pathophysiology: Pathological changes result in degeneration and bone spurs.
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Q - What is the Vertebral Subluxation Complex?

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A - The Vertebral Subluxation Complex has five parts that describe the malfunction of spine, nervous system, muscles, soft tissues, and the rest of the body due to abnormal motion and position of individual spinal bones. The detection, treatment, and prevention of VSC makes chiropractic unique in the health care sciences.
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A vertebral subluxation is a misalignment of vertebrae in the spine. When these misalignments occur, the nerve openings become narrow. The soft tissue surrounding as well as the nerve itself can then become irritated and sometimes damaged. This irritation is what causes pain or discomfort in the muscles surrounding the vertebrae. Overall, these misalignments, or subluxations, interfere with how the body communicates with itself.
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Vertebral Subluxation" describes what happens when spinal bones lose their normal position and motion from stress, trauma, or chemical imbalances. A Subluxation is identified by its five parts:
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How does alcohol cause these problems?

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Alcohol in the mother's blood crosses the placenta freely and enters the embryo or fetus through the umbilical cord. The exact mechanism(s) by which alcohol damages the fetus and critical times of exposure are not known; however, exposure during the first trimester results in the structural defects (i.e., facial changes) characteristic of FAS, whereas the growth and CNS disturbances could occur from alcohol use during any time in pregnancy.
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Alcohol in the mother’s blood crosses the placenta freely and enters the embryo or fetus through the umbilical cord. Alcohol exposure in the first 3 months of pregnancy can cause structural defects (e.g., facial changes). Growth and CNS problems can occur from drinking alcohol any time during pregnancy. The brain is developing throughout pregnancy. It can be damaged at any time. It is unlikely that one mechanism can explain the harmful effects of alcohol on the developing fetus.
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CAN I TELL IF I HAVE A VERTEBRAL SUBLUXATION?

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No, only a chiropractor can tell if you have subluxations. Finding and correcting subluxations is what they are trained to do. Most people think that if they have no symptoms they are healthy and don't have subluxations. This is not necessarily true. Unless someone has been in a recent accident or has had a recent trauma, subluxations may take years to manifest symptoms. We can even tell about how long a person has had a subluxation from taking a look at an x-ray of their spine.
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What caused my Vertebral Subluxation?

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A Vertebral Subluxation can be caused by any type of stress that overwhelms the body. Many patients are surprised to find that they have subluxations they didn't know about. Often a pain that is felt in an entirely different section of the body, can be traced back to its originating root as a subluxation of the spine.
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What Causes Vertebral Subluxation?

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There are various kinds of external, invasive forces that affect the spine. They can be put into three classifications: physical, chemical, and mental or emotional. Physical Forces - Physical forces are probably the most well-known and most easily understood. It is not difficult to see how a physical trauma could cause a vertebra to subluxate.
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How does joint dysfunctjon cause vertebral or disc disease?

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The disc which acts as a cushion between the 24 movable vertebra in your spine requires regular movement to stay healthy. These discs do not have the nutrient blood supply like most other tissues in the body. They depend on the movement of the vertebra to which they are attached to be properly nourished These discs essentially suck in nutrients from their surrounding tissues as the vertebra move.
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What can a subluxation cause?

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The most noted effects of a subluxation are: back pain, headaches, neck pain, leg pain, arm and hand pain, tingling, numbness, weakness, not to mention shoulder, elbow, wrist, hip, knee and ankle pain. Subluxations have also been connected with asthma, menstrual problems, ear infections, ulcers, high blood pressure, hemorrhoids, and feelings of poor health.
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HOW CAN AN ONGOING SUBLUXATION CAUSE HEALTH PROBLEMS IN THE SHORT AND LONG TERM?

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Let's just say for example that the interference is occurring to the thyroid gland. If the signal is intensified, the problem that could result is Hyperthyroidism. If the signal is diminished, the result could be Hypothyroidism. Similarly, this example could be applied to any organ system, organ, tissue, cell and/or the body as a whole. Every disease named by medical doctors is named either for too much or too little function of different parts of the body.
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What is subluxation?

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Subluxation (also called vertebral subluxation) is the chiropractic term for misalignment of one or more vertebrae in spine. The spinal cord is protected by the spine, which is made up of 24 individual bones, or vertebrae. When the vertebra move out of their normal position they can push against the spinal nerves, interfering with the proper functioning of the nervous system to specific areas of the body and causing muscle and nerve tension.
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Advantage Health and Wellness Center
Subluxation is an old Chiropractic term that originally referred to the concept of a vertebrae that was impinging or “pinching” on a spinal nerve to create neural interference (think crimped garden hose). More recently it has been used by Chiropractors to represent a “joint dysfunction” which can create a local inflammatory process and result in pain.
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How does subluxation cause spinal degeneration?

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This is a representation of one type of subluxation. A subluxation, as defined by the Association of Chiropractic Colleges is: "A subluxation is a complex of functional and/or structural and/or pathological articular changes that compromise neural integrity and may influence organ system function and general health." When a subluxation occurs it causes nerve interference in some portion of the body affected by those nerves.
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The problems of hard water are seen in the home when cooking some foods (e.g. vegetables). These can turn hard and bitter. Hard water also stains bathroom fittings (toilets and bathtubs) and kitchen fittings as well. Likewise, hard water reduces the formation of lather when we bath or wash clothes. Hard water can be treated by "softening it" by chemical processes, which can be carried out in a treatment system in the home.
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Jaundice or cholestasis, by themselves, causes few problems (except in the newborn, and jaundice in the newborn is different than most other types of jaundice, as discussed later.) Jaundice can turn the skin and sclerae yellow. In addition, stool can become light in color, even clay-colored because of the absence of bilirubin that normally gives stool its brown color. The urine may turn dark or brownish in color.
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The email sender is inconsistent in interpreting CSS. The result is that most of the CSS is stripped from the HTML before sending the email. In addition, many Web-based email services will strip the <head> from your email before it is displayed. In either case, the result is that your formatting is lost. CSS is a wonderful technology - so wonderful that HTML editing software tries to use CSS at every opportunity.
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