UTAH SPORTS & FAMILY CHIROPRACTIC

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Chiropractors specialize in neuromuscular disorders and how they impact our physical  and mental health. They believe the human body can heal itself with help  from chiropractic treatments, such as spinal manipulation and spinal  decompression. Despite common misconceptions, chiropractors are not  trained to reject Western medicine. Instead, they learn techniques that  complement the treatment plans recommended by primary care physicians  and other medical providers.

Yes. Statistics prove that chiropractic care is one of the safest types  of healthcare in the world. You only need to compare the malpractice  premiums paid by chiropractors to those paid by medical doctors. Doctors  of Chiropractic pay only a small fraction (approx. 1/20) of the price  medical doctors pay in malpractice premiums. This year, 250,000 people  will die as a result of bad medicine, making this the third leading  cause of death in the United States of America (The Journal of The  American Medical Association, JAMA; Vol.284, July 26, 2000). Of the  millions of people receiving chiropractic adjustments, each year, only a  handful will even make a complaint.

This question is frequently asked because people associate the  “cracking” or “popping” of one’s back or neck with a chiropractic  adjustment. The two are not the same thing. If a person has a desire to  “crack” his/her neck or back, it is often because one area of their  spine is fixated or jammed, causing another area to move too much and  “pop,” sometimes by itself. It’s the fixated or jammed area that needs  to be properly adjusted by a chiropractor so that the other parts of the  spine will not be hypermobile and noisy. When you “crack” your back,  you may be relieving the tension for a little while. Do you notice how  it keeps coming back? That is because you are not giving yourself a  specific chiropractic adjustment. The cause of the spinal tension, the  fixated or jammed (subluxated) vertebrae, has not been corrected. A  person who makes a habit out of “cracking” or “popping” their back or  neck should go to a Doctor of Chiropractic to have their spine checked.  Even a chiropractor cannot adjust him/herself.