Philosophy
The values of a wellness clinic should be to incorporate natural health solutions that work with your body instead of despite it. Chiropractic care, massage therapy, good nutrition and acupuncture all excellent examples of this wellness philosophy.
The Principles of Chiropractic
- The nervous system controls and coordinates every function in the human body.
- Irritation and inflammation to the nervous system create physiologic stresses, which are devastating to the human experience on many levels.
- Chiropractic lifestyle enhances function of the nervous system.
It's that simple.
The state of health that you are currently experiencing is the sum total of all the choices that you have made in your life. "Health" is the state of physiology that your cells have decided is the very best fit for your environment, both internal and external, that you have created. If you have put yourself in a state of chronic stress (stressors can be physical, chemical or emotional) your posture, blood pressure, heart rate, pain levels, immune system, etc. will reflect those choices.
The reason I love the philosophy of chiropractic is that we have to treat the person with holistic actions. Drugs and surgery are not options for chiropractors. We must use the natural healing forces of the human body to enhance the healing process. Adjustments, exercise, stretches, nutrition and wellness coaching are the tools that we possess. These tools work WITH your physiology not AGAINST or DESPITE your physiology. Much as acupuncture, meditation, naturopathic and other holistic disciplines work with the human body so do the fundamental principles of chiropractic.
Research
If it's not published, it doesn't exist.
Recently, many exciting discoveries have been made as to how chiropractic care stimulates and modulates the afferent nervous system, validating what chiropractors have known anecdotally for over 100 years. This also opens the door for even more work to truly discover the exact mechanism of influence we have on the peripheral and spinal nervous system!
These discoveries have been made despite a paucity of funding for chiropractic research.
"Even more remarkable is the efficiency of chiropractic research. When compared to the NIH budget of nearly $20 billion, the $10 million investment in federal funds is substantially less than a tenth of 1 percent, which makes it less than a rounding error. Put another way, as a couple of wags have offered in the past, the federal government must believe in alternative medicine, because it has given chiropractic researchers homeopathic doses of money with which to work."
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