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In the eighty odd years of its development,
Chiropractic science has grown to major stature in the.field of the
healing arts and has reached millions of people. With the rate of
growth steadily increasing, the Chiropractic profession has found a
continuing need to acquaint new patients with the nature of
Chiropractic care.
The Doctor of Chiropractic works both directly
and indirectly with the nervous system. Every function of the body
is under the control of this system. Every organ, tissue, and cell
is controlled by nerve impulses traveling from the brain to all
parts of the body. Nerves make all movement possible. Nerves
transmit all sensations to the brain. Nerves make possible all
sight, smell, taste, touch, and hearing. Nerves maintain balance
and keep the body temperature at 98.6° Fahrenheit/37.0°
Celsius. Nerves make it possible to swallow. Nerves make the bowels
move. Nerves control the liver, lungs, spleen, pancreas, gall
bladder, and kidneys. In fact, the nervous system is the Master
System which controls all other systems of the body including: the
glandular, reproductive, digestive, eliminative, respiratory, and
circulatory.
Every science of healing has what is known as an
avenue of approach. For example, in the field of medicine a
hypodermic needle injects drugs through the skin, or a pill is
swallowed and goes into the stomach. They are the avenues through
which the drugs gain access to the body. In the field of
Chiropractic the avenue of approach is the spine. The spine houses
and protects the spinal cord, the "switchboard" of the nervous
system through which nerve fibers pass from the brain to different
parts of the body.
For every effect there must have been a cause.
If a person is ill, then the condition of pain, regardless of the
name applied to it, is an effect for which there must have been a
cause. The nerves leave the spinal cord through openings between
movable spinal bones called vertebrae. When, through injury or
posture problems, vertebrae become misaligned they interfere with
the normal function of these nerves. This misalignment and fixation
causes pain and malfunction of the nervous system and is called a
"vertebral subluxation complex". The vertebral subluxation complex
then becomes the cause of pain.
The objective of Chiropractic care is to
determine, through an exacting and thorough examination, the
precise degree of spinal misalignment and fixation producing this
subluxation complex. Proper "adjustments" are given to remove and
"unlock" these subluxation complexes and thus remove the cause of
pain and malfunction.
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