What Is Chiropractic?

Welcome new, veteran and prospective chiropractic patients!

Thank you in advance for taking the time to discover chiropractic and its powerful effects on human health.

The chiropractic adjustment reduces spinal misalignments and results in increased range of motion, reduced nerve irritability, reduced muscle spasm, reduced pain, and improved function.

The goal of receiving adjustments should be to restore the body to its natural state of optimal health. Chiropractic adjustments help relieve pain by restoring normal joint motion, improving alignment, and easing pressure on pinched nerves.

The primary focus is simply to remove those things which interfere with the body's normal, natural healing ability.

There is a significant and very important difference between the way chiropractors and medical doctors approach health ailments.

What Chiropractors Do

Practically speaking, chiropractors are primarily concerned with locating and treating vertebral subluxations.

A vertebral subluxation is a complex of functional and/or structural and/or pathological articular (joint) changes that compromise neural integrity and may influence organ system function and general health.

Using a number of unique and highly refined skills, the chiropractor checks the patient's spine for any misalignments, fixations or other abnormalities (vertebral subluxations). If subluxations or other abnormalities are detected, the chiropractor will generally apply a gentle force in a corrective manner to the affected spinal area.

Chiropractors use many specialized techniques to identify and treat these spinal abnormalities and optimize your overall health. In addition to spinal adjustive techniques, soft tissue techniques such as massage, dietary and nutritional counseling, physical therapies, and lifestyle modification programs are employed.

The Benefits of Chiropractic

Short-term and regular chiropractic care have a number of benefits including:

• spinal and extremity pain relief

• headache relief

• increased mobility and range of motion

• decreased stiffness and muscular spasms

• arthritic joint pain relief

• increased joint health

• increased performance and energy

• increased sense of well being and relaxation

• increased balance and coordination

• reduced degeneration and risk of injury

• enhanced tissue healing

• decreased tissue inflammation