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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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Posted by: San Diego Chiropractor
Friday, March 05, 2010 @ 2:57:54 PM

You have lots of truly valuable information on your site, and I like this answer in particular. It gives a good straight forward approach to patients. Sometimes us chiropractors get too wrapped up in the terminology.

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