How Nerves Impact Your Organs...

We had a prospective patient call in the other day, and it just broke my heart. He was very concerned about his son who couldn't control his bladder throughout the day. His best friend told him he should take his son to a chiropractor. He'd never been to a chiropractor and the idea that a chiropractor could help his son control his bladder just didn't add up. Our office manager tried to explain how we could possibly help by telling him this story...

We have a patient at Thrive who first stepped into a chiropractor's office because he took a nasty fall off a ladder...classic Chevy Chase scene. Not only was the fall painful and debilitating, but this man began losing bladder control...at the age of 42.

How?

Your spine encompasses your spinal chord. The nerves that leave the spinal chord and connect to organs throughout your body carry communications from the brain to these organs. If you put pressure on these nerves and cut off nerve flow, you lose that vital communication. Without that communication you actually begin to lose function of that organ. We call this pressure on nerves subluxation. Chiropractic corrects subluxation using simple adjustments. In this man's case, chiropractic helped him regain control of his body.

Sometimes you'll see someone's hand shriveling up...atrophying...because of this phenomenon. The nerve flow is cut off to the hand, and because their is numbness, they use the hand less, and the muscles begin to atrophy.

Healthy nerve flow is not talked about very much in the medical community, but it is vital to your health. Because it is not talked about, most people don't think of it.

In the prospective patient's case, we never heard from him again. I don't know if subluxation was the cause of his son's bladder control problem, but it was tough to not hear from him again, because often people use surgery and drugs to fix problems that can be handled in a much less invasive and costly manner.