SUBLUXATION VS. COMPENSATION

SUBLUXATION VS. COMPENSATION

Assume you were standing on the floor with only one shoe having a 2” heel on your right foot. Immediately every muscle, bone, ligament, tendon, etc. in your body would “compensate" to keep your eyes parallel to the ground. Go ahead, try it! Really! Your right knee bends, the left hip rotates high, and the spine begins to look like an “S”. The right shoulder goes high and the head tilts to the right. If you remain in this posture for any period of time your joints and muscles will begin to speak to you (via pain and discomfort) letting you know that there is something wrong, that there is imbalance throughout the system.

If left this way long enough certain muscles will “grow” longer while others will shorten. Bones will begin to “remodel” or change and grow to their new stress, or new positions. You might experience knee, low back, mid-back, and/or neck pain. This pain is an important signal or alarm that lets you know there is imbalance, that something is wrong.

We could put ointment on your knee, “crack” your low back, do “therapies” to your mid-back, or “manipulate” your neck. And although it may “feel” better in the short term we would have done nothing to correct the underlying problem. On the other hand, we could “adjust” the cause of the problem and remove the shoe on the right foot. Your body would immediately begin a “process” of resetting and re-balancing every bone, muscle, ligament and tendon in your body, or its “effects”.

Does this mean all of your pain would immediately go away? Of course not. It simply means that over time, after your body re-aligned, reset, re-grew and re-balanced, there would be no need for the signal or alarm, and then there would be no need for pain. The pain would eventually go away.

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