Wednesday, January 6, 2010

Do Chiropractors Function As Complete As My Family MD?

By Randy Goodson

How does Chiropractic work?

Most medical doctors treat the majority of your ailments by either surgery, poisoning the illness or burning it with chemicals or heat. Instead of invasive surgery, risky chemical treatments or injection of toxins that are deadly, chiropractors use a different way to help your body heal itself. Without any major incisions or trauma included in the treatment, many people feel like chiropractic doesn't help. With the focus on adjusting your body to be put into position which allows it to heal itself through its own energy, chiropractors enjoy the success without making their patients experience any down time for recovery.

With the numbers of healed and satisfied chiropractic clients growing every day, the overall medical establishment has granted it more and more credibility with each passing year.

The satisfaction of being treated by a form of medicine that doesn't involve injuring you in some way is enormous, so much so that many people don't even mind that they don't know exactly how it works. With the 3rd highest number of practitioners on the continent, it is obviously a profession in high demand. Add that it is the most used drug free form of medical treatment available and you can see why it is growing so much.

What exactly defines Chiropractic?

The easiest way to explain what the practice is, is to look at its definition which is comprised of Greek words that translate into "practice of the hands". Just picturing the use of hands in a medical practice will give you a good idea of what chiropractic treatment does and how it does it.

Sometimes joints will become rigid and lose range of motion, so a chiropractor will forcefully move the joint in order to align it appropriately to free up nerve signals from the spine. These movements are referred to as "manipulation" and can properly align your spine and other joints so that you will eventually experience reduced or eliminated pain.

Can They Be Compared To A General Practitioner?

Chiropractors work their way through many of the same anatomy and physiology classes that any other medical doctor does. Any chiropractor is mandated to complete at least a combined 4200 hours of clinical, classroom and laboratory experience. Between the demanding undergraduate studies and the complex four year course of study to complete the doctorate degree, the average chiropractor is taught the same rough knowledge that a medical doctor is taught, and is ran through as rigorous educational process as any other medical doctor.

The practice is different due to the difference in the application and use of the knowledge. Most doctors are trained in pharmacology and the chiropractors are trained in spine health.

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