The Secret Of A Healthy Spine

spinal Anatomy 101 class today here are
your vertebrae one vertebrae a disc
another vertebrae and a nerve this disc
Spine Anatomy 101
requires pumping to keep it healthy
there is no blood supply there’s a
process called imbibition when I bend
and move it pumps that disc and keeps it
Imbibition
healthy and here’s where the problem can
arise these vertebrae can shift out of
their normal position and become stuck
degenerative disc disease
or fixated like a hinge on a door that’s
not moving properly it’s a mechanical
problem and when that happens this disc
is no longer getting pumped and it’s
starting to decay or degenerate it’s
losing fluid overtime and what happens
is 10 years later 20 years later the
vertebrae look like this the disc has
lost its fluid the vertebrae have
started to lay down spurs and arthritis
and the nerve is getting pinched or
crushed we call this the generative
joint disease or degenerative disc
disease and it is a process it’s it’s
overtime it gets worse and worse and
worse and the key thing here is that
many of you have these in the spine and
don’t have any symptoms and so you think
there’s no problem but there is a
problem it would be like leaving a piece
of food caught in your tooth because you
didn’t feel it and it’s starting to bury
a hole into the tooth well leaving a
fixation in the spine allowing the disc
and vertebra to degenerate over time is
horrible when your vertebra winds up
like this it will never look like this
again you can’t go backwards
you can’t retread the tire that’s
already worn out so what we want to do
is we want to get our spines checked
early we want to make sure at all times
the spinal joints are moving properly
and there’s no fixations nothing stuck
in there so we can keep the spine and
it’s healthy as possible minimize and
slow down a degenerative process so you
can hear I said nothing about pain in
this video there’s so much more to
chiropractic a mechanical
fix and healthcare for the spine the
same way brushing your teeth is the way
we take care of the teeth chiropractic
adjustments are the way we maintain a
healthy spine