Hi, I’m Dr. Steven Battaglino with Battaglino Family Chiropractic. How did I get out of alignment in the first place? It’s a good question. I’m going to give you a few examples, starting with birth and the birth process. Infants don’t have the musculature in their neck and body to really support themselves through that traumatic process, and it can even start earlier in utero. So body position in the womb actually can instigate spinal misalignments.

Fast forwarding a little bit, as children are learning to walk, as toddlers, they take falls constantly. It’s another big cause for spinal misalignments. They get into sports a little bit later, gymnastics, football, baseball, soccer, and the like, and there are injuries associated with all those things. Maybe jump off the high-dive and and do a belly-flop, mountain bike falls.

As adults, working at a desk job is another big cause for problems structurally in the spine. You wouldn’t think that it would be the same as like a martial arts injury, but working on a desk is tough on your body because you’re in the same static position that isn’t always the best position posturally and you hold that position for years sometimes. Sleeping on a poor mattress or the wrong pillow, having a flu virus or a viral or a bacterial infection would kind of make you feel real achy and put things in spasm and that takes you out of alignment.

Toxic biochemistry. Now, this can mean too much coffee, too much sugar, things like that. Not eating right. Poor diet, not enough nutrients, not enough water. That’s another big one. All these things have an acidic effect on our body which causes inflammation, and it causes things to get out of alignment and not work properly.

Emotional stress is another big one. Emotional stress puts us in a fight or flight scenario where we’re in a crisis scenario in our physiology, in our nervous system, that will pull things out of alignment. A qualified chiropractor can help sort out both the causes of misalignment and get you back on the right track to where everything is functioning properly and get you feeling your best.

I’m Dr. Steven Battaglino with Battaglino Family Chiropractic and this is your Health Minute.