IS CHIROPRACTIC SAFE FOR ALL AGES?

Yes! When looking at statistical evidence, it is a fact patients are at a greater risk taking over-the-counter pain relievers than receiving spinal adjustments. Chiropractic is a safe, efficient means to maintaining a healthy body.

Chiropractic is a holistic, drugless approach to health care. As chiropractors, we look to the nervous system as a means of restoring and maintaining health. The nervous system, which is made up of the brain, spinal cord, and nerves, communicates all life functions of the body. What are life functions? Examples of life function include muscle contractions, sweating, gastric acid regulation, or the rhythmic beat of your heart, just to state a few. Now you can begin to see what a huge part your nervous system plays in how the body functions.

In chiropractic we do evaluations to determine if there is a misalignment of the spinal bones, thus creating abnormal function of the nervous system. If so, we set about correcting the misalignment with a series of adjustments. Adjustments consist of moving misaligned spinal bones in a controlled manner. Once the body is returned to normal function, the body itself creates its own cure. As chiropractors we recognize only nature can heal, as doctors we merely remove obstruction to healing.

Other health care providers use invasive means, such as medication or surgery, in their response to disease and illness. Keep in mind, the removal of body material is final; you will never again have the function of a tissue removed. Medications on the other hand merely treat symptoms. Symptoms are not bad, they are simply our system’s way of communicating it has a problem. The pain, infection, or stress may go away with the medication, but does it stay away? No, because the underlying problem is still present. As a result, more and more patients are being left with unresolved health issues.

Now more than ever it is easy to see why so many people are turning to chiropractic for the primary health care.