Chiropractic

Chiropractic is a branch of the health sciences is based upon the understanding that good health depends, in part, upon a normally functioning nervous system (particularly the spine and the nerves extending from the spine to all parts of the body) and fundamentally focuses upon the body's neuromusculoskeletal system. The word comes from Greek word Chiropraktikos which means "effective treatment by hand."

This method of treatment can be traced all the way back to early Greece around 2700 B.C. Hippocrates, the famous Greek physician, who lived from 460 to 357 B.C., published texts detailing the importance of chiropractic care. He declared in one of his writings, "Get knowledge of the spine, for this is the requisite for many diseases.”

The conditions which doctors of chiropractic attend to are as varied and as vast as the nervous system itself. They employ a standard procedure of examination to diagnose a patient's condition and arrive at a course of treatment. Like other physicians, they also perform time-honored methods of consultation, physical examination, case history, laboratory analysis and x-ray examination. In addition, they present a more careful chiropractic structural examination most particularly paying more attention to the spine.

This type of medical treatment is wholly holistic, drug-free, and non-surgical method of healing whose primary goals include the relief of musculoskeletal pain and the restoration of mobility. Most chiropractors treat back, headaches, neck and shoulder pain, sports injuries, and disorders such as certain jaw conditions and carpal tunnel syndrome.

What makes the chiropractic different from other health care procedures is the critical examination of the spine to carefully evaluate the structure and function. The spinal column or cord is a series of movable bones which begin at the base of your skull and end in the center of your hips. There are thirty-one pairs of spinal nerves that extend down the spine from the brain and exit through a series of openings; these nerves leave the spine and form a complicated network which influences every living tissue in your body.

Accidents, falls, stress, overexertion, tension and countless other factors usually result in displacements or derangements of the spinal column and these cause irritation to spinal nerve roots. These irritations often are the major causes of malfunctions in the human body. Another principle that Chiropractic teaches is that the reduction or elimination of this irritation to spinal nerves can cause one’s body to operate more efficiently and more comfortably.

Chiropractic furthermore places an emphasis on wellness, nutritional and exercise programs, and lifestyle modifications for promoting physical and mental health. Chiropractors make no use of drugs or surgery however Doctors of chiropractic do refer patients for medical care when those interventions are indicated. Presently, chiropractors, physical therapists, medical doctors, and other health care professionals now work as partners in occupational health, sports medicine, and a wide variety of other rehabilitation practices.

The major philosophy of Chiropractic is that health, not merely the absence of symptoms, comes from within the body and not from the outside. It’s not the drugs nor the surgeries and not even the physician or chiropractor but the innate or inborn intelligence that is responsible for growing a single cell into a complex human being which does the healing. Like for example, if the area of spine that supplies nerve flow to the stomach is subluxated then information going to the brain concerning that organ and its function which is digestion will be distorted and the brain will not be receiving accurate data on its condition. Similarly, decisions made in the brain as well as what are conveyed along the nervous pathways will be disrupted and the correct responses will not be completed. It is essentially the same circumstances for all the other organs, muscles, blood vessels and so forth.

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