What is Chiropractic?

The Short Version: “Research indicates that chiropractic care enhances brain-body communication, allowing your brain to more accurately interpret internal and external signals. This improved perception of what is happening inside you and around you enables your brain to optimize bodily functions and adapt more effectively to your environment.” (Dr. Heidi Haavik, Chiropractor & Chiropractic Researcher)

The Explanation: Your brain is made up of nerve cells that organize into a thick cord of billions of nerve fibers to create your spinal cord. Your spinal cord extends down your back, protected by and interacting with your spinal column. The spinal cord then branches into numerous nerves that travel to various destinations in your body. This is a vast communication system over which a constant stream of messages flows to keep your body working properly and to keep your brain aware of what is happening in your body and in your environment.

These messages fill your brain and nerves, sending energy and information to every part of your body; muscles, bones, heart, liver, stomach, eyes, ears, blood vessels, etc. Information is also constantly being sent from the body back up to your brain. If this connection stopped, you’d quickly die. If the messages were partially blocked or altered, your body would malfunction and the result would be suffering, sickness, disease and a gradual disorganization and decline.

To be fully alive, you need to be fully connected. Chiropractors locate and correct subluxations, the small internal distortions that create “disconnections” in your body that interfere with your nervous system communications. These subluxations result from physical, chemical and/or emotional stress. Once these subluxations are corrected, the body is able to self-heal and self-regulate the way it was designed to.

Simply put, chiropractic reconnects your brain and body for optimal health expression!