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THE CURRENT TRENDS in CHIROPRACTIC |
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With more Americans
determined to take responsibility for their
health care, it is understandable that
chiropractic health care is growing at a
rapid rate. Today, chiropractic is the 3rd
largest doctoral level health care
profession after medicine and dentistry.
There are over 60,000 doctors of
chiropractic practicing in the US today,
helping nearly 20 million patients per year.
It is estimated that there will be over
100,000 doctors of chiropractic practicing
in the US by the year 2010.
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Many
people today associate chiropractic only
with the healing of lower back pain. While
that is true, the reality goes far beyond
those orthopedic areas. Chiropractic is a
philosophy of healing based on the fact that
the human body has the ability of
self-healing. Your nervous system plays a
crucial role in maintaining the balance.
Spinal nerves emanate outward from between
the vertebra of your spine and effect,
control, and coordinate all the tissues and
system of your body. When these nerves are
irritated, the communication between the
brain and the rest of your body is disrupted
whereby your body’s health is diminished.
Pain and other signs of ill health are the
results. Chiropractic works to remove this
nervous system interference by restoring the
normal motion and position of you spinal
column. Employing manual adjustment of the
vertebra of the spine corrects this. |
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"Drug-free chiropractic keeps us riding" |
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