What Can a Chiropractor Do For You? The Chiropractic Objective

“One of the greatest breakthroughs in the practice of chiropractic, during its 103-year history, has come about by the decision to define chiropractic by its objective.” —Joe Strauss

How many times have you heard a story about your friend or a friend of a friend say they went to the chiropractor and had x, y, and z done to them?

Or another example would be you have a friend and you want them to experience the same great benefits you do from your chiropractor and you’re trying to lead them in the right direction towards visiting your chiropractor’s practice but they say they don’t want to because they’ve been to a chiropractor before where they received x, y, and z and they don’t have time or money for that right now.

The fact is there are thousands of chiropractors practicing chiropractic across the country, each with the goal of helping their community experience more health and well-being through hundreds of different ways of getting there.

The Chiropractic Objective

Because there are so many ways of practicing chiropractic, this can become confusing to the consumer who wants to know, what can a chiropractor do for me?

The objective of chiropractic is pretty straightforward. Professional objectives unify the practicing profession together for many purposes. For example, the medical objective is to treat or prevent disease. Lots of different ways to do this, but across the board they share that objective.

A Chiropractor’s Viewpoint on Well-being

Chiropractic was founded in 1895 with a professional viewpoint that health and well-being are a self-sustaining process governed by an inner recuperative power to self-heal. This viewpoint is known as vitalism and it is differentiated from the viewpoint that health and healing are completely chemical and biological processes without an underlying principle of self-coordination.

The chiropractic viewpoint to self-healing and vitalism is referred to “ADIO” which stands for Above-Down, Inside-Out. ADIO is the principle that applies to how the body functions in a complete state of well-being from above-down, inside-out.

A Chiropractor’s Viewpoint on Stress

Stress and demands have been taking a toll on the human body and physiology for thousands of years. Chiropractic identifies three forms of stress that can negatively affect your body if adaptation to these stressors is insufficient:

• Physical Stress: External forces that outweigh the internal resistive forces of the body to maintain balance.
• Chemical Stress: External or internal chemicals that trigger physical reactions throughout the body, upsetting the chemical equilibrium.
• Emotional Stress: Internal emotional tension or mental strain that can produce physical responses throughout the body.

When stress outweighs our body’s inner recuperative power, it can create an environment for more physical stress to develop within the spine, leading to vertebral subluxation.

Vertebral Subluxation

Vertebral subluxation is a condition where a vertebra loses its proper alignment, impinging on the nerves and interfering with the transmission of mental impulses. According to R.W. Stephenson, “Vertebral subluxation is a condition of a vertebra that has lost its proper juxtaposition with the one above or the one below or both; to an extent less than luxation; which occludes an opening, impinges nerves, and interferes with the transmission of mental impulses.”

A Chiropractor’s Viewpoint on the Adjustment

The position of chiropractic is that “there is an inherent recuperative power within the body to heal itself.” Your body has an innate characteristic of restoring wholeness and utilizes the neurological system to coordinate and direct the trillions of cells working together towards an optimal state of well-being and wholeness.

Better structure within your spine means better function within the neurological system. Better function within the neurological system allows for the opportunity for a more optimal well-being.

Chiropractic Adjustments

The chiropractor facilitates chiropractic adjustments to restore proper structural alignment within the spine, allowing the relationship between the spine and the neurological system to have less interference. This process promotes a more optimal state of well-being.

Vertebral subluxation can occur in all ages and stages of life regardless of symptoms due to physical, chemical, and emotional stress. Regular chiropractic visits promote a proactive approach to your well-being.

Striving towards complete well-being through chiropractic care is a vital component to maintaining your health.