What is Chiropractic? // Frequently Asked Questions
If you could create the most satisfying healing system imaginable, what would you recommend? Most of us would want a natural method, one that utilizes the body's own abilities to promote internal healing and on-going wellness. Dangerous drugs would not be used and frightening surgeries would not be performed.
If it sounds like such a system is too good to be true, you are in for a pleasant surprise. There is such a system of healing. While the roots of manipulation are in antiquity, true chiropractic began in 1895. To date, millions of people have benefit--ed from this non-medical, drug-free health care.
Chiropractic is the largest natural primary health care profession in the world. It's one of the most praised yet most misunderstood of all the health care disciplines, despite the fact that more than twenty-five million Americans utilize it each year. It's practiced by 50,000 doctors around the world and is licensed in every state in the Union. In accredited colleges in America, Japan, England, Australia, Canada, France and South Africa more than 7500 students are studying this discipline.
From the time you were born, your Inner Wisdom has known exactly how to keep you healthy and alive. It knows how fast your heart should beat, how often your lungs need to breathe, how to digest food and how to eliminate waste. There are millions of details controlled by your Inner Wisdom to keep this marvelous machine in prime functioning condition.
Every living organism in our world possesses what chiropractors call Innate Intelligence. The body machine comes out of the "factory" fully able to function, as long it has regular fuel and adequate maintenance.
Innate Intelligence sends instructions to every organ and cell in your body through the nerve system housed by the vertebrae. However, unless your spinal vertebrae are correctly aligned, those instructions can't be received and followed properly. The result is "dis-ease" and dysfunction.
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