The body has the ability to heal

Your body is capable of healing itself. This is a simple truth, but one that quickly gets complicated in the health world today. There are many who underestimate the body’s ability to heal, which can lead to unnecessary treatments. There are also many who overestimate the body’s healing ability, leading people to avoid healthcare intervention at inappropriate times.

One of the core principles of Advanced BioStructural Correction (ABC) is that your body can heal itself, but there are certain issues it can’t heal. In structural terms, we apply this by looking at joint misalignments (subluxations). Chiropractors, for generations, have observed spinal bones (vertebrae) becoming subluxated in any and every direction, and many chiropractors will adjust every subluxation they find. In ABC, we recognise that muscles can correct most subluxations - if a vertebra is rotated left, there are muscles that can correct that by pulling it to the right. But, if a vertebra is subluxated forwards, there isn’t a muscle that can pull it backwards again.

See, your back is the back of you, and there is nothing at the back of your back to pull your back back. This explains why every person who struggles with their posture is stuck forwards - you don’t see people walking around while tipping backwards, but seeing people tipped forwards is common. Their body has subluxations tipping them into a compromised position that it cannot retrieve them from. Interestingly, most with ‘good’ posture actually have significant amounts of muscle tension leveraging them back upright again, as the muscles can’t correct the vertebrae that are collapsed forwards. So, this also explains the muscle tension that most people have down the back of their body. This tension becomes necessary simply to hold you up, and prevent you from collapsing forwards.

The beauty comes when we correct the subluxations that your body can’t correct itself. This eliminates the pull forwards, allowing your body to become upright again but without the muscle tension that was holding you up. It also leaves your body more capable of correcting those misalignments that it could, because it turns out those were probably compensations for a misalignment elsewhere.

Yes, your body is capable of healing so much itself, and it becomes much more capable as we remove the issues it can’t correct itself. If you feel like your body is not getting on top of issues as quickly as the issues are getting on top of you, then come and see us at Well Postured. We’d love to see if we can help.