Chiropractic
Chiropractic is a health care practice that was developed 116 years ago and has become the 1st manual health care profession in the world, and the 3rd health care profession (after medicine and dentistry). The World Federation of Chiropractic is affiliated to the WHO.
Chiropractors worldwide are specialists in the spinal column and peripheral joints.
The spinal column and skull contain and protect the central nervous system (brain + spinal cord).
Our entire body is regulated and controlled directly or indirectly by nerves that originate in our spine and brain.
An accident, stress, a fall, repetitive movements, bad posture, poor lifestyle... can upset this balance, creating stress in the vertebrae and skull, irritating the nerve roots, thus hindering the propagation of nerve impulses and causing all sorts of pathologies in our body.
The chiropractor's main task is to restore the correct nerve impulses by restoring full mobility to each vertebral and cranial joint and "unblocking" the pinched nerve, thus restoring good health.
These disturbances of the spinal column are called SUBLUXATIONS. They interfere with the normal transmission of nerve impulses. Less stimulated, the brain is less able to carry out its functions of regulating and controlling the body's systems and organs. Vertebral subluxations can compromise your health in the medium or long term.
The chiropractor corrects these vertebral subluxations using very specific chiropractic adjustments.
It is important to understand that these subluxations can occur without causing any noticeable pain. Pain is often the last apparent symptom.
History of chiropractic
The chiropractic profession owes its existence throughout the world to one man, Daniel David PALMER, and to those who followed him. For the first few decades were very difficult and the fantastic progress of chiropractic throughout North America and then the world is only due to the courage of these first chiropractors (several were imprisoned), and to the extreme effectiveness of chiropractic.
In 1895, D.D. PALMER, a self-taught magnetist, cured Harvey Lillard of a 17-year-old deafness by "putting back" a cervical vertebra that was no longer in place.
Two years later, he founded the first school of chiropractic: Palmer College of Chiropractic, a famous chiropractic college that still exists today.
Progress was very, very rapid:
- 1896 D.D.D PALMER founded the first school in Davenport (Iowa)
- 1902 fifteen chiropractors were trained, including D.D. PALMER's son, Bartlett Joshua PALMER, who took over the school in 1906
- 1911 Five chiropractic schools already existed.
It was then B.J. PALMER who promoted and developed chiropractic from 1906 onwards.
It should nevertheless be added that other authors had already established the link between the osteo-articular structure and the nervous system, showing the universality of D.D.PALMER's discovery: Hippocrates in the 5th century BC, Gallien in the 2nd century...
Today
Chiropractic is recognised as an independent, first-contact profession in many countries:
- United States , Canada...
- Australia, South Africa, Japan, New Zealand...
- Switzerland, United Kingdom, Italy, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden...
- In 2011, France finally published the decrees authorising the practice of chiropractic (decrees from the March 2002 law), a few years after other industrialised countries !!!!!
