What is Chiropractic?

What is Chiropractic?

Pain is usually the main reason patients come to see a Chiropractor.

Chiropractic eases pain and inflammation without the use of medication. Chiropractic treatment is performed manually by hand and is so gentle that even babies can be treated.

How does Chiropractic work?

Do you have a mobile phone? Have you ever tried to speak to someone on the phone when there is a bad signal? Don’t you find it difficult to talk to the other person, maybe because you can’t hear them clearly? This interference causes you frustration and irritation and you hang up the phone because it is difficult to communicate with them. Chiropractic works the same way.

When the communication channels between your Nervous System and your body have interference, it causes irritation resulting in pain, spasm or numbness. The greater the interference, the greater the irritation. Thus, pain can either be like a low grade ache or intense and debilitating.

The Nervous System is protected by the joints of the spine. These joints should always be able to move freely and when they don’t, this is when it causes interference between the Nervous System and your body. A Chiropractor locates the area where the joint is not moving freely and restores the movement in that joint.

When the movement in the joint has been restored, the interference between the Nervous System and body is removed. This will ease the symptoms of pain, spasm or numbness because the cause of the problem has been treated, not just the symptoms. Chiropractic therefore focuses on restoring communication channels with in the body, so that the brain can “speak” more clearly to the body.