For many who's tired of that nagging backache - and a host of other problems related to the nervous system. The Chiropractic approach to better health is to detect, reduce, and help prevent nervous system dysfunction. Your nervous system consist of your brain, spinal cord, and millions of nerves, controls the function of every cell, tissue, organ, and system of your body. Your brain is protected by the skull, and your spinal cord by the 24 moving bones of the spine. Many everyday activities can cause these spinal bones to lose their normal position or motion, resulting in nervous system dysfunction and ultimately causing ill health.

Extremity adjustment or manipulation is used to correct joint fixations anywhere in the body other than the spine. This includes many troublesome areas, such as the TMJ, ribs, shoulders, wrist (carpal tunnel syndrome), elbows, wrists, hips, knees, ankles and the bones in the foot.

When any joint is fixed or does not move properly, it stretches the attached ligaments, triggering sensory receptors to signal the brain. The result is pain in the affected joint. The brain sends a signal back to the adjacent muscles, reducing their strength in order to protect them.

After manipulation of the extremity by a properly trained chiropractor, the stretched ligament goes back to its normal length, and the brain allows full strength to return to the adjacent muscles. Pain also decreases immediately.

Sometimes lax or overstretched ligaments and tendons make a joint unstable and let it move too much. In this case, adjusting the joint alone is not enough to correct the problem. Strengthening exercises and perhaps taping must be used to permit the ligament to tighten and restore stability to the joint.

Extremity manipulation provides excellent results for many patients and often helps them avoid having surgery.