Our Expert Author, Dr. Gregg D. Rubinstein, Explains Some Basic Facts About Chiropractic
A Brief History of Chiropractic:
It was started in 1895 by D.D. Palmer who at the time was a magnetic healer. There was a janitor in the building in which he had an office and one day Dr. Palmer was working pretty late and the janitor was there cleaning up. Now this custodian was mostly deaf, but Dr. Palmer was able to communicate with him and he said "Let me ask you a question, what happened to your hearing?" The custodian told him that one day he had lifted something quite heavy and he had suddenly felt a pop in his back and he immediately lost the majority of his hearing. So Dr. Palmer asked if the custodian minded if he examined him. So he laid him down and looked at the custodian's upper back and found a lump over by his spine and said "I just want to try something here..." He leaned in and pressed on the lump and he heard a pop and the janitor could suddenly hear again. So that piqued Dr Palmer's interest and then he started to study spinal manipulation and he developed the practice of chiropractic. The art of spinal manipulation is something that has been going on for thousands of years. There were hieroglyphics found in Egypt that demonstrated spinal manipulation that were over two thousand years old. Spinal manipulation is nothing new. There were people in England who used to do it called "bone-setters." The Chinese have also been doing spinal manipulation for thousands of years.
What is the difference between straights and mixers?
A straight chiropractor does spinal manipulation only. Someone that calls themselves a mixer might use some physical therapy modality, might incorporate massage, might use ultrasound, electric stimulation, hot packs and those types of things. A straight chiropractor would only manipulate the spine.
What do you do?
I do mostly straight chiropractic, but I would be called a mixer by someone who is completely straight because I do use physical modality to alleviate pain. If someone comes in and they are in a lot of pain, you cannot adjust them immediately so sometimes you have to relax the muscles so you can get in there and do the adjustments if they are too what we call "hot" - which means they are in too much pain and if you try to manipulate that person, it is going to send them through the roof. Part of being a good chiropractor, rather than an average chiropractor, is not only knowing where or when to adjust, but most importantly also knowing when not to.
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Chiropractic Basics: The Straight Facts
Expert Author Dr. Gregg D. Rubinstein Answers General Questions About Chiropractic
What is Chiropractic?
Chiropractic is a natural drug-free healing profession that focuses on eliminating pressure from the nervous system by maintaining proper alignment of the spine.
What is vertebral subluxation?
Vertical subluxation is a misalignment of one of the bones in the spine that puts pressure on the nerve, causing pain and nerve system malfunction.
What are some of the effects of this misalignment?
The effects must be understood by looking at the body as a whole. If you understand how the body works, there is the brain, the spinal cord and all the spinal nerves that exit from the adjacent vertebrae or in between the bones. When those spinal bones get misaligned, it puts pressure on the nerves. Those nerves sense pain and move muscles, so one can get muscle spasms and pain, but that is actually only 10 percent of what your nerve system does. The other 90 percent is controlling and coordinating every cell in every organ and system in your body. After breakfast, when you digest your food, that does not require active thought, but happens automatically via your nerve system. If there is pressure on your nerves, those processes can be slowed down. Your immune system is controlled by your nerve system as well, so if you have pressure on your nerve system, your immune system function will be suppressed and you will not be as healthy as you can be.
For example: Remember Christopher Reeves? If you looked at his lungs, they were totally healthy yet he could not breathe on his own. That was because he had an extreme amount of pressure on his spinal cord and therefore on his nervous system. If you put his legs under a microscope and examined them, they were totally healthy. What was missing? There was pressure on the nerves that control his legs so he got no nerve energy to his legs and they did not work. The same thing can happen with the nerves that go to any other part of your body.
What is innate intelligence?
Innate intelligence is basically your body's infinite wisdom. Your digestive system works automatically. When a baby is born it knows that it needs to suck right away. That suckling reflex is inherent. That is inborn, genetic - innate. So your innate intelligence is the power that made the body and heals the body. The innate intelligence takes 23 chromosomes from Mom and 23 chromosomes from Dad and puts that genetic code together into a single cell. It is innate intelligence that directs that cell to form a perfect being with 10 fingers, 10 toes and everything symmetrical. All this is according to your DNA and innate intelligence is the expression of your DNA. Itis the life force within you that controls and coordinates your body. That's what helps you fight off disease and that's what helps you understand words and helps you process it. All that happens innately. Innate basically means inborn - so that is your inborn intelligence.
What is Chiropractic?
Chiropractic is a natural drug-free healing profession that focuses on eliminating pressure from the nervous system by maintaining proper alignment of the spine.
What is vertebral subluxation?
Vertical subluxation is a misalignment of one of the bones in the spine that puts pressure on the nerve, causing pain and nerve system malfunction.
What are some of the effects of this misalignment?
