Many of us have nervous systems that are amazing at flooring the gas: we can push through fatigue to perform well, stay up late to finish those last tasks, and ignore those small signs our body gives us that it’s time to slow down. 

If our nervous systems have the engine of a racecar of your choice, it seems like our “brakes” are more like those of a golf cart. Meaning the parasympathetic nervous system has trouble coming online so that our bodies can rest, digest, and heal.

In a two-month study published in the Journal of Vertebral Subluxation Research, asthmatic patients who were co-managed with chiropractic care had a 45% decrease overall in the number of attacks that occurred. 31% of patients were able to voluntarily decrease or stop medication. These results were highlighted specifically for asthma in childre

Both of these studies point out the many advantages of using complementary and alternative treatments like chiropractic care when helping a son or daughter cope their chronic condition. It offers an alternative that doesn't create detrimental problems and focuses on complete body wellness, making it optimal for children with chronic ailments.

Why did pollen from trees, grasses, weeds, and flowers as they begin to fertilize other plants create a histamine reaction with itching, sneezing, stuffy sinuses, and watery eyes for me and some people, while others handle the change in seasons with relative ease?

Seasonal allergies, or allergies of any kind, are actually linked back to an interconnected triad –our neurology, our immune system, and our gut!  So to improve the root cause of allergies, addressing improvements in those three areas can actually the work to beat those pesky allergies for good.

The benefits of good posture are well-documented both in studies about our biomechanics, and are noticeable in the dynamics of a room. The people we notice with great posture also hold:

•  A deeper sense of confidence and own their height

•  Greater energy.  Poor posture is not energy efficient, and requires lots of extra muscles to fire

•  Deeper breathing.  When your shoulders round forward, the lungs simply don't have the room to expand to their full capacity.

• Less pain -

Sometimes our nervous system can’t adapt to it all.

Life happens. Sometimes it’s more than we can bear, and our brain and spine get overwhelmed. A lack of health is a sign that our nervous system cannot fully adapt to what is occurring – there is a gap between our current level of function and what is required to handle what is on our plate. There’s interference to our perfection, it doesn’t fully express, things break down. We show symptoms - physical, mental, or emotional.

When your spine and nerve system are more adaptable, you can heal what you previously couldn’t and also grow healthier during new stress, rather than getting “stuck” because of it.

Tight muscles and ligaments stabilize the bones, tissues, organs, and nerves at a certain level… even if it’s not in a great place, it’s better than the WORST place. We know who we are and what to expect.

This is a useful short-term strategy and a painful, energy sucking long-term strategy. For those looking to transform, read more.