I have my medical degree from Russia and knew nothing about chiropractic when I started to work with Cleveland Chiropractic College in early 1993. Though my medical education included training in spinal manipulation, I still had to attend classes to study chiropractic philosophy.
Special emphasis is given to homeostasis and regulatory mechanisms.
It is accepted that optimal homeostasis depends upon numerous unified and interdependent regulatory actions within the organism. This multilevel system of regulatory mechanisms developed during the evolutionary process to realize this unity. The segmental level is basic to the function of all levels of the system. Every regulatory act, including the most developed, begins afferently at the segmental level. Likewise, the efferent part of the regulatory cycle ends at the segmental level.