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What Is Chiropractic?

What is Chiropractic?

Chiropractic is based on a simple assumption that our bodies can and will heal themselves. But we have to understand that decisions that we make on a daily basis can and will affect our body’s ability to express health or something less than optimum health (disease). Chiropractic focuses primarily on structure and function. A chiropractor analyzes the body exactly the same way an engineer or an architect analyzes and appreciates a skyscraper or a fine European sports car. Simply make one change to a structure and the alignment completely changes. For example, just try driving with a mattress or a bike on the roof of your car and everything will change (acceleration, braking, cornering, fuel consumption, handling). The same is true of your body — not only when you fall victim to a trauma, or disease, but also when a change takes place that simply adds a stress your body can’t adapt to, based on your current overall health status. Sometimes it can prove to create neck and back pain. But most of the time it can be easily dismissed, ignored and even misdiagnosed as “normal pain,” “getting old,” and most commonly numbed with store bought drugs.

Chiropractic focuses on the “structural” integrity of the spine because it houses and protects the central nervous system -- the system which monitors, controls and regulates all body function, allowing the body to adapt to its environment and to both internal and external stress. Your spine is an essential series of joints, just like your knee, wrist and fingers. However, unlike those joints, the spine has a relationship with nerves that can interfere with the communication to other areas of your body. With uncontrolled structural and/or functional changes in the spine, symptoms could be experienced in other areas of the body. Think of it like a green garden hose with a black shoe standing on it, changing the flow into the garden bed on the other side of the house. If that garden hose was a nerve, pain may or may not be present. There is a structural change, and that can change everything at the region of pressure, but also to the area that receives the flow. For example, some are familiar with the word “sciatica,” which means a significant structural change that causes pressure on a nerve that travels into your buttock and leg, providing a sensation that will vary from individual to individual, describing feelings of numbness, tingling, burning, achy, sharp to name a few. Essential “sciatica type pressure” can happen virtually every where a joint, bone and nerve have intimate contact.

The spine has about 50 regions where structural changes can take place and that's why chiropractic is only focused on your spine. If you want a strong tree you have to look at the trunk. The branch may have the leaves, flowers and fruit, but it’s only because of a structurally sound tree trunk.
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