Chiropractic

Word Derivation

Chiro means “Hand.” “Practic” means “Practice.” “The Exercise of a Profession” or “Translating an Idea into Action”

Together Chiropractic is a healing profession that operates or practices using our hands, a hands-on approach to prevent and heal functional afflictions or disturbances.

The Art

The Art is how the chiropractor employs their hands-on therapy, with mind, body, and soul, to help alleviate a Patient's illness. Very similar to an artist using their hands to make a beautiful sculpture, like that of Michelangelo's David.

The Science

Science provides the fundamental bases on which the chiropractor makes the diagnosis and the rationale of the therapy as it applies to the patient's needs. Here, the chiropractor must decide if the patient can benefit from the treatments or requires further examinations or consultations with other health professionals.)

The Philosophy

Philosophy entails that branch of ideas and speculations into the unknown, where the realms of science, at this moment, cannot penetrate. However, philosophy sets the stage and provides a way to think logically for scientific experimentation and interpretation. The central philosophical premise in chiropractic is that all living organisms possess the capacity to grow, repair, and self-heal under suitable conditions.

Fundamental Concepts

Self-Healing: All organism have the capacity grow, repair and heal under suitable conditions.

The Nervous System is the chief executive in promoting this Self-Healing quality. Any negative interference to nervous system, be it physical, physiological or psychological, will alter the normal neural impulses to the tissues, and predisposes the organism to disease.

Normal Movement, Mobility, Malleability are cardinal features of a living organism that characterizes and promotes its health. Their lack or aberration is a sign or cause of illness. Proper survival movements, such as walking and running, require mobility and malleability of tissues, especially those that provide motion, such as the joints of our body.

There are five fundamental Actions or Motions for our survival:

• Respiration
• Orientation
• Locomotion
• Foraging and Exploring
• Reproduction