More About Chiropractic

D.D. Palmer developed chiropractic at a time when western medicine had not long before used the practice of bleeding to treat disease and at a time when antibiotics and modern pharmacology did not yet exist. There was a need for a new approach to health and chiropractic began to flourish. Because chiropractic developed on its own, separate from medicine, there has been a separation of the two health approaches philosophically and practically. Chiropractic sued the AMA for restraint of trade in the 1970's and chiropractic prevailed. Since then there has been more cooperation between the two professions. Different Philosophies The chiropractor believes the body has the ability to heal itself and adapt to the environment successfully if the nervous system is free of nerve interference. Medicine believes that the human body gets a disease somehow and by giving an external agent or drug, or by removing an organ that the body will be healthy again. Neither philosophy is wrong nor right all the time. Chiropractic, is preferred initially, because it is a natural, noninvasive approach to health. The Modern Chiropractor The modern chiropractor is well educated, usually with four years of pre-chiropractic, university education in the basic sciences and four years of chiropractic college. We learn to identify and correct the vertebral subluxation complex, where the spinal bone is out of alignment causing

How can Chiropractors Help?

Most people who think of a chiropractor think of a “back pain doctor”. We are however more “nervous system doctors,” returning normal nerve flow to the body. The spinal nerve that exits the spinal cord carries all kinds of information to the cells throughout the body.

In fact, only 10% of the spinal nerve is dedicated to pain and 90% carries nerve impulses to muscles, joints, blood vessels, skin, balance and vital organs. So a nerve interference in the spine caused by a misaligned vertebra (Vertebral Subluxation Complex) can cause a variety of symptoms in the organs, skin, joints and muscles — not just pain.

People who desire pain relief, a body that can heal itself and work at its best, and a body that can respond fully to its environment — those people should see a Chiropractor.