Can Straight Chiropractic care re-align the #3 rib where is joins to the spine?
Answer Dear Rick Magee, Thank you for your question. Yours is similar to those I have heard from others who are investigating chiropractic. In order to answer you properly, Ill first need to give you some background on the chiropractic profession. We will also talk a bit about anatomy and physiology. It is important for you to know that 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 “
