Chiropractors

There are many ways you can intervene in the cycle of inflammation and injury that accompanies a subluxation. A conventional medical doctor might prescribe anti-inflammatory medication, which stops the production of the neurotransmitters creating pain and swelling. This intervention might give the body's self-healing systems a chance to get in there and do the repair work necessary to reduce inflammation naturally. But unfortunately, repair work takes time, and with anti-inflammatories you're treating not the cause of the injury but a symptom.

Let us give you a concrete example of what we mean. Say you take a rubber band and wrap it around your finger several times so that it's uncomfortably tight. What would happen if you left the rubber band around the finger? The circulation would be cut off, and eventually the tissue of the finger would die. Now let's say that you couldn't see the rubber band. (Of course we can see the rubber band, but in reality many of our health problems result from interference to normal function that we can't see.) Long before the finger died you would know something was wrong with it. Why? Because it would hurt!

Now, perhaps you go to a conventional medical doctor, and he can't see the rubber band either. (It's not his fault; he hasn't been trained to look for rubber bands.) You tell the doctor, "My finger hurts." The doctor replies, "You have pain? No problem. I can fix pain." And he gives you a shot of local anesthetic.

A week later you return to the doctor and say, "That pain believer you gave me was really good stuff, but there's still something wrong." And he answers, "Okay, we'll look a little closer." So he examines the finger and says, "Hmmm, the color of that finger doesn't look too good. I don't think you're getting proper blood flow. We'll use a drug called a vasodilator that will open up the veins and arteries."

Do you know the difference between a medicine and a poison? In many cases, the only difference is dosage. Although the vasodilator may work temporarily, if you take too much of it, it can kill you. And remember, the rubber band is still around your finger.

So back you go for another visit. You tell the doctor, "You know, that medicine you gave me helped a little bit, but this finger still isn't right." He says, "Okay, it looks like we have a major blockage here, so we'll have to do bypass surgery. We'll cut a vein and an artery on each side of the blockage and sew them together to bypass the blockage." Will that solve the problem? Nothe rubber band is still there.

How do you solve the problem with your finger? Take the rubber band off! Treat the cause of the problem, not the symptoms. That's what chiropractic does: It is specifically designed to treat the causethe subluxation itself.

Chiropractic philosophy says that in a large percentage of cases of illness, the body doesn't need anything added to or taken away from it. What's needed is to remove interference with normal physiological function, and then the body can heal itself. A chiropractic adjustment, even though it's a force from the outside, is designed to remove interference with normal function. When this happens, the connective tissue returns to normal. The adjustment moves the bone through a range of motion that has many physiological benefits. This motion helps the joint to flush out the inflammatory soup and restores the release of neurotransmitters to proper levels. The nervous system is then allowed to do its job of transmitting messages smoothly between brain and body. And the vast majority of patients find their health and well-being improved.

Although many patients feel relief following an adjustment, the effects may not be immediate. It takes time for the body to restore itself to optimal functioning. But by addressing the subluxation rather than the symptoms, the chiropractic adjustment allows the body to activate its self-healing mechanisms. With this interference removed, healing happens at its normal, natural, most effective pace.