Grass Valley chiropractor, chiropractor in Grass Valley, CA

What is a Subluxation?

Subluxation is a term used in the chiropractic field to describe what happens when one of the vertebrae in your spine moves out of position. The word subluxation is derived from the Latin words meaning somewhat less than (sub) and to break (luxate). A subluxation is not a vertebra that is broken. Instead it is a vertebra that has become injured and cannot move in its normal ranges of motion.

A subluxated vertebra reacts by springing out of its normal range of motion with each step, which twangs the nerves exiting from the misaligned side of that particular vertebra. The affect is like a branch slapping the power line. It sends electrical surges into the muscles or organ where that nerve is going. Power surges are very disruptive to the normal functions of your body, just as they are to the sophisticated electrical equipment in your home. As a result, your health picture goes into stress. Unless it is resolved, the stress tends to worsen over time.

Toxic thinking and fears, or unresolved feelings that you do not actually "feel" creates trauma as bad, or worse than taking a bad fall. This trauma will settle in one or more vertebrae that cannot perform normally. Since every organ and every muscle is serviced by one of your vertebrae, subluxations create dis-ease, which over time can work into disease.

Learning better posture and gait helps resolve subluxations. Those things you are doing wrong shows up when I sit you in correct posture at the beginning of your session. That is when I discus what is causing the misalignments that diminish your life force.

You can look at the section on "Spinal Degeneration Phases" to understand how your health picture degrades when you let your posture get worse each year. If your subluxation(s) continue to worsen, your health is taken down in the process.

My emphasis is on helping you to heal these problems. In the section on "First Visit Expectations" you can learn about his protocols for healing subluxated vertebrae and restoring your health in the process. I am very successful in helping patients realign their spine. When your primary curves come back to normal alignment and flexibility, good health returns.

Within my first few years of practice, I realized that the patient's spine reflects the health of his or her thought processes, their feelings, their attitudes and their beliefs. Those are also factors that we will deal with, which is part of restoring your spine to proper alignment.