Most people spend their whole lives cleaning cobwebs, sweeping away the exhaustion, the pain, the sleepless nights, and the anxiety. But those cobwebs are just the body’s way of showing us something deeper: a pattern that’s still spinning beneath the surface. In chiropractic, we call that pattern a subluxation, interference in the nervous system that distorts the clear, life-giving communication between the brain and the body. You can sweep the cobwebs all day long, but until you remove the interference (until you kill the spider), the web will keep coming back.

Your nervous system is the conductor of every function in your body. It keeps your heart beating, your digestion flowing, your emotions balancing, and your immune system thriving. When life’s stresses (physical, chemical, or emotional) build up faster than your body can adapt, it’s like a spider moving into that neural web, spinning interference into every signal that travels between brain and body. You might not see the spider, but you’ll feel its work: tension, fatigue, fog, frustration. Those aren’t random symptoms; they’re messages from your body asking for clarity, not just comfort.

That’s why in our office, we don’t chase cobwebs, we go after the spider. The chiropractic adjustment isn’t about quick relief; it’s about preparing for the challenges and stressors ahead. Every adjustment retrains the nervous system, rewiring old stress patterns and releasing interference so the brain and body can communicate the way God designed. As that connection clears, the body stops spinning the same old webs; it stops repeating the same stress responses and begins expressing health, peace, and adaptability again.

Carlos Whittaker calls this out beautifully in his book “Kill the Spider”: we can’t just manage what’s visible; we have to address what’s creating it. True, sustainable, healing comes from within, once the interference is removed. So if you’re tired of clearing the same cobwebs in your health or your life, maybe it’s time to look deeper. The spider may be subtle, but when it’s gone, the web disappears and what’s left is freedom, clarity, and the full expression of life flowing exactly as God designed.

WHY IT MATTERS TO CHIROPRACTIC

Your nervous system is constantly learning. Science calls this neuroplasticity, the brain’s ability to rewire itself based on the input it receives. But when stress becomes chronic, the brain memorizes those patterns, wiring itself to stay in survival mode. Over time, that stuck pattern shows up as tension, fatigue, or imbalance (what we call subluxation), a disruption in clear brain-body communication.

Chiropractic adjustments provide new, healthy input to the nervous system, helping the brain reset and build better connections. In scientific terms, it activates neuroplastic change, helping the brain build healthier connections and reset its baseline toward adaptability and balance. Each adjustment reminds the body of its original design- to adapt, to heal, and to thrive when interference is cleared.

Whittaker, Carlos. Kill the Spider: Getting Rid of What's Really Holding You Back., 2017.