What is vertebral subluxation?
When emotional, chemical, or physical stress is experienced, your body’s inner wisdom strives to adapt and change so its defense mechanisms can maintain a high level of resistance. However, when such stress overwhelms your body’s natural defenses, it can cause your spinal bones to shift. That can result in an abnormal or “out of balance” structure. The bones are said to be “subluxated”. Any spinal imbalance, where one or more bones have shifted out of position, will cause areas of the spinal column to work harder in order to compensate for the area that is out of balance. Between the spinal bones, called vertebrae, are nerves which transport messages from the brain to all organs, tissues, and cells in the body. When the vertebrae are subluxated, the nerve passageway is blocked, and the life energy flowing through the nerve can be choked off. This interferes with your body’s innate healing ability and lowers your resistance. If this condition is not corrected, your organs and glands can