Chiropractic - More than just relieving symptoms

Now before I get started on this topic, let me say that there are many forms of chiropractic and even more interpretations of them. As a matter of fact it will be authentic to say that there are as many interpretations of chiropractic as there are chiropractors or people who have been served by chiropractors and so, that being said, I am not here to debate or argue with peoples belief systems, I respect each and every belief whether they are contrary or complimentary to mine. As far as the way I serve chiropractic, this is what I feel to be true at this point in time.

People usually come to us with a wide variety of health concerns, conditions, and disease. Their main focus is to be relieved of these elements. And so in their view, they are looking for an alternative to traditional methods of which they have lost much faith in. So in their paradigm of thinking, they are indeed looking for an alternative to medicine.

But what does this really mean and how does one become an alternative to medicine? Well, first and forth most. To be an alternative to something, that means that one is looking to reach the same goals as another, with a slight variation of an approach or method. Now chiropractic does not have the same objectives nor goals as medicine and therefore cannot be an alternative to it. Although many benefits are received and symptoms alleviated, Chiropractic is something separate and distinct.

The medical model is based on MECHANISM. Which means what? Simply that

1. Everything about human beings can be completely explained through physical causes (in mechanical terms), as surely as can everything about clockwork.
2. We are nothing more than the sum of our physical parts.
3. Parts that aren’t working properly can be fixed without worrying about the rest similar to a car or a clock.
   

This is the cornerstone through which traditional medicine determines and delivers its treatments or prescriptions.

Now, on the other hand, the Chiropractic Model is based on VITALISM. It states that:

1. Vital energies are active in living organisms … that life cannot be explained solely by physical means; that science of physical matter, provides great information but also has great limitations when looking at the overall picture and that there are other sciences that have yet been left untapped regarding the human body, being, and experiences.
2. We are more than the sum of our physical parts. That indeed, there are many elements beyond what our mortal eyes could see! There is at the very least the:
   a. Physical Body,
   b. Emotional Body
   c. Mental Body
   d. Spiritual Body
   Each of these vehicles are temples, all together fused as one, and are in a delicate balance with each other. This balance determines ones nature, being, interpretations, and experiences.
3. We could only function properly as a coordinated whole, thus coherent throughout. So parts not working properly results from a lack of coordination, a lack of coherency, or injuries between or within these 4 lower bodies.

This is why chiropractic is not another alternative to medicine; we come from a completely different paradigm of thinking of which does not treat or fix any symptoms, conditions or disease. Now we personally feel that symptoms alone are not a good gauge to determine the health of a person. As a matter of fact:
one can have symptoms and be sick,
one can have no symptoms and be Healthy but also
one can have symptoms and be Healthy or
one can have no symptoms and be sick.

There are plenty of examples out there that provide evidence for this, of which I will not spend time on here. For now consider it a possibility that sometimes the body goes through certain experiences that may be uncomfortable for us initially but result in great benefits and other times the pores are clogged to such a degree that it could not eliminate what it does not need and so we do not experience these uncomfortable events displayed by symptoms, conditions etc.

Chiropractors look at life in a completely unique way through which medicine does not accept nor look into and the focus here is to:

1. Provide a better structure (within and between the bodies listed above) so one could function better
2. Bring back coherency and coordination as stated above
3. Promote inborn healing to a “system of bodies (the 4 lower bodies)”

We serve simply as instruments that stimulate the inborn healer within you by releasing that which was an obstacle to it. … and in doing so, health is regained.

So yes people do come in with all sorts of conditions. In observing the person, we look at the underlying discord - of which a lot of times they are unaware of - but often times is linked to their concerns and many times more things beyond their concern. And so when this is released people end up receiving much more than what they initially came in for.

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