Sometimes people come into Cora in pain and when they leave, their pain is completely gone! After just one visit!
New research is helping explain how chiropractic care can remove pain in just one visit. The answer is by resetting your brain’s Default Network.
Your brain has a variety of different networks, they help you talk, see, move and process information. It takes a lot of energy to constantly process information, so over time your brain stops processing everything and just starts accepting that the present is the same as the past. Your Default Network has determined that floors are hard. And now when you see a new floor, you do not test it to see if it is stable, your default network tells you “all floors are hard.” So you will walk on a floor without testing to see if it can hold your weight.
The Default Network will also assume things about your body. For example, it will assume that touching flames will cause pain. And so you will feel pain and pull away from a hot stove before you experience a bad burn. This is incredibly helpful! The Default network allow us to move through the world without being paralyzed by uncertainty or waiting until your body is damaged to feel pain.
However, sometimes our Default Network gets things wrong. If you injured shoulder, your Default Network might conclude that shoulder movement causes pain. Eventually your shoulder will heal, yet your Default Network might not update it’s information. Your may have shoulder pain not because there is an injury, but because your Default Network is still using outdated information about your shoulder. Your Default Network will create pain based on old models.
This is where chiropractic care comes in.
New research has used brain imaging (EEGs) to show that chiropractic care can reset your Default Network. If the Default Network focuses on your shoulder during the chiropractic adjustment reset, it might realize that the pain is an old program. The pain program will then be deleted. And your shoulder pain is gone after just one adjustment!
Likewise, your brain may realize that those allergies you had are no longer necessary or that anxiety you had about your job is outdated. Your Default Network tells you things about all different parts of your life.
Some of you may be familiar with a reset of the Default Network as it relates to psychedelics. Michael Pollen talks about resetting the Default network in his book How To Change Your Mind. Chiropractic care at Cora is a much more gentle version of the reset that people experience with psychedelics. But both are getting at a similar end goal—helping your brain realize that the past is not the present and what was happening before is not necessarily what is happening now.
Research: Chiropractic Care Is Associated with Frequency-Specific Reorganisation of Triple-Network Brain Dynamics: A Source-Localised EEG Study
Available for free at: https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3425/16/8/818
