What is Chiropractic?
Patients who visit our practice for back pain, neck pain, headaches and migraines also report improvements in other areas such as sleep patterns, bowel movements, memory and concentration, and a general feeling of wellbeing and improved quality of life.
Chiropractors are doctors because they diagnose and treat but they are not medical doctors. Chiropractors support allopathic medicine and complement the services of many other health professionals but evaluate patients from a more proactive perspective and endeavour to keep them healthy so that they don’t get sick.
We live in a fast-paced world where we strike a fine balance between lifestyle and stress and right in between the two lies our nervous system. Stress adversely affects our health which affects the nervous system and challenges the body to work in the most efficient way. Chiropractors evaluate the nervous system to understand the effect of stress, and release these disturbances so that the body can find balance and operate in the most effective way.
Chiropractors are doctors because they diagnose and treat but they are not medical doctors. Chiropractors support allopathic medicine and complement the services of many other health professionals but evaluate patients from a more proactive perspective and endeavour to keep them healthy so that they don’t get sick.
We live in a fast-paced world where we strike a fine balance between lifestyle and stress and right in between the two lies our nervous system. Stress adversely affects our health which affects the nervous system and challenges the body to work in the most efficient way. Chiropractors evaluate the nervous system to understand the effect of stress, and release these disturbances so that the body can find balance and operate in the most effective way.
Most people think that Chiropractic is for back pain. One can understand how this came to be, in that chiropractors may appear to be adjusting the spine, and back pain resolves. Adjusting the spine, is a way of stimulating or affecting the nervous system. Very specific adjustments in specific areas will have different effects on different parts of the nervous system. One of the side effects of regulating the nervous system is that pain improves. So people have over time come to associate an adjustment of the back to take away back pain. It has also been found that it may take 6 to 12 sessions for the pain to go away, and therefore it has been regulated that medical aids will pay for about 12 sessions generally. This is very sad, in that we are only just scratching the surface here. If pain can resolve in 12 sessions, imagine what other health benefits we would be losing out on if we were to just stop care at this point, and then risk the pain coming back again after some time, since the underlying problem is still there.
The public’s misconception of what the Chiropractic Adjustment does is the greatest challenge of the Chiropractic profession. Most people think that the adjustment moves joints and/or bones. While that appears to be what we do, it is far from the real benefit of the Chiropractic Adjustment. The Adjustment stimulates a complex nervous system response. The important factor is that the Adjustment has the power to alter the body’s physiology so that it can return to a normal healthy state. We are able to demonstrate this with pre-care and post-care stress tests.
Thanks to the tests we can now finally prove what Chiropractic has been doing for the last 100 years – helping the body’s nervous system restore natural balance and healthier function.
Where most people think they don’t have a problem until something hurts, that is not true, and it is a very dangerous way to approach health.
There are few things – if any – more important than your health, your relationships, or your job.
Come in today for an evaluation so we can help you keep them... and keep them strong.
The public’s misconception of what the Chiropractic Adjustment does is the greatest challenge of the Chiropractic profession. Most people think that the adjustment moves joints and/or bones. While that appears to be what we do, it is far from the real benefit of the Chiropractic Adjustment. The Adjustment stimulates a complex nervous system response. The important factor is that the Adjustment has the power to alter the body’s physiology so that it can return to a normal healthy state. We are able to demonstrate this with pre-care and post-care stress tests.
Thanks to the tests we can now finally prove what Chiropractic has been doing for the last 100 years – helping the body’s nervous system restore natural balance and healthier function.
Where most people think they don’t have a problem until something hurts, that is not true, and it is a very dangerous way to approach health.
There are few things – if any – more important than your health, your relationships, or your job.
Come in today for an evaluation so we can help you keep them... and keep them strong.
What is Neurologically-based Chiropractic?
Our biological constitutions are genetically determined, this is referred to as our genome. This does not change over time, but its expression does. Environmental factors (diet, lifestyle and stress) influence the expression of our genes. We can never be better than our genes, but we sure can be a lot worse. Lifestyle and stress can lead to certain genes being expressed or turned on, that may result in certain health conditions. Specific neurologically based adjustments can help to turn these genes off again. We are all born with a threshold as to how much stress we can tolerate or deal with. As the stress exceeds this threshold, the threshold becomes lowered reducing the amount of stress we can tolerate before creating dysfunctional patterns within the nervous system and potentially turning genes on. Chiropractic care increases the threshold once again allowing us to deal with and adapt to stress more apropriatley.
When talking about stress, it can be physical, mental/emotional, chemical and/or bioenergetic, both perceived and or real. It can start from in utero (if the mother is stressed, exposed to toxins or chemicals, or if the baby is breach for instance), to the birth process itself (especially with babies born via caesarean, with use of forceps or suction, or a very long or quick labour for instance), through infancy (poor sleep positions, car seats, early introduction to certain foods or chemicals,) into childhood (poor diet, poor posture, falls) and adulthood (car accidents, poor lifestyle choices, emotional stress etc).
Neurologically based chiropractic adjustments help to turn on the power. It reduces subluxations, allowing the innate intelligence to adapt to universal forces. A subluxation is Interference of the transmission of innate forces. It is a neurological projection. Most patients that come to see us are suffering from fatigue and notice that they sleep better and have more energy after getting adjusted. This is because the body is adapting to the universal forces better. The body is able to coordinate all its processes better.
Just like plaque builds up on our teeth and we brush them and see a dentist to prevent decay, our body is in a breakdown process and regular adjustments are necessary to prevent or slow this process of degeneration. When we are in a state of malfunction, we progress to a state of dis-ease, we are not adapting to the environment, hence symptoms such as fatigue, and after getting adjusted we feel better. This is because of the effect of the adjustment on the nervous system.
A properly aligned and moving spine is important in brain function. The spine is the motor that drives the brain. If it is not moving properly or misaligned, there will be abnormal, aberrant messages to the brain, with abnormal output.
When talking about stress, it can be physical, mental/emotional, chemical and/or bioenergetic, both perceived and or real. It can start from in utero (if the mother is stressed, exposed to toxins or chemicals, or if the baby is breach for instance), to the birth process itself (especially with babies born via caesarean, with use of forceps or suction, or a very long or quick labour for instance), through infancy (poor sleep positions, car seats, early introduction to certain foods or chemicals,) into childhood (poor diet, poor posture, falls) and adulthood (car accidents, poor lifestyle choices, emotional stress etc).
Neurologically based chiropractic adjustments help to turn on the power. It reduces subluxations, allowing the innate intelligence to adapt to universal forces. A subluxation is Interference of the transmission of innate forces. It is a neurological projection. Most patients that come to see us are suffering from fatigue and notice that they sleep better and have more energy after getting adjusted. This is because the body is adapting to the universal forces better. The body is able to coordinate all its processes better.
Just like plaque builds up on our teeth and we brush them and see a dentist to prevent decay, our body is in a breakdown process and regular adjustments are necessary to prevent or slow this process of degeneration. When we are in a state of malfunction, we progress to a state of dis-ease, we are not adapting to the environment, hence symptoms such as fatigue, and after getting adjusted we feel better. This is because of the effect of the adjustment on the nervous system.
A properly aligned and moving spine is important in brain function. The spine is the motor that drives the brain. If it is not moving properly or misaligned, there will be abnormal, aberrant messages to the brain, with abnormal output.