Why Chiropractic?

2. Spinal Veterbrae
24 Freely Movable Bones
7 Cervical (your neck)
12 Thoracic (your mid-back)
5 Lumbar (your lower back)
Spinal Nerves
There are 31 pairs of spinal nerves
that exit your spinal column
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5. The Four Phases of Spinal Subluxations
The Normal Spine
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8.  Chiropractic care is not just for those patients who have been involved in
an accident or suffer from chronic neck or back pain. Chiropractic care
can benefit many people with a great number of health conditions. Even
those with few, if any, health conditions can benefit from chiropractic
maintenance care. How, you ask? Life's daily stressors add up impacting
the human body in far greater ways than you might realize. As a natural
healthcare approach, regular chiropractic adjustments can restore and
maintain balance within your body, leaving you better prepared to live life
to its fullest.
 Additionally, injuries are less likely to be serious and can heal at a
significantly faster rate in those who receive regular chiropractic care,
especially when combined with other healthy activities such as regular
exercise and eating a nutritious diet.
 Vertebral subluxations are the leading cause of nervous system
imbalances and pain in the body and can only be identified by a
professional chiropractic examination. Pursuing chiropractic care to
improve overall health can be a valuable way to reduce pain and many
common ailments. Ongoing adjustments can help restore your body to
an optimal state of health.
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9. Here are a few examples of how Chiropractic
wellness care can improve the quality of your life:
1) Neck and Head: Relief from headaches and migraines as well as relief
from head pains, whiplash and acute and chronic neck pain. It promotes
healthier discs and also relieves temporomandibular joint pain (TMJ).
2) Breathing and Lungs: Relieves stress from lungs, improves respiratory
function, and decreases symptoms of asthma, sinusitis and allergies.
3) Cardiovascular: Allows for greater nerve supply to heart and coronary
arteries, improves circulation, less nerve stress and stabilizes blood pressure.
4) Digestion and Elimination: Improves digestion and elimination as well
as function of throat, stomach, duodenum, small and large intestines, colon and
anus. It relieves ulcers and promotes a greater nerve supply to the entire
digestive tract, liver and gall bladder. Chiropractic wellness care can also help
with kidney, bladder and colon disorders and dysfunctions.
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10. 5) Upper Extremities: Relief from carpal tunnel syndrome, shoulder, arm and
hand problems.
6) Lower Extremities: Hips, knees, feet are more balanced; less pressure on
nerves and joints; better balance; improved posture; relief from sciatica and
leg pain.
7) Brain, Stress and Psychological Effects: Increased blood supply to the
brain; improved concentration; reduced anxiety and irritability, depression,
tiredness and clumsiness; and more energy.
8) Immune System: Improved nerve supply to immunity organs, including
spleen, tonsils, appendix and lymphoid tissue. Overall immune system
function is enhanced.
9) Overall Effects of Body Structure: Less pressure on body in general; joints
are more aligned; weight is carried more evenly; better posture; more
balance and energy; muscles are strengthened and balanced; trigger points
and hot spots are removed; increased flexibility.
If you increase the nerve supply to your body, you increase
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11. Chiropractic
Education Class Hours
Subject
Medical Education
Class Hours
520 Anatomy 508
420 Physiology 326
271 Pathology 335
300 Chemistry 325
114 Bacteriology 130
370 Diagnosis 374
320 Neurology 112
217 X-Ray 148
65 Psychiatry 144
65 Obstetrics & Gynecology 198
225 Orthopedics 156
2,887 TOTAL HOURS 2,756
Adjusting,
Manipulation,
Kinesiology, and other
similar basis subjects
related to their
specialty.
Other required subjects for doctors of medicine/doctors of chiropractic
Pharmacology,
Immunology, general
surgery, and other
similar basic subjects
related to their
specialty.
4,485 GRAND TOTAL CLASS HOURS 4,248
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14. Thank You
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