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> Chiropractic CareDiscover what the best chiropractic care in Chicago's northwest suburbs can do for youWhy suffer when the best chiropractic care and family practice chiropractors in the Chicago suburbs can offer you relief now, as well as long term health care? Touch of Health in Buffalo Grove, Illinois offers quality chiropractic care, traditional medicine as well as alternative and holistic health care. If you are looking for a chiropractor or would like to know more about chiropractic or the benefits of chiropractic care, chiropractic treatments or chiropractic health, please feel free to Contact Us or browse the chiropractic questions and answers provided here. What is Chiropractic? Chiropractic is the science concerned with the relationship between structure (primarily the spine) and function (primarily the nervous system) of the human body and how that relationship affects the restoration and preservation of health. Is a Chiropractor a Doctor? Yes, A minumum of 6 years of education is required by law, in all states and most places around the world, where chiropractic is practiced, to become a Doctor of Chiropractic. The Doctor of Chiropractic first spends at least 2 years in pre-chiropractic studies at a college or university. Then attends a college of chiropractic for four more years. The Doctor of Chiropractic studies all the basic sciences and must pass the State Board of Examiners' basic sciences examinations. This is the examination other doctors, including MDs, are required to pass. In addition, a Doctor of Chiropractic must then pass the rigid State Board of Chiropractic examination. What Do Chiropractors Do? Helping to restore proper spinal biomechanics and improved nervous system function begins with a case history. This gives the doctor a background of your health, such as surgeries, accidents, etc. and other details affecting your current health. After reviewing your history and discussing your specific problem, a thourough orthopedic, neurological and chiropractic examination is performed. X-rays may be taken to discover structural and functional problems associated with the spinal column. The findings of these examinations are explained and a plan of chiropractic adjustments may be recommended. Progress is monitored with periodic examinations and follow-up reports. Since the word "doctor" comes from the Latin word meaning teacher, regardless of your doctor's unique clinical approach, he or she has a strong commitment to patient education. Do Chiropractors Ever Use Drugs In Patient Care? No drugs or medications are ever used, or prescribed, in chiropractic care. Chiropractic recognizes the possible benefits from drugs with contagious or infectious diseases, but most drugs only tempororarily block the pain which merely masks or distorts symptoms. Covering up symptoms, in turn, is misleading and may keep you from getting the proper treatments needed to correct the underlying cause of your pain. Chiropractic searches for, finds, and corrects causes. Your Doctor of Chiropractic understands that only nature heals and will use only natural means to restore health. What Do Chiropractors Treat? Chiropractors remove subluxations (misalignments of bones, producing nerve pressure or irratation) by adjustments. This method is not limited to, but is especially helpful in correcting: headaches, backaches, pain and stiffness in the neck, pain between the shoulders, pain in the hips of legs, pain or numbness in hands or feet, pain in the shoulders or arms, muscular pains in the chest or abdomen. Every function in your entire body is under the control of the nervous system and subluxations can interfere with this control, so chiropractic is often very helpful in correcting many other conditions. Only a chiropractor is qualified to determine if your condition can be helped by chiropractic method. Of course, if yours is not a chiropractic case, chiropractic will not help you and our chiropractors will tell you so and refer you to another specialist. But if yours is a chiropractic condition, nothing else is likely to every really help you. Are Adjustments Painful? Most spinal adjustments are not painful at all, as a matter of fact, patients feel very good and often fell free of pain almost immediately. Adjustments are also very safe with no harmful or dangerous side effects. To give an adjustment, the chiropractor locates a vertebra, or any other bone, which has slipped from its normal position, and is causing nerve pressure and irratation and carefully and skillfully moves the vertebra or bone back into its normal position. In most cases this is done by making contact, in a special way the the hands, directly over the affected vertebra or other bone, and making a gentle movement.
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