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CHIROPRACTIC BASICS
Your Spinal Column & Nervous System

The Vital Connection

Your spinal column or backbone is made of 24 vertebrae: seven in your neck (cervical spine), 12 in your mid back (thoracic spine) and 5 in your lower back (lumbar spine).

Your spinal cord, made up of billions of nerves, lies inside your spinal column, protected on all sides by bone. Your spinal cord nerves branch out through openings between your vertebrae and connect to your internal organs, muscles, joints, ligaments, tendons and other body parts.

This connection is vital for your well-being. The vertebral subluxation complex, an often painless spinal distortion, can irritate or damage your spinal nerves, interfere with your brain-body connection and affect your spin, nerves, discs, muscles, organs and overall health.

Doctors of chiropractic specialize in the detection and correction of the vertebral subluxation complex - restoring the lines of communication within your body improving your overall body function, healing potential and well-being.
Sympathetic chain- To structures in the neck and hands including eyes, ears and other sense organs; glands and blood vessels of the brain; immune response; bone growth; fat metabolism; reaction to stress; brain function

Brachial plexus- Forms in the radial, ulnar, median and other nerves that go to the muscles, joints and other structures of the shoulder, arm, wrist, hand and fingers

C1- To blood supply to the head, pituitary gland, scalp, bones of the face, brain, inner and middle ear, sympathetic nervous system, eyes, ears

C2- To eyes, optic nerves, auditory nerves, sinuses, mastoid bones, tongue, forehead, heart

C3- To cheeks, outer ear, face, bones, teeth, trifacial nerve, longs

C4- To nose, lips, mouth, Eustachian tube, mucus membranes, lungs

C5- To vocal cords, neck glands, pharynx

C6- To neck muscles, shoulders, tonsils

T1- To arms from the elbows down, including hands, arms, wrists and fingers; esophagus and trachea, heart

T2- To heart, including its valves and covering coronary arteries; lungs; bronchial tubes

T3- To lungs, bronchial tubes, pleura, chest, breast, heart

T4- To gallbladder, common duct, heart, lungs, bronchial tubes

T5- To liver, solar plexus, circulation (general), heart, esophagus, stomach

T6- To stomach, esophagus, peritoneum, liver, duodenum


 
Doctors of chiropractic specialize in the detection and correction of the vertebral subluxation complex - restoring the lines of communication within your body...
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