Chiropractic
Chiropractic is a branch of the healing arts that is concerned with health and disease. There is an emphasis upon the spine and its inter-relationships with the nervous system and its effect on the overall health and wellness.
Chiropractic is a drugless health care discipline that focuses on diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of mechanical disorders of the musculoskeletal system, and their effects on the nervous system, referred to as a subluxation. A subluxation, describes what happens when spinal bones lose their normal motion and function, which in turn can exert pressure on the nervous system. This interference on the nervous system can decrease your body’s resistance to disease, and impair your body’s ability to heal itself and function at its optimum level.
The following are just some of the conditions for which patients seek chiropractic care:
- Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
- Allergies
- Arthritis
- Arm & leg pain
- Asthma
- Back Pain
- Bedwetting
- Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
- Colitis
- Constipation
- Digestive problems
- Earaches/ear infections
- Elbow
- Excessive colds & flus
- Fatigue
- Fibromyalgia
- Foot and Ankle
- Frozen Shoulder
- Headaches & migraines
- Heartburn
- Immune system weakness
- Infantile colic
- Infertility
- Irritable bowel
- Knee
- Low back pain
- Mid-back pain
- Neck pain
- Numbness & tingling
- Pain during pregnancy
- Pinched Nerve
- Poor posture
- Pregnancy
- Sciatica
- Scoliosis
- Shoulder
- Sleep Disorders
- Sinus problems
- Slipped Disc
- Sports injuries
- Stress
- Tinnitus (ringing in the ears)
- Tiredness/fatigue
- Vertigo/dizziness
- Wellness
- Whiplash
Doctors of Chiropractic focus on the relationship between the body's structure and posture - primarily that of the spine - and the body's function. They use hands-on therapy called an adjustment to correct the subluxation. They are not only interested in your symptoms but in your overall state of well-being. Chiropractic relies on the body's inherent recuperative abilities. Chiropractic treatment is as important part of the ongoing health maintenance, similar to that of regular exercise. There is a difference between being symptom free and being truly healthy and full of vitality.