Acute and Chronic Inflammation

Inflammation is one of the body’s most powerful forms of cleansing and healing. It is usually encompassed with heat, redness, swelling and pain and can be seen from diseases and conditions ranging from bee stings to pneumonia. Inflammation uses force to discharge any substance that the body wants to eliminate.  It may push out pus, cause diarrhea, and cause vomiting or even cause a rash. Once the inflammation is over, the substance that the body attacked has been eliminated.

Acute inflammation is common in childhood and manifests during chicken pox, soar throats, earaches, bronchitis and various other illnesses. They usually heal themselves in a few days time.

Chronic inflammation is weak and usually has no fever accompanying them. These inflammations may take a long period to heal, or may never fully heal. Asthma, allergic diseases, autoimmune diseases, and chronic skin diseases are some causes of chronic inflammation.

Suppression of Inflammation and Chronic Disease

Overuse of antibiotics only dismisses the problem temporarily and does not address and correct the reason for the inflammation. It is believed that if inflammation is suppressed over and over throughout childhood that adulthood will be filled with chronic inflammation diseases that have returned in a newer and more complicated form.

Vertebral Subluxations

Misaligned vertebrae that interfere with the nervous system and cause nerve stress are called vertebral subluxations. This interference 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 the sickness, colds, flue and disease.

The Chiropractic Approach

Chiropractic is not a treatment for the virus, infection or disease, however it does assist in raising resistance against the virus, sickness and disease. Spinal nerve stresses damage the nervous system and can lead to disease of all kinds. Chiropractors locate and free the body from spinal nerve stress. Studies have shown that there is a relationship between a healthy nervous system and a healthy body.   Because chiropractic is a natural healing process the inflammation or sickness may last longer than if antibiotics are used, but the body will cleans itself rather than be suppressed.