• Chiropractic healthcare is based on the understanding that there is a direct correlation between good health and a normally functioning nervous system, with emphasis on the nerves leading from the spinal column into the entire body. Special care given to physiological and mechanical aspects including structural, spinal, neurological, nutritional and environmental relationships, make for a healthy chiropractic lifestyle.

• Over thirty million Americans have low back pain at any given time, and half of all working Americans acknowledge having back pain symptoms each year. Low back pain is a leading cause of absenteeism in the American workplace.

• Chiropractic healthcare focuses on treating this condition without drugs or surgery.

• Instead, treatment is centered around the adjustment and manipulation of the spine and related tissues of the body. Current medically accepted diagnostics, that are taught in the majority of the chiropractic colleges as part of the standard curriculum, are used to identify the source of the condition and various therapeutic procedures that may be used as adjuncts to the manipulation performed by your chiropractic physician.

• A licensed chiropractic physician must satisfy a demanding academic course at a fully accredited Chiropractic College. This professional degree requires a minimum of six years of study, more basic science courses than required of medical students and approximately 600 hours of externship. Chiropractors are required to pass stringent national board exams and in most states must complete continuing education each year to maintain licensure.