What is Chiropractic?

  • Your Nervous System Runs Everything

    Your nervous system is responsible for regulating every system and function in your body. It controls movement, sensation, organ function, immune response, healing…everything.

    Chiropractic is used to correct any dysfunction that interrupts or affects proper function of your nervous system. These dysfunctions are what we call subluxations.

  • What Is a Subluxation? (And Why You Should Care)

    A subluxation is when there is an incorrect movement, translation, or improper position of a vertebra, which causes irritation to the nerves that pass through it.

    Subluxations happen in everyone's body. But here's the thing: not everyone feels pain from them.

    Why? Only 10% of your nerves are associated with pain fibers. The other 90% control function and healing.

    What you might notice instead:

    • Digestive issues

    • Asthma

    • Muscle weakness

    • Depression

    • Anxiety

    • Low back pain

    • Sciatic pain

    • Neck pain

    • Disc herniations

    This is why everyone, regardless of experiencing pain, should get constant chiropractic treatment to prevent these bigger symptoms from developing.

  • Think of Your Nervous System Like a Garden Hose

    Your nervous system's job is to maintain your field (your body) green and healthy.

    When there's a kink in the hose (a dysfunction, subluxation, or stressor), the hose can't do its job at full potential.

    Water still flows through it, it hasn't been shut off, but the field becomes spotty and starts dying in the areas that aren't getting enough water.

    That's the relationship between your nervous system and your body when there's a dysfunction. The nutrients and signals aren't reaching where they need to go. So your body starts breaking down.

  • What Causes Subluxations? The Three T's: Thoughts, Traumas, and Toxins

    All stressors fall into three categories:

    TOXINS (Chemical Stressors)
    High processed foods, sugars, refined carbohydrates, and unhealthy fats create inflammation in your body. This inflammation interrupts your nervous system.

    THOUGHTS (Emotional Stressors)
    High periods of stress in your life (work, family, home) cause negative thoughts and experiences. Your muscles tense up in response. Those tense muscles pull vertebrae out of alignment, causing a subluxation.

    TRAUMAS (Physical Stressors)
    Car accidents, falls, bad posture, bad workouts, repetitive motions, lack of sleep, or even overdoing it in the garden. All physical stress on your body can cause misalignment.

    Most people are dealing with all three at once. That's why comprehensive chiropractic care matters.

  • Our Approach: Root Cause, Not Symptoms

    Our goal at Meraki Chiropractic is to improve spinal motion and improve your body’s physical function by achieving proper communication between your body and your brain through a healthy nervous system. We do this by eliminating the interferences and stressors in your body through the use of chiropractic adjustments, also known as spinal manipulations. Our purpose with chiropractic care is to understand and treat the root/cause of your problem and not just treat the symptoms. We take the time to provide you with the best and most effective treatment for you.

    Let’s help your body achieve the innate ability to heal itself!

     - Dr. Julio Cruz Gonzalez, Chiropractic Physician