Denver Chiropractic, LLC
3890 Federal Blvd
Denver, CO 80211

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What is Chiropractic?
From the American Chiropractic Association:

Chiropractic is a health care profession that focuses on disorders of the musculoskeletal
system and the nervous system, and the effects of these disorders on general health.
Chiropractic care is used most often to treat
neuromusculoskeletal complaints, including but
not limited to back pain, neck pain, pain in the
joints of the arms or legs, and headaches.

Who performs chiropractic?
From the American Chiropractic Association:

Doctors of Chiropractic – often referred to as
chiropractors or chiropractic physicians –
practice a drug-free, hands-on approach to
health care that includes patient examination, diagnosis and treatment. Chiropractors
have broad diagnostic skills and are also trained to recommend therapeutic and
rehabilitative exercises, as well as to provide nutritional, dietary and lifestyle counseling.

How does chiropractic differ from other forms of health care?

As a Denver resident, you will notice a wide variety of health care practitioners from
medical doctors, acupuncturists, massage therapists, physical therapist, osteopaths, and
chiropractors. What makes the chiropractor unique is that we mainly treat the central
nervous system via adjusting the spinal joints. The nervous system regulates all
functions of your body. So, controlling the nervous system is one of the most profound
treatments available.

As a Denver chiropractor, I realign the spinal joints and extremity joints and witness first
hand the benefits of the manipulation procedure. Regardless of the philosophy, science,
and rationale to a chiropractor’s decision to adjust the spine, the outcome is most often
highly beneficial to the patient and with very low risk.

How does chiropractic work?

There have been research studies showing the multitude of benefits of spinal
manipulation for certain conditions, and along with the studies comes many opinions on
why chiropractic therapy works. In one sense, it does not matter why it works, although
knowing the exact mechanisms would help allow us to determine the best candidates for
chiropractic adjustments.

In my opinion, from my formal studies, the neurological wiring of the nervous system is
affected by chiropractic adjustments due to the relationship of the wiring of the joint and
the central nervous system. It is like a house on a circuit breaker. If all of your kitchen
appliances are wired together, and when one overloads the system, the others in the
system will fail as well.

This is a very simplistic analogy, and if you want to know more about the philosophy and
what science has uncovered of the chiropractic adjustment, I would be happy to have a
personal conversation with you.

Click here for the benefits of chiropractic care.

Qualifications
*From Dr. Arthur C. Croft, D.C., M.S., M.P.H.,
F.A.C.O.- Whiplash and Brain Injury Traumatology
Program

1) Chiropractic manipulation predates
"modern medicine" by several thousand years. The ancient
Chinese, Japanese, Egyptians, Hindus,
Syrians, Babylonians, Tibetans, Sioux, Aztecs,
and Mayans practiced it. Hippocrates himself, who is often referred to as the father of
modern medicine, wrote several books on spinal manipulation.

2) Chiropractic is licensed as a healing art in all 50 states, as well as the District of
Columbia, U.S. Virgin Island, and Puerto Rico. It is included in the worker's compensation
system in all states, and most private insurance companies cover chiropractic services.
It's also covered by Medicare, Medicaid, the Federal employee worker's compensation,
Postmaster's Benefit Program, and the Mail handler's Benefit Program. The IRS allows
"medical" deductions for chiropractic care.

3) The CCE (Council on Chiropractic Education) is officially recognized as an accrediting
agency by the US Department of Education. The CCE is a member of the Council on
Post-Secondary Accreditation (COPA) and the Council of Specialized Accrediting
Agencies

4) The following courses are taught in chiropractic colleges: philosophy, anatomy,
physiology, chemistry, pathology, radiology, diagnosis and differential diagnosis,
biochemistry, pharmacology, microbiology, cellular physiology, biomechanics, x-ray
physics, physical diagnosis, neuromusculoskeletal pathology, general pathology, ethics
and jurisprudence, obstetrics and gynecology, pediatrics, psychiatry, chiropractic,
chiropractic manipulation, and physiotherapy.

5) Doctors of Chiropractic (DCs) are required to pass the four-part National Board
Examinations, and in some states, a separate State Board Examination before receiving
their license. Chiropractic physicians are regulated, in most states, by a State Board of
Chiropractic Examiners - a body whose members are appointed by the Governor.

Questions? Dr. Artichoker would love to talk to you.

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