{"id":223,"date":"2013-09-13T15:19:07","date_gmt":"2013-09-13T21:19:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.keefeclinic.com\/wp\/?p=223"},"modified":"2015-04-29T13:49:34","modified_gmt":"2015-04-29T19:49:34","slug":"chiropractic-the-science-philosophy-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.keefeclinic.com\/wp\/chiropractic-the-science-philosophy-art\/","title":{"rendered":"Chiropractic: The Science, Philosophy & Art"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Dr<\/a>

CLICK TO ORDER<\/p><\/div>\n

September 18, 1895<\/span><\/h4>\n

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DEAF 17 YEARS<\/span>
\nI was deaf 17 years and I expected to always remain so, for I had doctored a great deal without any benefit. I had long ago made up my mind not to take any more ear treatments, for it did me no good. Last January, Dr. Palmer told me that my deafness came from an injury in my spine. This was new to me; but it is a fact that my back was injured at the time I went deaf. Dr. Palmer treated me on the spine; in two treatments I could hear quite well. That was eight months ago. My hearing remains good.<\/span><\/p>\n

Harvey Lillard<\/span>
\n 320 W. Eleventh St.<\/span>
\n Davenport, Iowa<\/span><\/p>\n

TODAY<\/span><\/h4>\n
\"Dr<\/a>

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Hi, my husband<\/span> and I have been trying to start a family for seven years. After trying the doctors my medical doctor sent us to without success, we were told about chiropractic. Well, two months later I was pregnant.
\n- Linda<\/p>\n

\"Dr<\/a>

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My name is Jim<\/span>. I lifted something wrong at work and heard something pop and went to my knees in pain. I was told surgery was the only option I had, and I would be off work several months. Then the bad news......I might not ever return to my same job. Someone told me to try chiropractic, best suggestion I ever got. I was back to work in three weeks and am doing great...
\n- Jim<\/p>\n

\"whiplash,<\/a>

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It was a year ago<\/span> that I had the car accident, and just a few weeks after that, the first seizure hit. For the next several months I was terrified when the next one would come. Every few weeks the doctor would increase my medication until he said any higher could be fatal. I was looking at a life of drugs that left me a zombie and I was still having seizures. When a friend told me about chiropractic, I didn't think it could help. What a mistake I almost made! Today I am free of seizures and feel fantastic, even my daily headaches are gone.
\n- Jill<\/p>\n

I used to have Chronic Fatigue Syndrome before I tried Chiropractic
\n- Beth<\/p>\n

\"Dr.<\/a>

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My child was<\/span> hyperactive and doing poorly in school...not any more! For the first time she is making A's!....
\n- Karen<\/p>\n

I couldn't believe after twenty years my allergies were gone.....
\n- Larry<\/p>\n

\"Dr<\/a>

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In 1895 Dr. D.D. Palmer gave the adjustment that was heard around the world. Today Chiropractic is the worlds largest natural health care system.<\/span><\/p>\n

Though started in the U.S. in the late 1800's, Chiropractic is now found around the world.<\/p>\n

Chiropractic is a science,<\/span> philosophy and art making up the second largest healing art in the U.S.<\/p>\n

PHILOSOPHY<\/span><\/h4>\n
\"Dr<\/a>

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The power that<\/span> made the body can heal the body. There is an inborn intelligence (innate) that controls all function within the body. As innate is expressed to each tissue at 100%, then there will be 100% function or health. The body does not need outside help to do its job-- it just needs no interference. When the spine is subluxated (misaligned) INNATE can't control and coordinate the body, thus ill health happens.<\/p>\n

SCIENCE<\/span><\/h4>\n
\"Dr<\/a>

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Health is when<\/span> each organ is functioning properly, and is functioning in relation to the needs and wants of the rest of the body. (Dorland's Medical Dictionary) The nervous system controls and coordinates every organ, part and system of the body and relates the individual to his or her environment. (Grays Anatomy) Nerves from the spinal cord (Pre-ganglionic fibers) communicate (synapse) with the nerves controlling organs (up to 20 post-ganglionic fibers - autonomic chain). Vertebra become subluxated (misaligned) and compress the nerves (pinched nerves). 10 millimeters of pressure decrease the nerve function 40%. 20 millimeters of pressure decrease function by 60%. (Spinal Research University Colorado) This nerve pressure causes the underlying weakness that allows disease to develop. Healthy bodies don't get sick. Studies show chiropractic is twice as effective as medical care, at half the cost. (Trial records Wilks vs. AMA)<\/p>\n

ART<\/span><\/h4>\n
\"Dr<\/a>

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The highly skilled,<\/span> specialized art of finding and adjusting misaligned joints of the body (mainly the spine). Helping restore proper function by restoring normal nerve and blood supply to the body. Taking the knowledge of chemistry, physiology and diet to restore proper blood chemistry balance and organ function.<\/p>\n

\"The doctor of the future will give no medicine but will interest his patient in the care of the human frame, diet , and in the cause and prevention of disease.\"<\/span>
\n- Thomas Edison<\/p>\n

\"Dr<\/a>

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The Chiropractic Physician looks to correct the cause-not just to cover the symptoms.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Dr<\/a>

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Symptom relief<\/span> is the approach most medical physicians use in treating their patients, leaving the underlying condition time to get worse. This approach is widely used, although drugs can't replace sick cells with healthy ones. And physicians who were only taught drug therapy in school don't have the tools to do anything else.<\/p>\n

\"Dr<\/a>

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Chiropractic training takes<\/span> a totally different approach. Lifestyle components like diet (vitamin therapy, herbs etc.), exercise, stress, body ecology and nervous system health are taught in place of drug therapy.<\/p>\n

\"Dr<\/a>

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Because of the difference<\/span> in philosophy of health care, tension has built up between the two approaches in patient care. This tension has produced a lot of negative propaganda from the AMA (the union of most drug therapists). It has gotten so nasty that the federal court has demanded the AMA stop its attempt to block the growth of chiropractic. Despite the scare tactics the AMA has used over the years to keep patients from seeing other types of doctors like Chiropractors, Chiropractic has grown into the second largest health care system in the US and the world's largest natural healing art.<\/span> The federal judge found the AMA's main objection to chiropractic was an economic one. Chiropractic patients were getting well after medicine failed to help them and they were telling others. Not only that, they were asking their drug therapists why they did not do for them what their chiropractic physician did....ouch!<\/p>\n

LAWS OF HEALTH<\/span><\/h4>\n
\"Dr<\/a>

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Chiropractic Physicians<\/span> don't claim to cure every disease, and they refer patients to other specialists at a far greater rate than the reverse, even when the MD knows we could help his patient.<\/p>\n

\"Dr<\/a>

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However, most chiropractic<\/span> patients report receiving what they came for. In fact, Chiropractic doctors have the highest approval rate over MDs in patient opinion polls.<\/p>\n

There are no magic potions or pills to produce good health, but there are five laws:<\/p>\n