You live your life through your Nervous system. It is the connection between your brain, your body, and your environment. A strong connection allows for increased healing, function, and adaptability.
However, when we are exposed to stress, this connection gets disrupted and a number of compensation patterns are triggered throughout the body, particularly at the spine.
These compensation patterns, which include altered neurology, poor movement patterns, and increased tension, allow the body to adapt to the stress in the short term and provide a temporary reprieve. Typically, at this point, no symptoms are noted. However, as the stress continues, the body’s ability to adapt decreases as layers of compensation patterns build up (think of an onion). Eventually, the short-term compensations become significant enough to cause symptoms such as pain, numbness, tingling, stiffness, weakness, etc.