What is Chiropractic Care ?

 Chiropractic care is a hands-on healing technique that supports the natural healing ability of your body, thus reducing the need for drugs or surgery.  The nervous system controls and coordinates every function of the body.  Spinal adjustments decrease nerve interference, maximizing your body's healing potential.  

Medical doctor focuses on the disease process, a chiropractor focuses in on the person with the disease.

A chiropractor works to improve one’s nervous system to in turn help aid other elements. 

Perhaps the biggest difference is the fact that a medical doctor employs surgical procedures and relies on drugs to treat symptoms while a chiropractor uses natural means to treat the overall problem.

Both medical doctors and doctors of chiropractic have their necessary roles; however, chiropractic treatment is especially effective for the purposes of helping with chronic aches and pains, restoration and overall wellness. Most cases both Chiropractors and Medical doctors work together for the patient overall care. 

 Every science of healing has what is knows as an avenue of approach. in the field of medicine drugs are injected and pills is swallowed and goes into the stomach. They are the avenues through which the drugs gain access to the body. 

In the field of Chiropractic, the avenue of approach is the spine. The spine houses and protects the spinal cord, the "switchboard" of the nervous system through which the nerve fibers pass from the brain to different parts of the body. For every effect there must have been a cause. If a person is ill, then the condition of pain, regardless of the name applied to it, there is an effect. 

 The nerves leave the spinal cord through openings between movable spinal bones called vertebrae. When vertebrae, through injury or postural problems become misaligned, they interfere with the normal function of these nerves. This misalignment causes pain and malfunction of the nervous system and is called a "subluxation." The subluxation then becomes the cause of the pain. The objective of Chiropractic care is to determine from a thorough examination and x-ray films the exact degree of misalignment producing this subluxation. Proper "adjustments" are given to remove these subluxations and thus remove the cause of pain and malfunction.

 Chiropractic rehabilitation treats a wide variety of medical conditions affecting the brain, spinal cord, nerves, bones, joints, ligaments, muscles, and tendons. Chiropractic rehabilitation evaluates and treats injuries, illnesses, and disability.