The Cerebellum Is A Fascinating And Critically Important Part Of Our Brain.

You are about to discover some fascinating research about the cerebellum, it’s function, and how chiropractic changes it. Yes, the cerebellum is an area of the brain that is directly changed by common chiropractic treatments including the adjustment.

 

Discover The Importance Of The Area Of Our Brain Called The Cerebellum In This Short Video Above.

The cortex is the part of our brain that is most associated with being human and handles our highest level tasks in our bodies.

To give you an idea of the importance of the cerebellum…

The cerebellum has more neurons than the cortex.

This provides insight into how incredibly important our cerebellum is for us.

It is involved in posture, coordination, balance, accuracy and timing of movement,… and our thoughts, attention, language, and emotion.

We’ve talked a little about clumsiness previously on the blog and how it is a symptom that things are not working properly.

Clumsiness often indicates a problem within the cerebellum.

The cerebellum is critically important for learning new things, including movements and skills.

Spinal movement is a very strong driver or input into the cerebellum.

The cerebellum relies heavily on this movement to allow it to know where we are in space and to function properly.

The Chiropractic adjustment of the spine improves spinal movement and also creates a strong stimulus into the cerebellum.

Researchers have looked at how the Chiropractic Spinal Adjustment effects the cerebellum as well as it’s output into the cerebral cortex.

They found that the adjustment changes the way that the cerebellum processes information.

They also found that the cerebellar output, the way it talks to the higher area of brains was changed.

Finally, the researchers looked at how the adjustment effected overhead throwing movements like those seen in many sports and other activities.

This is important because we know that the skill of throwing is heavily dependent on the cerebellum.

People with damaged cerebellum fail to release the ball at the right time because of lack of coordination, timing, and accuracy of movements.

The researchers found that having good overhead throwing movements was heavily reliant on proper spinal function.

Improper spinal function results in changes in the input into our brain, including our cerebellum, regardless of whether we have pain.

This results in changes in the way we perceive where our bodies, our arms, and our legs are in space both consciously and importantly unconsciously.

Changes in input and knowing exactly where we are in space changes how we move, our coordination, our posture, even our thoughts and higher areas of brain function like attention, focus, language, and emotion as discussed above.

So the importance of cerebellar function goes FAR beyond sports and athleticism.

Chiropractic care can improve this critically important part of the brain.

Chiropractic has been shown to help us better learn new movements through this relationship.

We’ve previously discussed research about chiropractic reducing the risk of falling.

Risk of falling, learning new movements for sports or music, reading and writing, clumsiness (tripping, stubbing your toe, hitting your elbow,…), …

There is so much more to chiropractic than the adjustment…

But there is also so much more to the adjustment than you realize because of some of the incredible complexity of our nervous system that is discussed in this short video.

This has nothing to do with pain, even though chiropractors are good at helping pain.

In this post, we barely scratched the surface of what is going on when we improve your body’s function.

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