The effects must be understood by looking at the body as a whole. If you understand how the body works, there is the brain, the spinal cord and all the spinal nerves that exit from the adjacent vertebrae or in between the bones. When those spinal bones get misaligned, it puts pressure on the nerves. Those nerves sense pain and move muscles, so one can get muscle spasms and pain, but that is actually only 10 percent of what your nerve system does. The other 90 percent is controlling and coordinating every cell in every organ and system in your body. After breakfast, when you digest your food, that does not require active thought, but happens automatically via your nerve system. If there is pressure on your nerves, those processes can be slowed down. Your immune system is controlled by your nerve system as well, so if you have pressure on your nerve system, your immune system function will be suppressed and you will not be as healthy as you can be.
For example: Remember Christopher Reeves? If you looked at his lungs, they were totally healthy yet he could not breathe on his own. That was because he had an extreme amount of pressure on his spinal cord and therefore on his nervous system. If you put his legs under a microscope and examined them, they were totally healthy. What was missing? There was pressure on the nerves that control his legs so he got no nerve energy to his legs and they did not work. The same thing can happen with the nerves that go to any other part of your body.
What is innate intelligence?
Innate intelligence is basically your body's infinite wisdom. Your digestive system works automatically. When a baby is born it knows that it needs to suck right away. That suckling reflex is inherent. That is inborn, genetic - innate. So your innate intelligence is the power that made the body and heals the body. The innate intelligence takes 23 chromosomes from Mom and 23 chromosomes from Dad and puts that genetic code together into a single cell. It is innate intelligence that directs that cell to form a perfect being with 10 fingers, 10 toes and everything symmetrical. All this is according to your DNA and innate intelligence is the expression of your DNA. Itis the life force within you that controls and coordinates your body. That's what helps you fight off disease and that's what helps you understand words and helps you process it. All that happens innately. Innate basically means inborn - so that is your inborn intelligence.
What Do Chiropractor's Treat?
We asked Expert Author Dr. Gregg D. Rubinstein: What exactly do chiropractor's treat?
Chiropractic is about total health and wellness. Wellness includes the whole body. It is not just about back pain and neck pain in my office. People think of chiropractors as back doctors. In my practice and in the world, we don't heal anything, rather, the body heals itself. When your nerves get pinched in your spine, the energy gets blocked from traveling through your nervous system and into your immune system which controls all the healing in your body. We adjust spinal misalignment prevent your body from healing itself, so you can function at your optimal.chiropractic-care
Chiropractic is about total health and wellness.
Avery common case which we see in my office is when one has pinched nerves in their lower back and/or sciatica - which is pain from a pinched nerve in your lower back which travels into one of your legs. Very frequently, people who have sciatica have constipation or diarrhea because the same nerve that goes along the back of the leg have other branches that control your intestines and your digestive system.
Additionally, people with different types of headaches -such as tension headaches- have pressure that builds up in the cervical spine, the nerves from your neck, recur, or travel up into your head and can cause tension headaches. We would work to adjust to relive the nerves from that pressure.
A very severe case would be when someone comes in with herniated disks, which are putting pressure on the spinal nerve. When that is the case we do manipulation to realign the vertebrae and get the pressure off the disc so the disc is no longer going to swell up and hit the nerve as much. Then, that it is going to return normal function to the nerve and the patient is going to feel better.
I had a women come in with two herniated discs. She was supposed to be going in for two different surgeries, one on her neck and one on her lower back. Her cousin happened to see one of our ads in the newspaper and sent her into my office without ever having met me - to this day the woman has not had either surgery. She still has pain on occasion but she has never had the surgery. That surgical option is always going to be there. Surgery should always be the last resort
Chiropractic is about total health and wellness. Wellness includes the whole body. It is not just about back pain and neck pain in my office. People think of chiropractors as back doctors. In my practice and in the world, we don't heal anything, rather, the body heals itself. When your nerves get pinched in your spine, the energy gets blocked from traveling through your nervous system and into your immune system which controls all the healing in your body. We adjust spinal misalignment prevent your body from healing itself, so you can function at your optimal.chiropractic-care
Chiropractic is about total health and wellness.
Avery common case which we see in my office is when one has pinched nerves in their lower back and/or sciatica - which is pain from a pinched nerve in your lower back which travels into one of your legs. Very frequently, people who have sciatica have constipation or diarrhea because the same nerve that goes along the back of the leg have other branches that control your intestines and your digestive system.
Additionally, people with different types of headaches -such as tension headaches- have pressure that builds up in the cervical spine, the nerves from your neck, recur, or travel up into your head and can cause tension headaches. We would work to adjust to relive the nerves from that pressure.
A very severe case would be when someone comes in with herniated disks, which are putting pressure on the spinal nerve. When that is the case we do manipulation to realign the vertebrae and get the pressure off the disc so the disc is no longer going to swell up and hit the nerve as much. Then, that it is going to return normal function to the nerve and the patient is going to feel better.
I had a women come in with two herniated discs. She was supposed to be going in for two different surgeries, one on her neck and one on her lower back. Her cousin happened to see one of our ads in the newspaper and sent her into my office without ever having met me - to this day the woman has not had either surgery. She still has pain on occasion but she has never had the surgery. That surgical option is always going to be there. Surgery should always be the last resort
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