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-YOUR BACKBONE IS YOUR FOUNDATION TO HEALTH!- Your backbone is something you hardly ever notice. It is made up of 24 vertebrae and stretches from the vase of your skull to your tailbone. Your backbone has an important mission: protect your spinal cord from injury. Your spinal cord is one important part of your nervous system. Other important parts include your brain and the spinal nerves that branch off the spinal cord. However, in the course of everyday life, your spinal cord and nervous system can get hurt anyway-and sometimes the backbone does the hurting. For example: * You suffer a fall, and you misalign a vertebrae. This may cause pain-ranging from a dull ache to sharp, stabbing discomfort. Or, worst of all, no pain occurs and you may not even know you've damaged something-this is because your nervous system only devotes 10% of its functions to carrying pain messages. * After working for years at a computer, you might develop a slouch or suffer from a "crick in your neck." The result can be long-lasting pain and damage. * Stress levels in your body cause you to contort or bunch up your muscles, causing (over time) changes in the way your nerves transmit information. Although we think of a spinal cord injury as resulting from a dramatic accident, spending years hunched over a computer workstation can do as much injury to your health. -Please visit our web site for more information-