The average human, both men and women reduce in size up to three inches over the course of their entire life. These facts are being revealed by chiropractic doctors in San Diego. You can begin losing height slowly some time in your late twenties. This process then accelerates as you get older. So, if you are in your thirties you are reduce in size right at this very moment! And the worst part is that some people reduce in overall height more quickly than others. The results can be an awful hunchback appearance over time. It can also lead to restricted mobility and never-ending pain. The good news is that there are easy things you can do right now at this moment to minimize the aging and reduce in height process. You can do things to make sure you stay strong and tall and don’t end up looking like the hunchback of Notre Dame! It’s not a nice look.

Although there are several factors that lead to reduce in height, the one that has by far the biggest impact on reduce in height your spine. This is because the spinal discs have several important functions. First, they help to keep the vertebrae together. The spinal discs also act like a shock absorber, allowing the spinal column to compress and rebound when stress is applied to the spinal column. It acts as a sort of spring. The spinal discs also maintain proper spacing between the vertebrae. Proper spacing is needed so each bone can move completely without restriction. This space allows nerves to pass through their opening without getting pinched and altered. What does all this have to do with your reduction in height? The disc is like a week old jelly donut that can easily be ruined. It has a tough outer layer and a soft, jelly-like center. That center is normally over 86% fluid. Your disc makes up 33% of the height of your entire spine. So, if your disc somehow loses fluid, dries out so-to-speak, you lose height! And in some cases it can be a few inches.

Your discs only have one way to keep their water content. This is through a process known as imbibitions. It is also through proper motion. Proper motion serves as a natural pump that brings water and other nutrition in and out of the disc through imbibition. As soon as that motion is stopped or altered, the disc begins to shrink and die in the process. If your spinal bones misalign or malfunction, the discs cannot move through their normal range of motion causing its water content to be lost and the disc height to decrease. This misalignment is referred to by chiropractors as a subluxation.

And here’s an astonishing fact that you need to understand. An estimated two inches of vertical height of the spine may be lost if the fluid content of the spinal discs are lowered by only sixteen percent or more! What’s poorer is that his sets off a nasty cycle of spinal and body degeneration. As your discs reduce in size, it compresses joints and causes inflammation or swelling due to roughness in the area. Swelling and more friction decrease mobility even more in the long run. As more motion is lost, the disc loses more fluid, reduce in height even more, causing compression and the cycle keeps going and going until your spinal discs look like a slice of pepperoni! What’s more, your backbone can even become deformed, making it more difficult to maintain balance and upright posture. That’s one reason you see people with very bad looking hunchbacks or using a walker to stay somewhat upright. During this process, nerves can get pinched and compressed. This can cause harsh pain and other chronic health problems.

That was a heck of a lot of bad news… wasn’t it? Well, here’s the good news: Even though you can’t completely stop the aging process of your spine, you can drastically slow it down-reducing the amount of height you lose and all the chronic pain and health problems that go along with it. How do you do that? By simply going to your Chiropractor and having your spine routinely checked for misalignments… ALIGNED and malfunctioning spinal bones (subluxations). Through quick and easy methods, we can determine if you have a problem that can cause spinal degeneration and all the problems we spoke about above if a subluxation is found, proper steps can be taken to correct it before serious, permanent damage is done. Then Chiropractic adjustments (combined with rehabilitation procedures and nutritional advice) can restore proper motion to malfunctioning spinal segments, decreasing friction and swelling, and allowing fluid back into the disc…stopping the vicious cycle of pain, degeneration and shrinking!!!

Let me ask you a question: Does it make more sense to routinely see your dentist for check-ups even though your teeth don’t hurt or, should you wait until your teeth hurt? I don’t know how you answered that question, but I think it makes more sense to see my Dentist BEFORE I wake up in agonizing pain and need a root canal. Or…maybe have the tooth pulled. If you think like I do, it also makes sense to come see a chiropractor BEFORE you’re in agonizing pain. By that time, your spine needs a Chiropractic root canal. A lot of work must be done and money spent that could have been avoided. The worst thing is: waiting until you are in pain means damage has already been done. Some damage can be corrected…some cannot. Over time, this damage adds up… leading to problems and pain that may not be able to be corrected.

I’m sure you heard the popular phrase an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. Seeing a doctor of chiropractic that specializes in these conditions can mean the difference of suffering in torture or living a pain free life. The doctors of chiropractic at San Diego’s New Century Spine Centers are at the top of their profession. To learn more about the chiropractic doctors in San Diego at New Century Spine Centers, call them at their San Diego office at 619-630-9153.

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