Chiropractic, from its early beginnings, has endorsed the
idea of wellness. It is a total, preventive approach to
health that deals with addressing the cause of the problem
rather than just the symptoms.
Chiropractic considers all aspects of the patient's life:
family history; work; lifestyle and environment; diet;
exercise regimen; the attention to prevention; and the
patient's physical and emotional stress factors.
Chiropractic works by restoring a human being's inborn
ability to be healthy.
• When under the
proper control of your nervous system, all the cells,
tissues and organs of a person's body are designed to
resist disease and ill health. The chiropractic approach
to better health is to locate and remove interferences to
a human being's natural state of being healthy.
• An accessible
interface with the nervous system is the system of 24
moving bones of the spinal column. A loss of normal motion
or position of these bones can irritate or impair the
function of the nervous system. This can disrupt the
transmission of controlling nerve impulses.
• With improved spinal
function, there may be improved nervous system function.
Your chiropractor can help remove interferences that may
be impairing normal health.
Concise,
Scientific Definition of Chiropractic
Chiropractic is that clinical science that is based upon a
law of biology that there is born in living things an
ability to be healthy, and secondly draws on the theory of
physiology that there's a system in the body, the nervous
system by name, that controls and coordinates all other
organs and structures and relates the organism to its
environment.
Chiropractic clinical science hypothesizes an association
between that system and health in the body, and
chiropractic was originally conjectured by its founder as
that science that was going to investigate how the
framework could interfere with the integrity of the
nervous system and its ability to control and coordinate
all other organs and structures.
What is a chiropractic
adjustment?
The intent of a spinal adjustment is to restore normal
motion and function of the framework in order to restore
normal function of the nerves. Chiropractors use several
adjusting techniques to accomplish that, many
characterized by a precise, specific thrust.
The chiropractic adjustment generally differs from spinal
manipulation practiced by a physical therapist or an
osteopath because the chiropractic adjustment is more
specific. It is done not just to mobilize a joint but to
remove a subluxation. Indeed, the technique of
chiropractic adjusting is a manual art requiring
considerable knowledge and dexterity. Mastery of the art
of adjusting takes extensive training and practice as does
any other art.
