limited fashion, by the manipulation of the human spine. Some have even offered the thesis that the very nature of the medical profession feels threatened by chiropractic treatment, especially since it is often more effective than traditional treatment itself (Hafferty, 1988, pp. 202-212). In other words,
Chiropractic is based on the theory that many disorders of the body are traceable to a misalignment of the spinal-column and a concomitant disruption of the nervous system. This is a very old idea, and intuitively it makes a good deal of sense. The spinal cord is a pathway along which messages are carried to organs throughout the body; altering the pathway could well affect the transfer of information and, subsequently, the hea
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