DEFINE CHIROPRACTIC.

Chiropractic is the art and science of treating disease by the adjustment of misplaced vertebrae, thereby relieving impingement of the nerves passing through the intervertebral foramina.

WHAT DOES THE WORD CHIROPRACTIC MEAN?

Chiropractic means "done by hand." Derived from the words "chiro" meaning "hand" and "praxis" to do.

WHO DISCOVERED CHIROPRACTIC?

D. D. Palmer in 1895.

HOW WAS CHIROPRACTIC DISCOVERED?

D. D. Palmer learned of its merit when he successfully cured a case of deafness by adjusting a misplaced vertebra.

WHAT IS THE THEORETICAL BASIS OF CHIROPRACTIC?

As a consequence of a subluxation there is produced an impingement upon the nerves which pass through the intervertebral foramina corresponding to the vertebrae involved in the displacement.