Chiropractic is . . .

• an approach to health that utilizes the body's inherent and natural recuperative powers.
• a healing science that places emphasis on maintaining the structural integrity of the body.
• a method of health care that is conservative and that does not utilize drugs or surgery.

Chiropractic, from its early beginnings, has endorsed the idea of wellness. It is a total, preventive approach to health that deals with addressing the cause of the problem rather than just the symptoms.

Chiropractic considers all aspects of the patient's life: family history; work; lifestyle and environment; diet; exercise regimen; the attention to prevention; and the patient's physical and emotional stress factors.

Chiropractic works by restoring a human being's inborn ability to be healthy.

• When under the proper control of your nervous system, all the cells, tissues and organs of a person's body are designed to resist disease and ill health. The chiropractic approach to better health is to locate and remove interferences to a human being's natural state of being healthy.
• An accessible interface with the nervous system is the system of 24 moving bones of the spinal column. A loss of normal motion or position of these bones can irritate or impair the function of the nervous system. This can disrupt the transmission of controlling nerve impulses.
• With improved spinal function, there may be improved nervous system function. Your chiropractor can help remove interferences that may be impairing normal health.

Concise, Scientific Definition of Chiropractic

A past President of Palmer College of Chiropractic, developed a 90-second, scientifically irrefutable statement to explain chiropractic:

• Chiropractic is that clinical science that is based upon a law of biology that there is born in living things an ability to be healthy, and secondly draws on the theory of physiology that there's a system in the body, the nervous system by name, that controls and coordinates all other organs and structures and relates the organism to its environment. Chiropractic clinical science hypothesizes an association between that system and health in the body, and chiropractic was originally conjectured by its founder as that science that was going to investigate how the framework could interfere with the integrity of the nervous system and its ability to control and coordinate all other organs and structures.
  

What is a chiropractic adjustment?

The intent of a spinal adjustment is to restore normal motion and function of the framework in order to restore normal function of the nerves. Chiropractors use several adjusting techniques to accomplish that, many characterized by a precise, specific thrust. The chiropractic adjustment generally differs from spinal manipulation practiced by a physical therapist or an osteopath because the chiropractic adjustment is more specific. It is done not just to mobilize a joint but to remove a subluxation. Indeed, the technique of chiropractic adjusting is a manual art requiring considerable knowledge and dexterity. Mastery of the art of adjusting takes extensive training and practice as does any other art.


Here is some background historian chiropractic

In many ways, the early history of chiropractic is the history of three generations of Palmers. Daniel David Palmer, usually called DD.; his son, Bartlett Joshua Palmer, called BJ, and his wife, Mabel Palmer.; and BJ. and Mabel's son, David Palmer, often called Dr. Dave.

DD. Palmer -- the Founder. At the end of the 19th century when DD.. Palmer came on the health care scene, medicine was leaving an era of proclaimed cure-alls to pursue more scientific investigation into the treatment of disease. DD.. reasoned that the body had an ample supply of natural healing power transmitted through the nervous system. If a single organ was sick, it must not be receiving its normal nerve supply. That led to the premise of spinal misalignment or subluxation and from there to a procedure for adjusting the vertebrae. DD.. performed his first adjustments in 1895, relieving one man of deafness and another person of heart trouble. Arrangements were made to train others in the application of the chiropractic principle. A school, which later became Palmer College of Chiropractic, was founded in 1897 and later incorporated under the laws of Iowa.

B. J. Palmer -- the Developer. Dr. BJ. Palmer launched his colorful career by assuming the responsibility of the Palmer School of Chiropractic in 1904. His contributions included extensive research, improved methods of spinal adjusting and analysis, higher standards for chiropractic education and increased appreciation for chiropractic worldwide. BJ. battled on many fronts -- legal and legislative obstacles to the licensing of chiropractors and financial challenges to the School. He was often the center of controversy, but well before his death in 1961, chiropractic had secured a place among the health sciences.

Mabel Heath Palmer -- The First Lady of Chiropractic. A guiding influence in BJ. Palmer's life was his wife, Mabel Heath Palmer, who became a doctor of chiropractic in 1905. A recognized authority on anatomy and an instructor at the school for more than 30 years, Mabel Palmer was a close and valued adviser to her husband in all phases of the chiropractic profession.

David D. Palmer -- the Educator. David Palmer, the grandson of chiropractic's founder, assumed the presidency of Palmer in 1961. An initial step was to change the corporate name of the Palmer School of Chiropractic to Palmer College of Chiropractic. Then the campus was modernized, with classrooms renovated and modern teaching aids installed. Two other key contributions were the establishment of nonprofit status for Palmer College and the organization of the Palmer College of Chiropractic International Alumni Association. After Dr. Dave's death in 1978, the College received accreditation from the Council on Chiropractic Education and the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools.

Palmer Chiropractic University System.

In February 1991, Palmer College of Chiropractic and Palmer College of Chiropractic West, San Jose, Calif., joined forces to create the Palmer Chiropractic University System. Under the leadership of Chancellor Michael Crawford, the University System allows both Colleges to operate as independent academic institutions while cooperating in many operational and administrative areas. Vickie Palmer, the great-granddaughter of chiropractic's founder, serves as Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Palmer Chiropractic University System

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