Over the course of 100 years of its development, chiropractic science has grown to major stature in the field of the healing arts, reaching millions of people.

Today, chiropractors work both directly and indirectly with the nervous system. Every function of the body is under the control of this system. Every organ, tissue and cell is controlled by nerve impulses traveling form the brain to all parts of the body.

Nerves:

• control all movement
• transmit sensation to your brain
• make sight, smell, taste, touch and sound possible
• maintain balance and keep your body temperature at 98.6 degrees
• control your bowels, liver, lungs, spleen, pancreas, gall bladder and kidneys

In fact, the nervous system is the master system which controls all other systems of the body, including glandular, reproductive, digestive, eliminative, respiratory and circulatory.

Every science of healing has what is known as an avenue of approach. For example, in the field of medicine, a hypodermic needle injects drugs through the skin; a pill is swallowed and goes into the stomach. These are the avenues through which the drugs gain access to the body.

In the field of chiropractic, the avenue of approach is the spine. Your spine houses and protects the spinal cord, the switchboard of the nervous system, through which nerve fibers pass from the brain to different parts of the body.

Illness is a cause-and-effect relationship. If a person is in pain, that pain didn't magically occur; it was caused. In chiropractic, pain is often caused by dysfunction that occurs as the result of a vertebral injury or posture problem, which in turn interferes with the normal function of the nerves. This malfunction is called a subluxation.

The objective of chiropractic care is to determine, through x-rays and a thorough exam, the degree of vertebral subluxation complex. Proper adjustments are done to reduce subluxations, thus reducing the cause of pain and malfunction.

It is often said: "Chiropractic can add life to years, and years to life."