One in a thousand take the trouble — the rest let the trouble take them! The average patient has more than 20 different symptoms by the time he or she sees a doctor. As a rule, more people relate such symptoms as pain in the neck or back to the spine. However, few realize that pinched nerves in the spine can be a contributing or a primary cause of almost any ailment.
The spinal cord is actually an extension of the brain, sending nerve energy to control and to coordinate the function of every organ, system and cell in the body. When interference from brain cells to tissue cells develops, the beginning stages of disease start. The spine consists of 24 freely movable bones. They protect over 300,000 nerves that emit between each vertebrae through small holes. Any small misalignment can block nerve energy, just as a rheostat will cut down the energy to a light bulb. Symptoms gradually start to develop and the patient doesn’t know why he or she has them.
For instance, misalignment in the neck region can disturb nerve function, resulting in headache, nervousness, insomnia, high blood pressure, chronic tiredness, dizziness, sinus trouble, eye trouble, ear trouble, neuritis, chronic cough, sore throat, stiff neck, pain in the upper arms, or bursitis. Many patients take all kinds of medication for these symptoms not realizing the cause of their problem is in the neck.
Misalignments in the mid-back can disturb nerve function, resulting in asthma and difficult breathing, functional heart conditions, gall bladder conditions, liver conditions, poor circulation, arthritis, stomach trouble, indigestion, heartburn and gastritis, kidney trouble, chronic tiredness, skin conditions, and gas pain.
Misalignments in the lower back can cause constipation, colitis, diarrhea, cramps, bladder trouble, menstrual trouble such as painful or irregular periods, change of life symptoms, bed wetting, many knee pains, sciatica, backaches, difficult, painful, or too frequent urination, poor circulation in the legs, swollen ankles, weakness in the legs and leg cramps, or sacro-iliac conditions and pain at the end of the sine when sitting.
Why live with your condition, treating the symptom while the cause of your problem is left untreated? The longer the cause is untreated the symptoms soon lead to full-blown disease of the organs and tissue involved.
Don’t suffer unnecessarily! Your health is too important to neglect. The power that made the body heals the body. Everyday we treat patients that regain their health within a few months and even weeks. They discover they have sometimes suffered five to ten years or more, needlessly because they never tried Chiropractic.
For more information, please contact Unruh Chiropractic, Inc. at 661-288-0022. The office is located at 23206 Lyons Avenue, Suite 110 in Santa Clarita.