Summary of presentations and few points on what i learnt
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CHIROPRACTIC.MADS67181.pptxCHIROPRACTIC
Kristine Vedad
ID 1874584
MADS 6718
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HISTORY HISTORY
Is a distinct form of health care from 1895
Hippocrates’s look to the spine, a “requisite for many diseases.”
Herodotus, a contemporary of Hippocrates, gained fame curing diseases by correcting spinal abnormalities through therapeutic exercises.
-some of the earliest healers in the history of the world understood the relationship between health and the condition of the spine
-If the patient were too weak to exercise, Herodotus would manipulate the patient’s spine.
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SCIENCE OF CHIROPRACTIC
Daniel David Palmer discovered the specific spinal adjustment and was also the one to develop the philosophy of chiropractic.
On September 18, 1895, Palmer was working late in his office when a janitor named Harvey Lillard, began working nearby. After managing to communicate with Lillard, Palmer learned that he had normal hearing his whole life until an accident happened and felt a “pop” on his back. So he ran his hand carefully down to Lillard’s spine and felt one of the vertebra was not in its normal position.
Palmer then wrote on his notes “With this object in view, a half hour’s talk persuaded Mr. Lillard to allow me to replace it. I racked it into position by using the spinous process as a lever, and soon the man could hear as before”
Noisy fire engine passed by outside the window and he was surprised to see that Lillard did not react at all. He came near the man and realized he was deaf.
Palmer then realized that the two is connected.
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Over the succeeding months, other patients came to Palmer with every conceivable problem.
Palmer found each of these conditions responded well to the adjustments which he was calling “hand treatments.”
Later he coined the term chiropractic, from the Greek words chiros, meaning hand, and practicos, meaning practice or operation.
including flu, sciatica, migraine headaches, stomach complaints, epilepsy, and heart trouble.
Although never using drugs for treatment, Dr. Palmer watched fevers break, pain end, infections heal, vision improve, stomach disorders disappear, and of course, hearing return.
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DEFINITION
The clinical science of chiropractic deals with the biological law of homeostasis.
Think of Hippocrates’s words, “Vis medicatrix naturae,” or the “healing power of nature.”
“A method of restoring health by palpating the spinal column for subluxations, or misplaced vertebra, and adjusting them by hand without other aids or adjuncts.” According to Gould’s Medical Dictionary (1945).
that is, that each living organism is born with the ability to be stable and healthy within itself and within its environment.
This explains the action, but what is the reason behind the action? includes interference in which the bone and soft tissue structures are out of their normal positions.
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PRINCIPPLES OF CHIROPRACTIC
1. The human body possesses the God-given ability to heal itself and is designed to strive toward a state of optimal health and well-being
2. Our bodies are constantly going through a process of breakdown and repair.
3. Subluxations can occur in the body on an ongoing, day-to-day basis and eventually result in sickness, disease, and even early death of the organ, system, or even the body.
4. The chiropractic adjustment is a carefully directed, gentle force exerted on a specific vertebra, to restore it from its wrong position to its right position, allowing the body to return to its stability and strength
The breakdown is the result of constant stress of gravity, and routine stressors such as poor posture, poor sleep habits, anxiety, faulty nutrition, and so on
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5. All healing takes time.
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INDICATIONS:
Lower back pain
Neck pain
Headache
Chest wall pain
Spinal stenosis
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CONTRAINDICATIONS:
Spinal manipulation is not recommended in patients with certain arthrithic conditions, fractures, dislocations, cancer or infection at the area of the treatment.
Older adults with osteoporosis or vertebral artery stenosis and should inform doctor before treatment.
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SAMPLE PICTURES
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A short video about chiropractic
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THANK YOU!
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