American Chiropractic
In the United States, there are three types of doctors with independent diagnostic and medical rights. One is Medical Doctor (M.D.); the second is Doctor of Chiropractic (D.C.); and the third is Doctor of Osteopath (D.O.).
Chiropractic treatment is recognized by all major medical insurance institutions and their insurance types in the United States. The more famous ones are: Medicare, Medicaid, Blue Shift Blue cross, etc.
It is extremely common that all car accident medical insurances recognize chiropractic treatment.
At present, doctors in this profession are practicing medicine in many countries and regions in the world, and it is becoming increasingly popular. Chiropractic colleges have been established in the United Kingdom, Canada, Japan, South Korea, and even Taiwan. Chiropractic originated from the traditional natural therapy in the West. Since Dr. D.D. Palmer officially named this natural therapy chiropractic and established the first specialist college-Palmer Chiropractic College), chiropractic has developed greatly. At the college, in addition to learning regular basic medical knowledge and medical diagnosis courses, students pay special attention to the anatomy, neuroanatomy, and neurophysiology of the spine. On this basis, the college teaches students a complete set of analysis and diagnosis methods for spinal balance. And conduct a complete set of strict manual therapy training. Students graduate after passing a very rigorous clinical internship and graduation examination.
In terms of the guiding ideology of teaching and treatment, it is theoretically believed that spinal correction acts on the spine, the main connection part between the brain and other parts of the body. The brain is the main center that controls the whole body, and its control must pass through Completed by spinal nerves (excluding the twelve pairs of cranial nerves). When the spine compresses the nerves, the brain's functions cannot be performed effectively, which will cause functional disorders, thereby affecting human health.
There is a very important term in this profession - joint subluxation. Compared with luxation - joint dislocation or dislocation, subluxation is only a certain degree of deviation from the normal physiological position. Total dislocation will immediately cause loss of joint function, accompanied by severe pain. Generally, it will severely compress the nerves, causing the human body to suffer from serious diseases, such as high paraplegia. Subluxation, on the other hand, is quite hidden, and it is even harder to detect for younger people.
After many years of subluxation, long-term mechanical imbalance will cause joint degeneration, such as intervertebral disc thinning, intervertebral disc bone spur proliferation, pyramidal hypertrophy, etc. Also known as osteoarthritis - Osteoarthiritis. Osteoarthritis reduces the range of motion of the spine, causing joints to become tight and stiff, often causing pain. Such as neck, upper back and waist pain, with waist pain being the most common. At the same time, joint lesions and changes in the joint structure often occur, compressing the spinal nerves, resulting in a series of diseases.
Obviously, many diseases are directly or indirectly related to spinal nerve compression. After more than a hundred years of practice, it has been proven that spinal correction has a very obvious effect on many diseases. Some difficult, chronic diseases whose causes are unknown through general medical examination are often related to the spine. It is necessary to carefully examine the spine and carry out corrective treatment.
There are many causes of spinal subluxation. First of all, the front of the spine should be vertical and uncurved, with the hip bones symmetrical and balanced on both sides. Viewed from the side, the top and abdomen are forward-curved, and the chest and sacrum are backward-curved. This is a normal physiological curvature. The spine is elastic when curved normally. Throughout a person's life, he or she will encounter various injuries to the spine. When a baby is born, if the doctor uses excessive force to pull the baby out of the mother's body, it can easily cause damage to the baby's cervical spine. Poor posture and inappropriate movements during the growth of young children can also cause damage to the spine.
During adolescence, due to rapid growth and extreme activity, the spine is most susceptible to damage. Due to the high flexibility of adolescent spines, this type of injury is extremely subtle. After entering adulthood, heavy physical labor or strenuous and inappropriate sports are also important factors causing spinal injury and degeneration. If there has been some damage in childhood, symptoms usually begin to become more obvious in middle age. After old age, symptoms will become more and more obvious.
The more typical spinal diseases and their treatments are:
1. Cervical syndrome
Headache, neck pain, head rotation disorder, arm numbness , arm numbness, upper back pain. After spinal correction treatment, the symptoms can be alleviated or terminated.
2. Scoliosis
Children generally have the best curative effect, while the curative effect for adults depends on the degree of permanent damage to the spinal joints and the number and time of treatment. To the extent that the curvature of the side is reduced to a certain extent and the health benefits are maintained, the effect is quite good and can prevent further side curvature and further kyphosis.
3. Low back pain
Generally, the fifth lumbar vertebra, sacrum, iliac joint and other parts of the body are most frequent. Further deterioration can lead to disc herniation. The former is less likely to be accompanied by nerve compression than the latter. Therefore, the former treatment produces faster results and the recovery is more complete. The latter is easier to treat with non-open disc herniation, which also depends on the degree of the herniation. Open herniation is more difficult to treat, and surgery is the best option in severe cases.
4. Health care treatment
This is very important. When people think that they do not have any spinal problems, the occurrence of symptoms may have reached a critical level. Due to the hidden nature of this kind of spinal subluxation, a patient with a considerable degree of subluxation will not be aware of his condition because he lives a comfortable life without sudden external stimulation, such as car accidents, falls, etc. Osteoarthritis caused by subluxation can develop slowly over decades of normal life, and the body continues to adapt to the changes in the joints during the development of arthritis. Occasionally, symptoms may occur, but they are often thought to be due to It is a normal and inevitable phenomenon caused by the increase of age, so the importance of health care is not realized. This is the reason why the incidence rate of spine and related diseases among people over 50 years old in my country reaches more than 80%. In the United States, this is also a problem orthodontists often face.
However, for patients who have been treated on time for a long time or who have received spinal correction and health care on time for a long time, the degeneration of the spine shown by X-ray is very obviously controlled. Regardless of age, ideal treatment, combined with appropriate work, exercise and lifestyle, can completely control further degeneration of the spine.
5. Acute injuries
Mainly caused by car accidents, falls and carrying heavy objects. The results of treatment are generally very good. The length of treatment depends primarily on the extent of the injury and the level of spinal degeneration. Judging from the cases at "Dong Chiropractic Center", complete recovery usually occurs within two months.
As a traditional natural therapy in the West, American chiropractic is theoretically similar to Chinese traditional Chinese medicine theory. At the same time, during its development process, it integrated with modern medicine and formed its own independent style. Chiropractic focuses on anatomy and X-rays in the teaching process, laying a solid foundation for manual correction of the spine, making it effective and safe. It is so safe that according to the National Chiropractic Association, the probability of death and paralysis is one in four million. Today's development of chiropractic in the United States is somewhat like a replica of the successful combination of Chinese and Western medicine in the United States. In China, the development of Western medicine is at the forefront of the world in many aspects, and there are many talents. The theory of traditional Chinese medicine has a long history, is extensive and profound. In terms of bone setting and massage, it has even more amazing curative effects. The integration of traditional Chinese and Western medicine has a history of several decades. The introduction of chiropractic correction can not only be the icing on the cake, but also draw on the strengths of other experts to promote its own continuous development.