CAN NUMBNESS IN THE HANDS BE CAUSED BY PRESSURE ON THE NERVE ROOT(S)

Many students graduate from Chiropractic College not knowing what they do or what Chiropractic pioneers fought so vehemently to uphold.  These students are graduating from schools every year, and we see that they have less and less understanding of what the Chiropractic “MEANING OF LIFE” really is.  They have been raised in a medical model – which believes that the body is sick because of foreign matter or because of mechanical problems – basically a model that sees the body like a machine.  In the medical model, it is very common to prescribe something to increase, to decrease certain body hormones from the outside, to cut out mal-functioning body parts, or burn the affected area.  Most of the worlds population has been raised in this model, therefore great care must be taken to show them that there is another way of seeing health and taking care of ones HEALTH.  The Chiropractic meaning of life is very simple.  It is based on the premise that there is a UNIVERSAL INTELLIGENCE in all matter and continually gives to it all its properties and actions, thus maintaining it in existence.  The expression of this intelligence through matter is the Chiropractic meaning of life.  Life is necessarily the union of intelligence and matter.  Life is a triunity having three necessary united factors, namely: Intelligence, Force and Matter.  In order to have 100% Life, there must be 100% Intelligence, 100% Force, 100% Matter.  There is no process that does not require time.  The amount of intelligence for any given amount of matter is 100%, and is always proportional to its requirements.  The function of intelligence is to create force.  The amount of force created by intelligence is always 100%.  The function of force is to unite intelligence and matter.  The forces of Universal Intelligence are manifested by physical laws; are unswerving and unadapted, and have no solicitude for the structures in which they work.  There can be interference with transmission of universal forces.  The function of matter is to express force.  Force is manifested by motion in matter; all matter has motion, therefore there is universal life in all matter.  Matter can have no motion without the application of force by intelligence.  Universal Intelligence gives force to both organic and inorganic matter.  Every effect has a cause and every cause has effects.  The signs of life are evidence of the intelligence of life.  The material of the body of a “living thing” is organized matter.  A “living thing” has an inborn intelligence within its body, called Innate Intelligence.  The mission of Innate Intelligence is to maintain the material of the body of a “living thing” in active organization.  There is 100% of Innate Intelligence in every “living thing,” the requisite amount, proportional to its organization.  The function of Innate Intelligence is to adapt universal forces and matter for use in the body, so that all parts of the body will have co-ordinated action for mutual benefit.  Innate Intelligence adapts forces and matter for the body as long as it can do so without breaking a universal law, or Innate Intelligence is limited by the limitations of matter.  The forces of Innate Intelligence never injure or destroy the structures in which they work.  n order to carry on the universal cycle of life, Universal forces are destructive, and Innate forces constructive, as regards structural matter.  Innate Intelligence is always normal and its function is always normal.  The forces of Innate Intelligence operate through or over the nerve system in animal bodies.  There can be interference with the transmission of Innate forces.  Interference with the transmission of Innate forces causes incoordination or dis-ease.  Interference with transmission in the body is always directly or indirectly due to subluxations in the spinal column.  Coordination is the principle of harmonious action of all the parts of an organism, in fulfilling their offices and purposes.  The Law of Demand and Supply is existent in the body in its ideal state; wherein the “clearing house,” is the brain, Innate the virtuous “banker,” brain cells “clerks,” and nerve cells “messengers.”  You have just read thru the 33 principles of Chiropractic.  If you read this and you understand their meaning to your core, you will realize that numbness and or tingling in the hands is attributed to spinal malposition.  It is very easy to prove this clinically.  All you need is a patient that has been diagnosed with “CARPAL TUNNEL SYNDROME” (CTS).  Lie the patient supine on your adjusting table.  Traction the nerve to activate the CTS symptoms.  Hold it there, and make sure you communicate with your patient so they tell you this is exactly what I feel when I have the CTS/hand pain/arm pain/numbness & tingling/etc.  Now you can perform a specific cervical adjustment which will remove the above symptoms, or if you are “AFRAID” to adjust (because of your education) you can traction the neck by pumping the cervical spine.  What you will notice is that the symptoms will disappear.  If this can’t convince you that your carpal tunnel is caused by pressure on your spinal cord then I don’t know what I can do to show you otherwise.  Don’t get me wrong, there are a very minute percentage of your patients that will present with direct trauma to their carpal tunnel which might be the root cause of their symptomology.  Then, in that case you have to take care of the aggravating condition and allow the innate intelligence of the body to do what it needs to do to heal.  This might mean that the person will have to suffer with pain, for a short time, until the intelligence has completed its process.  Also, you have to show your patients that the pain they are experiencing is actually a GOOD thing as it is telling them not to do certain things/movements that would aggravate their symptoms.  TRUST YOUR INNATE INTELLIGENCE.