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" Doing more with Chiropractic "

Publisher : The Better Health Medical Journal
Source : http://www.RockvilleMedicalCenter.info
Date : March 2008


Can Doctors do more with Chiropractic?

When you hear the word chiropractic do you think of care for back and neck complaints? Many people do and yet the world’s first chiropractic patient (1895) was deaf and recovered his hearing after a chiropractic spinal adjustment. The second chiropractic patient was relieved of a heart condition. Thousands soon praised chiropractic for saving them from headaches cold, allergies, asthma, sciatica, arthritis, seizures, ear infections, stomach trouble, gynecological problems and many other conditions including back pain.


What does Your Chiropractor do?

Your chiropractor is specially trained to locate and free your body of a severe abnormality that interferes with your body’s proper function. It is called vertebrae subluxation. It is a misalignment of your spinal ones of your vertebrae that affects your discs, nerves, ligaments and ultimately, your entire body. Once your chiropractor relieves you of vertebral subluxation, your body functions better.


Low Back Pain

Low back pain is very, very common. About 85 percent of the population will experience disabling low back pain at least once during their lives! That’s almost all of u. The problem is so bad that, according to one researcher, at any given time 6.8%of the US adult population is suffering from an episode of back pain lasting more than two weeks. That’s a lot of bad backs. The estimated cost of this problem in the US is over $50 billion a year.


More than back pain

For over a hundred years people with all kinds of health conditions have visited their doctors of chiropractic. Many have initially come for back pain, but then discovered so many other ways chiropractic spinal care can help them and their family. The goal of chiropractic is to free your body from subluxations, permitting realignment of your entire spinal column and releasing pressure on your nerves so your entire body may function at its optimum.