Pain in the body is one of the most common 
symptoms that people present to chiropractors. Other common symptoms are: tingling, numbness, pins and needles, and pain from sprains and strains. When you have any of these symptoms, the nerves are definitely compromised.
Symptoms often come on suddenly but the cause of them may have been building up for some time – in some cases a whole lifetime! Sometimes symptoms are barely noticeable and then get slowly worse over time. Again, they’re a definite indication of stress in the body – and the nervous system is letting you know.
Although pain is an uncomfortable sensation, we should be grateful for it because it is the body’s way of telling us that there is dis-ease or stress present. The body is simply telling us that it needs to be brought back into balance. Pain is usually a great motivator to make people take positive action steps to improve their health.
The role of the chiropractor is not to treat the pain. Rather, they find the area of subluxation and deliver a specific chiropractic adjustment to reduce stress at that segment. That then normalises the nervous system and allows the whole body to function more cohesively.
Chiropractic is 
a safe and effective treatment, helping people to reduce or eliminate pain, allowing them to function and perform optimally.
There are many other symptoms people suffer from when their nervous system is compromised.
Common ones we see include: intense period pain (dysmenorrhea), poor digestion, ‘fuzzy head’, dyslexia, hyperactivity, poor bladder control, weakness on one side of the body, low shoulder and recurrent overuse injuries. All of these symptoms and others indicate that there is dis-ease in the body and stress to the nervous system.
Your chiropractor will look for the cause of the symptoms and remove stress to your nervous system, so that your body can start to heal itself. Chiropractors do not treat the symptom itself, rather they will treat the cause, which is often distant from the site of the discomfort. This is another difference between chiropractic and traditional medicine.
Written by Dr Sara Winchester (Chiropractor)