Health: Its a Healing Thing

It can be difficult for individuals to understand why their recovery under chiropractic may require multiple visits over time.  They are used to going to the medical doctor and receiving a pill or an injection to combat the symptoms.  Very few prescription medications are intended to address the truly causative situation.  Even antibiotics, though they squelch the reproduction of illness causing bacteria, do not address the reason that the body has allowed the infecting agent to get a foot hold in the system in the first place.

Chiropractic care is aimed at correcting the underlying problem causing the decreased function of the body's systems which is causing the symptom(s).   It looks at the body as a whole; a group of systems that must work together in optimal function to maintain a healthy body.  This correction often times will require a period of healing,  like any healing process this simply takes time with the healing and return of improved function better.  True healing comes from within and can yield longer lasting improvements, better vitality and quality of life.

The chart below gives other examples of how organized medicine and chiropractic health care see the aspects of health care.