Chiropractic Explained so Anyone can understand!

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so I get asked all the time what is
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chiropractic well let me take a second
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here to explain to
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you here’s our spine model top is the
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brain got the pelvis down here and all
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24 vertebra the top is the brain and the
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brain sends power and messages down the
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spinal cord and out all these nerves you
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see here we have 31 pairs of spinal
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nerves so the brain’s sending power and
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electricity down the spinal cord and out
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these nerves to power your heart power
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your lungs to power your digestion power
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all your sexual organs and reproductive
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organs give power to the back of your
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legs give power to all your fingers and
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toes even gives power to your thyroid
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gland to that controls your metabolism
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how many calories you burn and hormones
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gives power blood supply up to the brain
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see the brain and spinal cord system
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control 100% of every cell muscle and
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organ within the body you think it might
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be a good idea to take care of that
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system you bet you but most people do
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not now what can happen from everyday
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normal activities let alone any car
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crashes sports injuries falling a
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thousand times as a kid and all the
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other things that we do in our life it
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causes these vertebrae
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to shift and twist and put pressure on
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the nerve like that see that boom
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ouch and when that happens like I said
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there’s pressure on nerve what do you
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think it feels like when there’s
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pressure on a nerve like
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that yeah there can be pain most of the
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time there’s not any pain because the
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brain and spinal cord system actually
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only sense about 10% of that system only
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senses pain most of it’s for telling
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your heart to beat or your stomach to
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produce acid things like that so many
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times we do not feel this now our bigger
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concern especially as me as a
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chiropractor is where these nerves go to
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and I’ll show you
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here now these nerves they even make a
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diagram for this these nerves all plug
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into different areas of the body see the
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top of the neck here goes the eyes and
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really controls the blood supply to the
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brain even the nerves going up to the
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back of the head you get those headaches
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back here look at that one up there
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we’ll go down here to the base of the
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neck where I find a lot of issues people
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are getting things down their arm
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numbness tingling it’s affecting their
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lungs like
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asthma even this one heart and lungs
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giving nerve supply down to the fingers
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all the way down the arm how important
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would it be do you think to have this
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one in your upper back checked for your
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heart and lungs heart disease is the
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number one cause of death and no one
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talks about the nerve supply to the
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heart how important and smart of you
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would it be to get this checked on a
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continuous basis over your entire life
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it’d be so smart of you now we go down
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here to the middle of your back goes to
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your stomach even gives nerves that wrap
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around your rib cage so I I hear all the
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time hey doc got this pain wrapping
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around my rib cage it’s those nerves
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there in the back that are getting
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pinched irritated and it’s wrapping
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around the rib cage come down
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here down to the low back gives a lot of
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the power to the digestion even gives
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power down the back of the legs the side
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of the legs come down here more prostate
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uterus bladder gives power down the back
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of the legs a lot of times this low
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sacral adjustment is huge for kids that
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have bedwedding issues a lot of times
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they’ll bedwet a lot longer than they
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should because they got a problem down
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here the nerve going to the bladder and
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I’ve seen that happen over and over
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again and I tell you what what a
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difference it makes in that child’s life
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when they don’t want the bed anymore so
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you see chiropractic is really not about
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neck pain back pain or headaches even
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though we’re super good at dealing with
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that stuff chiropractic really is about
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nerve power to organs all the organs of
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the body so during people’s exam I check
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all 24 vertebrae very carefully to see
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if any of them are subluxated and that’s
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the big term we use here it simply means
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when one of these vertebrae shift shift
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and start pinching the nerve and get
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that in closer here so you can see it
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when they shift and start pinching the
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nerve just like
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that rocks
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back so as a chiropractor that’s what
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I’m checking for and if we have any
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vertebrae in the spine that are
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subluxated those are the ones we’re
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going to work on now I hope this helps
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you wrap your mind around what
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chiropractic is all about and how it can
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benefit you and your entire family not
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only now but well into the future so
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you’re not crippled in retirement using
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a cane all hunched back and can’t enjoy
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life as it should be thank you for
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watching and stay healthy