Multiple Sclerosis & Upper Cervical Chiropractic
Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a chronic, potentially debilitating disease that affects the brain, brainstem, and spinal cord. Affecting more than one million people around the world, MS is unpredictable and varies in severity, from a mild illness to a permanent disability.
What Causes Multiple Sclerosis?
Your central nervous system contains millions of nerve fibers that carry electrical impulses from your brain and brainstem to almost every tissue, organ, and cell in your body. The degenerative process of MS is called demyelination.
In patients with MS, the body mistakenly destroys the myelin sheath, which becomes inflamed and swollen and detaches from the nerve fibers, resulting in patches of scar tissue forming over the fibers. This damage slows or blocks the nerve signals from the brain that control muscle coordination, strength, sensation, and vision.
Common Medical Treatments
According to the National Multiple Sclerosis Society, the typical medical treatment for MS includes a variety of Interferon drugs (Avonex®, Rebif® and Betaseron®, Copaxone®, Novantrone® and Tysabri®). For acute relapses, corticosteroids such as Prednisone are used, as well as muscle relaxants, antidepressants, anticonvulsants, central nervous system stimulants and NSAIDS.
Can an Upper Cervical Correction Help?
The most common misconception about Upper Cervical care is that it only helps back and neck pain.
Upper Cervical care is based on the universal law of cause and effect. For every effect or symptom, physical or mental, there must be a cause.
Upper Cervical doctors recognize that the body is a self-healing organism, controlled and coordinated by the central nervous system, which is protected by the skull and spine.
Using a gentle technique, Upper Cervical doctors locate and remove interference to the nervous system, allowing the body to heal itself naturally without drugs or surgery.
Align Your Spine!
If the first two bones in your neck are misaligned, communication between the brain and body is interrupted and can cause numerous health problems.
An article in the European Journal of Neurology concluded that there is a sub group of MS patients in which trauma, specifically whiplash of the neck, appears to worsen the natural course of MS. In susceptible individuals, these injuries can unleash critical changes in the central nerve system and trigger the onset of
MS symptoms.
If you currently suffer from MS and would like to seek advice from an Upper Cervical Chiropractor, please schedule an appointment today.
