Chiropractic care is a treatment used alongside traditional veterinary medicine. Chiropractic treatments are used as a preventative to disease and also improve disease most when used early in the disease process.
Chiropractic is a modality of receptor-based adjustments to the muscles and tendons surrounding the joints of the spine and extremities. When there are changes to the position and decreased mobility of the vertebral segments and joints, the nervous system may be hindered from full function affecting balance, proprioception, muscle strength, neuro-coordination, organ, endocrine gland and immune function.
Bone position and mobility are controlled by strength or weakness of the muscles, tendons, and ligaments overlying the joints of the spine and extremities. The muscles are controlled by nervous system motor neurons after receiving input from nervous system sensory neurons. Much of that sensory input comes from the motion in the spine and extremity joints. If the sensory input is incorrect due to this biomechanical dysfunction, the muscles will not respond appropriately to allow the musculoskeletal system to maintain proper gait, posture, and all the above processes noted.
Nociception is pain that is subclinical to the conscious body, but the nervous system sensory neurons will still register this pain and treat this as a problem causing the motor output to muscles to create or maintain biochemical dysfunction. Nociception can occur from subluxations, interosseous faults, tension in fascia, tendons and ligaments, cranial faults, stressed neurolymphatic points, or spinal discs, fixations, or imbrications. Conscious pain frequently improves either permanently or transiently with treatment of the above areas of nociception.
The chiropractic adjustment is a very specific, high velocity, low amplitude thrust that improves mobility to the joint allowing normal functional range of motion. This adjustment has to be specific to the plane of the joint surface and causes firing of the Golgi Tendon Organ (GTO) and travels to the dorsal horn of the spinal cord. All sensory input in the dorsal horn is divergent affecting the ventral horn alpha and gamma motor neurons as well as the intermediolateral (IML) tracts which affect the endocrine system. When the joints are moving properly and not “stuck”, all areas of the body perform better and are supportive of a healthier body.
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