What Chiropractors Really Do

Dr. Powers at Powers Chiropractic. A lot of people have used chiropractic, but a lot of people have not. And for those
0:088 secondsfolks who have never been to a chiropractor, and even some who have,
0:1111 secondsthe idea of how does chiropractic even work is something we should probably talk about. Basically, every cell,
0:2020 secondstissue, and organ in your body requires information from the brain, which is sort of the primary controller of everything. Those signals travel from
0:2828 secondsthe brain down through your spinal cord which is protected by the vertebrae of the spine. And those messages go out to
0:3636 secondsevery cell, every tissue, and every organ in the body. When the spine’s moving properly and those nerves are able to function the way that they
0:4444 secondsshould, you’re healthy. So, if something happens like an injury or a a fall or maybe you slept wrong and you get a kink
0:5252 secondsin your spine where the vertebrae is not moving like it ought to or an injury that causes damage to the disc, what can happen is those signals from the brain
1:021 minute, 2 secondsto the body or from the body to the brain can be interfered with. And so a chiropractor’s job is to find areas
1:091 minute, 9 secondswhere your spine is interfering with the way your nervous system works, not moving properly or in bad position and
1:161 minute, 16 secondsrestore motion and keep things moving long enough that your body has an opportunity to heal. Chiropractic is the largest drug-free healing profession in
1:241 minute, 24 secondsthe United States. And we get great results with things like neck pain and headaches, lower back pain, all by finding out where does the spine not
1:321 minute, 32 secondsfunction properly and restore function to the spine.