Chiropractic Care
Imagine a modern healing art whose goal is not the treatment of disease but
the enhancement of one's inborn self-curing ability. Imagine a natural way of
helping entire families to maintain their health, to avert disease and sickness,
using no drugs and no surgery at all. Imagine millions of people, from infants to
the elderly, who, having suffered from illnesses of all kinds, owe their health and
sometimes even their lives to this innovative approach to healing. Imagine an
alternative to drug therapy, which, growing in popularity every year is
awakening in ever- increasing numbers of people a renewed understanding of
their inner healing ability. You've just imagined chiropractic.
What Is Chiropractic?
Chiropractic, with it’s deep origin derived centuries ago in ancient Asia was
born in the U.S.A 1895 to over 50,000 practitioners in less than one hundred
years, to become the largest drugless, non-medical health care profession in the
world. Although it has been a blessing to millions otherwise condemned to a life
of sickness, disease, and disability, to too many people chiropractic remains a
mystery.
The First Chiropractic Patient
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 “modern” 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. But as 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 indeed. But what? Palmer wasn't giving his
patients pills no drugs and no medicines. He wasn't performing surgery. And yet
people were getting over a wide variety of conditions that were seemingly
unrelated. Fevers broke, infections and pain disappeared, hearing returned,
vision improved, digestive disorders cleared up. 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 has 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 in the U.S."
What the Chiropractor Does
The doctor of chiropractic locates and removes one of the most severe forms of
interference known to healthy body function - a condition that puts pressure on
the nerves and related structures, unbalances our body, generates fatigue,
lowers our resistance to disease, and weakens the body in general - in short,
affects all the elements of our natural healing ability. This condition is known as
vertebral subluxations or spinal nerve stress.
The Vertebral Subluxation
Vertebral subluxations (or spinal nerve stress) are structural misalignments in the
spine that create imbalance and put pressure on the nervous system. A
vertebral subluxation interferes with and unbalances the flow of energy and
information throughout the body, creating "disease" (a term used to denote the
loss of body harmony). The saddest thing about this condition is that, although it
is usually painless, it can damage us to the point where, unaware of the cause,
we watch our life, health, and well being silently and slowly fade.
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.
Work injuries, Automobile Accidents and Sports Injuries
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," affecting nearly everyone on a lesser or
greater scale. It is for that reason that everyone needs to have him/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; thermo graphic 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 have often spent 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.
Imagine a modern healing art whose goal is not the treatment of disease but
the enhancement of one's inborn self-curing ability. Imagine a natural way of
helping entire families to maintain their health, to avert disease and sickness,
using no drugs and no surgery at all. Imagine millions of people, from infants to
the elderly, who, having suffered from illnesses of all kinds, owe their health and
sometimes even their lives to this innovative approach to healing. Imagine an
alternative to drug therapy, which, growing in popularity every year is
awakening in ever- increasing numbers of people a renewed understanding of
their inner healing ability. You've just imagined chiropractic.
What Is Chiropractic?
Chiropractic, with it’s deep origin derived centuries ago in ancient Asia was
born in the U.S.A 1895 to over 50,000 practitioners in less than one hundred
years, to become the largest drugless, non-medical health care profession in the
world. Although it has been a blessing to millions otherwise condemned to a life
of sickness, disease, and disability, to too many people chiropractic remains a
mystery.
The First Chiropractic Patient
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 “modern” 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. But as 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 indeed. But what? Palmer wasn't giving his
patients pills no drugs and no medicines. He wasn't performing surgery. And yet
people were getting over a wide variety of conditions that were seemingly
unrelated. Fevers broke, infections and pain disappeared, hearing returned,
vision improved, digestive disorders cleared up. 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 has 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 in the U.S."
What the Chiropractor Does
The doctor of chiropractic locates and removes one of the most severe forms of
interference known to healthy body function - a condition that puts pressure on
the nerves and related structures, unbalances our body, generates fatigue,
lowers our resistance to disease, and weakens the body in general - in short,
affects all the elements of our natural healing ability. This condition is known as
vertebral subluxations or spinal nerve stress.
The Vertebral Subluxation
Vertebral subluxations (or spinal nerve stress) are structural misalignments in the
spine that create imbalance and put pressure on the nervous system. A
vertebral subluxation interferes with and unbalances the flow of energy and
information throughout the body, creating "disease" (a term used to denote the
loss of body harmony). The saddest thing about this condition is that, although it
is usually painless, it can damage us to the point where, unaware of the cause,
we watch our life, health, and well being silently and slowly fade.
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.
Work injuries, Automobile Accidents and Sports Injuries
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," affecting nearly everyone on a lesser or
greater scale. It is for that reason that everyone needs to have him/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; thermo graphic 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 have often spent 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.
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