Chiropractic is a natural healing art and science based on the concept that the human body has recuperative, self-healing capabilities, and that there is a correlation between skeletal structure and optimum bodily function. Doctors of Chiropractic have been providing health care for over a century and chiropractic is now one of the largest health care professions in the world. Chiropractors consider the spine and the nervous system as central components in the symptoms and treatment of many problems. Chiropractors are well versed in using natural therapies to treat spinal problems and many other types of common problems of the nervous, muscular, and skeletal systems of your body as described in What we do and Diagnosis and treatment . The diagram below shows the progress of the degenerative process.
Degeneration is initiated by exposure to abnormal physical, chemical, or psychological stresses.
Symptoms such as pain and altered function are often the first indications of degeneration. They are also often the first to disappear. Chiropractors work to identify the root cause of the problem and deal with it by treating as many points in the degenerative process as possible. If the underlying problems are not corrected, the body cannot completely heal.