What Is Chiropractic ?
By : Louie Robinson , DC drlouierobinson @ gmail . com
Clear Creek Chiropractic Center
If you were to ask 10 chiropractors that question you ’ d probably get 10 similar but different answers . To each doc it might mean something a little different to them .
What chiropractic is to me , in the most basic sense , is giving people back quality of life . If you are living in pain your quality of life suffers . Difficult things are more miserable and enjoyable things are harder to enjoy . Once you get your patient out of pain they start enjoying life to the fullest and are able to enjoy things the pain prevented them from before .
Another way to describe chiropractic is “ the why question .” As chiropractors we ask the question why , why is this hurting , why is this functioning correctly , why is this not working the way it was designed to work . Pain is the body telling you there is something wrong . Very rarely does your body hurt for no reason at all . Simply treating pain does not address the question of why does it hurt . Chiropractors treating the symptoms of pain , discomfort etc ., by discovering the problem causing the pain , and once that is corrected , the pain goes away . Therefore , helping the problem long term . If your car started making a funny noise you could turn up the radio or you could get the problem looked at and addressed . As chiropractors we prefer to address the main problem , knowing the annoying symptoms will resolve once that is gone .
As chiropractors we also teach people to listen to their bodies and treat them well . What if , when you got your first car at 16 , you knew that was the only car you would ever have for the rest of your life . No trade-ins , no upgrade to a newer model . How would you treat that car ? Would you change the oil before it needed it , maybe try not to put the “ medal to the metal ” very often , as soon as a problem arose , address it before it became much worse ? Many of us live running our engines at maximum capacity and not addressing problems that pop up from time to time until the problem is severe . As chiropractors we teach our patients to treat their bodies well and take care of problems before they are affecting our ability to go to work , spend time with our families , and live life to the fullest .
13 MOMENTUM / August 2018