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Is Chiropractic A Treatment For Any Of The Following Diseases And Conditions?

With all the diseases and conditions mentioned in this website, the reader might assume that chiropractic is a treatment for diseases.  That is not the case.  The goal of chiropractic care is the correction or reduction of the vertebral subluxation complex (VSC), a serious spinal distortion that irritates and interferes with nervous system and overall body function. 

The effects of the vertebral subluxation complex are extremely individual.  Correcting (adjusting) an upper cervical (upper neck) subluxation could stop headaches in one patient, a speech disorder in another, blindness, asthma, low back pain, sinus trouble, constipation or any of hundreds of body malfunctions in others. 

Most revealing is that a VSC might produce little or no observable symptoms.  However, that does not minimize the potential harm as an “asymptomatic subluxation” can be a dangerous thing and needs correction. Correcting the subluxation complex permits the body to work more efficiently.  All people, those expressing symptoms or not, need subluxation correction to maximize their ability to heal and to optimize their life expression; it may make all the difference in the world.

A note about terminology: For purposes of simplification, we will consider the osteopathic “lesion” and the chiropractic “vertebral subluxation complex” as synonymous.  Some people avoid the term chiropractic adjustment and instead prefer to use the term “manipulation,” “spinal manipulative therapy” (SMT), “chiropractic treatment” or some other term in explaining their work.  You’ll see these terms used in the papers cited. We feel the terms “chiropractic adjustment” and “chiropractic care” better represent the procedures used since the specific chiropractic approach is not a general manipulation nor is it a treatment for specific diseases (though some have proposed that it may be referred to as a treatment for subluxations).

A major limitation of chiropractic research is lack of inter-technique study. Are different adjusting techniques more effective?  Less effective?  More traumatic?  Less traumatic?  And for which patients? Would the spine have held its adjustment better with another technique?  How important is doctor proficiency? A person should remember not all doctors are equal be they chiropractors or medical doctors.  Research along those lines, though badly needed, is scant. Too much chiropractic research today operates within the medical paradigm (diagnosis and treatment of diseases).

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