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Is a Pinched Nerve Making Your Life Miserable?
Do nerves really get "pinched"? Actual pinching is quite rare. What is
much more common is what chiropractors call vertebral subluxation, or
the effect on a nerve as it exits the spinal cord between vertebrae
openings which have undergone narrowing due to injury, degeneration, swelling of soft tissue, or scarring. Individual nerve fibers are microscopic in size. Nerve fibers are found
in large bundles called nerves. Billions of nerve fibers are bundled
inside you spinal cord, an extension of your brain, and branch off from
the cord through openings between the vertebrae to connect to every part of your body. With them you see, hear, taste or smell or feel hot, cold, pleasure or pain. Without them, no sensory messages in,no messages out. No movement, no body function. "Pinched" nerves lead
to lowered or axcelerated body function. Under regulated body activities
such as breathing, heartbeat, digestion, excretion, blood pressure and
immune system result in illness, or the lowered ability of the body to run
its business as it should. When nerves become "pinched",
here's what happens: 1. Jammed (stuck) or hyper mobile (loose)
joints (kinesiolopathology). 2. Irritated, stretched, compressed, or
impinged nerves (neuropathology). This is what people call
pinched nerves. 3. Sore, tight, stiff, contracted or painful muscles
(myopathology). 4. Inflammation, hot spots or "trigger points"
(histopathology). 5. Disease, with less energy, poor posture, lowered
resistance to disease and premature aging (pathophysiology).
Chiropractors analyze the spinal column for areas of the spine where
subluxations are causing "pinched" nerves and use the spinal adjustment techniques to relieve "pinched nerves" so your body can get back to the business of healing itself.
No other health care modality comes close to the chiropractic practice of adjusting the spine to relieve
"pinched nerves". References: 1.
Robins, SL. Pathologic Basis of Disease. Philadelpia: W.B. Saunders Co 1974 2. Giles LG. The pathophysiology of zygapopphyseal joints in Haldeman S. (Ed). Principals and Practice of Chiropractic. Norwalk, Ct: Appleton & Lange, 1992:203-205. 3.Benhamou
CL, Row C. Tourilere A, et al. Pseudovisceral pain referred from costovertebral arthropathies. Spine 1993;18:790-795
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