Can a chiropractor help a colicky baby?
The important philosophical understanding one needs to fully appreciate the chiropractic adjustment is that it is not for any specific symptoms. Your brain is your central processing unit (like a computer?s CPU). It communicates with your body via the spinal cord and the nerves that come off of the cord. This system (being so precious to our survival) is protected by the skull and vertebra (our backbone). Because our backbone is comprised of moving parts, giving us the ability to move in a multitude of directions, these bones can move out of place and put pressure on our central nervous system (the subluxation). Our nervous system is only 10 percent sensitive to pain! If the pressure on that system, either a stretching or pinching pressure, is not on the pain-sensitive portion, you would not be in pain. However, the ability of your brain to communicate with whatever organ or cell that nerve goes to would be demonstrably reduced. Eventually symptoms would ensue. Those symptoms could be
