health care system in the world. health care system in the world.Hi folks! This is Dr. Edward Chip Doherty here. I have written down a description of chiropractic the way I see it, as follows. I hope you find it interesting and maybe sometimes, amusing!
As you know, there must be a good reason why 25 million Americans and several million people worldwide have sought the services of Chiropractors. Given the vast array of choices one has regarding health care and the many options available, the question has to be asked, " Why are so many people going to Chiropractors?"
Chiropractic makes sense to those who actually hear what it's all about. Chiropractic health care is usually chosen by those who are well educated about chiropractic, and therefore, understand it enough to make a rational health care choice. Chiropractic is a blend of both modern and ancient healing, and its message is a simple yet profound one. Chiropractic is needed by everyone on the planet. Read on to find out why!
Our bodies are born with a healing potential chiropractors call "Innate Intelligence." This is the operating system of the body, and unlike the popular operating system on computers, the body's operating system never gives you "error" messages. Innate Intelligence functions at 100% all the time. Innate Intelligence generates messages transmitted by the brain through the spinal cord (nervous system), which eventually communicate with every organ, muscle, tissue, and cell of your body. What do you think would happen if these important life giving and monitoring messages got interrupted? Have you ever been on a portable phone and gone too far away from the base or into the "wrong" room and then could no longer understand the person to whom you were speaking? Imagine that interruption happening in your body. Do you think a body can function at 100% if the messages from your operating system aren't getting through? It cannot!
Chiropractors call the interference with the nervous system the "vertebral subluxation complex or VSC". Only chiropractors are trained to detect and remove vertebral subluxation. It may be detected during a very thorough orthopedic, neurological and chiropractic examination. VSC has some or all of the following components. Each one of the components of VSC is followed by some of the things patients notice and tell me, {and don't tell me,} which might indicate that they have some of them.
Abnormal joint movement (Kinesiopathology)Tissue damage (Histopathology)
Muscle damage (Myopathology)
Health/Spinal damage from possible arthritic growth of spine. (Pathophysiology)
Surprisingly, the vertebral subluxation is not always associated with "back pain" or any type of pain for that matter. It is detected through examination. Occasionally a patient will know when a chiropractor has found a problem, either because of perceived pain/discomfort or the sensation that something just doesn't feel right. Maybe something feels stuck or stiff. They might very well have numbness or tingling or other neurological signs as well, but again, often people have no symptoms at all.
Unfortunately, most of us have been erroneously taught that we are sick or unhealthy only when we have symptoms. But take, for instance, the person who is diagnosed with adult onset diabetes. This person undoubtedly started to have damage to his or her capillaries and organs long (months or years) before the symptoms were such that a problem was recognized. You do not need symptoms to be unhealthy.
Chiropractic is much, much more than a fix for back and neck pain. It relieves spine and nerve stress, freeing the body to restore flexibility, life, vitality, and improve your overall natural healing ability, adding life to your years. Chiropractic works, plain and simple.
"Think about it, please!"
I hope this page has been interesting and informative for you. I have touched the surface of the ocean which is chiropractic and my goal is for you to jump in now, not later or maybe someday! If it is not with me, then please start somewhere else, but do it now!.
There is much more for you to know! Most chiropractors are very good and if they teach you about subluxation, and they also teach you that chiropractic is not really about about the pain but about fixing the cause of the pain, then they are Great chiropractors.
The few written words on this page do little justice to the immensity and greatness of chiropractic care and its benefits. If you would like to know more about chiropractic, please call a chiropractor as soon as you can. You'll be happy that you did.