What is Chiropractic

 

What is Chiropractic and How it Works?

The word "chiropractic" derived from the two words of Greek "praxis" which means "practice", and "cheir" which means " by hand". In simple words, chiropractic means treatment with the hand or manual treatment.

 

It is very important to say that this is a sanitary technique in some countries where it is regulated and legalized by their corresponding ministries of health and education. In these countries where it is recognized, it ranks second or third in primary care after medicine and dentistry (based on use by patients). Unfortunately, in the United States we are still on the way, so in our country this technique is encompassed within the field of complementary medicine or alternative techniques.

 

Actually, true chiropractic is something that deal with restoring the proper functioning of the whole components of the spine vertebrae and the nerve roots, hence it is concerned with the diagnosis, treatment and above all prevention of the entire musculoskeletal and proper functioning of the central nervous system. This valuable technique is based on the idea that the body has the ability to self-regenerate, which is how scientific research supports it today, talking about organic homeostasis that is governed by the neuroendocrine system. Its founder, David Palmer, verified in himself after an accident that when he mobilized a vertebra that was displaced, he recovered the sense of hearing. In later investigations it was seen how the correct functioning of the structure: spinal column - spinal cord and its protruding nerves from it, act in synergy to fulfill the different organic and even metabolic functions of the human body.

 

There are 3 basic principles of Chiropractic:

The human body has its own regenerative capacity

The structures: vertebral column and spinal cord (peripheral nerves) have a synergistic function

The core and essential goal of Chiropractic is to normalize this function.

Thus Chiropractic is the science that studies, evaluates and corrects the biomechanical - structural problems of the spine, and how these can or come to affect the proper functioning of the nervous system and health and well-being in general. The chiropractic therapist tries to correct, through precise, gentle and exact vertebral adjustments, these displacements of the vertebrae or between them (vertebral subluxation), working with the entire spine, correcting its position (vertebra to vertebra or as a whole), restoring its mobility capacity and avoiding irritation or compression of the nervous system that has exit through its intervertebral foramina.

 

Chiropractic subluxation or vertebral subluxation complex is a set of functional, structural, or even pathological changes that compromise the function of the nervous system (peripheral nerves - spinal cord), and can influence the normal activity of other body systems (since are innervated by these) and, consequently, in the health and well-being of the individual. The nervous system is made up of the central and peripheral system, which is ultimately our computer processor of all the metabolic and organic functions of the human body, this is how they are hard protected by the skull, brain and spinal column, its continuation or prolongation, the spinal cord. As the nervous system controls, regulates and governs all organic functions, this complex of interwoven nerves acts in synergy with their protective structures. In turn, these nerves protruding from the spinal cord enervate the different organs and tissue structures throughout the human body: organs and viscera. It is for all this that the correct functioning and fluidity of the nervous information through the nerves leads to the entire organic system functioning normally and efficiently.

 

This is where a chiropractor works, restoring the functionality of these structures when it is in malfunction, effectively adjusting and reorganizing the vertebrae so that the exit of the nerves from the spinal cord and therefore the intervertebral foramina, do not encounter any interference. in the conduction of the corresponding nervous information. This process is emphasized through the nervous system by its innate intelligence of the organism itself, its vitality and its capacity for recovery and regeneration.

 

Chiropractic readjustment (performed by specialists in this area) is totally innocuous, easy, conservative and completely lacks the side effects that are usually associated with all (pharmacological) medications, even those that are apparently milder, because far from interfering like these with the natural and fluid functioning of the body, it really seeks its natural organic restoration.

 

The chiropractic therapist to perform this readjustment, has a very wide range of methods and tools, (some consist of a very slight touch on a specific and key point, others in a slow and slight pressure on the different joints that generate the discomfort, even may be accompanied by a slight sound, trust or crackling, when the vertebra regains its mobility).

 

The therapist usually uses specific stretchers for the practice of this discipline, he can also perform the readjustment in different postures in which he places the person, in addition to using breathing (inspiration - expiration) or different rocking movements of your body to promote its vertebral-nerve integration, it can sometimes act both on the spine and skull and on other areas of the body as necessary.

 

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