This picture is an interesting look at the triad of
supporting structures our vertebral column mimics. In our spine we
mostly have two facets and one disc at each motor unit, a triad.
Suppose one or more of the
small pebbles in this picture are softened or moved off line even very slightly; now we have failure to stack.
Subluxation reflects stresses upon the joint structures and leads to an
ensuing precarious inability to move that motor unit further through
its normal range of motion (ROM). When a spine is subluxated, weight
transfer and load bearing on and around the joint and disc area are
compromised.
We
are mostly water and our nervous system constantly monitors loading of
the skeletal structures and stabilizes them by either building up or
downloading pressures within the disk and the joint capsules as needed;
it does this constant adaptation through the work of muscles. Muscles
do their work with levers and fulcrums altering body parts into working
loadable positions within the constant gravitational field. When all of
the parts work we are in a state of health and then and only then do we
get to "ride high" on the turgid strength of the hardened
pressurized disc and joint capsules.
The
vertebral motor units, one vertebrae upon another with the disc in
between and two joints in behind forming a triad, "pump" up as do all of
the fluid sacs around most joints. They do this pumping in order to
help us stack bony mobilized structures, particularly the spine when
under load. Fluid dynamics within any joint capsule or disc alter
mostly only with movement of the bones. In subluxation dyskinesis there
is loss of full ROM making the pump actions alter. Failure to equalize
and share the pressure over the entire surface of the joint or the disc
compromises the work load capacity of that particular articulation.
Then through altered neurological, vascular,
lymphatic and structural component functions we fail to do work going
off kilter and become unable to maintain stacking
integrity particularly under a load..
When
muscles fail to comply with the nervous systems wants and needs they
fail to provide their unique contributions which help equally pressurize
the joints and discs. The ensuing inability of the pressures to
equalize fail to stack the structures which leads to a plethora of
symptoms as the parts begin to bind and stress. Most of the symptoms we
encounter reflect subluxation dyskinesis and the concomitant failing of
the
pumps of the discs and joints.
About the author:
Dr. Brian Blower has been a licensed
chiropractor for over 40 years
practicing Applied Kinesiology and has been in private practice on
Grand Bahama Island for the past
15 years. He is a founding member of Applied Kinesiology Canada and was
educated at the Canadian Memorial Chiropractic College. He is a founding
member of the Bahamas Association of Chiropractic. He has treated
many celebrities and also specializes in sports medicine. He can be
reached at 242-351-5424. You
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