Chiropractic can offer a natural approach to managing the symptoms of multiple sclerosis. Learn how chiropractic adjustments improve patients' quality of life.
What is Multiple Sclerosis?
It is a chronic, potentially debilitating disease affecting the brain, brain stem and spinal cord. It affects more than one million people, is unpredictable and varies in severity, ranging from mild discomfort in some patients to permanent disability in others.
Your Central Nervous System contains millions of nerve fibers that carry electrical impulses from your brain and brain stem to almost every tissue, organ and cell in your body.
Multiple Sclerosis and Physical Trauma
Some research has shown that trauma to the cervical spine can aggravate patients with multiple sclerosis. These injuries can trigger critical changes in the Central Nervous System and provoke the onset of the disease.
Dr. Charles Poser of Harvard Medical School published an article entitled: Trauma to the Central Nervous System may result in the formation or growth of Plaque Multiple Sclerosis. These studies demonstrate that trauma undoubtedly has a relationship to the aggravation or onset of the disease. However, in this particular situation, the symptoms of Multiple Sclerosis may take days, months or even years to develop.
Chiropractic and Multiple Sclerosis
Some of the latest and most relevant studies in upper cervical care have demonstrated the relationship between Multiple Sclerosis and the upper cervical spine. Although cervical care is not considered a cure for those afflicted with the disease, these studies support its benefits for those suffering from this debilitating disease.
According to medical studies, head and neck injuries have long been considered a possible cause of Multiple Sclerosis. But this is the first research to show that correcting such lesions can have an impactful effect on reducing the disease.
