Cause and effect in chiropractic

Cause and effect in chiropractic

There are thirty three principles of chiropractic that Sherman teaches. Today I’m going to focus on principle number seventeen which states, “Every effect has a cause and every cause has an effect”. This sounds a lot like the law of cause and effect. Biochemistry is the branch of science that deals with the chemical processes and substances that occur win living things. When I think about cause and effect I think immediately of biochemistry because that’s the fundamental basis for the way biochemistry works.

All the processes that our body goes through on a daily basis is the culmination of each cause and effect working in unison. This unison can be thrown out of balance or tailored to work more efficiently within the human body. One example of unison of cause and effect on the body is the building of muscles. This sounds easy but your body goes through thousands of cause and effect situation simultaneously, so that your body can break down the food you ate, and build muscle up using that food as fuel by protein synthesis.

This can also be compared to chiropractic. When a patient comes in, it’s most likely because something happened (effect) to them that is making them feel some sort or discomfort or pain. This was not always the case, otherwise they would have been in pain since birth. Some “cause” had impacted them enough to where they need help and can no longer manage themselves. That’s why they come to a chiropractor to seek help. Using this same cause and effect principle, a chiropractor can adjust the subluxation so that the innate intelligence can heal the body. Chiropractor’s adjustment was the “cause” of getting better. This effect can be seen when pain is relieved after an adjustment.