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All health problems can be physical chemical ar emotional in nature. Most people understand hos emotional stress can contribute or cause certain types of health problems and pain. Everone knows when the chemistry of the body is not normal, you can develope health problems, however, the majority of people do not understand how and why many health problems can come about from physical causes.
An example of how a problem can come about from something physical would be having a peeble in your shoe. You would feel pain from the peeble. The pain would not be from something chemical or emotional. If you were in pain long enough this could lead to emotional stress and could perhaps even throw off your chemisty in the area, but the cause of the problem would still be something physical. The reason the person feels pain is because the peeble puts pressure on a nerve of pain. If there was no nerve of pain in your foot you would not feel the peeble.
A common cause of pain that people suffer with is, in fact, pressure on a local nerve. An interesting fact is that only 10% of the nerves in the body are related to pain. 90% of the nerves in the body control your function.
For example, you can see if the nerves of sight are functioning properly; you can hear only if the nerves of hearing are functioning properly. You can move your arm because the nerves that control the arm are fuctioning and you can breathe and digest if the nerves related to these areas are functioning properly. Put pressure on nerves of function and you feel no pain, you simply do not function properly.
When you remove a pebble from your shoe, pain disappears because pressure or irritation to the nerve has been physically removed. If there is pressure on nerves in the neck causing head or neck pain, when that pressure is relieved these problems will clear up. If there is pressure on a nerve inhibiting normal function, when that pressure is removed, normal function is once again restored.
This explains whay some people have gone to a chiropractic clinicfor back pain and then recovered from a different problem altogether. As they were treated to remove pressure from the verves that were causing them pain, their digestive or breathing problems improved as well.
For further details on the relationship between the nervous system, back pain and the functions of your body talk with your chiropractor to determine if you are a candidate for chiropractic care.
