Your spine is truly remarkable! And pretty interesting too! Our team at Pure Chiropractic in Staines reveals some shocking facts about the human spine that we bet you didn’t know before.

1: You’re born with more vertebrae than what you have now

You enter the world with 33 vertebrae but you only have 26 as an adult. But they don’t magically disappear; combinations fuse together to make the tailbone and the back of the pelvis.

2: You gain inches in space

If you were an astronaut, you’d be a few inches taller returning to Earth from space. This is because cartilage expands in the absence of gravity. Gravity takes its toll on us Earthlings too, but in the opposite way. (Ever wondered why you or your relatives seem to be getting shorter with age?)

3: Your spine is more than one big bone

You may think of your spine as just one super long bone, but it contains 120 muscles, 220 ligaments and 100 joints!

Your spine really is incredible.  That’s why we want you to look after it!