What is the profession of Chiropractic?
Chiropractic is a health care branch that deals with safe and natural approaches to healing. It literally means to practice with a hands approach. It is a specialized branch of health care that deals with the detection of misalignment of the vertebra and correcting it. This correction is called manual adjustments or manipulations. Adjustments or manipulations are a process of realigning distorted joints and helping restore normal tissue function. This is done with hands or instrumentation. Adjustments or manipulations provide significant correction of joint dysfunction as well as freeing up pain to sensitive tissues such as muscles, ligaments, and nerves that surround the spine. It is an universally recognized health service that is safe and effective for back and joint problems. It is one of the safest, drugless, non-surgical available. Many studies have been implemented to evaluate the effectiveness of spinal and joint manipulation. This includes government panels as well as prestigi