WHAT IS A SUBLUXATION?
A vertebral subluxation is a spinal abnormality that interferes with your nerves. It can create dis-ease, lowered resistance to disease, pain, imbalance, fatigue, and can pave the way for ill health. It is sometimes called the "silent killer" because it can slowly eat away at your health and vitality for years without your having the slightest awareness of it. Doctors of chiropractic specialize in locating, analyzing, and correcting vertebral subluxations.

A vertebral subluxation is a misaligned vertebra causing interference with the nerve messages between your brain and your body.

WHAT IS A CHIROPRACTIC ADJUSTMENT?
A spinal adjustment is a special procedure your chiropractor uses to correct or relieve your vertebral subluxation complex. Your chiropractor spends years mastering this procedure. There may be many subluxations in your spine and consequently you may receive many adjustments. On some days there may be no subluxations and you will receive no adjustment.

CHIROPRACTIC ADJUSTING TECHNIQUES:
Not all chiropractors work alike. The chiropractic profession has developed nearly a hundred different methods used to analyze the spine for subluxations and adjust the subluxations away. These methods are referred to as "techniques". Most chiropractors are familiar with at least a few of the techniques used. Each chiropractor ususally has a favorite one that he or she employs for the majority of patients. Why not ask your chiropractor what type of adjusting technique he or she uses and why?

CAN CHIROPRACTIC HELP ME?
Chiropractic is a system of health care that releases one of the most serious forms of stress from your body: the vertebral subluxation complex can affect your nerves, muscles, internal organs, discs, bones and brain and weaken your overall health.

Chiropractic has become the largest drugless health care profession in the worlds because it has helped millions of people recover from sickness, disease, and disability and minimize the use of drugs and surgery in their lives!

Today’s doctor of Chiropractic locates and removes a severe form of spine and nerve stress, a condition that puts pressure on your nerves, unbalances your body, lowers your resistance to disease and weakens you: the vertebral subluxation complex. It is a silent killer. Why silent? Because it is often painless. You may have one in your body and not know it. Why a killer? Because it can severely damage your health.

WHY SHOULD I GO TO A CHIROPRACTOR?
Millions of sick, suffering and dying people, perhaps living on painkillers and other drugs, or facing surgery, have never tried chiropractic care even though help may be literally around the corner.

Who should go to a chiropractor? It depends on who you ask. For example, if you asked a person who was relived of migraines, he’d say "Anyone with migraines should see a doctor of chiropractic." A child who no longer wets his bed will say "Chiropractic is for bed-wetting." A woman suffering from menstrual cramps will say "Anyone with menstrual problems should go to a Chiropractor."

There are case histories of people recovering from nearly every known disease and condition under chiropractic care: heart trouble, fatigue, digestive problems, colds, flus, infertility, and hundreds of other conditions.

WHY?
The goal of the doctor of chiropractic is to awaken your own natural healing ability by correcting the vertebral subluxation complex, one of the deadliest, most destructive blockages of life and energy you can suffer from. By correcting the vertebral subluxation complex, your doctor of chiropractic promotes natural healing, vitality, strength, and health. That’s why, if you’d go into the waiting room of a doctor of chiropractic you’d probably see people with many kinds of health problems yet they are there for one thing only, to have their vertebral subluxation corrected.

WHY SHOULD I RETURN IF I’M FEELING FINE?
How you feel is not always a good indication of how healthy you are; in fact you may feel fine while life-threatening vertebral subluxations (spinal distortions) are damaging your body. We’ve all seen people ooking like death warmed over who "feel fine". They are walking targets, waiting for disease to strike before they decide to do anything about their health. They "feel fine" but they have no energy; they "feel fine" but sleep poorly; they "feel fine" but are tired, have aches and pains, headaches, or backaches. Too many people who "feel fine" have sudden heart attacks, strokes, debilitating pain, or are diagnosed with a serious disease such as cancer.
Why wait for something to go wrong before you attend to your health? It may be too late if you wait for symptoms to appear.

There are three phases of Chiropractic care:
1. The Acute Phase - In this phase you may be in a state of discomfort or pain; people often visit a chiropractor when they’re in this phase.
2. Reconstructive or Spinal Healing Phase - In this phase you continue to go to your chiropractr because you need continued corrective care in order to strengthen and heal. Individuals in this phase may find that nearly every time they come in for a spinal checkup their spine is out of alignment.
3. Health Maintenance Phase - Now your spine is holding its adjustments; you come in every so often for a spinal check up and possible adjustment. Think of this in the same way you think of a car tune-up every few thousand miles.