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WHAT IS CHIROPRACTIC?
Chiropractic is a philosophy, science
and art. It is a healing system that aligns all the joints on
vertebrae of spine to remove a cause of disease. Spine consists
of 24 freely movable vertebrae, 2 illii, sacrum and coccyx.
Spinal nerves come from Intervertebral foramina, which are holes
on the sides between two vertebrae. Vital energy and information
from brain are transmitted to all organs, muscles or other body
tissues through spinal nerves.
Physically speaking, various results have their causes. Chiropractic
theory assumes the cause of disease is a misalignment of spinal
vertebrae resulting in stress on spinal nerves that interfere
transmission of vital energy.
The goal of chiropractic is to find segmental misalignment of
spine and correct it to its original position and becoming healthy.
Various factors can cause misalignment of spine (subluxation)
from early stage of life. Normal alignment of spine and flexibility
of body is essential to keep your body healthy and long living.
THE HISTORY OF CHIROPRACTIC
Many aspects of chiropractic were
a natural part of health care as practiced by many civilizations
for thousands of years, but they had been largely forgotten by
the time D.D. Palmer performed the first modem chiropractic spinal
adjustment on his deaf janitor, Harvey Lillard, in Davenport,
Iowa, in the year 1895.
As he watched Lillard's hearing return, Palmer thought at first
that he had discovered a cure for deafness. Patients with the
flu, sciatica, stomach ailments, menstrual troubles, migraine
headaches, epilepsy, heart problems, and many other conditions
responded to his new "hand treatments" (as he first
called them), Palmer came to realize that he had discovered something
more far-reaching.
But what? Palmer was not giving his patients' pills, drugs or
medicines. He was not performing :surgery. People were getting
over a wide variety of conditions that were seemingly unrelated.
Fevers broke, infections an d pain disappeared, hearing returned,
vision improved, digestive disorders cleared. Why?
Palmer immersed himself once again in studies of anatomy and
physiology and in the course of his research began to understand
that what his "hand treatments" were doing was to realign
vertebral subluxations (discussed below) and release nerve pressure.
As he later wrote, this practice was not new. "I am not
the first person to replace subluxated vertebrae, for this art
have been practiced for thousands of years. I do claim, however,
to be the first to replace displaced vertebrae by using the spinous
and transverse process as levers."
HOW DO WE GET VERTEBRAL SUBLUXATIONS?
Vertebral subluxations have many causes.
They may occur as early as infancy as a result of a difficult
birth, the use of forceps, or questionable obstetrical procedures.
Childhood falls and injuries take their toll on our spinal columns;
emotional stress gradually weakens our spines throughout our
lives.
Although the spinal column is well protected by muscles and interlocking
joints, sudden traumas-automobile collisions, sports injuries,
on-the-job accidents- may upset the spinal structure and cause
spinal nerve stress or "pinched nerves."
In our society vertebral subluxations have proliferated to the
point where they can be termed a "hidden epidemic,"
effecting nearly everyone on a lesser or greater scale. It is
for that reason that everyone needs to have him or herself checked
for the condition by a doctor of chiropractic.
THE CHIROPRACTIC ADJUSTMENT
Using a number of tools, the doctor of
chiropractic analyzes the body for vertebral subluxations and
corrects or removes any that he finds, using various spinal adjustment
techniques.
Among the many tools that chiropractors use in order to determine
the presence and whereabouts of subluxations are the x-ray; thermographic
and neurocalographic studies (the analysis of body temperature
patterns); posture analysis; muscle testing (applied kinesiology);
and muscle and motion analysis. In correcting subluxations' chiropractors
usually use their hands but may avail themselves as well of a
variety of spinal adjustment instruments. Practitioners spend
ten years of study to master the various techniques of spinal
analysis and adjustment.
There are at least forty different spinal analysis and adjusting
techniques designed to locate and correct vertebral subluxations.
Most chiropractors use them selectively, depending on their patients
needs.
When you walk into a chiropractor's office today, you will most
likely be in the company of people suffering from a wide variety
of conditions: children with colds or ear infections; women with
menstrual problems; men and women with spinal pain or disc problems,
arthritis, insomnia, stress or anxiety, vision or eye problems,
headaches, allergies, high blood pressure-the list is long! Yet,
as we have been discussing, the goal of the doctor of chiropractic
is not the treatment of disease but rather the enhancement of
health and wholeness through the reduction of spinal nerve stress.
A UNIQUE PLACE
Chiropractic occupies a unique place
in modem health care. On the one hand, it draws upon modem scientific
knowledge and techniques. On the other, it utilizes the ancient
concepts of self-healing, vitalism, life energy, harmony, natural
healing, the innate wisdom of the body, and "dis-ease."
So if you are tired of being sick and tired, worn out from the
medical run-around, and looking for a natural method of regaining
health and wholeness without polluting your body with chemicals,
why not join the millions who have discovered the wonders of
this amazing health care system.
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