Can chirapractic treatment benefit asthma sufferers?
Answer Dear Bayer J. Silver, Thank you for your question about asthma. In order to answer you properly, I’ll first need to give you some background on anatomy and physiology and how they relate to the chiropractic profession. I’ll then offer my thoughts on how this may relate to the matter you describe. There are two branches or schools of thought in chiropractic. Briefly, they are differentiated by whether they deal with the limited therapeutic approach for aches and pains (commonly termed “mixed” chiropractic because it represents a mixture of a chiropractor with a non-chiropractic matter) or a non-therapeutic approach to optimum body performance (termed “straight” chiropractic because there is no mixing of chiropractic with anything else). My expertise is in non-therapeutic straight chiropractic. Therapeutic “mixed” chiropractic is the older approach based on a split from the founding principles of chiropractic about a century ago. Non-therapeutic “straight” chiropractic is the more
