Modern Chiropractic Science
The modern doctor of chiropractic works both directly
and indirectly with the body's nerves because every
function of your entire body is under the control
of the nervous system. Every organ, tissue, and cell
is controlled by nerve impulses traveling from the
brain to every part of the body.
Nerves make possible
all movement. Nerves transmit all sensation to the brain.
Nerves make possible all sight, smell, taste, touch,
and hearing. Nerves maintain your balance and keep your
body temperature at 98.6 degrees. Nerves make it possible
to swallow. Nerves make your bowels move. Nerves control
your liver, lungs, spleen, pancreas, gall bladder, and
kidneys. In fact, the nervous system is the master system
which controls all the body's many systems and functions.
Complete, perfect, natural
health comes only when you have a complete, perfect,
natural, normally functioning nervous system. The present
day doctor of chiropractic has had six or more years
of college education, has been fully licensed after
rigid examinations and has had extensive clinical experience
with the nervous system and how to care for it without
drugs or surgery.
Every science of healing has what is known as an "avenue
of approach". For example, in the field of medicine,
a hypodermic needle injects drugs through the skin;
a pill is swallowed and goes into the stomach. There
need not be anything wrong with the skin or the stomach.
They are the "avenues" through which the drugs
gain access to the body.
For the doctor of chiropractic, "the avenue of
approach" is primarily the SPINE because it houses
and protects the spinal cord, the "switch-board"
of the nervous system, through which nerves pass from
the brain to different parts of the body. The nerves
leave the spinal cord through openings between movable
spinal bones called vertebrae. When these vertebrae
become involved in a Vertebral Subluxation Complex (VSC
) there may be interference with the normal activity
of the nerves. This interference or irritation can disturb
function throughout the body and affect many illnesses.
Most conditions of ill health are the result of some
underlying cause within the body which must be found
first before the pain can be relieved, and health restored
and maintained. Chiropractic has developed special methods
for locating and correcting VSC that may disturb nerve
function to the organs, tissues, and cells of the body.
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