If you have ever suffered from back pain, you’ll probably agree that it can be annoying, it can even be frustrating, and it can also be absolutely debilitating. For some people, back pain feels like just a niggle, but for others, it can mean that they can’t go for a walk with their family, or lift and carry things at work, or compete in a sport that they love to play.
Back pain is often due to a change in the way the back is moving and functioning, which changes the way your brain senses what’s going on in your back. In fact, scientists now know that the feeling of pain is something that your brain decides that you should experience if it believes you have some tissue damage, the brain can sometimes continue to cause you to feel pain even when the tissues have healed.
Brain scientists who’ve studied the effects of chiropractic care on the brain have discovered that chiropractic adjustments can change the way your brain functions. In other words, chiropractic has a neuroplastic effect on your brain. The way your brain learns to be in pain is very similar to the way your brain learns anything. It’s called neuroplasticity or brain adaptations. The good news is that your brain can also learn to stop sending you pain feelings by adapting in a good way to new inputs or interventions.
We know that chiropractic adjustments change function in a part of your brain called the prefrontal cortex. This part of your brain is actually the part that is very involved in where pain becomes a chronic problem. This might be why the earlier you have chiropractic care the better, because early chiropractic care results in better long term outcomes. It might be that chiropractic care can prevent pain from becoming a chronic problem.
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