Chiropractic and Intestines

Chiropractic and Intestines

Chiropractic may be your missing link for intestinal disorders

Chiropractic involves the use of hands to manually adjust the spine from subluxations. It can be understood that chiropractic is effective when there is lower back pain, mid-back pain, or neck pain, but what is the connection to intestinal disorders?

What is the scientific basis of Chiropractic?

To answer this question, we must return to the fundamentals of what is really happening when you receive a chiropractic adjustment. Your spine is a gateway to all the different nerves in the body. The spinal nerves that go to the head and upper neck innervate the head, eyes, nose, face, scalp, and everything else, such as the brain and brainstem.

When the vertebrae in your neck become misaligned or subluxated, such as when you hit your head, fall, bump your head when getting out of the car, or experience trauma of any kind, the nerves in the area of the trauma are damaged because the vertebrae are out of their natural place. Even if the vertebrae are just one centimeter out of alignment, the nerves suffer compression.

Nerves do not remain silent when they are suffering

Nerves do not suffer compression without saying a “word.” Nerves express what is happening to them, and then respond by creating symptoms such as sharp pain, chills, a wave of heat, numbness, or tingling in a part of the body. Your nervous system is determined to make you understand that the situation of damage occurring to a nerve needs to change.

The symptoms associated with these nerve signals may also include a headache, signs such as disturbances in vision or hearing, facial tics, drooping eyelids or lips, neck pain, sharp pains in the arms, muscle weakness, and even scalp pain.

How do spinal nerves affect internal organs?

When we look at what is happening in the lower and center of the spine, you will know that the spinal nerves in this area travel to the internal organs. The spinal nerves in the mid-back innervate the heart, lungs, and stomach, as well as the throat, thyroid, parathyroid glands, pancreas, adrenal glands, and liver. Thus, whenever there is a vertebral subluxation in this area, it affects the spinal nerves that go to these organs, leading to diseases in those organs (since those organs do not show symptoms).

Your lower back houses the spinal nerves that go to the intestines. One part of the intestine is the sphincter between the large intestine and the rectum. This sphincter is responsible for controlling the amount of bowel movements you have. If the sphincter opens, then you will have more bowel movements than normal. If the sphincter is closed, then you have constipation. This sphincter is controlled by a nerve. And when you trace back the nerve, you will find that this nerve travels up to the spine.

The connection between chiropractic and intestinal disorders

Therefore, when you have Crohn’s disease, irritable bowel syndrome, or ulcerative colitis, part of the problem could be what is happening with the spinal nerve and the vertebrae.

If you have never been to a chiropractor but suffer from any of these intestinal disorders, it could be very important for you to get your spine adjusted, and the chiropractor can manually adjust the sphincter. Think about this – Can a medication heal something like this? It cannot.

Of course, there are other things that can happen when you have intestinal disorders. It is very likely that your chiropractor is up to date on the different types of probiotics that have been specifically created to help a person with intestinal disorders achieve the correct bacterial flora in the intestines. He or she may prescribe a probiotic that offers the correct flora and thus help you reduce the discomfort you feel with these disorders.

But you will not know the beneficial impact that chiropractic can have on your intestines until you go to the chiropractor and get adjusted. Make an appointment today. Your intestinal disorders have many aspects that need to be addressed – and by trying different ways to heal them, you will ultimately find your answer.

You can find more information by checking our websites. A good source for research on cases where chiropractic has been helpful can be found on the chiropractic association’s website.

Source:

http://www.acatoday.org/level1_css.cfm?T1ID=42