In the 101 years of it's development, chiropractic science has grown to major stature in the field of healing arts and has reached millions of people. With the rate of growth steadily increasing, the chiropractic profession has found a continuing need to aquaint new patients with the nature of chiropractic care.

The modern chiropractor works both directly and indirectly with the nervous system. Every function of the body is under the control of this system. Every organ, tissue, and cell is controlled by nerve impulses traveling from the brain to all parts of the body. Nerves make possible all movement. Nerves transmit all sensations to the brain. Nerves make possible all sight, smell, taste, touch, and hearing. Nerves maintain balance and keep the body temperature at 98.6. Nerves make the bowels move. Nerves control the liver, lungs, spleen, pancreas, gall bladder, and kidneys. In fact, the nervous system is the master system which controls all other systems of the body, including: the glandular, reproductive, digestive, eliminative, respiratory, and circulatory.

Every science of healing has what is known as an avenue of approach. For example, in the field of medicine a hyperdermic needle injects drugs through the skin; a pill is swallowed and goes into the stomach. They are the avenues through which the drugs gain access to the body.

In the field of chiropractic, the avenue if approached is the spine. The spine houses and protects the spinal chord, the "switchboard" of the nervous system through which nerve fibers pass from the brain to different parts of the body. For every effect there must have been a cause. If a person is ill, then the condition of pain, regardless of the name applied to it, is an effect for which there must have been a cause. The nerves leave the spinal chord through openings between moveable spine bones called vertebrae. The vertebrae through injury or posture problems become misaligned, they interfere with the normal functions of the nerves. This misalignment causes pain and malfuction of the nerve system called a "subluxation". The subluxation then becomes the cause of the pain.

The objective of chiropractic care is to determine, through x-ray films, and through examination, the exact degree of spinal misalignment producing this subluxation. Proper "adjustments" are given to remove these subluxations and thus remove the cause of the pain and malfunction.

Chiropractic care will add life to years and years to life.