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What is Chiropractic?
 Chiropractic is a health care approach that focuses on the relationship between the body's structure and its functioning. The neuromusculoskeletal system-nervous, muscular, and skeletal systems combined-and its proper alignment and balance is the primary concern of chiropractic. More specifically, chiropractic doctors deal with disorders and problems of the spine, also known as the vertebral column or the backbone, in order to restore proper balance and stability to this structure. In doing so chiropractors alleviate pain and discomfort, reduce muscle tension and spasms, ensure proper nerve flow to the organs and tissues of the body, and ultimately help to create a greater state of well-being and health in their patients.
 Chiropractic is based on several key concepts:
*The body has a powerful self-healing ability.
*The nervous system - brain and spinal cord - control every
function of every organ and tissue in the body.
*The body's structure, primarily that of the spine through which the spinal cord runs, and its function are closely related, and this relationship affects health.
*Chiropractic treatments aim to normalize this relationship between structure and function, and assist the body as it heals.
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Doctors of Chiropractic often referred to as chiropractors or chiropractic physicians practice a drug-free, hands-on approach to health care that includes patient examination, diagnosis and treatment. Chiropractors have broad diagnostic skills and are also trained to recommend therapeutic and rehabilitative exercises, as well as to provide nutritional, dietary and lifestyle counseling.
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The most common therapeutic procedure performed by doctors of chiropractic is known as spinal manipulation, also called chiropractic adjustment. The purpose of manipulation is to restore a spinal, or any other, joint mobility by manually applying a controlled force into joints that have become hypomobile or restricted in their movement as a result of a tissue injury.
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