

The more impulses, the more information.) This, by the way, can occur in any nerve cells in your body including the brain! That’s why it’s important to keep challenging your brain with new demanding tasks and learning new skills to keep it healthy.Ī specific high velocity chiropractic adjustment can provide the much needed activation and help to “rehabilitate” the nerve cell function in a same way as muscles get bigger and stronger with regular exercise. a degenerated nerve cell that can only send 500/second. a healthy nerve cell that can send 1000 impulses/second vs. due to sedentary lifestyle or an injury) undergo degeneration and cannot function to their optimum (e.g. Much like muscle cells, the nerves that are not being activated (e.g. The answer is that to survive the nerves need fuel (quality food and nutrients), oxygen and activation. “Then why aren’t the nerves doing what they’re supposed to?” you might ask. they get lazy or “degenerate”) that is occurring when a vertebra moves in a certain direction, your brain cannot provide precise and appropriate control response needed to smoothly stabilise the segment leading to a possible injury to the supporting structures (e.g. If the nerve cells in these small muscles can’t accurately detect the movement (i.e. In order for your musculoskeletal system to work smoothly your nervous system has to be able to receive and deliver information to and from these small muscles efficiently and accurately. This sensory function is provided by the small nerve bundles in the small intersegmental muscles that accurately detect and react to even the smallest of movements of one vertebra in relation to another (movement activates the small muscles and nerve bundles) and communicate these positional changes to your brain. stay upright, know where is up and down). The spine provides attachment points for muscles, supports and provides shock absorption to the rest of the skeletal system, protects the spinal cord and acts as an important sensory organ (together with your eyes and inner ear) so that you can orientate yourself appropriately in relation to gravity (i.e. Your spine consists of four main components the bony vertebra, the intervertebral disc in between two adjacent vertebrae, connective tissues that provide support and the small intersegmental muscles spanning from one vertebrae to another throughout the spine.
