Did you know your nervous system has the ability to reconfigure based on the information it receives from the environment? Amazingly, the nervous system can reorganize the way it controls and coordinates the bodies function through a process called neuroplasticity.(1) Neurons that makeup the brain can create new pathways by which they deliver information.
Chiropractors have long theorized these findings and applied their techniques in order to provide proper information for the nervous system to create new correct pathways so the body can heal itself. It has been shown that repetition of new stimulus will create these more effective pathways that are used to coordinate function.(2)
Another startling fact is that age has little effect on this ability to reconfigure proper pathways to improve upon health.(3) So this shows that your body and brain have the ability to improve health no matter how old you may be and that your body can continually change according to the stimulus provided or environment it is in.
Our bodies no matter how much we abuse them are truly amazing and the ability to heal lies within all of us.
1. Onteniente,B. Neuroplasticity:from physiological adaptation to the concept of therapeutic plasticity. INSERM, UMR 894.
2. Grill-Spector K, et al. Repetition and the brain: neural models of stimulus-specific effects, Dept of Psychology Stanford University.
3. Itari I, et al. Roles of continuous neurogenesis in structural and functional integrity of the adult forebrain, Nature Neuroscience 2008, 11, 1153-1161.
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