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People often wonder why or how the spine actually related to the pain that they might be feeling.
Why is it that if I have a problem in the spine, these bones, how is it that I'm feeling
pain let's say shooting down my leg? The fact that we've kind of already talked about it
is that these nerve fibers, again, they innervate every single area of your body. And not only
do they innervate muscle and soft tissue, they innervate again, the systemic, the different
organs that you have as well. And so the pain is transmitted again through different fibers
in the nerves, and if we were to actually break down a nerve fiber, we could actually
see that, again a nerve fiber is actually like a cord, like a cable and in there you're
going to see different kinds of little fibers. And some of them are function fibers and some
of them are pain fibers. And so again, that's how pain is transmitted. And the spine is
related because, again the spine is what houses this nervous system. So as it gets misaligned,
it impinges and puts pressure there. To have a diagram to show, here again is the spine.
Here is the brain. The spinal cord runs down through here. And again this is showing us
systemically some of the things that the nervous system innervates. See the heart is here,
the lungs are here and they're directly correlated to somewhere here in the middle back. We have
the eyes up here. We have the tongue and salivary glands down here and those are related to
the areas in the neck. Down in the lower back we have intestinal things, bladder kinds of
things. So again, these things all tie in. And so sometimes we get pain in these areas
as well. And it's because the nervous system ties in and the spine is all related.