What is Chiropractic?
Chiropractic is a natural health care approach promoting the body‘s ability to heal itself without the use of drugs or surgery.
Your body is born with the natural ability to control all bodily functions, in the chiropractic world this is known as “innate intelligence”. This innate intelligence automatically controls things like your heart rate, breathing, digestion and tissue healing, to name a few. For example, if you cut yourself your body clots the blood, causes tissue to swell, sends white blood cells to fight infection and lays down scar tissue eventually healing the cut. All of this happens automatically without you having to think about healing at all. This is innate intelligence.
Your entire body from the top of the head to the pinkie toe is controlled by your nervous system. It is so important that the spinal cord is completely protected by the spine. Almost every nerve in your body has to send messages back and forth from the brain through your spine.
Your body is born with the natural ability to control all bodily functions, in the chiropractic world this is known as “innate intelligence”. This innate intelligence automatically controls things like your heart rate, breathing, digestion and tissue healing, to name a few. For example, if you cut yourself your body clots the blood, causes tissue to swell, sends white blood cells to fight infection and lays down scar tissue eventually healing the cut. All of this happens automatically without you having to think about healing at all. This is innate intelligence.
Your entire body from the top of the head to the pinkie toe is controlled by your nervous system. It is so important that the spinal cord is completely protected by the spine. Almost every nerve in your body has to send messages back and forth from the brain through your spine.
“The doctor of the future will give no medicine but will interest his patients in the care of the human frame, in diet and in the cause and prevention of disease."
~Thomas Edison
The nerves attached to the spinal cord branch out of the spine and control all the functions of the body. For example, the nerves in the upper back region control the heart and lungs, nerves in the mid-back region control stomach, liver and pancreas functions, and low back region nerves control the kidneys, legs, and feet. If you develop a problem with the alignment or function of the spine it can cause interference in the nerves which will impede messages sent to and from the brain. If the messages can’t get through loud and clear, the body can’t function at its optimum level. Chiropractic adjustments to the spine are designed to remove these nervous system impingements and restore normal function to the spine so the nerves can keep the body performing correctly. This is how chiropractic has helped people with a variety of health conditions like low back pain, headaches, asthma, constipation, bed wetting, numbness, ear infections, arthritis, fatigue, joint pains and many other conditions all naturally, without the use of drugs.
If you would like to learn more about how chiropractic may be able to help you, please feel free to call and make an appointment at any of our three valley offices.