What Causes Neck + Back Pain?

  📍 Hi, my name is Dr. Jacob Hendrickson, and I’m going to explain to you briefly why you’ve been having neck pain or back pain and how chiropractic care can help with that, and why actually it’s happening to you. So this here is your spine, your spine houses, and protects your central nervous system, which is your brain.

And your spinal cord, we’ll just call it the central nerve system to make it easy. Now, the central nerve system runs down your vertebral column and then exits all of these holes that we’ll just call nerve holes. Now when the spine gets stressed or injured, it gets compressed. And when it gets compressed, vertebra can start to shift and move backwards, or in some cases forwards.

I’m sure we’ve all seen people that are maybe older than us that look like their posture has just been compressed down. Maybe their head gets pushed forward, their lower back sways forward. Their upper back goes like this, um, that’s literally spinal compression and can lead to degenerative bone disease or degenerative disc disease, degenerative joint disease.

Now, when that spine gets compressed and the vertebrae shift back because of vertebrae are movable, when we twist, when we bend, vertebrae can get stuck. And when that happens, the holes that the nerves come out of can get smaller. Pinching the nerves, or we can get discs in between the vertebra to bulge or herniate and put pressure on the nerves.

This can cause pain, inflammation, stiffness, tightness, nerve symptoms, sciatica, or possibly just health issues. Since these nerves do go all of your go to all of your vital organs, lungs, heart, brain, everything, stomach, pancreas. And all of the stuff down low as well. Now my job as a chiropractor is to decompress your spine and make spinal adjustments, pushing all of your vertebra back flush, trying to line up all the nerve holes as best as we can, taking pressure off of the nerves and off of the discs.

Allowing the nerve energy from your central nerve system to flow accordingly, taking away pain, inflammation, stiffness, tightness, and possibly helping or preventing any future health issues. I.