Chiropractic care was developed in the waning years of the 19th century by persons who sought to treat pain without excessive and/or unnecessary medicine. In the century since its inception countless who’ve sought relief from pain have had the cause and not just the symptoms of their pain treated and even alleviated; all without surgery or potentially harmful medications. Over 15 million people a year seek out Chiropractic services and relief from their back pain, neck pain, headaches, pain in their arms and legs, poor overall health, and even low energy.
What is a Chiropractor?
The Association of Chiropractic Colleges defines a Chiropractor as someone who practices health care that emphasizes the body’s natural healing ability while avoiding the use of drugs and surgery. Chiropractic services revolve around working with the spine and the nervous system in order to facilitate and restore good health. To that extent it also involves the elimination of pain.
Chiropractic Goals
The goal of every Chiropractor is to optimize and even restore the health of their patients. This is done almost exclusively via applied treatments to the spinal region of the body. It’s important to remember however that just because the spine/nervous system is the focal point of Chiropractic services that it doesn’t mean a Chiropractor doesn’t or can’t treat pain outside of that region. While a good deal of persons seek to alleviate their back and neck pain, Chiropractors can and do eliminate pain in virtually all other parts of the body as well. Chiropractors strive to ensure their patients live pain free lives without having to endure the complications and problems that follow more traditional medical procedures.
How Chiropractic Services Work
The nature of the relationship between the spine and the nervous system is a complicated one though the it’s important to know that the nervous system manages all living cells and that the spine functions as more a less a delivery system for the former. So what exactly does this have to do with how Chiropractic services work? Well for starters, the immense workload the spine and nervous system are under 24 hours a day often results in noxious inflammation when tissue becomes damaged. This inflammation irritates and disrupts both the spine and the nervous system. The resulting pain plagues individuals whom often find that traditional drugs and/or surgery don’t alleviate their pain nor do they do anything but mask their symptoms.
Chiropractic services treat the cause of pain and not just its symptoms. This is done by applying recuperative treatments to the spine that encourage and bolster the body’s ability to heal itself. Through these treatments pressure and inflammation are eliminated which then allows the overall health of patients to be restored. Chiropractic services may place an emphasis on the spinal area but treatments rid all parts of the body of pain that would otherwise seem unrelated to that domain.
What Does A Chiropractor Do?
Chiropractors focus on locating and treating vertebral subluxations. Vertebral subluxations are a series of structural, pathological, or functional changes that negatively impact organ function and affect your general health. Utilizing a number of different techniques, a Chiropractor checks a patient’s spine for misalignments and other abnormalities. Once a Chiropractor finds these subluxations he/she will apply mild force to the affected area in order to correct the problem. Although they’ve become synonymous with back and neck problems, modern chiropractors also assist patients with dietary and nutritional counseling, offer physical therapy, and help their patients make important lifestyle changes.
How Do Chiropractic Services Differ From Traditional Medicine?
Chiropractors and doctors approach health and treatments regarding health very differently. While traditional doctors often rush to prescribe medications that treat only the symptoms of their patients pain, Chiropractors take a natural approach and aim to treat the actual cause of these symptoms. Additionally, Chiropractors believe that there are long term health benefits to treating the cause of pain and from abstaining from traditional medications.
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