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A new day is dawning for chiropractic
health care. The amount of scientific information supporting
chiropractic is growing daily!
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The doctor of chiropractic is a health care provider
who is concerned with human health and disease processes.
He/she considers each patient as an integrated being,
in which all factors of human anatomy and physiology
must work together as a whole. The doctor of chiropractic
is primarily concerned with the body's biomechanics,
especially that of the spine, and how its interplay
with the nervous system affects many important body
functions.
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A number of common neuro-musculo-skeletal
conditions such as back pain, neck pain, and headache
are successfully managed through chiropractic care.
Treatment is designed to positively affect body structure
to relieve pain and also to optimize function, consequently
enhancing the natural recuperative powers of the body.
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Chiropractic
uses a conservative, natural approach, avoiding the
use of prescription drugs or surgery. Although chiropractic
physicians regularly refer patients for such care whenever
indicated, they firmly believe that the ideal answer
to health lies in prevention rather than prescription.
Until recently, the success stories
of chiropractic were spread professionally through anecdotal
evidence, and informally through word of mouth. Now,
thanks to mounting research based evidence, chiropractic
is proud to claim scientifically what doctors and patients
of chiropractic have known all along: Chiropractic works!
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Chiropractic champions a natural method
of healing, advocating a non surgical, non invasive, and drugless
treatment of patients. Grounded in a view of the individual
as an integrated being, the doctor of chiropractic focuses
on spinal health as the key to overall health and wellness.
Because of the interrelatedness of the
body's various systems, chiropractic theory holds that spinal
mechanics, including the vertebrae, corresponding nerves and
surrounding soft tissue, plays a primary role in the health
of the whole body. Structural abnormalities in the spine,
which cause pain, dysfunction, and loss of mobility to thousands
of Americans every year, can be treated successfully.
The primary treatment for spinal misalignment
(subluxation) is a procedure known as vertebral adjustment,
or more generally spinal manipulation. An adjustment is a
technique in which the professional chiropractor skillfully
applies pressure to an area of the spine that is out of alignment.
The procedure is often, but not always, applied manually.
The result is reduced pain and inflammation, and restored
function to the injured area.
Patients could also expect a treatment
plan to utilize physiologic procedures along with manipulation
such as ultrasound, electrical stimulation, controlled exercise,
and nutritional counseling.
Pain and disease may be caused
by disturbances of the nervous system.
Disturbances of the nervous system
may be caused by derangements of the musculoskeletal structure.
Disturbance of the nervous system may
cause or aggravate pain and disease in various parts of functions
of the body.
There are many techniques and therapies
used by doctors of chiropractic today. All are designed to
correct a misaligned spinal bone that has caused pressure
on nerves in the nervous system (called vertebral subluxation)
that cause the pain or disease.
Doctors of chiropractic are highly trained
in locating and correcting these misaligned spinal bones.
A chiropractic adjustment releases a pinched nerve allowing
correct messages to flow from the brain to the rest of your
body. Freedom from pain and good health are possible once
the body's perfect alignment has been restored.
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