Q. How can you feel vertebral subluxation in my back?
A. Ever wonder how in the world a chiropractor has the ability to feel vertebral subluxation by examining an entire spine in just seconds to minutes? The answer is best described through a process you can do to yourself.
First, take your your right hand and place it over your left biceps (between your shoulder and elbow). Second, move your arm up and down by contracting your biceps. Third, place your focus and attention on your right hand feeling the muscles contract and relax. Fourth and finally, contract your biceps and hold it there for a few seconds and place all your focus and attention on the contraction of those muscle fibers which chiropractors call "working muscles."
That contraction that you feel is what the chiropractor feels when examining your spine for vertebral subluxation. The muscles of the spine connect each segment of your spine together and are responsible for innately keeping you spine in alignment and under coordination through the brain and nerve system. When one of the segments of the spine misalign and becomes subluxated, your muscles in the spine will start to contract without you ever knowing it to pull the subluxated vertebrae back into control.
When chiropractors feel the "working muscles" in the spine that is indicative of vertebral subluxation. Examining the entire spine for these "working muscles" takes only seconds to minutes and becomes second nature to chiropractors when they do it day after day perfecting the senses of palpation.
