Chiropractic is a natural art and science established by DD Palmer in 1895. It is a completely drug free form of health care that looks to the spine to maintain the health of the nervous system (and therefore health of the entire body) through proper alignment of the spine and cranial bones.
Nerve interference promotes sickness and disease, decreased performance and improper functioning of all body organ systems. Correcting nerve interference is the true purpose of chiropractic.
The spinal column consists of 24 moveable bones called vertebrae. All nerves from the brain travel down this row of interlocking bones and branch off and pass through openings along the spine to get to their destinations.
Occasionally, one or more of the vertebrae move out of alignment. We call this a subluxation. When misalignment of these vertebrae occurs, the spinal openings narrow and distort the nerve’s ability to function properly.If the nerve flow is disrupted because of nerve interference, chemical imbalances occur, and the body will function less efficiently.
Proper nerve control is essential for all body functions, including all organ control, immune response, muscle control and chemical and hormonal balances.
There are three phases of Chiropractic care: Relief, Correction, and Wellness. "Relief" is the first phase and the goal is to get the pressure of the nerve so you can start healing and feeling better. The number of visits necessary to accomplish this will depend on your age, underlying spinal condition and other lifestyle choices.
Remember that by the time most patients present to us the spinal condition is usually well advanced and has been causing underlying damage to the joint, muscles, ligaments and nerves, and ultimately, your health. In fact, a lot of people present already in phase two degeneration yet may have only been symptomatic for a short period of time.
Restoring the body to normal or maximum function is the goal of the "correction" phase. In most conditions, pain is the last thing to show up and the first thing to leave when treating the vertebral subluxation. Adaptations that have taken place in muscles and other soft tissues (such as the disc and ligaments) require care beyond the relief phase to properly correct.
The purpose of the "Wellness" phase of care is to prevent relapse of previous conditions and to address new conditions before they appear.
Chiropractic is about ensuring your nervous system is always functioning at 100% of its capacity. Each one of us are constantly adapting to external influences via our nervous system. For example when we pick up a child, sit at a desk for long periods of time, go to the gym and going about our normal routine and activities, it is our nervous system that interprets all this information and allows our body to perform at its best.
Chiropractic ensures that your nervous system is free from interference allowing your body to function at its optimum.
When maximum improvement has been achieved, your doctor will suggest an appropriate level of care necessary to "maintain" the corrections made during the first two phases.
While chiropractic can aid restoration of function within your spine, there will always be an underlying weakness in your spine that will need to be checked regularly to ensure there is no relapse to its old position. That is to say, you cannot receive a "new spine" but we need to get the one you presented with functioning at 100% of what it is capable at and then maintain it.
What is Chiropractic?
Relief, Correction and Wellness
The chiropractic adjustment allows the vertebrae to move back into its proper alignment. In turn, this allows the proper flow of neural impulses to be restored, and the body is able to function at 100%.
The obvious outcome of the chiropractic adjustment may be a relief in symptoms, an increase in performance or an overall sense of better well being. The true outcome of the chiropractic adjustment, however, is that the body’s nervous system functions at 100%. The final outcome of that is a better, healthier body and life from the inside out!
"The doctor of the future will give no medicine but will interest his patients in the care of the human frame, in diet and in the cause and prevention of disease". (Thomas A. Edison 1847 - 1931)
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Our chiropractors use the Gonstead Chiropractic technique and are active members of the AEQ (Spanish Chiropractic Association).
This technique represents the standard chiropractic spinal adjustment manual and remains the leading chiropractic technique. Following the definition of Chiropractic DD Palmer, Dr. Clarence S. Gonstead realized that there was no better substitute method to analyze or correct spinal alignment lack of a pair of hands chiropractic business. And this remains true today.
