The premise of Chiropractic is that every one's body possesses the ability to take care of itself if it is functioning at its optimum level, Vertebral Subluxations decrease its optimum level.

It is your brain that controls and coordinates every function of your body including your immune system. Your brain communicates with the organs of your body by way of its nerve system.

Your nerve system's major network of communication begins at the spinal level. Thirty-one pairs of spinal nerves exit from your spine and junction with other nerves that junction with other nerves that go to every millimeter of your body. It is this system of nerves that allows your body to convey information to your brain. Your brain uses this information to control the functions of your body. Your brain sends informational commands back through the nerve system to a specific organ of your body. It is this way that your body can react to changes in its environment such as trauma, stress, exposure to germs and viruses, etc. When your body has 100% of its ability to react to changes in its environment you are truly healthy.

Your brain is the master controller of your body. It sits on top of your body and is protected by bone- your skull. Your brain extends down through your body. It exits your skull through a hole in its base called the Foramen Magnum (big hole). It continues down through your body as the spinal cord. The spinal cord is also protected by bone- your spine. Your spine is made up of 24 movable bones called vertebra. Between each vertebra is a ligament called the disc. Also between the vertebra is another hole called the inter vertebral foramen (the hole between the vertebra). Out through this hole exit a part of your brain or spinal cord called the spinal nerve. The spinal nerves are the start of the communication system to and from your brain.

A Vertebral Subluxation is when one of the normally freely movable vertebra of your spine gets stuck out of position and loses its motion. The misaligned vertebra stretches the ligament of the disc causing it to swell. The swelling interferes with the spinal nerve exiting the spine next to the swollen disc.

The interference of the spinal nerve alters the communication system that your brain uses to control your body. It can not respond adequately to changes in its environment. Conditions and symptoms such as pain eventually occurs. Once the Subluxations in your spine are reduced your body will regain it ability to function at its optimum level. Conditions and symptoms such as pain frequently disappears.