When we are young, we rarely experience any serious maladies that we can not get over on our own with rest and good nutrition, save for the occasional bravado induced injury. As we age, however, we find that we are increasingly accosted with aches and pains that seem to appear of their own volition. When these nuisance pains, like those in your legs, become distracting and affect your life, a trip to a Lawrenceville chiropractor might bring comfort back to your routine.

The discipline of chiropractic, first introduced by Daniel David Palmer in 1890, operates under the philosophy that the best way for our bodies to operate is free from interference. That is, we all have an innate intelligence which tends to keep us in a constant state of well being. Modern medicine accepts this self healing and uses it in approaching illness as well

If we suffer from any infirmity or irritation, it is cause to look into our natural means of homeostasis and search for impediments. The complexity of our interactive system of systems is under the control of a highly specialized control center. The central nervous system directs everything through the complicated pathways set up to reach every part of our body.

Every system in our body is controlled directly or indirectly by the brain through our central nervous system. Should anything impede the complex pathways of nerves, vessels, muscles tendons and lymph, it is likely we will feel the result as pain or discomfort. The obvious response, then should be to look carefully at the transmission system and see where the impediment is affecting it adversely.

When that happens, we experience it in the form of illness or pain. Take for example a recurring pain in the legs, either when we first stand up, or chronically when we walk or even if we are sitting motionless. Viewing our body as a complex interacting system of instructions travelling through myriad nerves to trigger prevention, protection or repair, it becomes clear that the source of the pain might not be in the leg at all.

Approached traditionally, the view would be that there is something attacking the function of the leg which must be tracked down and either killed or excised. In addition to a possibly futile search, this action could require the body to have to recover from the methodology. A visit to a Lawrenceville chiropractor will focus on finding the impediment to natural recovery that could be as simple as an adjustment to a misaligned vertebrae which is interfering with nervous instruction from the brain.