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The Neurological Significance of Chiropractic

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Zach Thomas
10 years ago

Ignoring the significance of the adjustment on the nervous system is a blatant, ignorant disregard of the most up to date research in chiropractic. If you want to move this amazing profession forward, stop holding onto old theories and realize that the vertebral subluxation complex has MASSIVE effects on the nervous system and chiropractors are the only professionals trained in analyzing, detecting, and removing VSC.

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Remi Lavoie
10 years ago

For years and years, we see progress on symptoms that didn't have any link with MSK. As more and more studies show, chiropractic adjustement affect the neurlogy.

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Kolbi Brost
10 years ago

The Nervous system is vital to the outstanding results that we produce. Without the nervous system healing cannot occur

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Thom Green
10 years ago

How does the MSK system run without the nervous system? How could we just work with muscles and bones when they are inanimate without the most important organ system in the body? Losing the nervous system would be devastating to our profession.

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Randy Johnson
10 years ago

Chiropractors are trained as primary care physicians. One cannot be a primary care physician as only a MSK doctor.

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Alan J Lichter DC
10 years ago Featured

The nerve system is the core of chiropractic practice. The latest research indicates that the adjustment affects the function of the frontal cortex in a positive way. To remove the neural component from chiropractic eviscerates the profession.

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Jason Bradley
10 years ago

Chiropractic has been debased into neck and back crackers (by the insurance industry) and we need to stand together and take back our profession. At the very least, doctors of chiropractic are N+M+S based, but at heart, our training is in whole systems physiology and functional restoration of the broken human system. Further limiting DC's to just M+S based practices literally is not only hurting the profession, but the very public we can - and should - be helping.

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Bob Pike
10 years ago

Compassion for ourselves, our communities and our colleagues is the answer to collective evolution.

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Bob Pike
10 years ago

We in the chiropractic profession have a moral duty to profess the message of chiropractic to the masses. As Arno states the biggest gift and the power bestowed by a chiropractic adjustment is its impact on the neural communications within the human being. The state of health includes the whole spectrum that is meant by the term 'human being'. For example, some of us believe "I am only human". Others feel and know that 'I am a spiritual energetic being here on planet Earth to have a human experience'. The challenge faced by all chiropractors is understanding this spectrum or continuum of consciousness within the human species. D.D. Palmer clearly stated that the purpose of adjustment is the re-connection of spiritual and physical. The nervous system performs this function in the human form. It is in fact our mission to deliver the whole message of healing contained in the chiropractic model we have both the responsibility and privilege to practice. We must be compassionate with our colleagues while simultaneously leading courageously by living example. "A leaders knows the way, shows the way and goes the way."

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Bob Pike
10 years ago

We in the chiropractic profession have a moral duty to profess the message of chiropractic to the masses. As Arno states the biggest gift and the power bestowed by a chiropractic adjustment is its impact on the neural communications within the human being. The state of health includes the whole spectrum that is meant by the term 'human being'. For example, some of us believe "I am only human". Others feel and know that 'I am a spiritual energetic being here on planet Earth to have a human experience'. The challenge faced by all chiropractors is understanding this spectrum or continuum of consciousness within the human species. D.D. Palmer clearly stated that the purpose of adjustment is the re-connection of spiritual and physical. The nervous system performs this function in the human form. It is in fact our mission to deliver the whole message of healing contained in the chiropractic model we have both the responsibility and privilege to practice. We must be compassionate with our colleagues while simultaneously leading courageously by living example. "A leaders knows the way, shows the way and goes the way."

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Jennifer Vaughn
10 years ago

Neurology is the rock upon which chiropractic is based. 'Muscular' and 'skeletal' are secondary in their importance.

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Arno Burnier
10 years ago

After 40 years in practice it is clear that chiropractic adjustment have a marked and significant effect on the neurology of the human body and its physiology. It is a travesty to rob the public of the benefits of chiropractic by marketing it as a musculoskeletal discipline dealing with back and neck problem.

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Arno Burnier
10 years ago

after 40 years in practice it is clear that chiropractic adjustment have a marked and significant effect on the neurology of the human body and its physiology. It is a travesty to rob the public of the benefits of chiropractic by marketing it as a musculoskeletal discipline dealing with back and neck problem.

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Gil Desaulniers
10 years ago

The key differentiator of chiropractic as compared to other modalities is the interest of neurology as it relates to the MSK system and its greater affects on human health and potential. By leaving this out of our language and explanation, we loose our purpose of what we do and our need in the market.

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Debbie Tiller
10 years ago

I have been under the care of my Chiropractor for four years..His gentle yet effective approach has helped manage chronic neuropathic pain as a result of several spine surgeries..One of the best health practitioners out there..

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Andrea Ryan
10 years ago

Removing neurology from the definition of what we do is reducing Chiropractic to the treatment of muscular complaints and positioning us at the same level as any other professional who "treats" MSK complaints. Keep what keeps us separate & distinct (neurology) within the definition of our profession.

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Nathalie Beauchamp
10 years ago Featured

As a 20 year practicing chiropractor I feel like we would be cheating the general public and our patients by focusing only on MSK and not telling them about all the other benefits of a properly functionning nervous system on overall health and well-being.

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Bart Vogelzang
10 years ago

It's so obviously all tied together that it's silly to change the official nomenclature

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Tom Preston
10 years ago

Tone of the energetic pathways of the body ARE the roots and the future of chiropractic. To minimize or remove that would be the beginning of the end of the profession

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Kresimir Jug
10 years ago

If you want to focus on the MSK that's ok with me, BUT... If I'm paying my fee my views better be represented as well.