Most people seek chiropractic care because they are experiencing common symptoms such as back pain, neck pain, headaches, leg pain, etc. We at Beach Chiropractic will help you discover that these symptoms are simply the body's way of telling you that it has lost its ability to self heal.  Just like a sliver in your hand will interfere with the healing process, so will pressure on your nervous system. Through the exceptional application of the science, art, and philosophy of Chiropractic, we will get to the cause of your health challenge, and show you how that interference is robbing your total health potential.

Chiropractic is a healthcare discipline that is centered on the role of the spine and central nervous system in maintaining good health, and leveraging the recuperative power of the body to heal itself naturally and efficiently. The practice of chiropractic focuses on the relationship between structure (of the spine) and function (as coordinated by the nervous system) and how that relationship affects the preservation and restoration of health.

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Your spine is designed to house and protect your spinal cord, which along with your brain comprises your central nervous system. All the nerves and nerve cells outside your central nervous system make up your peripheral nervous system.  Its task is to relay information from your brain and spinal cord to the rest of your body and from your body to your brain and spinal cord. The maintenance of this system - through chiropractic - is an essential component of maintaining health and wellness.

The peripheral nervous system plays an important role in maintaining and controlling the body’s biological functions and systems. Everything from body temperature to digestion to agility depends on proper input from the nervous system.  This peripheral nervous system maintains and restores your energy. It directs blood to your digestive tract and makes sure you actively digest food. It maintains your blood pressure, heart rate, and breathing rate. It also controls salivation, perspiration, diameter of the pupils, micturition (the discharge of urine), and erection.

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Spinal misalignments or subluxations are typically caused by stress that overwhelms the body's resilience and coping ability. Physical stress can occur as the result of a car accident or slipping on an icy sidewalk, improper posture, occupational trauma, or birth trauma. Emotional stress can be the result of significant emotional trauma or the inability to adapt to a stressful situation. Chemical trauma can result from the misuse of prescription or illicit drugs, inadequate nutrition, or environmental toxins. By interfering with the nervous system, these misalignments interfere with normal function, reducing your body's ability to self-regulate, adapt, and heal.

Chiropractors detect and correct the cause of this interference, allowing your body to properly self-regulate, adapt and heal. The care and maintenance of the spine and nervous system is a necessary component of any natural approach to healthcare.

If you begin chiropractic care with this understanding, you’ll appreciate the experience much more.

At first glance, it may seem trivial… but there’s a stark contrast between the two.

The medical objective is: “We don’t want you to be sick.”

The Chiropractic objective is: “We want you to be as healthy as you can be”

Not being sick is very different than actually being healthy. In other words, the absence of symptoms does not equate to optimum health.  The intent behind your chiropractic care is to enhance your health, not simply treat symptoms.

You started out as two cells – one from your father, and one from your mother. Those two cells came together and formed the beginning of your life, and over a period of about nine months, you went from one cell to (depending on whom you ask) somewhere between 10 and 100 trillion.

The amazing part, though, is not the simple fact that we multiplied from one cell into trillions, but that they all went off in different directions to do different jobs. Some became part of our kneecaps, some formed a heart, some built an immune system, and so on. In other words, it’s like 100 trillion separate little workers heading off to participate in thousands of complex functions, all conceived, orchestrated and conducted into the most beautiful symphony ever written, and directed by an unseen intelligence.

But here’s the important part: once that Innate Intelligence forms a new baby, it doesn’t go off and make another one – it stays inside of us, and runs every aspect of our lives, every second of every day. If we cut ourselves, if we break a bone, if we have a cold or the flu or any other symptom or disease, it’s our own Innate Intelligence that does the healing. It just knows how to do it.

Medical doctors don’t heal. Medications don’t heal. Operations don’t heal. Chiropractic adjustments don’t heal. All any doctor or pill or procedure or adjustment can do is seek to remove the interference to healing, so that the body’s own innate potential can be expressed. Healing always flows from above down, and from the inside out.

The chiropractic principle is almost too simple, which is partly why it’s taking so long for it to be understood and accepted. “What do the bones have to do with Innate Intelligence?” you might reasonably wonder.

As it turns out, our Innate Intelligence expresses itself largely through the nervous system, and that system is stretched over the body’s frame (the bones) like a spider web, or like the strings of a musical instrument.

Science has now confirmed that any distortion or restriction of our human frame can interfere with the nerves by disturbing their “tone” or “vibration,” in much the same way that the notes produced by plucking a guitar string are changed by altering its tension. Too much or too little, and we won’t be happy with the result.

The nervous system controls all of the organs and glands of the body, including the immune system, which determines how well we deal with colds, flu and other infections. Nerve root compression alters gene expression, which affects how likely we are to actually develop the conditions or diseases of our parents. In other words, we aren’t necessarily “doomed” to have the same problems they had – much of our future can be influenced by the choices we make in our own lives, including how we choose to care for our spines.