What is Chiropractic

Chiropractic locates and removes a severe form of spine and nerve stress, a condition that puts pressure on nerves, unbalances your body, lowers your resistance to disease and weakens you: "The Vertebral Subluxation". The Doctor of Chiropractic analyzes your body for Vertebral Subluxation using his/her hands; and then corrects or removes spinal nerve stress utilizing specific and controlled adjusting techniques. Stress, whether it is from a difficult birth or from childhood falls can be the first start of nerve stress.  

Later in life, emotional tension, or stress can gradually  damage your spine or violent injuries from automobile accidents or sports can suddenly knock you "out of whack". Who is affected? Nearly everyone get spinal nerve stress. It is a "hidden epidemic" and for this reason that we all need to have our spines checked, just as we get our eyes, teeth, and blood pressure checked!

Why Chiropractic? 

Modern Chiropractic began in 1895 when Dr. D.D. Palmer performed the first chiropractic "spinal adjustment" on his deaf janitor, Harvey Lillard. Lillard's hearing returned, and plamer thought he had discovered a cure for deafness. But as his patients with digestive troubles, sciatica, menstrual trouble, migraine headaches, epilepsy, heart problems, back pain and many other conditions responded to spinal care, Palmer realized he had discovered something more far-reaching indeed. 

Chiropractors work with the bones and nerves of the spinal column and spinal cord respectively. Chiropractors spend years of highly specialized training to locate and correct where misplaced spinal vertebrae are impinging the nerves that travel down the spinal column to the muscles, organs and glands of the body. After locating the the vertebrae impinging the nerves (subluxation) the chiropractor, using various highly specialized techniques, is able to replace the misplaced vertebra, and thus release the pressure on the nerve(s). This is called a spinal adjustment. 

Why Acupuncture? 

Acupuncture is a 5,000 year old Chinese system of natural healing that facilitates what cpabilities the body has to heal and adapt. Acupuncture concerns itself with restoring and enhancing proper energy flow to the various organs, glands, and tissues of the human body on the premise that most diseases are a malfunction due to disrupted enrgies. Acuopuncture's definition of health is "All parts of the body functioning normally", all 400 trillion parts. Suffering is inevitable if there is an interruption in the transmission of enrgy flow or life force (called ch'i in Chinese, Ki in Japanese) to the organs, glands, and tissues in the human body. 

The interruption of energy occur in 1) the channels of energy flow, which are located throughout the body, just below the skin surface; 2) in the spinal column where vertebrae may become misaligned, thereby compressing vital nerve trunks. Of course, there are causes of disease are associated with the interference of the transmission of energy flow like psychosomatic states, hereditary factors, poisons, adverse environmental conditions, injury, germs, malnutrition, etc., are all disease producing. 

The detection of such disturbances are revealed by many methods including signs and symptoms, pain spots, organ reflex points, and by pulse and instrumental findings.