With quality chiropractic care and informed, intelligent use of body mechanics, you prevent flare ups and beat the odds on back pain. The spine is made up of 24 individual movable bones called vertebrae which sit on top of the sacrum. This spinal structure is the major support for the body and encases the entire spinal cord. Billions of nerves form this spinal cord and then branch off to form the spinal nerves that extend through the small openings between these vertebrae, carrying vital, life-controlling nerve impulses from the brain to every part of the body. Since the brain controls all parts of your body through the nervous system, this nerve interference can cause pain and many specific health problems.
Chronic pain can lead to depression.
It can also lower your body's resistance so that you become even more susceptible to contagious and infectious illness and disease. Thirty-one million Americans have low back pain at any given time. One half of all working Americans admit to having back symptoms each year. One third of all Americans over age 18 had a back problem in the past five years severe enough for them to seek professional help. No drugs or medications are ever used, or prescribed, in chiropractic care.