What is Chiropractic?
Chiropractic is a natural method of health care with the proven ability to relieve back pain, increase vitality, and promote well-being. For over a century, doctors of chiropractic have successfully helped millions of individuals recover from spine-related health problems. As a result, chiropractic has earned its place as the largest drugless and non-surgical health care profession in the United States.
Chiropractic is a drug-free, non-invasive manual procedure, which utilizes the highly refined skills developed during four intensive years of chiropractic education. Chiropractors assess disorders related to the spine, nervous system, and joints of the extremities and provide diagnosis, treatment and prevention of those disorders.
Chiropractic is a natural healing art that developed from the research and clinical work done by Dr. D.D. Palmer in 1895, in Davenport, Iowa. Since then, Chiropractic has grown to the second largest primary healing art in the United States. Doctors of Chiropractic are now licensed in all 50 States and most Western Nations. The State of New Hampshire has been licensing Doctors of Chiropractic since 1923. Chiropractic is based on three basic principals: • Disease may be caused by irritation of the nervous system. • Irritation of the nervous system may be caused by alterations of the musculoskeletal system. These alterations are typically misalignments and/or dysfunctions of the joints of the spine and the related structures. In Chiropractic, these are referred to as subluxations. • Correction of subluxations, and the subsequent relief of nervous system irritation, may reduce or eliminate disease in various parts or functions of the body. Chiropractors relieve the body of subluxations. Al
Chiropractic is a branch of the healing arts based upon the understanding that good health depends, in part, upon a normally functioning nervous system (especially the spine, and the nerves extending from the spine to all parts of the body). Chiropractic is based on the scientific fact that your body is a self-regulating, self-healing organism. These important functions are controlled by the brain, spinal cord, and all the nerves of the body. “Chiropractic” comes from the Greek word chiropraktikos, meaning “effective treatment by hand.” Chiropractic stresses the idea that the cause of many disease processes begins with the body’s inability to adapt to its environment. It looks to address these diseases not by the use of drugs and chemicals, but by locating and adjusting a musculoskeletal area of the body, which is functioning improperly.
