What is Chiropractic?

Chiropractic is a system of health care that focuses on the integrity of the musculoskeletal system and its relationship to the nervous system.  Chiropractors believe that the body (human or animal), has the inborn ability to maintain homeostasis and to heal itself; and that this ability is most dependent on the proper functioning of the nervous system.

The many vertebra and joints of the spine provide support for the body, protection for the spinal cord, and allow flexibility and motion of the body. Trauma, physical stress, overuse, or poor conformation can cause changes in the normal motion of the joints of the spine. Abnormal motion of these joints can alter the function of the nervous system (which controls or coordinates all other organs and tissues in the body), through pressure from inflammation, chemical irritation or mechanical irritation. Disturbances in spinal joint motion can cause changes in how the nervous system communicates back and forth with the tissues of the body, resulting in changes in the normal function of these tissues.