Today's Chiropractic

Chiropractic doctors practice natural, drugless, non-invasive health care and rely on the body's ability to self-heal. Sounds ideal, but just how does it work?

We look at the whole picture.  Like other health-care providers, we follow a standard routine to gain information about the individual. We consult, review the case history, conduct an examination, and we may request laboratory analyses and/or x-rays. Unlike other health-care providers, however, chiropractic doctors also conduct a careful analysis of the person's structure and pay particular attention to the spine. We also ask you about your life— Do you eat well? Exercise at all? How do you deal with stress? Do you have children? What do you do for work? And so on.

We seek the origin of the problem.  Using this information, a certain type of care is suggested along with the probable reason for your pain or discomfort if that's what motived the person to receive a spinal checkup. It is important to note that chiropractors seek the origin of the illness in order to eliminate it-we do not simply treat the symptoms.  If your roof is leaking, do you simply catch the drips in a bucket for years on end, or do you repair the roof to prevent it from leaking? Similarly, if the migraine headache you've had all week is being caused by misaligned vertebra and an irritated nerve, do you continue to take pain killers indefinitely, or do you realign the vertebra to prevent the pain? You get the picture.

We fix the origin of the problem.  Chiropractors have a term for misalignments that cause nerve irritation: subluxations. A vertebral subluxation is a misalignment of the bones that protect the spinal cord. It's a leak in the roof, or a kink in the wiring of your nervous system.  The severity of the subluxation can vary, and there are a number of potential contributing factors that can be physical, emotional, mental, or chemical. The subluxation can be caused by any number of incidents, from birth trauma to an auto accident to simple repetition or over-use. The bottom line is subluxations are caused by the body's inability to adapt to chemical, physical or emtional stress.