About Chiropractic
"Chiropractic
services we provide are not alternative;
they are essential to your health and well-being." -- Paul L. Peters, D.C.
Basic Chiropractic Principles
- The body is self-healing and self-regulating.
- The nervous system controls and regulate all tissue in the human body. (Guyton; Physiology)
- Vertebral subluxation complexes can alter the nervous system's function.
- Identification and correction of these vertebral subluxation complexes help
optimize the nervous system's function.
Chiropractic Defined
Chiropractic is a philosophy, science, and art of things natural; a system of
adjusting the segments of the
spinal column by hand only for the correction of the cause of dis-ease.
Wellness
The degree to which an individual experiences health and vitality in any dimension
of life at any given time (physical, spiritual, mental, biochemical).
Vertebral Subluxation
The condition in which a vertebrae has lost it's proper relative position, motion,
and or function with respect to the one above or below, or both; to an extent less than a dislocation;
which impinges, stretches, irritates, and/or alters and interferes with the transmission of the nerve's
impulses.
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