While chiropractics is an established science as well as an art, and while there are many reputable schools training future chiropractors, the fact that this kind of healing touch is still considered to be an alternative form of medicine has kept many people away from these practitioners. Add to this the fact that oftentimes the […]

The idea of chiropractic medicine is neither new nor revolutionary. As a matter of fact, it is the tried and true methods that were partially discovered and partially invented by one Daniel Palmer, a Canadian native, who was a bit of an oddball in his time. Born in the year 1845, it took Mr. Palmer […]

The education of today’s chiropractic doctors is highly regulated and requires four years of intensive study. Part and parcel of the chiropractic curriculum are basic sciences. Some students wonder whether or not the amount of time spent in these endeavors could not be spent better by learning the core applications that will later on help […]

If you are a chiropractor, then you already know that many patients will come to see you as an alternative to the more established physicians of mainline medicine. Perhaps it is the fact that mainstream medicine has failed them, or maybe it is a bad doctor-patient relationship that has soured them against physicians in general. […]

There are times in the life of a chiropractor when the diagnosis of subluxation is not necessary to state the fact that a patient suffers from degenerative disc disease. Oftentimes described by sufferers as excruciating shooting pains that originate in the lower back, this condition affects the discs that are cushioning the vertebrae or segmental […]

Not too long ago chiropractic care was scoffed at by internists and other physicians. Yet as time went on and chiropractics established itself more and more as part and parcel of acceptable healthcare, it soon became obvious that chiropractors attained real results in their care of patients, and soon the word spread and many patients […]

Part and parcel of the chiropractic visit is the adjustment of any misaligned vertebrae which may in turn be causing you a lot of pain and overall discomfort. There are many myths surrounding the actual manipulation of the spine that takes place, it is an important fact about this chiropractic tool that there is a […]

Those who were initially introduced to the teachings of Daniel Palmer and his son Bartlett were often flabbergasted at the ideas these two came up with. After all, was not the conventional medical wisdom sufficient? Did not the learned men of the time take care of their patients in such a way that the very […]

Those that practice Chiropractic care do so because it gives relief to many from pain. It is a form of health care that has a focus towards the body’s structure (mostly the spine area) and the function of the structure. Those who practice the art of chiropractic are called “doctors of chiropractic, chiropractors, or chiropractic […]