The Widen Clinic

Why Chiropractic?

Chiropractic is the third largest health care profession in the world, following medicine and dentistry. The focus of the Chiropractor is to help patients who suffer from symptoms from joints, muscles, nerves or bones of the spine and extremities.

Chiropractic uses preventive and treatment methods centering on manipulation of the joints, exercise, and education to modify work and home health risks that cause symptoms to return. Once you have had that first bout with pain, you are four times more likely to experience additional episodes unless you change your habits.

Unlike medical doctors, the objective of Chiropractic care is not to treat or cure diseases. Chiropractic care focuses on the removal of an interference in your nerve system that is causing you discomfort.

The nerve system controls every function in your body. Interferences in your nerve system lead to health problems. By removing these interferences, your body can not only correct health problems, but prevent many conditions from developing.

If the structure of the spine is not stable, it will cause pressure on various nerves, muscles, and tendons throughout the body. Chiropractic adjustments free the interference so the body has a better chance of healing itself. The principle of chiropractic is that given the proper treatment, the body has the innate ability to heal itself.

In 1994, the federal government completed a detailed review of the scientific evidence behind the methods used by chiropractors and determined them to be one of the best first line defenses to reduce back pain and restore function.

Chiropractic can be beneficial in the treatment of numerous musculo-skeletal complaints.