Chiropractic treatment is a health care discipline that places an emphasis on correction and maintenance of spinal alignment to facilitate proper function of the nervous system permitting the body to do what it does best. Heal itself.

A bit of history.

Chiropractic treatment as we know it today began in Davenport Iowa in the late 1800’s. It was started by a man name Daniel David Palmer, a self taught healer who believed the body had an innate ability to heal itself. His belief was that misalignments in the spine would hamper the operation of the nervous system and impede it’s ability to heal itself when neural pathways did not properly send and receive impulses.

Chiropractic treatment involves what is called making “adjustments” to the spine where it’s proper natural movement is less than optimal. When the joints in the spine can move freely, the supporting muscles can work better to keep the spine properly aligned while the body moves.

Poor alignment can lead to “subluxations”, or a condition where one or more vertebra have shifted out of alignment with the rest of the spine and can pinch the nerves that pass through narrow openings between them. There can be many causes of subluxations. Painful conditions in other body parts can be the result of problems with spinal alignment since the nerve branches are rooted at the spine.