Chiropractic, Manipulative Therapy based on the natural law of Homeostasis
Chiropractic, Manipulative Therapy based on the natural law of Homeostasis
By Viola Woolcott
Chiropractic was founded in 1895 by Daniel David Palmer, based on his assertion that all health problems could be prevented or treated using “adjustments” of the spine, and sometimes other joints, to correct what he termed “sublaxations”.
He, and later his son, B.J. Palmer, proposed that subluxations were misaligned vertebrae which caused nerve compression that interfered with the transmission of what he named Innate Intelligence. This interference interrupted the proper flow of Innate Intelligence from “above, down, inside, and out” to the organ to which it travelled. As a result, the human body would experience “dis-ease” or disharmony which would result in loss of health.
Chiropractic is based on the natural law of homeostasis, which is the state of equilibrium or a tendency to reach equilibrium, either metabolically within a cell or organism or socially and psychologically within an individual or group.
Your nervous system controls and regulates every cell of your body and when it doesn’t work correctly, you don’t work correctly. And when you don’t work correctly, you’re sick!
During the first treatment (consultation) the practitioner usually writes down your medical history, asks about your lifestyle, takes your blood pressure as well as your heart rate and examines your structure, paying particular attention to the area of complaint. This will help the practitioner to fully diagnose you. He also decides if it is necessary for x-rays to be taken. After careful consideration a diagnosis will be made and decided if chiropractic treatments are suitable for your condition. Your problem will be treated accordingly after diagnosis.
Filed under: Alternative Therapy on November 28th, 2007
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