Chiropractic Care | Physical Therapy
Chiropractors work to realign the skeletal system of the physical body through careful manipulation
of the spine when one or more vertebra is out of place. This treatment is intended to relieve serious
complications and pain that results from accidents, falls, tensions, stress, and overexertion while minimizing or
completely eliminating the need for drugs, surgery and hospital stays.
Chiropractics treat many areas and conditions of the body including:
Modern chiropractors perform at the same standard as orthopedics and neurologists, conducting physical examinations
and following procedures as in allopathic medicine. Chiropractic reatment can be for painful conditions like numbness of the back and legs,
sciatica, muscle weakness or spasms,
scoliosis (a sideways curving of the spine), joint pain and other problems.
Chiropractors make sure that your treatment is tailored according
to age, weight, build, overall condition and pain tolerance. Chiropractors of the
traditional school work exclusively on spinal adjustments. Others mix traditional
school with methods like x-rays, ultrasound, acupressure, and nutritional counseling.
A third group looks at the entire musculoskeletal system including joint misalignments.
Then others attribute every medical disorder to spinal misalignment.
Regardless of how they will help you, chiropractic doctors are used all the time for serious injuries. For example,
many State Workmen's Compensation Acts now recognize the need for chiropractic services
and more and more insurance companies pay for treatment. This is significant as
these bodies form their decisions and base their policies scientific fact.
The United States Government signed legislation making Chiropractics
a mandatory and permanent service in the veterans' healthcare system. For example,
the Department of Veterans Affairs Health Care Programs Enhancement Act of 200/CH.R.3447
law authorizes the hiring of chiropractors. Under this Act,
medical centers are to be established in urban and rural areas with a variety of services for neuromuscoskeletal
conditions.
