I love to use analogies. They really work for me and I find I can communicate ideas pretty well to others with them. So here’s one about how your brain works.

Who remembers the kinetic watches? They had a battery in them that stayed charged up from the movement and motion of your wrist and arm as you went about your daily activities. And as long as there was movement and the battery was charged, the battery powered the watch and all was well.

Well, your body runs and charges your brain in much the same fashion. That’s why there are a plethora of studies that indicate exercise is equally as effective for combating depression as any medication ever made. Movement has a powerful impact on brain function.

But more specifically, there is an area of sensory input for your brain that is more powerful than all the others. The most powerful area of sensory input for your brain is from the mechanoreceptors located in your spine and its joints.

When you maintain full, normal, appropriate motion of all your spinal segments, your brain is “fed” energy via sensory input at a few hundred cycles (signals) per second. So again, movement charges the brain, and the brain in return has the power to control and coordinate the body and its functions, as well as to maintain normal moods, emotions, behaviors and processing power.

When you have areas of limited movement or mobility in your spinal joints, the sensory input is slowed down and the brain becomes “sluggish” in regards to all functions it performs.

This is just another of the many reasons that every human benefits from proper chiropractic spinal care.

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