My mother and my older brother went to the chiropractor regularly and I was on my way to becoming one but I didn’t get the ’big idea” about chiropractic for a few more years to come.

Funny how fate happens to turn our lives about for the buddy I went to school with was the son of a chiropractor and he had talked me into it.

So we left Vancouver and flew seven and a half hours non stop to Toronto, got to the college and there was no turning back.   My buddy didn’t like it and he went on to Guelph to become a veterinarian and I stuck it out and returned to Vancouver to work with his dad.

By then I had the “big idea.”   And after all of the years since and after hundreds of thousands of patients and literally millions of manual spinal and extremity adjustments I am as enthusiastic and convinced of chiropractic’s healing merits as I was when I first entered practice.

So why and what is it that makes the art form of chiropractic so affective in restoring health and keeping sickness at bay?

Chiropractic is a drugless profession.   We know that a healthy body needs no help.   Our body is the greatest drug store ever, making countless millions of chemical reactions every hour of every day.  

These chemical reactions and other incredible physical and mental responses of our bodies to our environment are done automatically for us by our parts.

Let’s understand here that to be “healthy all the parts work.”

All of the parts are usually on board when we arrive at birth.   When fresh and new they seem to be in better order and “work” better when we are young.  

For any of the countless parts to work they must first be intimately in touch with nerves.   Nerves nourish.   Nerves nurture our parts.   Failing of the parts to work always involves failure of the nerves to nurture.   First the nerves fail then the parts fail, then the pain and the sprains appear.

Then we go to the drugstore and get drugs to stupefy our brains and hope that the lab tests don’t give us the worst of bad news.   That’s not healthcare.

The chiropractor knows that by design the nerves must be uninhibited to do their job, that of working the parts.   And by design the nerves course and carry signals along and through tracts of bone.   Nerves cannot be stressed.

The chiropractor and or course millions and millions of chiropractic patients know that when bones are properly re-aligned and nerves and brains are allowed to do their job they feel and function better.   They are healthier.

The chiropractor is well trained in finding and correctly adjusting by hand the bone’s position to allow the nerve’s return to it’s nurturing status.

Body’s are constantly under stress and in that drawn-up-tight condition bones “subluxate” or misalign causing kinks in the spine and extremities.   The nerves can’t reach the parts carrying their full signal load.   When we go to use the parts like muscles they fail and cause bone twists and joint pain.

The chiropractor gently but thoroughly restores the positions of the spinal vertebrae and the extremities thereby lightening up the resistance and load on the nervous systems.   Then and only then can our body return closer to the young and youthful feeling and function, that of health, all of the parts working.

Chiropractic means “done by hand.”