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What Chiropractors do

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Published: Monday, January 25, 2010

I often get asked, "What do chiropractors really do?" Most people think we are back and neck pain doctors. We do some weird cracking of the back and people feel better, or their headaches miraculously disappear. The simple truth is that chiropractic since its inception in 1895 is based on four simple concepts.

1. The body is a self healing mechanism. In other words, your body knows how to heal. If you cut your finger, clean the wound and put a bandage on it the bandage will magically heal the cut. Right? No of course not your cut is going to heal with or without the bandage. Your body can heal itself.

2. Your brain and nervous system controls how everything in your body works. This means healing is controlled by your nervous system as well as the function of every cell, tissue and organ in your body. The master controller, the brain, communicates to every thing in our body through our nerves. What would happen if there is interference with this communication?

3. Interference with the brains communication with the rest of the body will compromise your health. It is impossible for your body to function at 100% if there is interference between the brain and the rest of the body. Every nerve in our body travels through the spine at some level. If the spine is out of normal position and not moving correctly it can interfere with these communication signals. We call this a subluxation.

4. Removing the interference restores the bodies functions by normalizing the brains communication with the rest of the body. That is what we do as chiropractors. We are the only profession trained in the detection and correction of subluxations. There are other professions that may manipulate the joints but mobilizing the joints is not the same as adjusting to correct the interference created by the subluxation.

Chiropractic has many techniques to detect and correct subluxations and thereby getting rid of pain and restoring function. KST is one of the gentlest and most effective that I have found.

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Tuesday, January 17, 2012 @ 12:09:22 AM

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Thursday, January 12, 2012 @ 2:01:39 AM

Thanks for such an informative information. More to come.

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Monday, November 07, 2011 @ 8:55:16 AM

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Sunday, November 06, 2011 @ 9:00:48 PM

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Saturday, October 15, 2011 @ 12:06:37 PM

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Friday, September 23, 2011 @ 3:57:04 PM

Chiropractic Care can be tough to comprehend. Have anyone here tried using an inversion table along with consulting with a chiropractor?

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Thursday, September 08, 2011 @ 7:39:06 PM

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Wednesday, September 07, 2011 @ 7:25:45 AM

chiropractic is a system of complementary medicine based on the diagnosis and manipulative treatment of misalignments of the joints, esp. those of the spinal column, which are held to cause other disorders by affecting the nerves, muscles, and organs.

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Sunday, June 19, 2011 @ 8:28:09 AM

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Tuesday, May 17, 2011 @ 1:06:50 AM

You did a good job. Discussing the four simple concept in a concise manner. This can really help in educating those people who misinterpret a chiropractors profession. In this manner as well it helps them to understand how their body and nervous system works.

Posted by: Chiropractor Beavorton
Monday, May 16, 2011 @ 12:34:08 AM

Great information. People sometimes misinterpreted a chiropractor's profession. They often rationalize a chiropractor same with a physical therapist. With your article here people will perhaps learn how a chiropractor work. Thanks for sharing.

Posted by: Austin chiropractor
Sunday, May 15, 2011 @ 11:00:50 PM

This information is essential. This should be given to those who are not familiar with chiropractics. Anyway, I like the way you deliver the message and in deed emphasize what chiropractors do for a living.

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Friday, May 13, 2011 @ 12:33:04 AM

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Thursday, April 28, 2011 @ 3:32:13 PM

"Your body can heal itself" To an extent this is true but without some sort of external intervention the process is slow and sometimes it does not work at all without it.

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Monday, March 07, 2011 @ 8:23:02 AM

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Posted by: Todd
Monday, January 31, 2011 @ 12:32:01 PM

Stumbled across your site while doing a Google search. I believe if more people understood the brain/nervous system connection with the rest of the body, more people would see the value of regular chiropractic care. Thanks for sharing.

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Thursday, January 13, 2011 @ 10:55:41 PM

Hey, you've got an AWESOME site here for all kinds of various chiropractic information. I've already found some great stuff!

Posted by: Yorba Linda Chiropractor-Bill Janeshak
Sunday, December 26, 2010 @ 8:32:33 PM

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Posted by: San Diego Chiropractor
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