3 Reasons Why Spinal Alignment Matters

The health and alignment of your spine is intimately connected with the health of your nervous system. This makes spinal alignment crucially important to the overall functioning of the body! Maintaining good spinal health with wellness-based chiropractic care is beneficial not just for the bones of the spine, but also for the nervous system and communication between the brain and the body.

1. Proper alignment helps keep your spine and discs healthy

Maintaining proper spinal alignment helps make sure that there are symmetrical stresses and pressure on the bones of your spine. When spinal misalignments are present, the movement of the vertebra, or spinal bones, might be restricted or asymmetrical. This can lead to unequal use of the vertebra and unequally distributed weight on surrounding spinal discs over time. Keeping these physical stressors symmetrical helps keep your vertebra healthy and can be beneficial in preventing degenerative disc disease.

2. Spinal health influences the functioning of your nervous system

The small postural muscles that stabilize the spine are filled with proprioceptors, which give information to the brain about how your body is positioned in space. When a vertebra in the spine is misaligned, causing altered motion, it can change the information that proprioceptors send to the brain. This gives the brain less accurate information to work with when coordinating our body's daily functioning as well as its healing response. Keeping the spine aligned and moving properly with regular chiropractic care allows those proprioceptors to work at their best and send accurate information to the brain.

3. Misalignments can interfere with the communication between the brain and the body

Spinal misalignments have the potential to interfere with communication between the brain and the body. When this occurs, instructions from the brain might not reach their target organs in the body, status reports from organs might not make their way back to the brain, or a little bit of both. Limiting the communication between the brain and the body limits your brain's ability to coordinate an appropriate healing response. By removing spinal misalignments and restoring the communication between the brain and the body, chiropractic care helps your body function at its fullest potential!