Just a few days ago I had the undeserved experience to sit down with an official of Davao Traffic Management .
The conversation got around to what I do and what is Chiropractic. He open a big unabridged dictionary/encyclopedia. He looked up Chiropractic, and began to read aloud.
“Chiropractic: The theory that all disease is the result of hindrance of nerve transmission from the spine.”
Well that’s one definition. It is not the definition that those of us who do the practice use.The above definition is one rooted in the medicine model. Nevertheless I explained to him that in nearly 30 years of practice I have seen numerous cases of headache, ulcer, vertigo, kidney disfunction and many many other diseases resolved by Chiropractic treatment.
Yet I always insist that as a Chiropractor I don’t treat disease. I remove the nerve interference and allow the body to function at optimum health. Chiropractic is not medicine- It is it’s own profession.
After more than絤 years, with more than 1,000,000 Chiropractic adjustments being done daily, as the leading alternative to medicine; we are still defined as a theory? Qui bono- who benefits from that?
Chiropractic is the science and art of adjusting the joints of the body, primarily the spine, to remove nerve interference. It is the nervous system which controls and coordinates various events in the body. When an embryo first begins to differentiate cells it is the neural streak which is first formed.
The Creator in infinite wisdom first establishes nerve material to coordinate all further development.
While the medical model focuses on sickness, disease, and death; Chiropractic emphasizes structure, health and life.
How do you want to see it?
