It never ceases to amaze me how much better I feel after being adjusted. Not that I was “bad” or in pain before but there is a kind of synergy that happens when your body is running well. All your organs and glands run via your nervous system. So when something is “wrong” in your spine – you can affect limbs, muscles, organs, glands or even skin. I had a patient who had injured his ankle 18 months earlier and it couldn’t get back to normal.
After it (the ankle) was adjusted it was a lot better and never bothered him again. Now of course if you’re not in a good headspace you can’t possible expect your body to feel good. So for example if you are very anxious or stressed your stomach can be affected.
So you may feel like there is a brick in your stomach and you lack appetite. Often you will get a headache or your head will feel too heavy for your neck. Your neck muscles (flexors) relate to your stomach. So all these things can affect your spine. T6 (6th thoracic vertebra) also relates to stomach. Some people who have acid reflux will get a pain in their back at the same time. So your spine works in a way like a fuse box.
If you overload a circuit it will “blow”. So unless you reduce the load (turn something off) the fuse will blow again after you turn it on. This is why sometimes when you got to have an adjustment/treatment and the adjustment doesn’t hold – or it goes “out” again. We need to look at what is behind that fuse blowing. Using your muscles we can ask was it stress, toxicity, nutrition or allergy.
