More than the temporary fix.

The principle

Your spine protects the nerves that run the rest of you.

Chiropractic starts with a simple idea. How your spine moves affects the nerves, muscles and joints around it.

The deep muscles around every vertebra are packed with sensors that tell your brain where your body is and how it's moving. When part of the spine isn't moving properly, that information gets patchy, and the brain's control of the area changes. Chiropractors call this a vertebral subluxation; researchers now describe it as a change in how the brain controls a spinal segment.

An adjustment is a quick, precise input to that system. Research over the past decade shows the brain responds to an adjustment, in how it processes information from the body and drives muscles. And it responds when the right segment is adjusted, which is why we check so carefully.

Finding it takes a thorough check. Correcting it takes a specific adjustment in the right place, and a plan you both understand. That's the whole job. Chiropractic and your nervous system →