Chiropractors recognize that doctors don’t heal people — the human body must heal itself. Unlike some other medical practitioners, chiropractors do not use drugs or surgery to improve health. Chiropractic reduces interference to your body’s own healing ability.
The nervous system controls the function of every cell in the body. The spinal cord is the superhighway of the nervous system. It is housed within the 24 bones, or vertebrae, of the spinal column. When these bones are misaligned, they can irritate the spinal cord and nervous system — like a ‘traffic jam’ on the nervous system’s superhighway — resulting in disruption of the health of the tissues and organs that these nerves control.
Chiropractors reduce or correct these misalignments using specific spinal adjustments that restore the bones to a more normal position and motion, in effect clearing the traffic jam. When spinal function is improved, nervous system function — and the body’s overall health — can improve too.