What Makes Chiropractic The Same Yet Different From Everyone Else?
What makes chiropractic the same as other health professions is that the motivation is to help people and restore health. Some might argue that many facets of medicine are not about health but disease treatment. Chiropractic is not in the disease treatment business.
What Makes Chiropractic Different From Everyone Else?
Today we have medicine, chiropractic, dentistry, podiatry, massage, physiotherapy, osteopathy, naturopathy, acupuncture, reiki, reflexology, and so on. The public has a whole array of choices in the health world. Fifty-four years ago, when I entered chiropractic college, it was different; the options were few.
Unfortunately, there exists confusion for many people as the professions often intrude into each other’s territory. In the chiropractic world, we commonly hear, “Chiro, physio, what’s the difference?” It is important that each profession has its own identity and that people stay in their own lane; otherwise, as we often hear, “If two people agree on the same thing, one of them is unnecessary”.
The Chiropractic Principle
What makes chiropractic unique is its philosophy and the principles that follow from that philosophy. Chiropractic recognizes that there is an intelligence that coordinates everything in the body, much like a conductor.
You have beautiful music when that conductor has all the musicians coordinated and playing together. Similarly, your body’s great conductor, the brain, coordinates through the nervous system all bodily functions so we can have a beautifully functioning body. The nature of chiropractic has to do with the intimate relationship between the spine and the nervous system, the main coordinating system of the body.
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