How is the way a chiropractor approaches health different from how a medical doctor approaches health?
Simply put, a chiropractor’s definition of health is functioning at one’s full potential, whereas a medical doctor’s definition of health is the absence of sickness and / or disease. A chiropractor approaches health from an inside-out perspective – believing that the body was created with the ability to heal itself as long as there is no interference. Conversely, a medical doctor approaches health from an outside-in perspective, believing that the body is deficient in specific chemical that it is not capable of manufacturing on its own. (By the way, you do not have a headache because your body is deficient in aspirin!) A chiropractor applies a force into the body to allow the body to heal itself, whereas a medical doctor introduces a foreign substance to alter the function of the body. Medical doctors address the effect of the problem by addressing the symptom through drugs and surgery (which also causes unwanted side effects), whereas a chiropractor addresses the cause of the problem,
