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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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