Chiropractic Adjustment and Manipulation

One of the goals of chiropractic neurology is to electrically stimulate the areas of the brain that are under-stimulated and thus return symmetry to the body. One of the techniques available to improve brain function is the chiropractic adjustment. Adjustments can be administered to the spine or to the extremities to send afferent or sensory electrical feedback to the brain, as well as to correct abnormal motion patterns and misalignment issues.
Chiropractors are the best trained health-care professionals to perform spinal and extremity adjustments. They spend four years in chiropractic school that involve a similar education as medical doctors, except that chiropractors are not trained in pharmacology or surgical techniques.  Medical doctors on the other hand are not trained to do spinal manipulation or adjustments.  An exception to this may be the Osteopathic profession which does include spinal manipulation as an elective in their schooling.  Dr. Austin has six additional years of post-graduate studies, including two board certifications: chiropractic sports physician and chiropractic neurology.  Medical doctors, with the possible exception of a physiatrist, on the other hand have less training in neuromusculoskeletal disorders than doctors of chiropractic.
Chiropractors perform about 90-95% of all the spinal adjustments done in this country. Dr. Austin uses manual adjustments primarily to mobilize and realign the spinal and extremity joints to improve function of the local joints and to electrically stimulate the brain. If the adjustment is done on the right side of the body, then the left brain will be electrically stimulated and vice versa. By balancing the sensory feedback to the brain, brain output to the body is also balanced.