Chiropractic FAQs

Chiropractic is a health care discipline which emphasizes the inherent recuperative power of the body to heal itself without the use of drugs or surgery. The practice of chiropractic focuses on the relationship between the spine and nervous system function and how that relationship affects an individual's health. As a healing art concerned with human health and disease, chiropractic considers an individual as an integrated whole, including both the physiological and biomechanical aspects of the person, such as structural, spinal, musculoskeletal, neurological, vascular, nutritional, emotional and environmental relationships.

Because chiropractic treatments involve the spinal region, many people incorrectly assume that chiropractors only treat back and neck pain. Not only does chiropractic treat these ailments, but it also helps restore and optimize health because it addresses the individual's entire nervous system which affects the function of the whole body. The objective of chiropractic is to restore and optimize health.

Chiropractic practice is a drug-free, non-surgical approach to healing that is based on intense academic and clinical training through accredited chiropractic colleges. Diagnostic and treatment procedures can include spinal adjustments and manipulation of adjacent tissues.

What Do Chiropractors Do?
Chiropractors locate and treat vertebral subluxations. Vertebral subluxations are the improper motion or position of the moving bones of the spine that interfere with or irritate nerves which compromise the function of affected organs and tissues. Chiropractors use a number of unique and highly refined techniques that check an individual's spines for misalignments, fixations or other abnormalities. Using specific “adjustment” procedures, they will apply a gentle force that corrects abnormalities to the affected areas and often provide supplemental care with soft tissue massage, nutritional counseling, physical therapy and stress management programs.

Benefits of care include back pain relief, headache relief, increased mobility, decreased stiffness and muscular spasms, increased joint health, increased energy, increased relaxation, increased balance, reduced risk of injury and decreased tissue inflammation.

How Long Will it Take to See Chiropractic Benefits?
Many factors affect the healing process and for each individual, time to heal is varies. Some individuals experience almost instant relief while others find it takes many months. Some feel the benefits very subtly at first, while others feel the benefits intensely. The key to achieving the benefits of optimum health is to maintain your appointments and recommended care plan. Some individuals continue on with a periodic plan that helps them maintain optimum wellness.