With the large number of experimental variables inherent to the human body as a whole (including age, physical characteristics, state of health, environment, diet, lifestyle, much less the number, severity, and combination of subluxations within the spine) it is difficult to design clinical trials that can decisively conclude that adjustment of one subluxation or another has a specific effect on the body.  However, empirical observation has proven to be an invaluable tool for assessing the effects of chiropractic care on the body.  Chiropractors have been observing positive outcomes in their patients for the past hundred years.  A typical case study, published or not, follows the following paradigm:  A patient presents to a chiropractor with a particular symptom.  The chiropractor detects subluxation within the patient's spine that interferes with the body's self-governance.  A series of chiropractic adjustments is administered, with adjustments being the only change introduced to the patient's life.  After a number of adjustments, the subluxations begin to resolve.  At the same time, a change in the patient's symptoms is observed.  Again, nothing in the patient's life changed EXCEPT that he/she began to get adjusted.  One cannot prove or disprove that resolution of this patient's symptom was a direct result of resolution of subluxation; however, after repeated observation of similar positive outcomes in a larger number of patients - after a patient gets adjusted, the patient's health improves - chiropractic practitioners have gathered a collective sum of data that shows that chiropractic care WORKS.     

The peer-reviewed published evidence supporting the usefulness of chiropractic care for resolving a wide variety of health issues is currently growing by leaps and bounds.  However, only a small percentage of the results that chiropractors see in their patients every day is reflected in the available research literature, due in part to the fact that most chiropractors would rather tend to their craft than write research papers.  The research links presented below represent only a small sampling of the evidence supporting the validity of the chiropractic care paradigm.

How can it be that such a wide variety of conditions can be helped with chiropractic care?  The answer to this is simple:  Chiropractic care affects how the body runs itself.  When the body runs itself better, everything works better - healing, growing, repairing, sleeping, digesting, LIVING.  Sometimes, things REALLY ARE as simple as that.  But don't just take our word for it - come on in and see for yourself!  Understanding is one thing, experiencing is another altogether.

It is important to understand that chiropractic care DOES NOT TREAT DISEASE.  Chiropractic care helps your body to help itself; its purpose is to eliminate the subluxations that are preventing your body from working the way it is designed to work.  The chiropractic adjustment is not administered to treat a symptom, rather it is given to eliminate the subluxation that was causing the symptom. The research articles described here demonstrate what happens when subluxation is removed - healing, restoration of function, and disappearance or reduction of symptoms that were tell-tales of a body not functioning properly.