The Philosophy

The power that created the body also gave your body the ability to heal itself (yourself). To understand the guiding principles behind neurological organization we need to know some of our basic physiological functions and how they interact with our nervous system's survival mechanisms.

The essentials required for life are brought into your body in the form of food, water and air. The body's innate or inborn (God given) intelligence determines how these materials will be used: energy production (ATP), cellular replacement (healing) etc... These mechanisms must function automatically in order for the body to continue being self healing, self regulating, self perpetuating (replace old / damaged cells). These functions can be altered by physical, emotional traumas and poor diet.

Your body has the ability to heal and repair itself. During a diseased condition the C.N.S. has somehow lost the ability to communicate with the area in distress / diseased.

Neurological organization can be obtained using Specialized Kinesiology. It is used to recognize the intricacies of these functions and treat the body as a whole which, has several different systems, by using the body's innate ability to heal itself (you), not just treating individual symptoms. It can enhance your body's functions and help you fight disease. Your C.N.S. knows everything that is going on within you.

What is chiropractic? What is Chiropractic? It is probably easier to say what Chiropractic isn't. Chiropractic was never meant to be labeled as back doctors. When Chiropractic was founded approximately one hundred (100) years ago it was not merely neck and back pain that the doctors of chiropractic were seeing. In the years gone by cases that were seen by the average medical doctor would also have been seen and adjusted by the chiropractor. The founder of Chiropractic D.D. Palmer also the founder of the Palmer College of Chiropractic in Davenport Iowa had a clinic on campus that saw all the same pathologies (diseases) that would have been seen at your local hospital. This Chiropractic Clinic had all the same lab facilities and also employed medical doctors. Yes at one point in time Chiropractors and medical doctors worked together to heal and care for the patient.

Chiropractic is a means of preventative health care. It is both an art and a science. It functions on the fact that the body is controlled from the brain down "from above down and inside out". Chiropractic treats the body as a whole. It treats the nervous system from the outside inward by the means of a Chiropractic Adjustment. Chiropractic is a neuromuscular specialty. By making a change to one or more misaligned vertebrae (subluxation) it intern creates a change at the neuromuscular junction and by changing the position of the subluxated vertebra also changes the tension on the spinal cord inside the spinal column creating a change to the Central Nervous System (C.N.S.).

Yes! There is a difference between adjust and manipulate. The words adjust and manipulation were not meant to be used interchangeably nor should they ever be used as synonyms. They have two completely different meanings as applied to the technique of moving osseous structures. The word manipulate was forced into Chiropractic terminology by the insurance companies, medical profession, and allowed by the chiropractic associations. The two words have always had two completely different meanings, especially in schools that teach chiropractic adjusting.

An adjustment consists of a short leaver move that is contact specific to make a specific correction to a specific bony structure. A manipulation is a long leaver move that has broad and non specific contact points. The adjustment is used to change the position of a vertebral segment and to restore motion back to a moveable joint: vertebrae, wrist, elbow, cranial bones etc... The adjustment changes the alignment of a bone that is subluxated and restores motion where motion was lost. The word subluxated in very simple terms means a bone out of alignment with the one above and below. Creating traction on the nerves exiting from that vertebral level or in and around the misaligned joint. Causing a decrease in the communication through those nerves, and preventing the electrical impulses from traveling back and forth between the brain and the organ innervated by the nerves. The misalignment causes degeneration of the surfaces of the joint, due to the lack of motion. Leading to disease of the area involved. This is a very simple definition. The subluxation complex gets into the cause and the effects of the subluxation on the body.

What is that awful "cracking" noise? Everyone is concerned about the "CRACK." The "CRACK" that is heard during a Chiropractic Adjustment is the same popping "CRACKING" that is heard when your knuckles pop (crack). This is caused by the release of carbon dioxide gas that is dissolved in synovial fluid (lubricant) inside all your joints. This phenomena is called cavitation. If you ever "cracked" your knuckles once and then tried to crack them again, you found they wouldn't "crack" a second time. This is due to the fact that it takes approximately twenty (20) minutes for the carbon dioxide gas to be reabsorbed back into the synovial fluid, before you would hear the cracking noise from your knuckles again.

What is the definition of health and disease? Definition of Health and Disease. Stedman's Medical Dictionary 25th edition defines "health. The state of the organism when it functions optimally without evidence of disease or abnormality". Webster's New World Dictionary Third College Edition defines "health. physical and mental well-being; freedom from disease, pain, or defect; normalcy of physical and mental functions soundness 2 condition of body or mind".

Stedman's also defines "disease. Morbus; illness; sickness; an interruption, cessation or disorder of body functions, systems, or organs". Webster's New World Dictionary Third College Edition defines "disease. Any departure from health; illness in general, may apply generally to any deviation of the body from its normal or healthy state".

The aim of Chiropractic techniques in conjunction with Specialized Kinesiology is for your optimal health both "physically and mentally". Take charge of your health. Be informed of all your choices so you can take control of your life.