When the body is formed, a genetic blueprint is created that determines the color of the eyes and millions of other details about your body. To control and organize the body’s growth, the nervous system, consisting of the brain, spinal cord, and all the nerves of the body are the first tissues formed. The nervous system controls the function of every cell, tissue, organ and system of the body.

The brain is protected by the skull. The vital communication pathway of the spinal cord is vulnerable, covered by 24 moving bones of the spinal column. Pairs of nerve roots branch off the spinal cord from between each spinal joint to service the organs and tissues of your body. Because of the way your spine is designed, improper motion or position of spinal bones irritate or choke delicate nerves – interfering with the function of the tissues they control. Doctors call this subluxation.

Subluxation, the irritation or choking of nerves at the spinal joint due to misalignment, can occur from trauma to the spine at birth, or from car accidents, poor diet, long periods of sitting, and many other daily activities which cause the bones that cover your spinal joint to lose their normal position and motion.

Without a normal nerve supply, affected organs and tissues are more susceptible to disease, often producing the symptoms of pain and ill health.

Regular adjustments can keep your entire body healthier and functioning at a higher condition. Even when not ill or in pain a monthly adjustment can make your body’s future healthier and more cooperative to your demands.

NEWS RELEASE: Chiropractic Changes the Way Your Brain Processes Information

Research published in the November-December issue of the Journal of Manipulative and Physiological Therapeutics, and reported on by Scoop Health from New Zealand on November 23, 2007, shows how chiropractic helps affect brain and nerve system function. And excited release on the research by the New Zealand Chiropractors Association states, “Ground-breaking research has, for the first time, identified the actual changes in the body, the nervous system and the brain during chiropractic spinal adjustments.”

The study demonstrates that chiropractic care send signals to the brain that change the way the brain controls muscles. Award-winning Aucklan researcher, Dr. Heidi Haavik-Taylor commented, “The process of a spinal adjustment is like rebooting a computer. The signals that these adjustments send to the brain, via the nervous system, reset muscle behaviour patterns. ”She went on to explain how this can have a broad effect of a person's health by saying, “By stimulating the nervous system we can improve the function of the whole body. This is something that chiropractors and their patients have known for years; and now we have some scientific evidence to prove it.” According to the Scoop Health article, Dr. Haavik-Taylor has spent the last seven years researching the effects of chiropractic adjustments on the nervous system. On this new research, Dr. Haavik-Taylor was able to measure how brain-waves are altered before and after spinal adjustments. She reported, “This is the first time that anyone has used EEGs* to prove that there are definite changes to the way the brain processes information after chiropractic care.”

Dr. James Burt, President of the New Zealand Chiropractors Association, touted Dr. Haavik-Taylor's breakthrough research by noting, “Heidi's work is ground-breaking on an international level by proving that chiropractic adjustments do alter and benefit the nervous system.”