HOW DOES CHIROPRACTIC CONTRIBUTE TO OUR HEALTH?

My name is Marc Bony and I am a Doctor of Chiropractic. In Spain, chiropractic is a very unknown science; the entire country has 347 chiropractic doctors, and in the rest of the world, it is the third healthcare profession used to care for health, due to the results it achieves with patients and the practically non-existent side effects it may have as a healthcare practice.

WHY IS CHIROPRACTIC THE THIRD HEALTHCARE PROFESSION?

Chiropractic is the third healthcare profession because, after traditional doctors and dentists, people trust chiropractic as an alternative to traditional medicine.

Chiropractors do not treat pain as traditional medical professionals do. Chiropractic works on the functioning of the body. Chiropractic could be compared to a dentist. The dentist takes care of the teeth, the chiropractor will take care of the spine, the vertebrae, and the nervous system. What cavities are to the dentist, we will call subluxations. In chiropractic, the correction of these subluxations will require a specific spinal adjustment. When a cavity affects our teeth, there is a latency period from when it appears until symptoms present themselves. The same happens with chiropractic; that is, from the moment a subluxation occurs until pain appears, a lot of time can pass. Some scientists even talk about ten to twelve years.

HOW DOES CHIROPRACTIC ACT IN OUR BODY?

The spine is very important as it is the communicator between the brain and the rest of the body. That is to say, it is the channel through which all information is sent. We must understand the spine and all the vertebrae as a highway of information that reaches all organs. If this information highway has an interference (subluxation), the nerve information will not reach the organs completely, and for 5, 10, or 15 years, less and less information will reach them, ultimately generating a disease.

That is why chiropractic is so important. We must take care of that central axis so that the body functions better and to avoid greater evils by eliminating the “interferences.”

Many people come to my office for symptoms; it is the passport to enter the office, but they realize that by making the body function better thanks to chiropractic spinal adjustments, the pain disappears… but not because I work directly on the pain, but because I work on the cause of this pain, restoring the correct functioning of our body.

HOW WOULD YOU EXPLAIN CHIROPRACTIC WITH A SIMILE?

To understand the concept of chiropractic, we could imagine a faucet, a hose, and a garden. Imagine that we place a brick on top of the hose. If we leave the brick on the hose for many years, eventually the garden will dry up. That is to say, if we have a subluxation on our nerves for a long time, the organs will begin to stop functioning properly due to a lack of “correct irrigation of information,” and they will end up getting sick. It is from there that the symptom appears.

Chiropractors do what we do is lift the brick that presses the hose (we make specific spinal adjustments), allowing the flow of water to return to normal (flow of nerve information from brain to organ), and over time we will achieve that the garden recovers and bears fruit (the body functions correctly again because in an optimal health situation it self-regulates).

TRADITIONAL MEDICINE VS. CHIROPRACTIC

In our society, we associate the concept of health with the concept of not having pain, but this concept is totally illogical. For example, people who die from a heart attack (a large part of the population) do not feel pain… do they all die in good health?

The second leading cause of death in Spain and in many industrialized countries is cancer… and the same happens. Many cancer patients from stage one to four do not feel pain. Therefore, basing health in relation to pain is not an adequate reference.

Traditional medicine focuses on pain and works on health to address pain at the moment or the next day. The correct, logical, coherent, and healthy approach is not just to attack the pain (which is the symptom) but to seek the origin of the pain and correct the problem. Chiropractic seeks the cause of the symptom and aims to correct it for the benefit of our long-term health.

Finally, I leave you a video in which I explain how chiropractic contributes to your health.