 The chiropractic profession was founded in 1895 by a man named D. D. Palmer who began to develop a concept that the body has an internal power to heal itself. By choice chiropractors choose not to use drugs or surgery, and utilize natural approaches to allow the body to heal. Chiropractors treat primarily the spine and its attachments to restore function and health. They are facilitators of health and utilize a variety of approaches, including adjustments, physical therapeutic modalities, exercise routines, nutritional recommendations, orthotics and daily living modifications. There are roughly 70,000 doctors of chiropractic who are concerned with the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of many disorders of the body. A variety of conditions are treated, ranging from back and neck pain to shoulder, hand or feet disorders. Doctors of chiropractic are fully accredited and licensed in every state and have become well accepted as a complimentary healthcare.
Chiropractic Philosophy differs dramatically from traditional medical philosophy of health. The medical establishment believes that in a diseased state, only drugs and surgery can bring you back to a healthy state. Organs are sometimes removed or transplanted to keep the system ‘functioning’. While this is sometimes necessary, this is called “symptom” care, as the symptoms you have are always what is treated.
 Chiropractic Philosophy, on the other hand, is built on the science that your body’s intelligence system flows via the nervous system to organs, tissue, and every last cell of your body. Since the human body is designed to self-heal and self-regulate, interference to the nervous system in the form of Subluxation will impair the nerve signal. This causes malfunction in the body, eventually resulting in disease. The cause of these subluxations may be from trauma, toxins, poor diet, lack of exercise, or stress. This approach to health is not symptom relief, although Chiropractic adjustments relieve many symptoms. The underlying goal is to remove these interferences from you body that slow or stop you from being naturally healthy.
Most Chiropractic patients report that they sleep better, their energy returns, and they just “feel alive again”.
The chiropractic approach is to stimulate the body - through adjustments - to correct itself naturally and without the sometimes harmful external influences. This approach to health is termed an INSIDE-OUT approach.
Chiropractic treatment neither removes nor adds anything to the body. It stimulates self-healing, the way our bodies were designed to overcome disease and distress.
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