Chiropractic has been helping millions of people every year since its inception. It started in 1895 in Davenport, Iowa, when a janitor regained his hearing after an adjustment by D.D. Palmer. Harvey Lillard, the janitor had lost his hearing when he stooped in the basement to pick something heavy up. He felt something shift and “pop” in his neck and could not hear the tick of the clock after that moment. D.D. Palmer built the philosophy of chiropractic, which in greek means “done by hand,” out of the following tenets of reason. Your brain grows into a cord called your spinal cord, which is  like a highway for information to get information from the peripheral nerves in our arms and legs to the brain, and a response from our brain to our body again to take the right action. Your nervous system is encased in bone called your spinal column, or simply your backbone. These back bones can get out of place, like in Lillard’s situation when he picked up something heavy and felt something shift and “pop.” When the bones lose relationship to each other and cannot move properly, this applies pressure to the nerve tissue, and transport of communication signals is distubed. Maintaining proper relationshi, alignment and nerve signals are central tenets to the science, philosophy and translates to how chiropractic care is delivered. Chiropractic grew and grew over the years and is now the largest, non-pharmacologic and integrative healing profession in the world.  Chiropractic thrives because it follows the rules of biology: the body is self-healing and regulating, Life force or energy in the body is made in the cells and communicates to the brain through the spinal cord. Structure determines function, so chiropractors look at relieving tension and dis-ease at the functional level. If this is the root of a person’s ailment, which a proper exam will reveal, people experience the many benefits of chiropractic care.