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What Is Chiropractic Care?
Chiropractic is a drugless, hands-on approach to healing. Doctors of
Chiropractic understand that disease within the body is initiated by a
blockage of nerve impulses from the brain cell to the tissue cell. Every
tissue, organ, and gland in your body receive nerve impulses from the
brain to control function. There also exists a feedback loop from the
tissue cell back to the brain. This allows the brain total control over
all bodily cells. Every tissue in your body, when working optimally and
properly, is controlled 100% of the time by your brain and nervous
system.
THE FOUR STAGES OF CHIROPRACTIC CARE ~ The path to feeling better starts
with understanding.
Initial Intensive Care:
If an ache, pain, or other symptoms has encouraged you to consider
chiropractic care, the first thing you want is to feel better. Office
visits should be on a regular basis and your adjustments may be combined
with other procedures (such as massage) to help offer relief. Depending
on your age, condition, and lifestyle, consistent visits over an
extended time may be needed to reduce or eliminate your symptoms.
Rehabilitative Care:
Muscle and other soft tissue damage often remain after the original
symptoms improve. Rehabilitative care helps stabilize your body and
promotes healthy healing. Visits to the office are reduced and you may
be encouraged to supplement your care with exercises, vitamins and other
alternative lifestyle ideas. With your ache or pain gone healing can
occur. Stopping care at this stage may risk a relapse.
Maintenance Care:
When ideal improvement is experienced, periodic chiropractic checkups
are highly recommended. Check ups are for wellness and prevention and
can detect and correct most new problems before they become serious.
Health and lifestyle conscious adults choose this type of care for
themselves, their children and their animals. Like other preventative
health measures, maintenance care can save time, money and enhance your
everyday life by staying well.
Wellness Care:
Wellness Care can include many phases of chiropractic care including a
holistic approach to greater health through personally designed programs
including ideas for nutrition, exercise and fitness, acupuncture,
organic food plans, stretching and yoga, and emotional health
perspectives. Most Chiropractic offices have staff members who are
Certified Wellness Practitioners and are available to help each
individual reach their specific health goals.
CHIROPRACTIC DEFINITIONS
Subluxation:
When one or more of the vertebrae are misaligned, the flow of energy and
messages from the brain to the body is altered. This causes
disorganization and disease. Subluxations are known as 'silent killers',
often they go undetected, slowly deteriorating your health.
Adjustment:
A specific force applied to one or more of the vertebrae of the spinal
column to remove nerve interference and promote the body's natural
healing ability.
Health:
A state of optimal physical, mental and social well being not merely the
absence of disease or infirmity (symptoms)-World Health Organizations
definition.
Can Chiropractic help me? Absolutely!
If you have nerve interference (i.e. subluxation) then chiropractic can
and will help. Whether you need wellness care or crisis care, the goal
of chiropractic remains the same - remove any and all interference. The
spinal column consists of 24 bones called vertebrae, 7 are located in
the neck, 12 in the mid-back, and 5 in the low back.
The vertebrae stack on top of each other like the examples to the left.
The spinal column houses the spinal cord, which is the lifeline of the
body. The spinal cord and nerves allow the brain to communicate and
control every cell within us. Chiropractors remove nerve interference by
working with the structural integrity of the spinal column, thus
allowing each person to achieve a greater state of health.
Chiropractors work with the internal healing ability of each individual.
The doctor will take information from your previous health care history,
perform a chiropractic examination, take X-rays if necessary, and design
a care plan specifically for each individual. Every care plan is unique,
however the objective is always the same: to remove all nerve
interference so each person may achieve optimal health. |
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