Almost all health problems are physical, chemical, or emotional in nature. Most of us understand how emotional stress can contribute to, or cause, certain types of health problems and that when the body chemistry isn’t normal, you can develop health problems. However most of us don’t understand how and why many other health problems can result from physical causes.
For example, getting a pebble in your shoe. You feel pain from the pebble but the pain doesn’t result from something chemical or emotional. If you’re in pain long enough, you might develop emotional stress and perhaps even throw off your chemistry in the area, but the cause of the problem is actually something physical. The reason you feel pain from the pebble is that the pebble actually puts pressure on a nerve of pain. If there was no nerve of pain in your foot you wouldn’t feel the pebble.
A common cause of pain that people suffer is due to pressure on a local nerve. Fact: 10% of your body’s nerves are related to pain while 90% of them control your function. Your ability to see depends on the nerves of sight functioning properly while your ability to hear depends on the nerves of hearing functioning properly. You can move your arm because the nerves that control the muscles of your arm are functioning and you can breathe and digest food if the nerves related to these areas are functioning properly. Put pressure on nerves of function and you feel no pain - you simply don’t function properly.
When you remove a pebble from your shoe, pain disappears because pressure or irritation to the nerve has been physically removed. If there is pressure on nerves in the neck causing head or neck pain, when that pressure is relieved, these problems will clear up. If there is pressure on a nerve inhibiting normal function, when that pressure is removed, normal function is once again restored.
This explains why some people may have gone to a chiropractor for back pain only to discover that they recovered from a different problem altogether. As they were treated to remove pressure from the nerves that were giving them pain, their digestive or breathing problems may well have improved also.
For further details on the relationship between the nervous system and functions in your body, please contact us.
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