Q. What is Chiropractic?
A. Chiropractic locates and removes a severe form of spine and nerve stress, a condition that puts pressure on nerves, unbalances your body, lowers your resistance to disease, and weakens you: the vertebral complex.

Q. What does a Chiropractor do?
A. The doctor of chiropractic analyzes your body for vertebral subluxation using his/her hands and other analysis tools, and then corrects or removes any spinal nerve stress using various spinal adjustment techniques.

Q. Who is affected by subluxation?
A. Nearly everyone eventually gets spinal nerve stress. It is a "hidden epidemic" and it is for that reason that we all need to have our spines checked for this condition by a doctor of chiropractic every once in a while, just as we get our eyes, teeth, and blood pressure checked!

Q. When was the first chiropractic patient treated?
A. Modern chiropractic began in 1895 when D.D Palmer performed the first chiropractic "spinal adjustment" on his deaf janitor, Harvey Lillard. Lillard's hearing returned and Palmer thought he had discovered a cure for deafness. But as patients with digestive troubles, sciatica, menstrual trouble, migraine headaches, epilepsy, heart problems, back pain and many other conditions responded to spinal care, Palmer realized that he has discovered something more far-reaching indeed.

Q. Assuming I’m going to take chiropractic treatments, how are they performed?
A. Chiropractors work with the bones and nerves of the spinal column and spinal cord respectively. Chiropractors spend years of highly specialized training in order to locate where misplaced spinal vertebrae are impinging the nerves which travel down the spinal cord. By locating the vertebra impinging the nerves (subluxation) the chiropractor uses is able to replace the misplaced vertebrae and thus release pressure on the nerves. That is called a spinal adjustment.

Q. What are some of the conditions commonly treated by chiropractic?
A. All kinds of conditions are treated with chiropractic care, such as colds or ear infections, PMS, spinal or disc problems, arthritis, insomnia, stress, vision problems, headaches, allergies, bedwetting, colic, and high blood pressure. Please remember, the goal of chiropractic treatment is not the treatment of disease but rather the enhancement of health through the reduction of spinal nerve stress (vertebral subluxation complex).

Q. Can I receive chiropractic treatments if I’m under medical care?
A. Absolutely. Having your spinal nerves corrected is important no matter what other type of care you’re receiving. You can have your spinal column checked for vertebral subluxations by a doctor of chiropractic and still visit a doctor of homeopathy, naturopathy, osteopathy, or medicine, but M.D.’s and other healers cannot tell if you’re suffering from spinal stress (vertebral subluxations) and are not trained in correcting it.

Chiropractic care is a complete healing art within itself, concerned with the symptoms of the body such as nervous, circulatory, digestive, respiratory, eliminatory, reproductive, hormonal, musculoskeletal, etc., and seeks to correct health problems within those systems.