Principles of Chiropractic Care

Series Summary

Chiropractic care is based on the premise that spinal joint dysfunction can result in a variety of diminished health conditions by interfering with the nervous system. It is a health care profession which diagnoses and treats disorders of the spine and musculoskelatal system, and commonly includes spinal adjustments and decompression. While using spinal adjustment for back pain has been around since ancient Egypt, chiropractors now use a variety of methods, including massage, strength training, electrical stimulation and traction in order to treat patients. In this free medical treatment video, you will learn about the principles behind chiropractic and how this technique addresses pain in the lower back and neck regions. Our expert will also discuss the short- and long-term benefits of an adjustment. He explains how to assess your need for a lumbar alignment, and tells you what to expect after your alignment session. Watch this series for an overview of chiropractic treatment to decide if you want to visit a chiropractor.

Video Transcript

"Chiropractic is a branch of the healing arts and we deal holistically with the body especially the nervous system in maintaining the health of the human body. As chiropractors we believe in innate intelligence, and innate intelligence is basically the body's ability to do every single function that it does, and it comes from the brain and it works its way down from the inside out. In chiropractic we call that above, down, inside out. So the innate intelligence comes down from the brain, starts up in the brain, comes down through the spinal cord from the inside out from the spinal cord and the nerves out to every single cell in the body. The way that that becomes impinged or interfered with is that as the spine misaligns again, the spine is what houses all of these things and protects it. When it gets misaligned, it puts pressure on that nervous system, thereby, blocking the message that the body is trying to send out to itself. And then that causes problems such as pain or some kind of dysfunction or disease. So as chiropractors we go in there and we try to remove that interference, whether that is misalignment of some kind and we are correcting that, and we take the pressure off the nervous system, allow it to reexpress as it was intended to do, thereby, getting back to normal function, greater levels of vitality. And patients of all kinds, young and old, respond very well to chiropractic care."