I'm a chiropractor, and this is an excellent article. Chiropractic care is great for migraines, migraines during pregnancy and many other things associated with pregnancy including low back pain and sciatica due to a woman's changing body. Most chiropractors may agree with your statement about, "What is Chiropractic?", but I am one of many chiropractors who differ the mechanism of how chiropractic works. The article said, "Chiropractic care is a method of adjusting the bones in your body to improve your nervous system function and allow healing from various ill health problems." Most chiropractors would agree with this definition, HOWEVER; I think it's much more than that. Because chiropractors talk about the nervous system function, they lose a lot of people, in fact that's why many MD's think chiropractors are "quacks". The mechanism that chiropractic works is actually based on the removal of the overall physical stress on the structures allowing them to function better, which removes the symptoms. Anyone who has ever had a good adjustment knows what it feels like. I say a good adjustment because treatment by osteopaths, PT's, etc. did not seem to get the same effect as noted in the article. I have more on my website for those who are interested http://www.drtchiro.com. Most chiropractors do not realize that there is alternative view to the mechanism for chiropractic's effectiveness that just makes sense without having to believe in "nervous system function".
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I'm a chiropractor, and this is an excellent article. Chiropractic care is great for migraines, migraines during pregnancy and many other things associated with pregnancy including low back pain and sciatica due to a woman's changing body. Most chiropractors may agree with your statement about, "What is Chiropractic?", but I am one of many chiropractors who differ the mechanism of how chiropractic works. The article said, "Chiropractic care is a method of adjusting the bones in your body to improve your nervous system function and allow healing from various ill health problems." Most chiropractors would agree with this definition, HOWEVER; I think it's much more than that. Because chiropractors talk about the nervous system function, they lose a lot of people, in fact that's why many MD's think chiropractors are "quacks". The mechanism that chiropractic works is actually based on the removal of the overall physical stress on the structures allowing them to function better, which removes the symptoms. Anyone who has ever had a good adjustment knows what it feels like. I say a good adjustment because treatment by osteopaths, PT's, etc. did not seem to get the same effect as noted in the article. I have more on my website for those who are interested http://www.drtchiro.com. Most chiropractors do not realize that there is alternative view to the mechanism for chiropractic's effectiveness that just makes sense without having to believe in "nervous system function".
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