Cover story of nations leading chiropractic publication. 
Chiropractic Principles
Innate Intelligence; It's the foundation of the chiropractic healing paradigm. Essentially it means that the body is smart by design, even miraculous. We all understand this in concept, but it's rarely considered in health care practice. Unfortunately, we've been taught since birth to deem our body stupid. If we ever had a fever, cough, muscle spasm, inflammation, or pain -- we were told to cover them up with drugs, undo them as useless, causeless inconveniences.
While inconvenient, we know from science that all of our body's symptomatic mechanisms have both a cause and a purpose. The complexity, design and intelligence of the human body is truly amazing and has been documented to heal from every disease in recorded history. Chiropractic thinking respects this ability to heal itself and seeks to free it's power and augment it.
Subluxation. Our nerve system conducts an electrical impulse (brain waves) that coordinates all cellular life functions. This life-force energy flows from the brain down through the spinal cord and outward to the entire body. Every cell, every bodily function is controlled and coordinated by nerves. So vital to life and health, any impingement on nerves disturbs conduction and disrupts human health. However, hard bones on soft nerves rarely cause pain -- they cause weakness. If a nerve to the stomach is choked off, chemistry is altered. If nerves to muscles are pinched, it weakens or spasms. The pinching or choking of this nerve flow is called a subluxation and it's the single focus of an adjustment to relieve this pressure, thus restoring normal nerve function and freeing the body to heal itself.
