![]() ![]() What happens if you were to immediately remove the braces? Your teeth would move back to where they were before. Once the braces are put on and tightened, they start working to move your teeth into the correct alignment. The concept of a back brace is similar to that of dental braces. If you have ever had braces on your teeth to correct abnormal alignment you may easily relate to the use of a back brace. If your spine is showing signs of degenerative changes, repeated adjustments from your local chiropractor at regular intervals over a period of time is recommended to help the ligaments heal back to their proper position. ![]() Eventually, your spine will develop a chronic condition and will start to show signs of spinal arthritis and degenerative disc disease. Over time this will continue to get worse, especially when repeating traumas, poor ergonomics, posture habits and repetitive motions continue. Keeping the vertebrae and ligaments in an unusual position will cause your ligaments to become scarred, weakened and abnormal. If you don’t do anything to resolve this, or worse the symptoms of pain and muscle spasms are covered up, the swelling will eventually go away but your vertebrae and ligaments will still be in an unusual position. It does this by signaling your muscles to tighten up, causing them to spasm and cause pain. Your body is complex and does the best it can to try and stabilize and immobile the injure joint. When the vertebrae become misaligned from things like trauma, poor ergonomics, repetitive motion or bad posture habits these ligament tend to get damaged and will be begin to swell and lose the ability to perform properly. The function of these ligaments is to hold your bones in place while allowing you the flexibility to move around. Each vertebrae (bone) in your spine is held in place by nine ligaments. ![]()
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