Core Concepts Of Chiro

Question 1

Worldwide chiropractic is a

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Separate and distinct healing art and profession

Question 2

Chiropractic is the facilitation of

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Natural healing from within

Question 3

Chiropractic eliminates

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Vertebral subluxation

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What is vertebral subluxation?

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Insidious and widespread neurological interference to the expression of the body’s own natural capacity for healing and health

A misalignment or biomechanical malfunction w/in the spinal column that affects the nerve tissue passing through the spinal column, altering the nerve messages traveling to and from the brain all over the nervous system

Question 5

Chiropractic is based on

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A vitalistic philosophy of life and health

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Chiropractic focuses on

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The art and science of correcting vertebral subluxations

Question 7

Every living thing has what

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The inborn ability to direct and regulate its own internal physiology, adaptation, and healing

Question 8

Every living thing can do what

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Create its own health naturally from within

Question 9

What do chiros call the natural principle of self organization the body’s

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Innate intelligence

Question 10

Chiro focuses mainly on

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1) the spine
2) the nerve system
3) the relationship between the spine and nerve system
4) treating HAs and LBP
5) helping people live a healthy lifestyle

Question 11

In human beings, this principle of innate intelligence is expressed through

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The delicate dynamic balance of physiology, homeostasis, adaptation, and healing

Question 12

How does your body express its innate intelligence?

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Via nerve messages transmitted from the body to the brain, from the brain to the body, all over the nerve system

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The nerve system includes

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The spinal cord that passes from the skull down through the spinal column, and the spinal nerves that pass from the cord through the vertebrae out to the rest of the body

Question 14

Where do vertebral subluxations occur?

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Anywhere in the spinal column

Question 15

Where are vertebral subluxations most prevalent and harmful

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The upper cervical spine

Question 16

A person’s own body, with its own system-wide innate intelligence, continually strives to do what

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Eliminate any vertebral subluxations that may develop in his/her own spinal column

Question 17

The chiro profession has learned how to

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Help facilitate the body’s process of eliminating vertebral subluxations

Question 18

What is required in order to correct vertebral subluxation?

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Identification and characterization

Question 19

What is it called when a chiro removes vertebral subluxation

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An adjustment

Question 20

What is unique to chiropractic and defines its primary clinical objective?

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Removal of subluxation through an adjustment

Question 21

What is the best possible chiropractic adjusting techniques?

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When they can promote the reduction or correction of vertebral subluxations safely, efficiently and economically in any and all persons

Question 22

Chiropractors are well trained and skilled in what

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The utilization of visual postural assessment, spinal palpation, leg length assessment, paraspinal instrumentation readings, xrays, and or any other procedures relevant to the identification and characterization of vertebral subluxations

Question 23

Define a chiropractic adjustment

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A specific adjustic force directed toward a specific spinal articulation to facilitate the reduction or correction of a vertebral subluxation

Question 24

When should a chiropractic adjustment be given?

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When and where evidence of the existence of a vertebral subluxation is present

Question 25

Should someone get adjusted every single visit?

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No but they should always be checked/examined

Question 26

When do people develop vertebral subluxations?

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At any time in their life

Question 27

What type of service is chiropractic?

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A health-enhancing service for all persons, whether they are ‘sick’ or not.

Question 28

Chiropractic care should not be given as

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A tx for dz or simply as a way to alleviate pain. This is not the objective of chiro care. Not symptom management

Question 29

Chiro care should be given with the understanding that when a persons vertebral subluxations are reduced or corrected that his/her body is…

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Able to function more naturally in all areas of life, physically, mentally, spiritually, including healing

Question 30

Natural healing is what

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An unobstructed expression of the body’s own innate intelligence

The best way for a body to heal

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When does natural healing occur

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Within the parameters of natural law, according to its own timetable