How Chiropractic Works

Welcome. I’m Dr. Scott Graziosa from Lifeline Chiropractic. I’m here to show you how the spine works, how your body can function optimally under chiropractic care so that you and your loved ones, family, friends, anyone could live out the best lives possible. So what we’re going to use is a spine model here.

Looking at the spine from the side, there’s the front of your spine here. There’s the backs, the little bumps that you feel. And right down here is the pelvis just to get you situated where we are at. Now, what we do know is brain sits on top of the skull there. The brain will pass through the base of the skull there.

So not a lot of space right there. And that turns into the brainstem. So brain turns into the brainstem, which gets protected by the top two bones of your neck. Another name for the top bone in your neck is Atlas. Atlas in Greek mythology is that guy that holds up the world, probably the most important part of your whole body.

Now, when the brain communicates through that brainstem from the second bone down, brainstem turns into the spinal cord and that goes all the way down to your waist. It’s protected by individual segments called vertebrae. And then every segment is a set of nerves that comes out and goes everywhere to organs, muscles, cells, or tissues.

So what chiropractors look for is if you have a misalignment in your spine, that could put pressure on the nerve and that could be anywhere in your whole spinal column system. We try to locate those subluxation, which is a fancy word for less than light. Sub is less than, lux is light, ations condition up.

We look for those subluxations. We find them. We fix them. We move that bone back into place, taking pressure off that nerve. So when brain communicates to the body, it will communicate 100 percent but also the communication back to the brain. That’s what chiropractors do. We locate and detect subluxations.

We move those bones back in place, allowing your body to function the way it was designed. Thank you.