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A new day is dawning for chiropractic health care. The amount of scientific information supporting chiropractic is growing daily!
About Chiropractic
 The doctor of chiropractic is a health care provider who is concerned with human health and disease processes. He/she considers each patient as an integrated being, in which all factors of human anatomy and physiology must work together as a whole. The doctor of chiropractic is primarily concerned with the body's biomechanics, especially that of the spine, and how its interplay with the nervous system affects many important body functions.
A number of common neuro-musculo-skeletal conditions such as back pain, neck pain, and headache are successfully managed through chiropractic care. Treatment is designed to positively affect body structure to relieve pain and also to optimize function, consequently enhancing the natural recuperative powers of the body.
Chiropractic uses a conservative, natural approach, avoiding the use of prescription drugs or surgery. Although chiropractic physicians regularly refer patients for such care whenever indicated, they firmly believe that the ideal answer to health lies in prevention rather than prescription.
Until recently, the success stories of chiropractic were spread professionally through anecdotal evidence, and informally through word of mouth. Now, thanks to mounting research based evidence, chiropractic is proud to claim scientifically what doctors and patients of chiropractic have known all along: Chiropractic works!
What is Chiropractic?
Chiropractic champions a natural method of healing, advocating a non surgical, non invasive, and drugless treatment of patients. Grounded in a view of the individual as an integrated being, the doctor of chiropractic focuses on spinal health as the key to overall health and wellness.
Because of the interrelatedness of the body's various systems, chiropractic theory holds that spinal mechanics, including the vertebrae, corresponding nerves and surrounding soft tissue, plays a primary role in the health of the whole body. Structural abnormalities in the spine, which cause pain, dysfunction, and loss of mobility to thousands of Americans every year, can be treated successfully.
What Does A Chiropractor Do?
 The primary treatment for spinal misalignment (subluxation) is a procedure known as vertebral adjustment, or more generally spinal manipulation. An adjustment is a technique in which the professional chiropractor skillfully applies pressure to an area of the spine that is out of alignment. The procedure is often, but not always, applied manually. The result is reduced pain and inflammation, and restored function to the injured area.
Patients could also expect a treatment plan to utilize physiologic procedures along with manipulation such as ultrasound, electrical stimulation, controlled exercise, and nutritional counseling.
Principles of Practice
Pain and disease may be caused by disturbances of the nervous system.
Disturbances of the nervous system may be caused by derangements of the musculoskeletal structure.
Disturbance of the nervous system may cause or aggravate pain and disease in various parts of functions of the body.
There are many techniques and therapies used by doctors of chiropractic today. All are designed to correct a misaligned spinal bone that has caused pressure on nerves in the nervous system (called vertebral subluxation) that cause the pain or disease.
Doctors of chiropractic are highly trained in locating and correcting these misaligned spinal bones. A chiropractic adjustment releases a pinched nerve allowing correct messages to flow from the brain to the rest of your body. Freedom from pain and good health are possible once the body's perfect alignment has been restored.
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