YouTube talk by Jeff Langmaid (Jan 14, 2025) describing how chiropractic spinal adjustments alter brain activity—specifically changes in the default mode network (DMN)—in people with chronic low back pain; Langmaid emphasizes that manual adjustments produce measurable alterations in how the brain processes pain.
It's always been nice to think, oh, we kind of change things. No, we do. There's not a question about that at this point in time. So we impact an area of the brain called the dmn. How does that happen? Well, you can see right here at the bottom, we see alterations after an adjustment, especially with people with chronic low back pain, changing how the DMN lights up when they're measuring things. What does that change mean? It's part of how the brain responds to pain, and we're literally altering that. Like, this blows my mind when I think about hands on a human being and an adjustment being performed. And that input integrates into literally how their brain is processing information.
