What is Chiropractic?
Dr. Kim Kromas, DC, PHd practiced human Chiropractic for 33 years before making the decision to add Animal Chiropractic to her practice. A true believer that the nervous system and its vehicle, the spine,is the key to health, it was an easy transition to working with animals. Anything with a spine will benefit from the Chiropractic Adjustment. As a trail guide as a teenager, horses held a long-standing interest. Combined with her love of dogs, the addition of Animal Chiropractic was an easy and obvious transition.Animal Chiropractic is not new. Veterinarians and Chiropractors were practicing Animal Chiropractic in the late 1800’s and early 1900’s. This was and is a drug-less and non-surgical approach to the body using it’s own ability to heal.
SUBLUXATION: Altered movement between two vertebrae will restrict the nerve flow from the body to the brain. This sensory input is what communicates information from the brain to our body to heal and stay in a state of homeostasis. Animals and humans have the ability to heal itself with proper nerve information and flow.
HOW ARE ANIMAL ADJUSTMENTS DONE?
How we correct these altered or restricted joint movement begins when the Chiropractor performs a history and manual examination to find these areas of “subluxation”. By using their hands, a Chiropractic Adjustment is performed at specific angles to specific joints to remove interference of nerve flow and restore joint movement. When the muscles, joints and soft tissue are returned to normal, the results are decreased pain and inflammation, providing increased movement and flexibility.
HOW LONG DOES IT TAKE?
Working together with your Chiropractor and Veterinarian will provide the best course of treatment for your animal. Depending on the severity of the human or animal condition, adjustments will be recommended at intervals for the given condition and subluxation findings. For a healthy person or animal, a once a month adjustment will maintain the nerve flow for proper health.
Everything that we see, feel, touch, think and do has sensory input to the brain When it is out of balance, we show symptoms. Take the common cold, for instance. The immune system is weakened to the point that we sneeze, cough, have headache and just don’t feel well. By keeping an open and free flowing nervous system to the brain our immune system can function at an optimum level.