The Science Chiropractic is based on the scientific fact that the nervous system, your brain and spinal cord, controls the function of every cell, tissue, organ and system of your body. Your body is much like the Internet: your brain is your computer, your spinal cord is the information highway, your spinal vertebrae which house nerves, arteries and veins are the links to your organs, such as heart, lungs, intstines, reproductive organs. The disruption of the function of these tissues or organs and the nerve control is called VSC or Vertebral Subluxation Complex. Chiropractic is the science of finding these areas of spinal malfunction, the art of correcting them and the philosophy of all things natural as we have been created.
The Art Our doctor masters the adjusting "art" of chiropractic which includes a comprehensive evaluation, a review of health history, and arrival at a clear diagnosis and a recommended specific treatment plan customized for each patient. This includes specific spinal adjustments. Adjustment describes many hundreds of ways and techniques of directed and controlled pressure to restore spinal segments to a more normal position and range of motion, aiding in increased flexibility, increased immunological function and increased life energy. Chiropracic is truly an art.
The Philosophy Chiropractic philosophy recognizes that the power that created the body can heal the body - as long as there is no interference. The doctor does not heal you, he is a co-facilitator with you for your body to be put in the correct environment to heal itself. The main purpose of the chiropractor is to reduce interference to your inborn, innate healing ability.
"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 A. Edison
The Future is NOW!
Everyday, scientists and researchers are proving what doctors of chiropractic have known since 1895.
If people paid attention to their small health problems they wouldn't have large health problems.
- Chinese proberb
"I am not the first person to replace subluxated vertebrae, but I do claim to be the first person to replace displaced vertebrae by using the spinous and transverse processes as levers...and to develop the philosophy and science of chiropractic adjustments."
- D.D. Palmer, Discoverer of Chiropractic, 1895
"There is no effect without a cause. Chiropractors adjust causes. Others treat effects."
- B.J. Palmer, D.C., Developer of Chiopractic
By now you know health doesn't come in a bottle. However, the pharmaceutical companies want you to believe that reaching for their lotions, potions, powders, pills and syrups will make you healthy. All it does is make them wealthy. Health comes from the inside out not the outside in.
"All the drugs in the world cannot adjust a subluxated vertebrae."
- B.J. Palmer, D.C.
"Chiropractic is Scientific, as long as it is Specific."
- Clarence Gonstead, D.C.
"Those who say it cannot be done shouldn't interfere with those of us doing it."
- Anonymous
"If you rush to take it (a new drug), do so with the full knowledge that you are being a guinea pig. The longer a drug is on the market, the more will be known about the side effects."
- Robert S. Mendelsohn, M.D.
The power that made the body heals the body!
"Health is not valued till sickness comes."
- Dr. Thomas Fuller (1654-1734)
As the benefits of chiropractic adjustments gain credibility there are an increasing number of M.D.s, Physical Therapists (PTs), etc. who are attempting to train themselves in manipulation techniques at weekend seminars. This type of inadequate training presents a very real danger to the publics health, safety and welfare.
- Stanford University School of Medicine, 1994
"While other professions are concerned with changing the environment to suit the weakened body, chiropractic is concerned with strengthening the body to suit the environment."
- B.J. Palmer, D.C.
"The mysterious breakdowns of the body's intelligence...may be traceable to a single distortion - a wrong detour..."
- Deepak Chopra, M.D.
A doctor of chiropractic is uniquely trained to locate and help correct nerve system interference which promotes the body's natural healing ability.
"You cannot solve problems with the same level of thinking that existed when the problems were created."
- Albert Einstein
"Each patient carries his own doctor inside him. They come to us not knowing that truth. We are at our best when we give the doctor who resides within each patient a chance to work."
- Albert Schweitzer, M.D.
"The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease."
- Voltaire
"I desired to know why one person was ailing and his associate, eating at the same table, working in the same shop...was not. Why? What difference was there in the two persons that caused one to have [disease] while his partner...escaped? Why?
- D.D. Palmer, Discoverer of Chiropractic
The most dangerous part about receiving chiropractic care is the drive in the traffic to the office.
"Truth is not determined by majority vote."
- Doug Gwyn
"A wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings, and learn how by his own thought to derive benefit from his illnesses."
- Hippocrates (460 BC - 377 BC)
"Only about 15% of all medical procedures are supported by valid scientific evidence...many treatments have never been assessed at all."
- British Medical Journal
According to a 1991 report by the Harvard Medical Practice Study Group in Cambridge, Massachusetts: 80,000 persons die every year - one person every 7 minutes - and 150,000 to 300,000 more are injured annually from medical negligence in hospitals.
- A Measure of Malpractice, Harvard University Press 1993
"Health is not simply the absense of sickness."
- Hannah Green
"In the future, chiropractic will be valued for its preventative qualities as much as for relieving and adjusting the cause of ailments."
- B.J. Palmer, D.C.
When 250 million people believe in a bad idea, it's STILL a bad idea.
"Half of the modern drugs could well be thrown out of the window, except that the birds might eat them."
- Dr. Martin Henry Fischer
"Intelligence is present everywhere in our bodies. Our own inner intelligence is far superior to any we can try to substitute from the outside."
- Deepak Chopra, M.D.
My recommedation: Chiropractic first, Drugs second and Surgery last.
"All truth goes through three stages: First it ridiculed. Then it is violently opposed. Finally it is accepted as self evident."
- Schopenhauer
It makes as much sense to remove the batteries from a screaming smoke alarm during a house fire or cover the light in your dashboard warning you of low oil as it does to take pain pills or have surgery only to cover up a particular symptom which is simply a warning signal of an underlying problem.
Don't allow the profit motives of a huge corporation to dictate your health needs.
The more you understand the way your body functions the more you will be motivated to take care of yourself. Doctors of Chiropractic are primarily interested in the proper function of body tissue and organs of the body - all controlled by the nerve system.
"And yet you ask 'Can chiropractic cure [this] or [that]?' Have you more faith in a knife or a spoonful of medicine than in the power that animates the living world?"
- B.J. Palmer, D.C.
I am constantly amazed at the truism that the very thing anyone needs to do the most, to resolve any chronic condition, is the last thing they will be willing to do."
- Walt Stoll, M.D.
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