What is Chiropractic?
Chiropractic is a healthcare approach that focuses on the musculoskeletal system, including bones, joints and muscles, and their relationship to the nervous system and the impact on your health. The objective of chiropractic care is to address the root cause of the issues you are experiencing and to initiate the body’s ability to heal by using specific adjustments to the spine and extremity joints. The goal of chiropractic care is to improve the function of the body resulting in improved movement, reduced stiffness, relief of pain, increased energy and overall better quality of life. People report many benefits from various symptoms because of chiropractic care. Rather than being a treatment for specific conditions, improvements are based on the premise that with chiropractic care, the body will function better as a whole, resulting in less symptoms and poor health.
Innate Healing
Chiropractors often talk about something called “innate intelligence”—this is your body’s built-in ability to heal itself without you having to think about it. It’s the idea that your body knows what to do to stay healthy and recover when things go wrong.
Let’s say you accidentally cut your hand.
You don’t have to tell your body to stop the bleeding. It clots the blood on its own.
Over the next few days, your body sends white blood cells to fight off infection, new skin cells grow, and before you know it—your hand is healed.
That’s innate healing in action—your body just knows what to do.
Your body’s healing is coordinated by your nervous system—your brain and spinal cord. It’s like the body’s control center, sending messages to every part of you.
If your spine is misaligned (what chiropractors call a subluxation), it can interfere with those messages. It’s kind of like a kink in a garden hose—the water (or messages) can’t flow properly.
Chiropractors use gentle adjustments to help remove those kinks, so your nervous system can work freely—and your body can do what it does best: heal itself.