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Chiropractors, also known as doctors of chiropractic or chiropractic physicians, diagnose and treat patients whose health problems are associated with the body's muscular, nervous, and skeletal systems, especially the spine. Chiropractors believe interference with these systems impairs normal functions and lowers resistance to disease. They also hold that spinal or vertebral dysfunction alters many important body functions by affecting the nervous system, and that skeletal imbalance through joint or articular dysfunction, especially in the spine, can cause pain.
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A vertebral subluxation is defined by chiropractors as a relatively common condition in which a spinal vertebra has lost its proper alignment with one or both of its neighboring vertebrae. While not as extreme as a luxation, doctors of chiropractic believe they interfere either with the nervous system or with the flow of innate intelligence.
Chiropractors recognize that many factors affect health, including:
- exercise
- diet
- rest
- environment
- heredity
Chiropractors use natural, drugless, nonsurgical health treatments, and rely on the body's inherent recuperative abilities.
Like other health practitioners, chiropractors rely on past medical history. On the initial consultation the physician or staff will take the patient's medical history, conduct physical, neurological, and orthopedic examinations, and may order laboratory tests
In cases in which difficulties can be traced to involvement of musculoskeletal structures, chiropractors manually adjust the spinal column. Through manipulation of the spine, chiropractic treatment relieves pressure on nerves coming from the spinal cord due to compression. Many chiropractors use water, light, massage, ultrasound, electric, and heat therapy. They may also apply supports such as straps, tapes, and braces.
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