What is chiropractic?
What is Chiropractic?
Chiropractic is the art and science of adjusting misaligned joints of the body, especially of the spine, to promote health without the use of drugs or surgery. Chiropractic is based on the fact that nerves control all functions of the body from blinking your eyes to wiggling your toes. Every nerve impulse starts in the brain, travels down the spinal cord and out every part of your body via the spinal nerve roots. Your delicate, spinal cord is protected by the spine, which is made up of 23 movable bones called vertebrae.
Sometimes, through trauma, poor posture, or every day stress and tesion, the vertebrae to become misaligned or “subluxated”. The misaligned vertebrae can cause the nerves to become irritated and pinched. Since nerves are very sensitive, anywhere the pinched nerve travels, there will be pain and dysfunction. Chiropractors adjust the spine back into correct alignment, relieving tension, relaxing tight muscles and restoring motion while alleviating pain.
Top 10 Chiropractic Statistics
- Over 35 million people in the US are treated by chiropractors every year.
- Chiropractic treatment can be 40% more effective than doing yoga, getting massages, pilates, and over-the-counter prescriptions.
- By choosing to go to a chiropractor instead of a doctor for chronic back pain, patients save about $83.5 million in Medicare expenses every year.
- Regularly seeing a chiropractor can lower all pharmaceutical expenses by 85% or higher.
- To become a chiropractor, a minimum of 4,200 hours of laboratory, clinical, and classroom internships must be finished during a doctoral program within a four-year timespan.
- Because of chiropractors, more than 100 million adjustments are done every day around the world.
- Patients are nearly 30 times less likely to need surgery to the spinal cord when visiting a chiropractor instead of a surgeon at a hospital.
- The highest-rated health practitioners for treating lower back pain are chiropractors.
- The chiropractic industry in the United States has a value of over $15 billion per year.
- The European Spine Journal published findings from a clinical trial uncovering how chiropractic adjustments resulted in a 72 percent success rate in treating sciatica-related symptoms.
Welcome to Chiropractic
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