What is Chiropractic?

 

Chiropractic is the third largest primary health care profession in the western world and works on the principle that a good spinal alignment and function is necessary for a better health and well being. Chiropractors specialize in the detection, correction and prevention of spinal joint dysfunctions, so called subluxations, and their affects on the nervous system and the body.

 

A vertebral subluxation results when joints of your spinal column, due to numerous reasons, lose their normal motion and initiate an irritation to the sensitive structures in the region and your nervous system. Subluxations may or may not be painful; however they have the potential to affect your health.

 

The skull protects the delicate tissues of the brain. The moving bones of the spine protect the vulnerable communication pathways of the spinal cord and nerve roots. If the nervous system is impaired, it can cause malfunction of the tissue and organs throughout the body.

 

It is important to remember that not all spinal subluxations are due to physical traumas and injuries. Other factors such as chemical and emotional disorders can also lead to spinal dysfunctions or subluxations. These are common and do not always produce pain or other obvious symptoms.

 

A chiropractor spends most of his 4 year full time training studying these causes, practicing and mastering removing these dysfunctions and helping patients prevent re-occurrence of such problems. This is why a chiropractor is the only registered health professional who has the skill to detect and correct vertebral subluxations in your spine.

 

At Clark Road Chiropractic Center, our highly trained Doctors will provide you with an explanation of what things may have undermined your health or resulted in you having spinal subluxations and following removal of these will arrange for an educational, rehabilitation and exercise program concerning your ailment so that you can prevent future re-occurrence of such disease and maintain good health.