Chiropractic, also known as chiropractic care, is a health care discipline that claims to prevent and treat health problems by using spinal adjustments in order to correct spinal dysfunction, or subluxations. Chiropractic asserts that the brain and nervous system control and coordinate all the body's functions in part through nerve branches that exit from the spinal cord between the vertebrae. Some Chiropractors infer a causal relationship between nerve interference or compression at the spine and subsequent problems in more dis ...

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• Chiropractic - History
• Chiropractic - Chiropractic subluxation
• Chiropractic - Usage
• Chiropractic - Chiropractic education licensure and regulation
• Chiropractic - United States
• Chiropractic - Philosophical schools of chiropractic
• Chiropractic - Criticism of chiropractic
• Chiropractic - Safety concerns

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Chiropractic, Chiropractic - History, Chiropractic - Chiropractic subluxation, Chiropractic - Usage, Chiropractic - Chiropractic education licensure and regulation, Chiropractic - United States, Chiropractic - Philosophical schools of chiropractic, Chiropractic - Criticism of chiropractic, Chiropractic - Safety concerns

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Palmer imbued the term "subluxation" with a metaphysical and philosophical meaning. He held that certain dislocations of bones interfered with the "innate intelligence", a kind of spiritual energy or life force dependent upon God that connects the brain to the rest of the body. Palmer claimed that subluxations interfered with the proper communication of this innate intelligence with the rest of the body, and t ...

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Chiropractic, Chiropractic - History, Chiropractic - Chiropractic subluxation, Chiropractic - Usage, Chiropractic - Scientific support for chiropractic, Chiropractic - Chiropractic education licensure and regulation, Chiropractic - United States, Chiropractic - Philosophical schools of chiropractic, Chiropractic - Criticism of chiropractic, Chiropractic - Safety concerns

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Kirlian Photography can be used to show how chiropractic influences the flow of energy thru the body after treatment. Research presented by Michael Courtney.

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Critics, including many mainstream medical doctors and scientists, often reject the claims of some chiropractic associations and schools as pseudoscience, quackery, or fraud. Advocates believe at least some of this criticism was encouraged by the American Medical Association during the 1970s and early 1980s in what they have labeled "anti-chiropractic prejudice". In a carefully worded statement, the judge in a trial against the AMA recognized that this skepticism was also the inspiration for the AMA's actions in instituting an illegal ...

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Chiropractic, Chiropractic - History, Chiropractic - Chiropractic subluxation, Chiropractic - Usage, Chiropractic - Scientific support for chiropractic, Chiropractic - Chiropractic education licensure and regulation, Chiropractic - United States, Chiropractic - Philosophical schools of chiropractic, Chiropractic - Criticism of chiropractic, Chiropractic - Safety concerns

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The roots of chiropractic care can be traced all the way back to the beginning of recorded time. Writings from China and Greece written in 2700 B.C. and 1500 B.C. mention spinal manipulation and the maneuvering of the lower extremities to ease low back pain. Hippocrates, the Greek physician, who lived from 460 to 357 B.C., also published texts detailing the importance of spinal manipulation. In one of his writings he declares: Get knowledge of the spine, for this is the ...

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Chiropractic, Chiropractic - History, Chiropractic - Chiropractic subluxation, Chiropractic - Usage, Chiropractic - Chiropractic education licensure and regulation, Chiropractic - United States, Chiropractic - Philosophical schools of chiropractic, Chiropractic - Criticism of chiropractic, Chiropractic - Safety concerns

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chiropractic (chiropractic medicine, chiropraxis): A multiform approach to characterizing and treating health problems. Its centerpiece is spinal manipulation. A major chiropractic concept is that of Innate Intelligence.

(See also: Chiropractic, Body Mind and Soul, Alternative Health, Alternative Health Dictionary)

Naprapathy is a branch of medicine, (manual medicine) that focuses on the evaluation and treatment of neuro-musculoskeletal conditions. Doctors of Naprapathy are connective tissue specialists. Naprapathic treatment consists of naprapathic manipulative techniques, adjunctive (additional) treatments, and nutritional counseling. See also. Chiropractic Osteopathy Manipulative therapy ...

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In chiropractic, vertebral subluxation is a condition in which a vertebra has lost its proper juxtaposition with an adjacent vertebra (to an extent less than a luxation) in such a way as to alter nerve function. The existence of subluxation in the sense used by chiropractors is a matter of controversy, and the concept is not recognized by mainstream medicine. See also. Straight chiropractic Categories: Accuracy disputes | Including:

• Subluxation - History: Chiropractic perspective
• Subluxation - History: Skeptic's perspective
• Subluxation - Further reading

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Daniel David Palmer (March 7, 1845–October 20, 1913) was the founder of chiropractic. Palmer was born in Port Perry, near Toronto, Canada, and at an early age his family moved to the United States. By the late 1880s he had a practice as a magnetic healer in Davenport, Iowa. He encountered two patients who displayed symptoms supposedly associated with spinal problems. One of the patients, Harvey Lillard, had suffered deafness, which Palmer later claimed was caused by a spinal dislocation. Palmer claimed that on Septembe ...

