Chiropractic restores and maintains the neural communication pathways between the brain and the body so the body has the ability to self-heal. When there is a breakdown in that communication, dis-ease occurs in the cell/tissue/organ supplied by that neural energy. Breakdown of physical matter leads to dis-ease, of which pain is a symptom.
It is similar thinking to that of a garden hose— when there is a “kink” in the hose, water can’t get from point A to point B and the flowers never get watered. When your brain and body fail to have proper communication, the tissue supplied by that affected nerve begins to die and manifestation of dis-ease sets in.
Chiropractic has nothing to do with cracking backs and everything to do with the maintenance of a homeostatic environment that promotes health and fights sickness. Pain relief is also a proven benefit of being under care, but not the sole intent of an adjustment.
We don’t take credit for the healing, but rather allow your body to achieve an internal environment where it can heal itself. Do you have to ask or direct your skin to heal a cut? There is an innate intelligence inside all of us that strives to be alive and well- the body is an amazing thing capable of self-healing when the circumstance allows it.
Don’t get swept up in the medical paradigm of chasing symptoms- you don’t want to treat symptoms anyway, you want to fix the problem. Chiropractors are skilled at finding the root cause of dis-ease so that you get back to true health and avoid drugs, surgeries, and other unnecessary interventions.
“The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest his patient in the care of the human frame, in diet and in the cause and prevention of disease.”
Sounds about right “-Kayci Cleveland Obarr