Getting Relief from Seasonal Allergies
Sunshine and good weather is just around the corner this time of year. As such, families are flocking to the outdoors to soak up the warm rays and fresh air after the long winter. However, plants can also sense this good weather coming up, and are starting to bloom, sending out clouds of pollen everywhere. The blooming of plants may be beautiful for some, but it is a nightmare for those living with seasonal allergies. The runny nose and itchy eyes, not to mention the sneezing, can be debilitating when severe enough. If you ever had it, you would know.
It’s horrible, but there is hope for those who have had enough. The key is to figure out why you have the allergies in the first place. Allergies are a result of an immune system that is over-reactive to too many things. It’s like a cold where the body is trying to expel the harmful bacteria and viruses from your nasal passages. But in allergies, there is really nothing harmful to expel. The pollen that cause these allergy symptoms do not attack the body or use up its resources like a bacteria or virus would. So why is the body putting up a defense against them?
Solutions
The answer in many cases is an excess of underlying stressors on the body that is causing your immune system to be over-vigilant. Just like an angry guard dog that has been teased by the neighborhood kids too many times. It would pretty much bark at anything that walks by the house.
The Importance of Digestion
So where is the immune system being ‘teased’? The biggest area where your immune system interacts with the outside world is the digestive tract. Along your […]
What is a Subluxation and what does it do to me?
First, the explanation
In simplest terms, a subluxation (a.k.a. Vertebral Subluxation) is when one or more of the bones of your spine (vertebrae) move out of position and create pressure on, or irritate spinal nerves. Spinal nerves are the nerves that come out from between each of the bones in your spine. This pressure or irritation on the nerves then causes those nerves to malfunction and interfere with the signals traveling over those nerves.
How does this affect you? Your nervous system controls and coordinates all the functions of your body. If you interfere with the signals traveling over nerves, parts of your body will not get the proper nerve messages and will not be able to function at 100% of their innate abilities. In other words, some part of your body will not be working properly.
It is the responsibility of the Doctor of Chiropractic to locate subluxations, and reduce or correct them. This is done through a series of chiropractic adjustments specifically designed to correct the vertebral subluxations in your spine. Chiropractors are the only professionals who undergo years of training to be the experts at correcting subluxations.
The detailed explanation.
Subluxations are really a combination of changes going on at the same time. These changes occur both in your spine and throughout your body. For this reason chiropractors often refer to vertebral subluxations as the Vertebral Subluxation Complex, or VSC for short. In the VSC, various things are happening inside your body simultaneously. These various changes, known as components, are all part of the vertebral subluxation complex. Chiropractors commonly recognize five categories of components present in the VSC. These five are:
The Osseous (bone) component is where the vertebrae are either out of position, not moving properly, […]