Brain/Body Mismatch

The Nerve System is vital for muscle movement, sensory integration and organ regulation. A vertebral subluxation interferes with how the Nerve System carries out these essential functions. Muscle movement (both voluntary and involuntary), sensory integration and organ regulation are effected in a negative way.

A vertebral subluxation is a misaligned and fixated spinal bone that impinges nerves and disrupts how the Nerve System transmits information from the brain to the body and from the body to the brain. 

A circuit of nerves between the brain and body makes Nerve System function possible. Afferent nerves connect the body to the brain and efferent nerves connect the brain to the body. Afferent and efferent nerves are the transmitters of information between the brain and the body. 

Afferent nerves transmit sensory impressions to the brain for interpretation. These sensory impressions come from every organ, gland and tissue of the body. The brain mentally adapts these sensory impressions into a response that aims to benefit the function and maintenance of the body. Efferent nerves transmit mental adaptations to the body for expression. These mental adaptations are sent to every organ, gland and tissue of the body. 

Nerve System dysfunction is predicated on some type of interference occurring in how nerves are sending information. A vertebral subluxation interferes with how the brain communicates with the body and how the body communicates with the brain. Communication becomes impaired. 

What is occurring in the body and what should be happening in the body do not match up. Miscommunication impairs nerve expression and function. There is a ‘mismatch’ between sensory impressions from the body and mental adaptations from the brain. 

There are four attributes of a vertebral subluxation that contribute to brain-body ‘mismatching’. They are dyskinesia, dysafferentation, dysponesis and dysautonomia. All four attributes start with the prefix ‘dys’, which means  “abnormal, difficult or impaired”. 

Dyskinesia impairs voluntary movement. Dysafferentation impairs sensory integration. Dysponesis impairs involuntary movement. Dysautomia impairs organ regulation. A vertebral subluxation impairs all the essential functions of the Nerve System.

Chiropractic focuses on correcting neurological impairment brought on by a vertebral subluxation. By correcting a subluxation, your Nerve System can move muscles, integrate senses and regulate organs at a greater potential. 

- Jarek Esarco, DC, CACCP

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Jarek Esarco, DC, CACCP is a pediatric, family wellness and upper cervical specific Chiropractor. He is an active member of the International Chiropractic Pediatric Association (ICPA). Dr. Jarek has postgraduate certification in Pediatric Chiropractic through the ICPA. Dr. Jarek also has postgraduate certification in the HIO Specific Brain Stem technique through The TIC Institute. Dr. Jarek is happily married to his wife Regina. They live in Youngstown, Ohio with their daughter Ruby.