Do Chiropractors treat disease?
Chiropractors do not treat disease. Our purpose is to remove spinal nerve stress, a serious and often painless condition most people have in their bodies. Spinal nerve stress interferes with the proper functioning of the nervous system, can weaken internal organs and organ systems, lower resistance, reduce healing potential and set the stage for sickness and disorders of all kinds. When a chiropractor frees the nervous system from spinal stress, the healing power of the body is unleashed: the immune system functions more efficiently, resistance to disease increases, and your body functions more efficiently. So although our patrons often come to us with diseases, we are not treating their diseases but is instead freeing them of spinal nerve stress, thus permitting their body’s natural healing potential to function at its best.
Although chiropractors are generalists as well as specialists, they do not treat diseases per se. To do so would clearly constitute one of the legal definitions of the practice of medicine. This is also why chiropractors do not perform medical diagnostic procedures or make medical diagnoses (i.e. assign disease lables to their findings). They are well trained, however, to perform chiropractic diagnostic procedures which are designed to guide them in providing the very best of the kind of patient care for which they are so eminently qualified. Chiropractic regards disease as a response of the body largely because the body is not functioning optimally and is therefore unable to adequately defend itself against ever-present microorganisms which can subsequently overwhelm it. Chiropractic philosophy contends that by keeping the nervous system functioning normally (along with promoting a lifestyle which includes an intelligent diet, appropriate exercise and adequate rest), the body is able
