Chiropractic Neurology

As force enters your body it must be absorbed by your muscles. As long as your muscles can absorb all the force entering your body you can continue your activities without any trouble. If some of the force is not absorbed by a muscle it will start to transfer to surrounding tissue not designed to absorb force. The unabsorbed force will transfer to tendons, ligaments, discs, cartilage, labrum etc. This unabsorbed force will cause inflammation, stretching, fraying, bulging, herniation, and tearing. Unabsorbed force is the cause of all injuries.
Force may not be absorbed for two reasons. Either the force is too great and the muscle is not strong enough, or the force is normal but the muscle did not turn on at the right time. Typical injures are as a result of the timing of the muscle turing on and off.
Your brain receives information about incoming force from our joint receptors, then it responds by sending signals down to the appropriate muscles to absorb that force. If your nervous system is out of balance this signal may become blocked or delayed. This results in the muscle turing on later then it should and the force bypassing the muscle.
Since force is the cause of all injuries, the best way to correct an injury is to get rid of the cause. Getting the force back into the muscle and away from the injured tissue is the first step to recovery. Once the cause is resolved you can start to heal.
Using techniques like surgery, ice, electrical stimulation, and cortisone only deals with the injured tissue and does nothing about resolving the cause. This is why these technique fail many times. By removing the cause of the injury, techniques to heal injured tissue become much more effective.
At Pietila Chiropractic we specialize in finding the cause of your force absorption problem. By using specific techniques we can balance your nervous system, eliminating the cause of your force absorption problem. This will allow your body to start the healing process.