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| The origins of
chiropractic care

-—-THE birth of the

any interference to the nat-
ural healing process,

spinal “adjustment”
came about when D.D.
Paimer developed a
technique to eliminate
interferences of nerve
energy in the spinal —
system.

He reasoned, as a result
of his studies, that the cause
of most disease originates in
the spine
dl char vertebral
misalignin nts whic
ed in impinged nerves (ater
defined as “subluxations”)
could interfere with the flow
of mental impulses from the
brain and spinal cord to the
various organs of the body.

This, in turn, would
affect the norinal function-

a ing and vitality of the body,

and fower resistance to
ease and infection.

While the medical profes
sion of the mid-19th century
maintained that most illness
was caused by germs, harm-
ful bacteria and viruses,
Palmer believed that the
root of most disease was an
unhealthy spine that reduced
the body’s-ability to fight off
infection.

He observed thar some
people were naturally more
resistant than others to the
germs, bacteria and viru
that people come inte con
tact with on a daily basis.

As Claude Bernard, a
19th century French physiol-
ogist and contemporary of
Louis Pasteur, once stated:

a‘Tlnesses hover constantly
above us, their seeds blown
by the wind, but they do not
set in the terrain un

terrain is ready to receive
them.”

Palmer set about to
research and develop what
was to become a whole new
approach to the problem of
restoring and maintaining
health,

He called his new: id
specialty, “Chiropractic,”
derived from the Greek
words, cheir (hand) and
praxis (practice.)

When used together, the
words mean, lite rally, “ ‘done
by hand.”

ntly asked our super

day Dr. Blower fo
his definition of  chiropracti

“A healing art... an art form

that deals with evaluating
and rectifying through
«adjustments of hard and sott
tissues to make whole
again.”

He added: “There is thi
energy interchange between
two primary electrical
Tields... the acupuncture
field, which enjoys protein-
based strength and stamina,
and is a signalling system for
organs and musele tissue and
the oil-based, gut-oriented

nical energy with which
it “works”.

“I's kind of like slices of
bread. We are in-betw
dependent on the
ing interchange for the abili-
ty to ‘gel’ or adhere... to

hold together. We bre
up... we fragment and this
breaks the body down

From the early days of
ridicule to the indignation
of being jailed for practising
medicine without a licence,
the chiropractic pioneers
demonstrated enormous
courage and determin-

cir success is due to
the basic principle on which
chiropractic has been tound-
ed: the body has the innate
ity to heal itself.

People like Dr. Blower
know that the role of the
chiropractor is merely to
help the body regain and
maintain health by removing

Honesty ond integrity a

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“Your wélkabagan 3 dealer | in ‘West Vancouver .

It is trom individual
patients that chiropractic has
. its preatest support.

As ractic has now
celebrated it’s 100th
anniversary, (September |
1995), people (like me) can
pat themselves on the back
(carefully) for sharing the
responsibility of chiroprac-
tic’s current popularity and

This great healing art is
about se much more than
the mere manipulation,
cracking and popping of, (to
invoke the immorral words
of thar gospel song), “Dem
bones, dem bones, dem...
drv bones!”

Robert Aiken is an inter-
nationally known professional
astrologer and therapeutic
counselor/teacher/writer with
40 years’ experience. He offers
empowering personal coun-
selfing sessions as well as thor-
ough, i in-depth, tape-recorded
astrological readings. Phone
Carole : 926-4967.

an

NEWS photo Mike Wokefiet

DR. Brian Blower (above) i is a master of what he calis “the healing art.”

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