What About The Nerves That Don't Sense Pain?

(Editors Note:  Our post today comes from my good friend and colleague Dr. Adam Tanase, A wonderful and knowledgeable Upper Cervical Chiropractor.)

Not All Nerves Sense Pain

by Dr. Adam Tanase

                                             

Thanks to our body’s sensory nerves, we’re able to tell when something doesn’t quite feel right, like pain.

But did you know that your body has two additional types of nerves that have nothing to do with pain?

Motor nerves control our movements, while autonomic nerves (or “automatic” nerves) govern things you don’t ever have to think about, like heart rate, digestion, and breathing.

This helpful infographic (produced by Mager and Associates Consulting) demonstrates how “feeling good” doesn’t necessarily mean you’re in good health. Nerve irritation can be present in your body without pain.

 

That’s why it helps to get periodic checkups from an upper cervical chiropractor. With the help of objective assessment tools like computerized thermal imaging, upper cervical chiropractic doctors can help restore healthy function to the body by identifying and reducing autonomic nerve tension related to head/neck misalignment.

Is Upper Cervical Care Really That Simple?

Upper Cervical Care Is Easy To Understand

As experts on the upper cervical spine, upper cervical doctors focus on the intimate relationship between the top two bones in the neck, called the upper cervical spine, and, more importantly, a vital portion of the nervous system called the brain stem. This relationship is absolutely essential to the body’s ability to restore and preserve health.

In order to grasp the upper cervical concept, you must first understand how the body is created and, more importantly, how it is designed to function normally and remain healthy

The brain stem controls and coordinates virtually every vital function of the body and acts as a conduit between the brain and the body. It extends from the brain down through an opening in the base of your skull and into the upper cervical region. Working much like a telephone cable, the brain stem has millions of individual wires, or nerve fibers, that send signals back and forth between the brain to every system, organ, muscle and cell within the body. We must have 100% brain-to-body communication in order to function properly and remain healthy.

The top two bones in the neck, the atlas and axis, are the only two vertebrae in the entire spine that don’t have an intervertebral disc. They are designed to move in six directions and are considered freely movable. By contrast, every other bone in the spine, from the 3rd vertebra all the way down to the bottom, not only have a disc but also four inter-locking joints that only allow the bones to move in 2 directions. As a result, the top two freely movable bones are much more susceptible to misalignment.

If one of the upper two bones becomes misaligned, two things happen. First and foremost, it irritates or interferes with the brain stem and reduces the brain-to-body communication. Wherever those messages were intended to go, whether it’s your foot, kidney, pancreas, heart, lungs, eyes or ears, it is going to malfunction in some way, subtle or obvious. Secondly, consider the upper spine as part of a kinetic chain, connected from head to toe. If either of the top two bones becomes misaligned, the rest of the body must compensate or adapt, resulting in total “body imbalance”. In the end, your health and physical body will be compromised. This is called head/neck misalignment.

Every healing profession acknowledges that the body has an inborn or innate ability to heal itself. By restoring these healing messages, your body will operate closer to its potential from the top, down and from the inside, out.

See...Upper Cervical Care is that simple.

Upper Cervical Care And The Living Miracle

Adapted from "You Are A Living Miracle!"

By Dr. Edward Weller

You have an intelligence inside of you that is amazing. Think about it:

It created you from 2 cells. Now you have 70,000,000,000,000 (trillion)!

If you cut yourself, you will heal. In a few days, the body replaces the damaged skin with new skin and the cut heals.

In 12 months you will have an entirely new body. As you’re reading this, the inside lining of your stomach is dying and new cells are replacing them. Your heart cells are dying and new cells are growing. Constantly, everyday, cells die and new ones are growing.

You and your children are in a constant cycle of life and healing. If, in 12 months, you will have a new heart, then why can’t the body heal heart disease? If, in 12 months you will have a new pancreas, then why can’t the body heal diabetes it’s had for 7 years? It can, if you can figure out what’s stopping the body from functioning at 100%.

The brain, spinal cord, and nerves are responsible for all your functioning and healing. We can get sick and build disease when something interferes with our brain, spinal cord, and nerves. This interference can cause nerve damage, the brain’s messages are distorted, sending abnormal messages to the body, the body produces abnormal cells, those abnormal cells multiply, and then you can have disease.

An Upper Cervical Correction releases pressure off the nerves, opening the life channels, and life returns back to the body. With these clear channels, abnormal cells are replaced with normal cells, and a miracle takes place in the body!

Who gets cancer first, a body that’s working at 100% or a body that’s working at 80%? You know the answer now!

We work with Life, not against it. That is why miracles can happen everyday with Upper Cervical Care! Share this with others. They may not know the miracles inside them!