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WHAT IS CHIROPRACTIC REALLY ALL ABOUT?

Follow these 6 easy steps to understand chiropractic:

The living body is under the control of the brain and nerve system.

The brain is protected by the skull, the spinal cord by the spinal column.

Bones in the spinal column can become misaligned and disrupt the nerve supply.

This is what is called a subluxation.

It is important to note that subluxations are often silent; they do their damage long before any symptoms appear.

Chiropractors detect subluxations, and using the adjustment, help to restore normal nerve supply.

That means a better expression of LIFE for you!

Daniel David Palmer

Here is how Daniel David Palmer, the Discoverer of Chiropractic answers the above question. Far ahead of his time, in a book he wrote in 1910 he states: “Life is the expression of tone. In that sentence is the basic principle of Chiropractic. Tone is the normal degree of nerve tension. Tone is expressed in functions by normal elasticity, activity, strength and excitability of the various organs, as observed in a state of health. Consequently, the cause of dis-ease is any variation of tone--nerves too tense or too slack.”

Wait a second, you might be thinking, what does that have to do with back pain and neck pain? Well, the truth is, Chiropractic did not start out as a treatment for those conditions, even though that is what people commonly think. It has more to do with its effect on the nerve system, and the overall function of the body. In other words, its not about your back, its about your LIFE! But how?

Let’s go back to Palmer’s book for the answer. The date was September 18, 1895. Here he explains what happened with his first patient that he ever used adjustments to help.

“Harvey Lillard, a janitor in the Ryan Block, where I had my office had been so deaf for 17 years that he could not hear the racket of a wagon on the street or the ticking of a watch. I made inquiry as to the cause of his deafness and was informed that when he was exerting himself in a cramped, stooping position, he felt something give way in his back and immediately became deaf. An examination showed a vertebra racked from its normal position. I reasoned that if that vertebra was replaced, the man’s hearing should be restored. With this object in view, a half-hour’s talk persuaded Mr. Lillard to allow me to replace it. I racked it into position by using the spinous process as a lever and soon the man could hear as before.” He goes on to say “shortly after this relief from deafness, I had a case of heart trouble which was not improving. I examined the spine and found a displaced vertebra pressing against the nerves which innervate the heart. I adjusted the vertebra and gave immediate relief- nothing “accidental” or “crude” about this. Then I began to reason if two diseases, so dissimilar as deafness and heart trouble, came from impingement, a pressure on nerves, were not other disease due to a similar cause? Thus the science (knowledge) and art (adjusting) of Chiropractic were formed at that time.”