You've been in a place so loud that you realize you can't hear yourself think. Or you can look on TV and notice between the BS ads (especially the ones selling you drugs with Unthinkable Side-Effects, followed by the ones for lawyers for you to get back your damages from suffering Unthinkable Side-Effects from drugs you took) and you realize that your head is supposed to be filled with that noise and get you to slavishly BUY those questionable products and services. Yes, it seems that your world can get so noisy it is a challenge to think. But think we must; it is the intelligent person's mandate.
I have been taking care of my patients' nerve systems for many years now, and have come to realize that my thinking about your nerve system, your subluxations (nerve system "short circuits", See my article on Subluxation & Nerve Malfunction) has been updated.
Here's the way I fix your nerve system now, and what I observe about it. Every short circuit in your body is a source of nerve system "noise". The bigger ones (such as a neck or low-back, a bad knee problem, a carpal tunnel wrist/hand pain) will generate a lot of nerve system static or noise. The smaller ones, like a muscle injury, a small sprain or a minor annoyance problem generates less "noise" in your nerve system. The nerve system acts a lot like a complex computer system with a screen. If there is too much interference, static, or noise in signaling the monitor will display an image that isn't really clear...is that image a woman? is it a horse? or is that a boat? Can't really make out what it is...
Similarly your nerve system is in the business of carrying signals and getting clear communication back and forth to run the show of your health. Of the trillion cells in your body, 1 out of every 15 is a nerve cell. That system of nerves is trying to get a clear "image" of all its transmission. But often it just can't. It seems apparent to me now after the many patients that I've successfully treated, that the amount of nerve noise, all of it added together from problems (subluxations) greater and smaller, dictates the quality of the imaging your nerve system can generate. So now this understanding helps you and me to get the product we are seeking: Health.
For example, I have many patients who come to me with their health displaying some sort of problem (symptom). Maybe it's a single problem, like a bad painful knee that won't let you move well. More often it becomes a list of problems including a couple off the top of their heads, but after filling out a more comprehensive history form questioning of many types of symptoms, it turns out they've listed 12 or 16 complaints (to their surprise!) When I examine them it is SELDOM that only one problem point is found, there are often many. Some leg muscles won't give any strength, and arm and hand muscles, and neck muscles. Most patients didn't know they had these weak muscle areas displaying subluxations and nerve short circuits. The weakness may not be directly related (it seems to them) to the problem areas they complain of as painful or malfunctioning, or the symptoms of their organs that seem to be working poorly.
But it turns out it is the SUM of all of those short circuited areas that makes up the accumulation of the nerve noise that keeps your system from receiving crisp clear images and delivering neat and accurate commands. The noise becomes just too great. It becomes the defined level of nerve system stress that your control system operates with, and the level of distortion that your nerve system operates with and the burden of miscommunication that scrambles your health balance and wrecks or diminishes your senses of well-being.
That's why in the Ligament Stretch Syndrome patient (See my write-ups on Adrenals and on Ligament Stretch Syndrome) my Chiropractic goal as we kick-start their adrenals up from comatose to get up to terribly poor function, is to adjust the subluxated areas to QUIET DOWN the levels of nerve noise. That is one essential part of getting the adrenals to Un-Stress to succeed in waking them up. Get the nerve noise level DOWN. Now the body can hear itself think! And begin properly the process of controlling healing.
Most of the time (and after Ligament Stretch Syndrome has been "graduated" by those who had it) the Chiropractic adjustments' purpose is to correct and heal the damaged areas that are sourcing the noisiness into the system. As they are adjusted, and as the ligaments that hold them heal, the noise level continues to be less and less. As the system "quiets down", the body gets clear signaling. The image on the screen, if you will, can be actually seen! The signals coming from an area about its status arrive intact. The signals carrying orders out on the functional control of that area, or, for instance, the activation of a strong muscle to do its job and contract, now arrive with full force and accuracy, and the area responds properly. When all has recovered and healed, then the noise levels should be QUIET. Does that mean that new problems and the wear and tear of living and of operating your body actively will not result in new subluxations, and from them increase the noise and static in your nerve system? No, unfortunately life tends to accumulate such things. The reason Maintenance Chiropractic has been shown to reduce illness, extend life, reduce the occurrence of severe (and deadly) ill health events is because it CATCHES these things when they are new and smallest, eliminating them and keeping the nerve system's noise DOWN.
The beauty of Advanced Applied Kinesiology and the comprehensive checking technique I have developed is that subluxations and Nerve Static sources are tested throughout the body. Spine: Neck, Mid, Lower Back, Pelvis and Hip system. Head, Neck, Jaw, Shoulders, Arm and Hands. Hip multi functions, Leg Front and Hamstrings, Knee, Ankle, Foot and Toes. Torso, Glands, Organs, Digestion and Elimination. All that and more tested on you and EVERY one of my new patients! That means all the major potential short circuits and sources of Nerve System Noise checked for you. And corrected. Result: You get Quieter Nerve, Spinal Cord and Brain function. Result: Control of your body goes IN. Result: our weekly fare of new "miracle" health restoration cases. (Today I took in a new patient who had seen 26 doctors in 8 years, and never had his symptoms leave for a day! I found all the sources of his noisy nerve system, and I can virtually guarantee that in short order his unrelenting pain, fatigue and fogginess will be GONE as the noise is eliminated, and his glands restored to working again.)
Can you picture the effect when it is so Quiet inside you can hear yourself Heal?