What is chiropractic?
The word chiropractic means “treatment by hand”. It focuses treatment on the cause of your pain, and not the symptoms. The stress of daily living and injuries can cause restrictions of the joints in your spine. Chiropractic care focuses on restoring the proper motions of your spine and joints, while maintaining the health of your muscles and nerves through adjustments, soft tissue manipulations, and rehabilitation. Restoration of normal joint motion reduces muscle tension and nerve interference, allowing you to benefit from better overall health and resistance to disease.
What conditions benefit from chiropractic care?
Although chiropractic is used most frequently to relieve low back pain, studies have found it to be effective for a variety of conditions, such as migraine headaches, neck and shoulder pain, carpal tunnel syndrome, fibromyalgia, and infantile colic.
How is Chiropractic care helping my WHOLE body?
As you know, the brain controls the body’s functions and healing. In order to facilitate this control, signals sent from the brain travel through the hundreds of thousands of nerves in the body, until they reach the desired organ, joint, or tissue. A subluxation (pinched nerve) in the spine, reduces the signal along that pathway. This can result in pain, inflammation, and a lack of function in anything that the nerve controls.
What sort of education does a Doctor of Chiropractic receive?
Chiropractors receive an education that emphasizes neuromuscular diagnosis and treatment. Preparation for the practice of chiropractic is concentrated on three areas of learning; basic training in the biological and health sciences (anatomy, physiology, histology, biochemistry, clinical and radiological diagnosis); specialized training in the chiropractic discipline (theoretical studies, practice, diagnosis and applications); and extensive clinical training.
Why does correction require numerous treatments?
This is the most commonly asked question in our office, and it has a very basic answer. Muscles! The bones of the spine are surrounded by “bumps” on the sides and back. These “bumps” are sites where all the muscles of your spine connect, and use as a base for turning, pulling, lifting, and bending. They also help your spine into alignment if they are strengthened in the right position. Unfortunately, individuals with a misalignment of the spine have compromised muscles as well. After an adjustment, the muscles begin to pull the bones back into misalignment, because they have been compensating. Our goal is to correct the misalignment quickly, before your muscles can strengthen in that spot. Your muscles need to be trained to the correct alignment in order for you to experience lasting relief.
