"It's just a tight muscle."

“It's just a tight muscle.” 

I hear this all the time, so I am going to explain to you what is really going on in your body! 

First off, your brain controls everything in your body through your nervous system. The nervous system travels through your spine to supply your whole body.  It has special parts of the nerve that go to your organs and muscles.

When a section of the spine shifts out of alignment it puts pressure on your nerves exiting the spine. The pressure on the nerve does not allow the signals from the brain to get to the body to communicate correctly. This means that your body is unable to function the way that it should, if there was no misalignment. This is called a Neuro-Structural shift. When you have a Neuro-Structural shift, you may experience some secondary conditions or symptoms from this interruption in the communication from the brain. 

We aren't only checking on each visit how you are feeling, we are checking to see how your body is functioning. 

Every muscle in your body is supplied by the nerves that travel from your spine. When you have Neuro-Structural shifts in your spine, it causes the communication to get lost to the muscle. Your muscle responds in two ways. It either gets tight or it gets weak. 

When your muscles get tight it is from a protective mechanism of the body to protect the spine from further damage to the nerve. Muscles also become tight because they are trying to put the bone back into its original place. 

Muscles can also become weak because the signal from the brain cannot fully get there to give it the action that it needs. We can try to train a muscle to gain back its strength as much as we can, but if it does not have the right nerve supply we will only reach a certain point of strength. Other muscles in the area will tend to compensate for the one that is not working. 

Our goals are not just to patch things by stretching or strengthening the muscle. Which both of those activities are important for its time and place. I am here to correct the primary condition, the Neuro-Structural shift in the spine and interruption in the nervous system. When we correct the primary Neuro-Structural shift, the muscles get the right signals and in turn do not get tight or weak. That way you will not continually have the same issues over and over again.