The Truth is that Chiropractic can help you more than you think

“I want the truth!” “You can’t handle the truth!”  What if I told you that chiropractic is not what you think it is?  When I have polled people on what they think chiropractic is for I will get a variety of answers from back pain to I don’t knows.  The truth is that a majority of the public has either no clue what a chiropractor does or only holds on to about 5% of our scope.  Since the very first chiropractic adjustment that the founder, D.D. Palmer, delivered to Harvey Lilard over a hundred years ago that restored hearing, many have come to believe that chiropractic is only for back pain.  It works amazingly well for back pain, but let me set the record straight.  Chiropractic’s sole intent is to remove nerve interference from your body.  What did I just say?  That’s right nerve interference.  That may sound pretty off the wall when we are so used to hearing about infectious diseases, heart disease and cancer all over the news.  So how do you get nerve interference and how does chiropractic remove it?  Anatomy 101 tells us that we have a brain and a nerve system that runs the whole body.  With out a nerve supply, what happens to tissues?  They die.  The spinal cord that gives off the nerves to your body is encased in bones called vertebra.  They protect the cord and facilitate body movements.  With small to severe injuries or insults to your spines you make damage some tissues that cause your vertebra to move out of their innately designed space or range of motion.  This can cause some pain or even degeneration over time.  The main risk here is that that vertebra moved out of place may be rubbing, tugging, twisting, or frankly sitting on a nerve that is supposed to provide life giving nerve impulse to vital body tissues.  Maybe your heart, your liver, legs, arms, or even your pancreas.  Maybe your don’t even know it.  After all only 10% of your nerves are for sensory.

That in a nutshell is what chiropractic’s focus is.  So before you go to your M.D. asking for the latest and greatest medication or surgery to start with the foundation of health to include good wholesome food from God, proper exercise, detoxing your body from all chemicals and making sure your spine is free of nerve interference?  I am a simple person and it seems to make better sense to me to address why the body isn’t functioning the way it was innately designed to before we complicate things with drugs and surgery.