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