Autonomic Nerve Chart What is Chiropractic?
February 28, 2014
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I get the chance to present Chiropractic to businesses and the public pretty often. In these instances, I get to interact with many people. I've found that there is confusion about what Chiropractic is and what Chiropractors do across the board. Often times it's because of the extra stuff that chiropractors do or sell outside of what Chiropractors actually do.
For instance, have you ever been to a health fair? At the health fair there might be several Chiropractors there. One Chiropractor is checking a person's posture, another is having them stand on scales, another is rubbing essential oils on someone, another is talking about diet, one is talking about diseases like diabetes and cancer, one might hook you up to a machine that goes ding, or put some laser on you. Another one is selling supplements, and yet another might have a massage therapist giving a chair massage. You walk out of the fair and think about all the stuff that the Chiropractors in the fair were doing. All different things might cause confusion, and so it leads one to believe:
What really is Chiropractic?
To answer the question, I point to the Chiropractic Text Book, written by R.W. Stephenson, DC. This book explains what we do, what the body does, and how the vertebral subluxation complex hinders the body's ability to function right. It is, in my opinion, the foremost text on Chiropractic. Art. 2 in the introduction of the book says:
Art. 2. Chiropractic Defined
"Chiropractic is a philosophy, science and art of things natural; a system of adjusting the segments of the spinal column by hand only, for the correction of the cause of dis-ease."
This was Dr. BJ Palmer's (The developer of Chiropractic) definition, and is considered the best.
So what does that mean?
It means that Chiropractors should follow a set of rules laid down before them that involve checking the spine for subluxations which cause dis-ease. What is dis-ease?
Dis-ease simply put is a lack of ease. It means that the body isn't working right. Chiropractic revolves around nerve flow. The brain tells every cell, tissue, organ, and system in the body what to do and how to do it, by way of the spinal cord and nerves to those cells, tissues, organs and systems.
What is a Subluxation?
When the vertebrae (bones of the spine) leave alignment they interfere with the flow of the nerves from the brain to the body. The correct messages from the brain to the body cannot be delivered properly. Therefore the body doesn't work right, dis-ease.
What is the Adjustment?
The Chiropractor finds subluxations and then adjusts them, setting them right. Thus aligning the bone and allowing the nerve flow to pass through and restoring communication. Which in turn allows the body to work right again.
That is what we do.
Attached is a photo helping you understand more, by showing you the anatomy of the spine and nerve system. There are many different manifestations of dis-ease and the body not working right. However, our job is to check and if necessary adjust subluxations to restore ease and proper body function.
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