Chiropractic is a healthcare discipline focused on improving health and well-being by interfacing with and influencing function of your brain and nervous system – the master control and coordination system of the body.
It operates in the field of Functional Neurology: understanding that your neurology (your nervous system) intimately controls and coordinates your EVERY function – and from there, your health and wellbeing.
Chiropractic may help in a broad range of situations, however chiropractic works best in a salutogenic model – where you are working toward improving function instead of treating sickness, symptoms or conditions.
One very simple explanation is that this work is about improving and ensuring appropriate movement (and as a result: the neurological perception, integration and control of movement) – because movement is life!
This approach to health and wellbeing centres around the body’s own natural ability to function and heal itself.
The Optimal Life definition is simple: Chiropractic care is the professional assessment and examination of your health status to determine if chiropractic adjustments may benefit you, and if so, performing these adjustments.
This is related to, but also separate from the process of managing any symptoms you may have.
As a health discipline, chiropractic combines the science of identifying subluxations (described below) and relating their impact to your health status, the art of adjusting to help your body correct their impact on your nervous system, and it is defined by a distinct philosophy about life, health and how we interact with all things natural.
** Chiropractors are the only health professionals trained to locate and correct subluxations.
Vibrant Life Key #1 is about improving the function of your intelligent control and coordination mechanism – your brain and nervous system! By doing this you enhance the power & control your body and mind have at their disposal to function at higher and higher levels. From your nervous system comes awareness, inspiration, power, drive, … Read more
Four Levels of Health Psychology: We’d like to credit our colleague Dr Martin Harvey for describing these four levels of Health Psychology. There is a continuum of ‘belief’ in our society (and culture) about: what health is, what is actually ‘means’ to be healthy, how important health is to maintain, and what are the best … Read more
Chronic Illness is DEADLY SERIOUS… In industrialised (western) countries like Australia, the burden of ill-health, particularly chronic illness, has been steadily rising despite significant increases in expenditure from both the private and public purse. The evidence clearly shows that by far, the highest proportion of this ever-increasing burden is seen in the incidence of chronic … Read more
Subluxation can increase stress hormone levels, contributing to chronic illness. One main effect of subluxation is a change to the ratio of nerve signals that get to the brain to be processed and acted upon – specifically an increase in the body ‘stress’ signals that tell the brain of actual or possible harm. The most … Read more
There is a clear relationship between Vertebral Subluxation Complex (Subluxation for short), sedentary living, negative body thoughts, somatoneurophysiology™, and less-than-ideal levels of health, or increased levels of illness. Somatoneurophysiology™ Somatoneurophysiology™ is a term coined to show the clear relationship between somato- (the body wall or body ‘structure’) neuro- (the nerve feedback messages from theses structures … Read more
It cannot be denied that movement deficiency is a problematic state that can lead to many functional consequences if allowed to continue. This is as true for small degrees of movement deficiency as for large, and as true for small joints of the body as for the large weight-bearing joints like knees. Vertebral Subluxation Complex … Read more
Why is subluxation pandemic in industrialised (‘western’) societies? “Sitting is to the spine, as sugar is to the teeth” – Dr James Chestnut Many people never see a chiropractor, and often those that do come only as after trying everything else, and usually because they want help with a pain or a symptom. What most … Read more
This article provides a more technical description of the neurophysiological impact of subluxation – for those that want it! Subluxation is the ‘entity’ (state of dysfunction) which Chiropractors identify and correct The various neurological effects as proposed include subcortical (unconscious) reflex responses including Somato-Visceral, Visceral-Somatic, Somato-Somatic and Viscero-Visceral reflexes where aberrant motion leads to aberrant … Read more
Subluxation dysregulation is a state of that drives ‘mis-perception’ of your body and environment by your brain. Your cells and brain communicate via two main types of message – healthy ‘body awareness’ (good) signals or less healthy ‘stress’ (bad) signals. The body awareness signals are better thought of as being like a ‘nutrient’ your brain … Read more
If you are more engaged by a more esoteric or ‘energetic’ explanation of this world, you will likely appreciate the following article. The chiropractic subluxation can be described in many ways; this one has more esoteric overtones: While chiropractic subluxation can be described in very mechanical terms, the meaning of the concept or model of … Read more
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