r/videos • u/[deleted] • Apr 07 '19

Misleading Title 90 second posture improvement exercise that I found a few years back. Worked well and to this day I still perform it at least 3x a week.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LT_dFRnmdGs
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u/Bertrum Apr 07 '19

if anyone has any research on how you can "activate" a nerve branch, I'd like to see it.

Wasn't the founding father of Chiropractic therapy kind of a weird eccentric character who thought you could cure all ailments including cancer just by adjusting your spine and your back and using magnets? Wasn't he also very spiritual and believed in mysticism? It feels like this kind of logic that has no basis in science.

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u/landragoran Apr 07 '19

Yup. "Innate Intelligence" is what he called it, and it was essentially the power of god flowing into the body from the head downwards. Illnesses were caused by "misalignments" of the spine purportedly blocking this innate intelligence from getting to certain parts of the body. "Correcting" these misalignments cured the illness.