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The Bass And Treble Of It

If you've ever tried to convince a friend or loved one to try chiropractic care, you know how difficult it can be to explain how and why it works. Perhaps this will help.

While most people today think of chiropractic as a treatment for neck and back bain, that was not always the case. In fact, the first chiropractic patient back in 1895 had a hearing disorder. The second, a heart condition. In fact, these early cases prompted some to crow that chiropractic could cure anything. Oops!

But from the beginning, chiropractic was based on the concept of tone.
"Life is the expression of tone," observed D.D. Palmer, the pioneer of chiropractic.

Think of health, with a normal degree of nerve tension and everything functioning as it should, as the middle C on a piano. If there is too little tone and too little tension (the keys to the left of middle C), then organs, tissues and systems are over-active. Such as diarrhea, for example.

The objective of chiropractic is to help get you to middle C. That's done by finding areas of your spine, which are either inhibiting or overexciting the tone of your nervous system, in particular, your spinal cord.

When tone is normalized, symptoms often resolve. Which makes it appear as if chiropractic care is treating the symptoms. But in reality, it's restoring proper tone, reviving your ability to self-heal.

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