“Chiropractic is FOR the restoration and maintenance of health.
It is not a diagnosis or treatment of any disease or any symptom, in any way, at any time” – Terry Rhomberg 1979
Preface
Modern chiropractors are trained as portal of entry providers, who specialize in the spine.
This means they ignore DO NOT ingnore symptomology, are unable to perform medical grade head to toe physical examinations or are ignorant of laboratory chemistry results and/or medical imaging anomalies.
They DO, however, believe in therapeutic conservatism and the state right defined in the Illinois constitution as the Healthcare Conscious Act in its unamended form.
These two features are integral first steps in their patient’s health care journeys.
The remainder of this article will discuss what chiropractic is and kindly attempt to persuade the reader to lean into their innate physiology because you are beautiful and wonderfully created.
Introduction
Throughout recorded history there have existed multiple scientific renaissances.
Genesis – Divine Revelation: 6000 BCE
Plato: Timeatus: 360 BCE
Aristotle: Natural Bodies: 330 BCE
Galen – Spirits & Humors: 150 AD
Descartes – Ghost and the Machine 1640 AD
Newton – Physical Mechanisms: 1680 AD
Darwin – Transmutation & Survival of Fittest: 1864 AD
Palmer – Innate Intelligence & Universal Wisdom: 1895 AD
Chiropractic was founded in 1895 by Midwestern native DD Palmer.
As a Science and an Art, CHIROPRACTIC, is based upon the philosophical premise that…
IF the human body is to have any chance at all of functioning at its highest capacity,
THEN every nerve that provides energy to the systems of the body, must be in a normal, centered and healthy condition.
This hypothesis is known as the subluxation hypothesis and has caused chiropractic physicians utter hell in the eyes of public and perception of the medical establishment for nearly a century.
Said, most plainly, a subluxation is a human phemona that generates a restriction within the axial or appendicular skeleton.
This is problematic because it will reduce motion within the degrees of freedom associated with that joint by way of nerve interference.
Physical restrictions may not always manifest with pain.
But will lead to decreased range of motion,
Which will yield deconditioning,
And sets the stage for Kinesiopathic cycle.
However, good news is these restrictions can be treated by applying spinal adjustments.
These medical grade procedures, with legitimate CPT codes, possess specific lines of force to induce torque, translation, and rotation to vertebral segments or appendicular joints of the human body.
IMPORTANT
This is not the same as mobilization; the goal of a spinal adjustment is to bring the joint into the para-physiological range to re-set the muscle spindles and Golgi apparatus of skeletal muscles attached to vertebral segments.
When this occurs, an audible crack can be heard.
This is referred to as tribonucleation and is the popping of a gas bubble within a synovial joint.
However, just because a crack is heard, does not mean proficient spinal adjustment was delivered
The goal is to remove subluxation by resetting the muscle spindles and Golgi apparatus.
If left unaddressed, our innate intelligence is compromised.
Body
Innate intelligence was first described in 1921 by DD Palmer as a form of universal wisdom that all beings are born with.
In his published notes THE CHIROPRACTIC ADJUSTER it is said, this wisdom is not just limited to human beings, “it is in all living things…This wisdom does not sleep or tire, nor does it recognize darkness or lightness, but it does continue to care and direct the organic and vital functions of all biological organisms.”
For years academics and researchers have engaged in intense debate on how to best scientifically examine what this vital unknown is.
Some call it a divine spark, others a spirit or soul, and more recently genes and codes.
But to this day, the seat of divine revelation has not been located to a singular space within the organism.
Science refers to that which is to be known,
Art refers to that which is to be created,
Philosophy refers to the provision of rationalism, and the methodologies in which that task should be performed,
Religion refers to what we ought do to leave things better than we found them.
Laws refer to morals and ethics guiding the nouns above.
CLOSING REMARKS
“Does anyone out there know that they are alternatives to doctors, hospitals, and rising medical cost. How many viewers know that chiropractors function as preventive health care, not just whiplash and aching back patients”.
As modern humans sit atop the apex hierarchy, we must remember we are still apart and in concert with a physical ecosystem and there exists a divine spark in each of us.
This is the concept of vitalism and one of the major premises included in DD. Palmers notes annotating what philosophy of chiropractic is.
In the 1927, Palmer railed against the “trial and error empiricism” of orthodox medical practices and fear the profession was admits a philosophical war like the osteopaths over the right to practice the art which is spinal adjusting to promote vitalism within the human body.
To close & aid the reader in understanding what chiropractic is, please read the following analogy.
If you were using a level to hang a picture within your home to ensure that it is centered on the wall, you rely on the air bubble that shifts from side to side.
When a subluxation is present, imagine the air bubble shifting into the third box from reading right.
Your body possesses a similar, level mechanism, within synovial joints, which contain muscle spindles and Golgi tendon apparatuses.
Together these anatomical features maintain the length-tension relationships of human muscles, tendons, and ligaments.
When layered upon the premise of the GENERAL ADAPTION SYNDROME, your bodies posture will adjust to whatever it is doing the most.
For a lot of us, it’s staring down looking at our phones, sitting like a hunch-back at the office computer, or driving on an unlevel pelvis to get back and forth to work, the grocery store, and kids to practice/school.
If left unaddressed, the subluxation will set the stage for the kinesiopathic the cycle described above.
Preserve the biomechanical integrity of spine, it’s the foundation for your health.
Because inside it sits the spinal cord which,
Permits your ability to move,
Enables you to perceive sensations like temperature, vibration, taste, and touch from a loved one,
AND powers the vital organ systems of the body without your conscious effort.
