Chiropractic
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.
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Lifetime Chiropractic Care? Is Lifetime Chiropractic Care a requirement for an Ideal life? Yes…and No! We must re-affirm that the statement above is NOT recommending excessive or unnecessary levels or frequency of chiropractic care. Please also note that we are referring to an ‘ideal life’ – the best possible life, where chiropractic care is ONE … Read more
What Are They?? Vertebral Subluxation Complex (VSC) – or ‘subluxation’ for short is what Chiropractors call the areas of interference to your nervous system that we locate within your body (most often, but not exclusively in your spine); these areas of interference alter or reduce the communication quality between the cells of your body and … Read more
The chiropractic adjustment is the skilled delivery by a Chiropractor of a specific (gentle) force in a precise direction, to a dysfunctional (subluxated) joint or it’s supporting tissues (it may be ‘stuck’ or just not moving correctly in its full range). Simply put, a subluxation is a joint not functioning correctly; the effects of subluxations lead … Read more
Correct spinal motion is vital: Correct motion of spinal joints AND their associated tissues, in addition to proper posture are SO important for correct BRAIN FUNCTION and overall health. This is particularly true because a great many brain functions have been linked to movement feedback and the maintenance of our upright position against gravity. As … Read more
Regular Chiropractic care is a healthcare choice MANY people add into their lives and then maintain for long periods of time, if not a lifetime – they choose to receive regular chiropractic adjustments because of the results they experience and the functional changes they experience in their lives. Disclaimer: We MUST emphasise that we do … Read more
Chiropractic is a broad profession There can be differences in the services and clinical interventions offered by different chiropractors. ‘Wellness’ chiropractic is one way to describe how I choose to practice chiropractic. Other terms I could use would be “vitalistic” or “philosophical” which have inter-related meaning and relevance. This variability of what is offered as … Read more
