Chiropractic is a complementary and alternative health care profession that aims to heal using manual therapies on the spine and extremities. While the majority of today's chiropractors treat mostly musculoskeletal problems, their original defining theory is that they can affect general body function by locating and correcting what they call subluxations of the spine.

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Chiropractic is a complementary and alternative health care profession that aims to heal using manual
therapies on the spine and extremities. While the majority of today's chiropractors treat mostly
musculoskeletal problems, their original defining theory is that they can affect general body function by
locating and correcting what they call subluxations of the spine. Subluxations are treated with "spinal
adjustments" that are intended to improve body posture and joint mobility. As a fundamental concept
in chiropractic, subluxations were originally conceived as obstructions to the full flow of "innate
intelligence" from mind to body. Today, chiropractic education is replacing that term, innate
intelligence, with emerging concepts related to the higher functions of the nervous system. The spine
remains the focus of chiropractic therapy and spinal adjustments to alleviate subluxations are still used
by the profession in an effort to improve general health. Although chiropractic manipulations have been
shown to be efficacious for some types of back pain, treatment of most other health related conditions
using chiropractic therapy has not been accepted by health science. That rejection is not simply based
on a lack of compelling clinical evidence, but also because health science does not accept the
chiropractic concept of subluxation, or innate intelligence, as part of human biology.
Chiropractic has won public acceptance and has become the most established of the alternative
medical professions in the developed western world. Chiropractic can claim both a very high rate of
satisfaction among its patient population, along with a very low rate of complications attributed to its
treatment.