Chiropractic is...

An approach to health that utilizes the body's inherent and natural recuperative powers.

A healing science that places emphasis on maintaining the structural integrity of the body.

A method of health care that is conservative and that does not utilize drugs or surgery.

Chiropractic, from its early beginnings, has endorsed the idea of wellness. It is a total, preventive approach to health that deals with addressing the cause of the problem rather than just the symptoms.

Chiropractic considers all aspects of the patient's life: family history; work; lifestyle and environment; diet; exercise regimen; the attention to prevention; and the patient's physical and emotional stress factors.

Chiropractic works by restoring a 
human being's inborn ability to be healthy.

When under the proper control of your nervous system, all the cells, tissues and organs of a person's body are designed to resist disease and ill health. The chiropractic approach to better health is to locate and remove interferences to a human being's natural state of being healthy.

An accessible interface with the nervous system is the system of 24 moving bones of the spinal column. A loss of normal motion or position of these bones can irritate or impair the function of the nervous system. This can disrupt the transmission of controlling nerve impulses.

With improved spinal function, there may be improved nervous system function. Your chiropractor can help remove interferences that may be impairing normal health.

Concise, Scientific Definition of Chiropractic

A past President of Palmer College of Chiropractic, developed a 90-second, scientifically irrefutable statement to explain chiropractic:

Chiropractic is that clinical science that is based upon a law of biology that there is born in living things an ability to be healthy, and secondly draws on the theory of physiology that there's a system in the body, the nervous system by name, that controls and coordinates all other organs and structures and relates the organism to its environment. Chiropractic clinical science hypothesizes an association between that system and health in the body, and chiropractic was originally conjectured by its founder as that science that was going to investigate how the framework could interfere with the integrity of the nervous system and its ability to control and coordinate all other organs and structures.

What is a chiropractic adjustment?

The intent of a spinal adjustment is to restore normal motion and function of the framework in order to restore normal function of the nerves. Chiropractors use several adjusting techniques to accomplish that, many characterized by a precise, specific thrust. The chiropractic adjustment generally differs from spinal manipulation practiced by a physical therapist or an osteopath because the chiropractic adjustment is more specific. It is done not just to mobilize a joint but to remove a subluxation. Indeed, the technique of chiropractic adjusting is a manual art requiring considerable knowledge and dexterity. Mastery of the art of adjusting takes extensive training and practice as does any other art.