How does chiropractic work? Coming right up.
Hey I'm Dr. Ekberg with Wellness For Life and if you'd like to truly master
health by understanding how the body really works make sure that you
subscribe and hit that notification bell so that you don't miss anything. So just
in case you're wondering what this is if you happen to see it throughout the
video this is called poison ivy it's the end stages and I can't recommend it so
stay away from poison ivy so how does chiropractic really work so often people
tell me that oh I believe in chiropractic or I don't believe in
chiropractic but it's not whether you believe it or not it's do you understand
how it works it's simple physiology it's simple neurophysiology so first of all
the brain controls everything about you it controls your blood pressure your
digestion your hormone regulation your ph balance it controls your thoughts and
it controls the posture and the muscle tone and everything about how your body
behaves in gravity and the way that the brain can do that is because it receives
feedback from the body that's called proprioception and the brain receives
somewhere on the order of a billion bits of information of proprioception every
second and the brain turns things on and off in response to that proprioception
and the sum total is called regulation and it allows the body to return to
homeostasis and to proper posture so chiropractic is not about moving the
bone it's what happens in the brain as a result of moving the bone how does the
adjustment affect proprioception how does the adjustment improve
proprioception see if the world looks like this but the brain is told it looks
like that then the brain doesn't have a true picture of reality and the
depends on how the spine is moving how all the body parts are moving if the
different body parts are not moving properly if they don't have a full
smooth range of motion then they're not signaling correctly to the brain and the
brain does not have a true picture of reality and now the brain cannot manage
the body accurately so when we make an adjustment we're identifying an area
that has less than optimal feedback and then we make an adjustment and we
improve that feedback by putting pressure on receptors we stimulate
receptors we stimulate pressure receptors and motion receptors joint
mechanoreceptors muscle spindle cells and in doing that we give the brain more
information more precise information and the brain has a true picture and the
brain can do its job so it doesn't matter if you do a twist or pop
adjustment or if you do an activator adjustment with a little spring-loaded
pin or if you do what I do mostly called an Arthostim which is a powered
adjusting tool that pulses 12 to 15 times per second all of it is about
stimulating receptors giving the brain more information and based on some
research that they've done an adjustment can increase the activity of the frontal
lobe by about 30% so you're increasing the activation of the frontal lobe the
frontal lobe is the main manager of the rest of the body so that is how
chiropractic works it is not whether you believe it or not it is whether you
understand it or not the techniques don't matter so much all chiropractic
techniques work some of the time nothing works all of the time but an experienced
doctor can find the appropriate solution more of the time hope that helps you
understand a little bit more about chiropractic please share this video
with some of the skeptics and then maybe bring them over to a seminar
that we have every Wednesday if you're in the neighborhood (3480 Keith Bridge Rd Cumming GA 30041) so that we can tell
you a little bit more about how this works if you're new to this channel make
sure that you subscribe and hit that notification bell so that we can keep
bringing this information to you and the more people we get this information to
the more people we can help get healthy thanks for watching