What does “Tone of the Nervous System” really mean?

One thing hardly ever discussed is the tone of the Central Nervous System (CNS) and the importance of tone for health and wellbeing.

What does it mean the tone of the nervous system? Are we talking about a musical instrument?

For the CNS to work properly, the spinal cord has a set length, resonance frequency and tone in order for it to send appropriate signals out to the body. The spinal cord length, frequency and tone are completely dependent on mechanical tension placed on the cord.

To understand spinal cord tension and tone and its relationship with cord attachments, it is easier to think of the spine as a guitar and the spinal cord as a guitar string.

Have you ever watched a skilled guitarist tune his guitar? Imagine him playing along then stopping as he hears an off note.  He crouches down to listen intently to notes from one string as he gently and gradually adjusts the tuning peg. Once tuned, he continues playing as if nothing happened!

What is he doing while he is winding or unwinding the tuning peg on the end of the guitar string?

The amount of tension in the guitar string determines the note and hence the tone that plays when you pluck the string. The skill of the musician is to be able to perfectly tune the guitar to make beautiful music.

Now try to imagine that your spine is a funny looking guitar, with tuning pegs at both ends and an extra peg right at the tip of the neck (skull) which can also change the tension of all the strings.

The mechanical tension on the cord arises from where the ligaments attach the from cord to the bone to suspend itself within the spine. These ligaments are at the top and bottom of the spine.

A Chiropractor can now tune the spine and change the tension in the spinal cord from either end of the spine.

The guitar and guitar string analogy is perfect to describe the relationship between your spinal column and your spinal cord. The tuning pegs are those small ligaments suspending the spinal cord. The frequency and tone is determined by the amount of tension placed at either end of the cord. Just like the guitar string, the tightness of the cord determines the tune that is being played.

When the tone of the spinal cord is healthy, the target organ receives the appropriate neurochemical release.

The tone affects your level of consciousness and awareness, your mood, as well as the metabolic and hormonal functions of your body.

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Dr. Vera Baziuk

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Why Visit a Chiropractor?

What kinds of health problems can a Chiropractor really help with? Is back pain the only thing that my Chiropractor can help with?

People of all ages and walks of life consult Chiropractors for many and varied health problems as well as back pain. Parents bring their new born infants, rapidly growing toddlers, accident prone children and hectic teenagers for regular spinal check-ups.

Professionals, athletes, construction workers and office workers with pain in the neck, back, shoulder, hip, knee, ankle, foot, elbow, wrist, or any other body part can all benefit from Chiropractic adjustments.

Surprising to many people are some of the other health ailments that Chiropractic care assists. Health concerns such as sleep disturbances, colic, bedwetting, asthma, ear infections, sinusitis, headaches, migraines, indigestion, infertility, chronic fatigue, fibromyalgia, Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinson's, sciatica, heart disease and many other problems all have been found to respond favourably when a Chiropractic Lifestyle is followed. To find out how to follow a Chiropractic Lifestyle, check with your Chiropractor.

Some people are purely interested in pain relief and will visit for a minimal number of treatments, only to return with a future injury. The mission and vision of a Chiropractic Lifestyle is to educate and inform patients to fully correct and rehabilitate their pain. This lifestyle involves:

• ·      regular scheduled adjustments
• ·      participation in smart exercise classes
• ·      applying anti-inflammatory nutrition lifestyle modification and education. 

All patients are also encouraged to participate in education, to help them to become more proactive in their health care.

Chiropractic patients appreciate the value of a Chiropractic Lifestyle as part of a balanced wellness program and enjoy the feelings of health and wellbeing received.

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Dr. Vera Baziuk

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Why is the Nervous System Important?

Does the Nervous System control the body's ability to self heal and self regulate?

If this is true, then why doesn't a cut finger stay cut forever? It self-heals whether we think about it or not! Your body is self regulating every second.

Your heart continually beats, your breath is regular, you constantly digest the food you eat, your body temperature will remain consistent temperature even if you get too hot or cold.

The examples of self regulation are endless!

The Central Nervous System (CNS) coordinates everything. Nothing in our body would ever happen if the CNS couldn't sense the internal and external environment and communicate what it sensed to every single cell, tissue and organ in the body. When the communication between the brain and the body becomes inefficient, ineffective or even inappropriate, the body begins to break down. It moves away from wellness and toward chronic disease.

Chiropractic is concerned with improving CNS function and communication between the environment and the body. The role of the chiropractor is to help facilitate and restore the appropriate communication between the brain and the body by removing Spinal Subluxation to allow the body to self heal and self regulate.

Chiropractic helps people become better self healers and self regulators.

In order to understand how critical Chiropractic becomes to a wellness paradigm, let's better understand the relationship between the CNS (brain and spinal cord), the spine, the environment and prolonged stress.

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Dr. Vera Baziuk

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