Healing Art

Chiropractic is a safe and natural form of healing for the entire family. While no health care system is completely risk free, no other form of healing can compete with the safety of chiropractic. Chiropractic can benefit everyone from newborns, children, adults to the elderly.

The Facts

Chiropractic is the largest natural healing field in the world. Today, many medical doctors are chiropractic patients and their family members also share in the treatment of natural healing. The actual statistics for potential complication from chiropractic care is 2 cases for million patients treated. Considering the statistics for other forms of medical care, 1 in 700 people are killed from chymopapain injections in the spine to treat back and leg pain; 10,000 to 20,000 patients out of a million who have neck surgery due to arthritis meet a fatal end; and the death rate from anesthesia during surgery is approximately 8 to 10 people per 1000 operations, chiropractic is certainly safe.  

Spinal Check-Ups

Spinal examinations on a regular basis are an excellent way to keep your body healthy and functioning. It will enable any subluxation to be detected and corrected.  Care or your spine should be treated like dental care; annual visit for check up are performed at the dentist and cleaning is performed for preventative measures. Sometimes the dentist finds a cavity that you did not know that you had, and filling it is easy. If you had waited until you had pain the tooth may be in such decay that it cannot be repaired. The same holds true for visits to the chiropractor, feeling fine does not mean healthy.

Chiropractic is not just a treatment for neck or back pain; it is a means of healthy living and disease prevention. Your Chiropractors goal is to relieve your body of vertebral subluxations so that your body may function properly.  Uncorrected vertebral subluxations can cause a weakening of the spinal muscles, stretch and deform the spinal column, cartilage, discs and vertebrae. This causes a lack of energy, early aging and fatigue.  But the most prevalent result of spinal nerve stress is the irritation of the nervous system and brain stem.  This irritation is an interference that interrupts the information and energy flow to the various parts of the body and lowers our natural resistance to sickness and disease. Chiropractors are trained to locate and correct vertebral subluxation through examination and spinal adjustment. The adjustments relieve the nerve stress and assist in restoration of body function. Proper functioning of the nervous system through chiropractic treatment is one of the best defenses against conditions and diseases that one would normally not be susceptible to.

You may suffer from spinal nerve stress for years before a symptom appears, but while symptoms are absent the damage to the body is being done over time. This is why a chiropractic check-up and maintenance is very important. A vertebral subluxation, diagnosed in its early stage is easier to correct than a subluxation that has progressed to the point of actual symptoms. Just as we should see our dentist regularly, we should see our chiropractor regularly. Like dental care, if a cavity is located when it is small it may be filled, but if one waits until pain is noticed that cavity may have already damaged the tooth beyond repair, the same holds true for vertebral subluxation.