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• Daniel David Palmer - Further reading
• Daniel David Palmer - References

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Quackery is the practice of promoting medicine which lacks evidence of effectiveness. The word derives from quacksalver, an archaic word originally of Dutch origin (spelled kwakzalver in contemporary Dutch), meaning "boaster who applies a salve." It is often difficult to distinguish between those who knowingly promote unproven medical therapies and those who are mistaken as to their effectiveness. In libel cases in US courts against people who accused others of being guilty of quackery, the co ...

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• Quackery - History
• Quackery - Quackery today
• Quackery - Reasons quackery persists

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Osteopathic medicine (known as osteopathy in the past) is a branch of medicine which views the human body holistically, and emphasizes the prevention and treatment of illness and injury through the use of manual and physical therapies, along with traditional medical practices such as drugs and surgery. Doctors of Osteopathic medicine (D.O.s) educated in the United States are fully licensed physicians equivalent to M.D.s. Osteopaths educated in the United Kingdom and elsewhere have a scope of practice limited mainly to musculoskeletal conditi ...

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• Osteopathic medicine - History
• Osteopathic medicine - Osteopathic Principles
• Osteopathic medicine - Techniques of Osteopathic Medicine
• Osteopathic medicine - Scope of Manual Therapies
• Osteopathic medicine - Cranial Osteopathy
• Osteopathic medicine - Visceral Osteopathy
• Osteopathic medicine - Osteopathic Medicine Around the World
• Osteopathic medicine - Osteopathic Medicine in the USA
• Osteopathic medicine - Osteopathic Medicine in the UK Australia Canada and NZ
• Osteopathic medicine - Osteopathic Medicine in the European Union

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Palpation is a method of examination in which the examiner feels the size or shape or firmness or location of something (of body parts when the examiner is a health professional). Palpation is used by medical doctors and chiropractic doctors for particularly for thoracic and abdominal examinations, but also for examination of edema and palpation of pulses. See also:. Physical examination Inspection (medicine) Percussion (medicine) Auscultation

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A spinal adjustment is the method of choice for treatment of musculoskeletal conditions by chiropractors. Commonly referred to as an "adjustment," this chiropractic treatment is defined as a high velocity, low amplitude thrust used to restore proper function to a joint. This is often associated with a loud audible popping sound that results from nitrogen gas being released from the synovial fluid found in diarthrodial joints. When an adjustment is performed by a chiropractor, the force applied separates the joint surfaces of th ...

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Bartlett Joshua (B.J.) Palmer (September 9, 1882 - May 21, 1961), short for Bartlett Joshua Palmer, was a pioneer in the field of chiropractic medicine. B. J. Palmer - Early life. B.J. was son of Daniel David Palmer (or "D.D."), the founder of chiropractic medicine. The Palmer family of six resided in the back of a grocery store that D.D. operated. In 1885 D.D.'s wife became sick and died, after which D.D. remarried numerous times. When D.D. had settled with a new wife, he moved the fa ...

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• B. J. Palmer - Early life
• B. J. Palmer - Later life

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Wilk v. American Medical Association was a federal antitrust suit brought against the American Medical Association and 10 co-defendants by chiropractor Chester A. Wilk, DC, and four co-plaintiffs. Until 1983, the AMA had made it unethical for medical doctors to refer patients to chiropractors, by classifying chiropractic as unscientific. Prior to 1980, Principle 3 of the AMA Principles of Medical Ethics stated: "A physician should practice a method of healing founded on a scientific basis; and he should not voluntarily profe ...

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Kinesiology is the study of human movement. The theory of kinesiology encompasses the study of the biological components of human movement including the anatomical, physiological, neurological, biochemical, and biomechanical. Also studied is the relationship between the quality of human movement and the overall health of the human organism. Theoretical knowledge of kinesiology is applied in many areas including physical therapy, occupational therapy, chiropractic, osteopathy, exercise physiology,massage therapy and ergon ...

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The city of Davenport was incorporated in 1839 and is located in the U.S. state of Iowa. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 98,359. The city is part of the Quad Cities of Iowa and Illinois. The city borders the Mississippi River. Davenport is the home of Palmer Chiropractic College, the birthplace of chiropractic medicine and wellness technique. Saint Ambrose University is also located in Da ...

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• Davenport Iowa - History
• Davenport Iowa - Geography
• Davenport Iowa - Demographics
• Davenport Iowa - Transportation
• Davenport Iowa - Law and government
• Davenport Iowa - Notable people
• Davenport Iowa - Points of interest

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Holistic health is a non-medical philosophy of well-being that considers the physical, mental, and spiritual aspects of life as closely interconnected and balanced [1]. Advocates of the holistic health philosophy typically seek or use a wide variety of alternative practices, the most common of which include acupuncture, chiropractic, naturopathy, and homeopathy. Advocates of alternative medicine often employ the use of the holistic health philosophy to claim that conventional medicine does not address the needs of the patient a ...

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