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Chiropractic - done by hand...Chiropractic is the third biggest therapeutic science in the world after medicine and dentistry. Chiropractic is a complementary health service, which does not use medication or other therapeutic equipment. In other words, Chiropractic concentrates on musculoskeletal conditions of the spine and the peripheral joints of the body by combining tradition, art and science. This is achieved by restoring the physiological range of motion of the body by using specific manoeuvres, called "adjustments". |
History of ChiropracticThe history of chiropractic starts about 2000 years ago, when the father of medicine Hippocrates was the first to use adjusting techniques to realign the bones of the human body. Additionally, chiropractic was applied by the ancient Greeks in Asklipia. In those days, Asklipios claimed that it is always important to search the route of a disease in the spinal cord and the spine. Later on, other nations such as the Chinese, the Egyptians and the French used chiropractic (those days was called bone-setting) in order to overcome musculoskeletal problems of the spine and the peripheral skeleton. The founder and developer of the modern Chiropractic profession is the Canadian David Daniel Palmer (1845 - 1913), who lived and practiced in Iowa of the United States. In 1897, D. D. Palmer opened the first Chiropractic University in the world and since then the development of Chiropractic has been growing with universities in Canada, Australia, France, Great Britain, Norway and South Africa. |
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Chiropractic TheoryThe human body is a complex auto-regulated mechanism, where the central nervous system is responsible for coordinating its functions. All the body's organs are controlled by impulses from the brain that are transmitted down the spinal column, out to the organ and back up to the brain again. A reduced or an altered nervous impulse changes the organ's function, predisposing it to disease and illness behaviour. |
