Understanding Spinal Cord Tension

A kink in your neck? A twist in your back? A pinched nerve? Pain that you can't stretch away? Learn more about your incredibly intelligent, complex nervous system and what these symptoms mean.

Body, Mind, Soul By Thiago Correa

We all have experienced the feeling of "feeling off" in our bodies. Sometimes it comes all at once through a big event like a headache or a smaller, subtler clue like brain fog. Any well meaning health practitioner would say - don't ignore what your body is saying! And this may be sound advice, but wouldn't a better question be - what is the cause?

Spinal cord tension is tension at the level of the dura wrapping around the spinal cord and is attributable to symptoms of dis-ease, or a lack of ease, coherence and communication between the brain and the body. The cause of this tension is related to the accumulation of thoughts, traumas or toxins.

This tension is well researched, originally discovered by surgeon Dr. Alf Breig at the turn of the 20th century. Despite spinal cord tension or dural tension being slow to take in thee medical community, chiropractors have long focused on "dis-ease" forming at the deep layers of the system. This tension is at the interphase of the mind-body junction. This tension can not be stretched away, in fact most stretching to "fix" this tension results in further tension due basic mechanisms at the neuromuscular junction.

This mind-body tension is an intelligent response of the body to bind in on itself to create safety. This tension is not relieved well with drugs or surgery but it can be resolved through intentional chiropractic adjustments, awareness and breath. Chiropractors assist their clients in releasing this spinal cord tension, which often removes symptoms dis-ease from the body and results in greater expression of health in the system both in the mind and body.