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What Is Chiropractic?
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Chiropractic:

The term "chiropractic" is derived from the Greek language and means "done by the hand."  Chiropractic therapy involves manual manipulation (primarily of the spine) to correct musculoskeletal disorders and improve overall health.
What Is Chiropractic?

Chiropractic is a branch of the healing arts which is concerned with human health and disease processes.  Doctors of Chiropractic are physicians who consider man as an integrated being and give special attention to the physiological and biochemical aspects including structural, spinal, musculoskeletal, neurological, vascular, nutritional, emotional and environmental relationships.
What Is A Doctor of Chiropractic?  (DC)

Chiropractors provide conservative management of neuromusculoskeletal disorders and related functional clinical conditions including, but not limited to, back pain, neck pain and headaches.  Chiropractors are expert providers of spinal and other therapeutic adjustments.  Chiropractors also provide patient evaluation and instructions regarding disease prevention and health promotion through proper nutrition, exercise and lifestyle modification among others.
History & Evolution Of Chiropractic:

Daniel David Palmer founded chiropractic in Davenport, Iowa in 1895.
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D. D. Palmer
1845 - 1913
The Chiropractic Adjustment:

The key to chiropractic care is the spinal adjustment.  This is the way Doctors of Chiropractic correct subluxations.

The Goal of the Adjustment.......

The goal of the chiropractic adjustment is to correct the spinal subluxations detected during the examination.  To do that, the doctor applies pressure to the bone and "unlocks" it from it's improper position.  The bone will then be free to align itself correctly.

Many people think that the Chiropractor forces a vertebra back into it's "proper" place.  But only the individual's own Innate Intelligence knows for sure what the proper place for each bone is.  The role of the Chiropractor is to free up the vertebrae.  Then, the body can do it's job and put them back in the correct position.

Unfortunately, the muscles connected to subluxated vertebrae get used to their positions and have a tendency to pull the bone back out of place.  It may take several adjustments before the adjustment "holds" and the bone settles into it's proper alignment.


B. J. Palmer
xxxx - 1961
Dr. Patrick M. Sartz
3120 N. Arizona Avenue
Suite #101
Chandler, Arizona  85225
480-831-6772

 

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