ABOUT CHIROPRACTIC

Chiropractic is a natural, noninvasive, drug free healing art. Although the discipline as we know it has been around since 1895, chiropractic is an ancient form of healing, with its roots of manipulation and bone-setting dating back thousands of years. Some people believe that the "laying on of hands" by Jesus was actually a form of chiropractic. Ironically, Hippocrates, the father of medicine, was actually a chiropractor himself.

Chiropractic also has a scientific base with numerous studies showing its efficacy, "meaning how well it works", in the treatment of such ailments as:

• Headaches
• Low Back Pain
• Childhood Ear Infections
• Asthma

. . . and many others. Doctors of Chiropractic get to the root cause of the problem, rather than simply treating symptoms that some other health care professionals do. Chiropractic gets to the root of the problem by understanding that the nervous system controls the entire body—from the top of your head to the bottom of your feet and everything in between.

When there is a misalignment of the spinal vertebra, the integrity of the nervous system is breached, causing the disruption of the message traveling to and from the brain. This can effect muscles, organs or glands. This condition of misalignment of spinal vertebra is known as subluxation or segmental dysfunction. Chiropractors detect and then eliminate the source of the breach in the nervous system. Many methods are utilized to actually detect a subluxation. Kolashinski Chiropractic relies on palpation (meaning to check and see by pushing) if a segment in the spinal column is "stuck". The elimination of subluxation is accomplished by the chiropractic adjustment. The adjustment, which is pushing the offending vertebra back into place, is either done by hand or with a special tool, called an activator.

At Kolashinski Chiropractic, most adjustments are done by hand, using little force as necessary to get the job done.