This verifies that diminished space in the IVF can put pressure on nerve root. It also points out that pressure on the nerve may be painless.
Chiropractic asserts that increased pressure on the nerve root causes aberrant signals that adversely affect the organs, causing a predisposition for developing medical pathology. While this claim is often challenged due to "lack of evidence," there is plenty of evidence. This forum was created to collect it and enable professional discussion thereof.
Because subluxations start out being painless, proactive prevention and maintenance care are indicated. In other words, we do not treat pain, but one of the most significant causes of pain.
When subluxations are allowed to exist for even short periods of time, remodeling begins to occur, affecting the entire spine. Some tissues get short, others stretch. This tends to cause chronic "re-fixation" and need for more frequent care. Waiting until there is serious pain before seeking care is not wise. Because damage is being done even if there is no pain. Especially if you consider damage to organs, as well as joints. -ed.
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J Bone Joint Surg Am. 1995 Jan;77(1):32-8.Hasegawa T1, An HS, Haughton VM, Nowicki BH.Lumbar foraminal stenosis: critical heights of the intervertebral discs and foramina. A cryomicrotome study in cadavera.
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One hundred lumbar intervertebral foramina from eighteen spines of fresh cadavera were studied to assess the relationship between compression of the nerve root and the height of the intervertebral disc and the morphological characteristics of the intervertebral foramen as determined on cryomicrotome sections. The critical posterior disc height and the critical foraminal height that were associated with entrapment and compression of the nerve root were determined. Significant positive correlations were demonstrated between compression of the nerve root and the posterior disc height, the foraminal height, and the foraminal cross-sectional area for the four intervertebral levels between the second lumbar and first sacral vertebrae. Nerve-root compression was evident in twenty-one of the 100 foramina, in eight of the ten foramina in which the posterior disc height was four millimeters or less, and in four of the five foramina in which the foraminal height was fifteen millimeters or less. These critical dimensions may be indicators of foraminal stenosis in the lumbar spine. However, compression of a spinal nerve root does not always cause sciatica, and the clinical findings must always be taken into account when a diagnosis of stenosis is considered.
PMID:7822353[Indexed for MEDLINE]
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7822353
