What is Chiropractic Care?

I get questions every day and I like to answer a few popular ones in this blog. One question is… “What is chiropractic care?” Let me first explain to you how the body works. Our brain is the control center or CPU of the body. Nothing functions the right way in the body without the brain doing its job. The brain sends many messages to the rest of the body through a highway called the “Central Nervous System”. The spinal cord is one of the main highway where messages are sent and then through each level in the neck, mid back, lower back and pelvis it branches off to other smaller highways which then reaches our organs, glands, tissues and cells. Our body protects part of the nerve highway by putting bones around it, “The Spine”. From time to time we injure ourselves and we get a pinched nerve. Almost every time a nerve is pinched along the spine, the spine is misaligned and cannot move back by itself and that is called a SUBLUXATION. When a nerve is pinched the brain’s messages cannot get to the organs, glands, tissues and cells correctly and now causes a MALFUNCTION of that organ, gland, tissue or cell. A CHIROPRACTOR examines the spine, take x-rays if necessary, and discovers where the SUBLUXATION has occurred and makes an ADJUSTMENT. The ADJUSTMENT gently moves the bone/vertebra back into its correct position which once again allows the brain to communicate correctly with the body and because of that, the organs, glands, tissues and cells are able to have OPTIMAL FUNCTION.