by Dr. Matt Mullaney

Created on: March 08, 2010   Last Updated: March 10, 2010

I am a chiropractor and I own a chiropractic wellness and true health center in downtown Minneapolis, MN in the Warehouse district and North Loop area. I have decided to write a short explanation of the chiropractic health philosophy. Chiropractic Doctors have great success with helping people stay or become healthy and have for over 100 years. Chiropractors are 1 of the only 3 doctors that are classified as "primary health care physicians," which means that they can be someone's primary doctor and be the main overseer of their health.

Chiropractic revolves around a Vitalistic, holistic, and natural approach to Life and Health. This Vitalistic, holistic, and natural approach uses the Body’s natural ability to self-heal and self regulate itself. This philosophy means that the Body already has everything it needs to grow, heal, and prosper in any environment. The Body is meant to be HEALTHY not SICK. Chiropractic focuses on maintaining actual health and bringing people back to health by treating causes not symptoms. We see the Body’s great power in everyday life from keeping the heart beating, digesting food, growing hair (or not ;-), healing cuts, and the many other intelligent functions we don’t even know about. The Body’s ability to do all this without our conscious assistance implies an amazing inborn intelligence.

Chiropractic assists this intelligence by clearing any interference from the Spine and Nervous System so the Body can do its job perfectly (the way it is suppose to). Chiropractic also focuses on being healthy and staying healthy by eating with real nutrition and exercising at your proper level. In Chiropractic, we relieve Nerve interference and Structural interference. Nerve interference is a very large component in Dis-ease, and Structural interference is the main factor in degeneration such as arthritis. The Brain, which is your main “computer” that controls every one of your 70-100 TRILLION cells that make up all your organs, muscles, and tissues. From the Brain comes the Spinal Cord, which is the Brain’s main “highway”, and the Spinal Cord directs all information from the Brain to the many Nerves that come out of the Spinal Cord to the rest of the 70-100 TRILLION cells in your Body.

If there is interference in the spinal segments or ”joints” (called a Subluxation) then the Nerves aren’t conducting the Brain’s messages to the rest of the Body completely. This is why

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