Pinched Nerves
Pinched Nerves. They Can Negatively Impact Daily Activities And Reduce Your Quality Of Life!
Are you or someone you know suffering from the symptoms of a pinched nerve? A pinched nerve can negatively impact your daily activities, reduce quality of life and can even develop into a debilitating condition. The term pinched nerve is a non-scientific term often used by the healthcare professional community as a simple catch-all phrase for injuries caused by compression, constriction, or stretching of a particular nerve or bundle of nerve fibers. A pinched nerve occurs when too much pressure is applied to the nerve by surrounding tissues such as bones, cartilage, muscles or tendons. Some of the most common causes of pinched nerves are disc bulges and herniations, muscle spasms, arthritic changes and bone spurs.
In order to understand the effects of a pinched nerve it is important to understand what nerves do and how they work. Nerves carry information signals from your brain to every part of your body. They also carry information from all the parts of the body back to the brain. They are essentially the information and nervous impulse highway system of the body. Each individual nerve may run up to several feet in length before reaching their destination. The individual nerve fibers that make up the nerves are microscopic in size. Peripheral nerves are actually bundles of millions of nerve fibers that leave the spinal cord and branch to their target muscles to make them move or go to the skin to provide feeling. Without them we could not function.
There are two types of peripheral nerves. They are called efferent and afferent nerves. Efferent nerves are motor nerves and carry information from your brain out to the rest of your body. They allow your brain to send commands to the various organs of your body. These nerves cause your muscles to contract and move and can even cause your heart to beat faster or slower. They play a very significant role in how your body functions.
Afferent nerves, the other peripheral nerve type are sensory nerves. They send information from your body to your brain to be processed. These nerves are responsible for allowing your brain to interpret and process pain, taste, temperature, touch and all other sensations. The information impulses travel along the nerves by an electrochemical process similar to how information travels along an electrical cord. When either type of these peripheral nerves are "pinched", the speedy and efficient back and forth signal between the brain and body can be reduced or interrupted.
This pressure is usually caused by dysfunctional surrounding soft tissue that irritates the nerves outer layer and disrupts the nerve's function, causing symptoms including pain, tingling, numbness or weakness, "pins and needles", burning sensations and pain radiating outward from the injured area. One of the most common examples of a single compressed nerve is the feeling of having a foot or hand fall asleep. Pinched nerves can seemingly come out of nowhere; something as simple as lifting the groceries or overdoing your workout might lead to a little tweak as a result of the soft tissue inflammation. When you have this condition you will definitely know it as your ability to normally function will be reduced.
A pinched nerve is a condition that nearly everyone experiences at some point in their life. This painful condition can lead to significant back or neck pain and is usually caused by a minor injury incurred during your normal everyday activities. Chiropractic adjustments are designed to reduce the pressure being applied to the affected nerves by restoring the spinal joints to a normal position and motion thereby reducing the effects of subluxation. In most cases, removing abnormal spinal movement or positioning, allows the nerve to resume functioning at its normal capacity. If you're tired of being confined to a life of pain and you have already been diagnosed with a pinched nerve in the back or neck, you should consider chiropractic as a treatment option. A chiropractic doctor will utilize safe and effective treatment procedures that can offer you relief and help you reclaim your life again.
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