Kasperbauer Chiropractic

Definition Table of Contents

1. Adjustment
2. Chiropractic
3. Chiropractic Diagnosis
4. Chiropractic Objective
5. Dis-ease
6. Health
7. Manipulation
8. Medical Diagnosis
9. The Major Premise In Chiropractic
10. Vitalism
11. Vertebral Subluxation

Adjustment

The specific application of forces used to facilitate the body's correction of nerve interference.

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Chiropractic

A primary health care profession in which professional responsibility and authority are focused on the anatomy of the spine and immediate articulation, and the condition of nerve interference. It is also a practice that encompasses educating, advising about, and addressing nerve 
interference.

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Chiropractic Diagnosis

A comprehensive process of evaluation of the spinal column and its immediate articulations to determine the presence of nerve interference and other conditions that may contraindicate chiropractic procedures.

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Chiropractic Objective

The professional practice objective of chiropractic is to correct nerve interference in a safe, effective manner. The correction in not considered to be a specific cure for any particular symptom or disease. It is applicable to any patient who exhibits nerve interference regardless of the presence or absence of symptoms or disease.

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Dis-ease

The word disease is a combination of dis and ease. Dis is a prefix meaning apart from." It follows then that dis-ease is nothing more than a lack of comfort, a loss of harmony in the system. Chiropractors believe that instead of treating disease with chemicals and invasive procedures, whenever possible, first treat dis-ease with the reduction or elimination of nerve interference, thereby giving the patient a chance to recover naturally before resorting to drugs and surgery.

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Health

A state of optimal physical, mental and social well being; not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.

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Manipulation

The forceful passive movement of a joint beyond its active limit of motion. It doesn't imply the use of precision, specificity or the correction of nerve interference. Therefore, it is not synonymous with chiropractic adjustment.

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Medical Diagnosis

Procedures that provide information about disease processes for the selection of treatment.

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The Major Premise In Chiropractic

A Universal Intelligence is in all matter and continually gives to it all its properties and actions, thus maintaining it in existence.

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Vitalism

The doctrine that teaches that in living organisms, life is caused and sustained by a vital principle distinct from all physical and chemical forces. It also teaches that life is, at least in part, self-determining and self-evolving.

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Vertebral Subluxation

A misalignment of one or more of the vertebrae in the spinal column, which causes alteration of nerve function and interference to the transmission of mental impulses resulting in a lessening of the body's Innate ability to express its maximum health potential. Also referred to as nerve interference.

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