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Basics of Chiropractic
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Dr. Fabrizio Mancini, President
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    Chiropractic is about helping people live
    healthier, fuller lives. Chiropractors focus
    on the nervous system and painlessly,
    manually adjust the vertebral column to
    affect the nervous system. According to
    Gray's Anatomy, the nervous system is the
    master system in the body which controls and
    coordinates all other systems such as
    respiratory, digestive, muscular, and immune.

The nervous system includes the brain, spinal cord, the spinal nerves
that exit the vertebral column through openings on the side of each
vertebra, and all the peripheral nerves that branch off to serve
organs, tissues, blood vessels and muscles. Information from the
environment, both external and internal, goes through the spine to
get to the brain. In the same manner, information and decisions made
in the brain go through the spine to affect certain outcomes. It is a
two-way flow of information.

The chiropractic adjustment is intended to remove any disruptions or
distortions of this energy flow that may be caused by slight
vertebral misalignments called subluxations. Chiropractors are
trained to locate these subluxations and then to remove them to
restore the normal flow of nerve energy, in terms of both quality and
quantity.

The idea is that if the master system (the nervous system) is healthy
and functioning well, then other systems under its control will also
function in a more optimal fashion. Chiropractic is based on the
belief that the same innate intelligence that can grow a single cell
into a complex human being, made of billions of cells, can also heal
the body if it is free of disturbances to the nervous system.

For example, if the spinal area that supplies nerve flow to the
stomach is subluxated, then information going to the brain regarding
that organ and its function, digestion, will be distorted and the
brain will not receive accurate data on its condition. Likewise,
decisions made in the brain and conveyed along the nervous pathways
will be disrupted and the correct responses cannot be made. It is
essentially the same scenario for all other organs, muscles and blood
vessels. When a chiropractor removes this interference, then the
nervous system functions more optimally and the body is able to heal
itself via the two-way communication system.

The philosophy of chiropractic is that health, not merely the absence
of symptoms, comes from within the body, not from the outside. It is
the innate, or inborn, intelligence of our bodies that does the
healing.
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