Why Stress Affects Everyone Differently
Stress is a nervous system reaction. It causes your heart to beat faster, your muscles to be tense, your stomach to tighten, and your hair follicles to stand up. This is all as a way to prepare your body for an emergency. When you interpret a situation as stressful, whether it truly is or not, your brain triggers this reaction by sending a signal over your spinal cord and nervous system to every cell of your body. In prehistoric times, this would have been the perfect reaction to escape from a hungry dinosaur. But in today’s stress-filled world, even with no Tyrannosaurus Rex, this chronic reaction can cause pain, sickness, and disease. Yet, no two people experience stress in exactly the same way. Here’s why stress affects everyone differently.
Vertebral Subluxation
Where your body breaks down from stress may depend on whether or not you have a condition known as vertebral subluxation. A vertebral subluxation is a spinal injury that interferes with the normal function of your nervous system which can affect your health on every level whether you have symptoms or not. If you have this in your spine, your body is already pre-stressed.
Many people deal with stress through deep breathing, meditation, exercise, and healthy food choices. These are all very good things to do as part of your lifestyle to counter balance stress, but if your nervous system is pre-stressed, the slightest deviation from the perfect stress management plan can send you into a frustrating, uncomfortable, or painful tailspin. Additionally, research has found that nerve compression can exist without pain and can cause deterioration within two weeks.
Removing this pre-stress causing subluxation can improve your resistance to daily stressors. Research shows that it only takes the weight of a dime to reduce nerve transmission.
Vulnerability
In this pre-stressed condition, your body becomes more vulnerable to outside stresses while other people may be much more resistant. The location of the subluxation can determine what types of symptoms, if any, you experience. You may have nerve interference in the upper part of the neck. Do you get headaches, have allergies, or a stiff neck? Because the nerves fibers that come out of the upper neck also go to the entire body, pressure here can cause or mimic symptoms.
Interference to the nerve supply in the lower back can cause a backache, leg problems, and also affect ovary, prostate, bladder, or bowel function. Interference to the nerves in the middle of your back can affect your heart and lungs or cause tension, stomach problems, digestive disturbances, and discomfort.
Immediate and Long-Term
Vertebral subluxations can cause stress for decades without any symptoms. This is when serious problems occur, many of which could have been avoided by eliminating this pre-stressed condition right away. The birth process, childhood falls, sports injuries, and poor lifestyle habits are just a few causes of subluxations. Removing the cause and optimizing the function of your nervous system is a better immediate and long-term plan.
A chiropractic examination can locate pre-stressed areas in your spine that may be affecting your health on every level. Crisis care is one way to deal with stress, only receiving care when you are hurt. A better option is to remove the subluxation, stress, from your body and keep it out as a part of your lifestyle. This will help you to stress less, live more, and enjoy the quality of life you deserve. Make the choice today to live the less-stressed life meant for you!
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