History of Chiropractic

The first chiropractic adjustment was delivered by D.D. Palmer in Davenport, Iowa on September 18, 1895. D.D. had been studying magnetic healing and physiology for many years. He realized that the nerve system communicates with and controls every cell in the body. Interference in the messages to and from the brain, D.D. hypothesized, was the cause of dis-ease. By looking for areas of the spine where vertebrae are misaligned, interfering with messages to and from the brain (vertebral subluxation) and correcting that interference, health was restored. The scientific tools available at the time could not prove what D.D. had discovered. However, the results spoke for themselves, and people began flocking to chiropractors to have subluxations corrected. Millions of people, regardless of conditions, regained a level of their health that had been lost due to subluxation. Current science, quantum physics, and even medical research are now proving what D.D. Palmer knew all along.