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What is Chiropractic?
Chiropractic is a branch of the healing arts which is based up the understanding that good health depends, in part, on a normally functioning nervous system (especially the spine and the nerves extending from the spine to all parts of the body). “Chiropractic” comes from the Greek word chiropraktikos, meaning “done by hand.” Chiropractic recognizes an inborn intelligence within the body that orchestrates every single cell, tissue, organ, gland and system and ultimately allows for your body to stay in a naturally healthy state. We acknowledge that the body was designed for health, not disease and understand that health is coordinated by a properly functioning nervous system function.
Doctors of Chiropractic practice a drug-free, hands-on approach to health care and optimal potential of the individual. Chiropractors are concerned only with a condition known as vertebral subluxation, a misalignment of the spine negatively affecting the function of the nervous system and the health and balance of the individual. Chiropractors are the only type of doctor trained to detect and correct this condition.
The analysis of the spine to evaluate structure and function is what makes chiropractic different from other health care procedures. Your spinal column is a series of movable bones which begin at the base of your skull and end in the center of your hips. Thirty-one pairs of spinal nerves extend down the spine from the brain and exit through a series of openings. The nerves leave the spine and form a complicated network which influences every living tissue in your body.
To assist the body in correcting subluxations, doctors of chiropractic employ a procedure called a “chiropractic adjustment.” The purpose of an adjustment is to remove interference to the nervous system, allowing for a restoration of health and function. Subluxation can be caused by a single traumatic event, such as improper lifting of a heavy object, or through repetitive stresses, such as sitting in an awkward position with poor spinal posture for an extended period of time. Our mental/emotional tension and chemical stressors in our life can also contribute to the subluxation process.
Chiropractic is different. It is separate and distinct from medicine with different objectives. The practice of medicine seeks to treat symptoms in the body. Chiropractic starts with the premise that you were designed perfectly for health and maximum function and seeks to remove interference to the nervous system so that you can regain the health and function you naturally deserve.