A vertebral subluxation is a misaligned vertebra causing interference with nerve messages between your brain and your body. Vertebral Subluxation A vertebral subluxation is a spinal abnormality that interferes with your nerves. It can create disease, lowered resistance to disease, pain, imbalance, fatigue and can pave the way for ill health. Doctors of chiropractic specialize in locating, analyzing and correcting vertebral subluxations.
Subluxations can occur from a difficult child birth and from childhood falls.
This question is often asked of chiropractors because people associate the cracking or popping of one's beck with a chiropractic adjustment. The two are not the same thing. If a person has a desire to pop his neck or back, it's usually because a part of his spine is fixated or jammed causing another part to move too much and pop a lot, sometimes by itself. It's the jammed or fixated part that must be properly adjusted by a chiropractor so that the rest of the spinal column will stop being so movable and noisy. When you crack or pop your neck you're relieving tension for a little while, but not giving yourself an adjustment.