Olympic Chiropractic & Physical Therapy - How is Function Measured?

Function - The natural or proper action for which a person, mechanism or organ is fitted or employed.
Categories - A specifically defined division in a system of classification, a class.
Trauma - A wound, especially one produced by sudden physical injury.
Receptive - Capable or qualified of receiving.
Resistance - Capacity to repel or oppose something, especially disease and sickness.
Prevalent - Widely or commonly occurring or existing; generally accepted or practiced.
Interference - The act, process or an instance of interfering.

The nervous system is the master controller of all body function. Health is only possible when all the organs of the body are functioning properly. A loss of health can therefore only take place as the result of a loss of function. If the stomach is not functioning properly one can develop bloating, indigestion, ulcers, or even cancer. If the intestines are not functioning properly one can develop constipation, diarrhea, and numerous other ailments for diseases. A bone breaks and it has lost its normal function.

One can see from the above examples that without normal function one loses health and only if normal function is restored can we truly say someone has completely regained one's health. According to Gray's Anatomy, the basic textbook for all healing arts, the nervous system has the job of controlling the function of all organs and tissues in your body.

It is important to recognize the fact that when function is partially lost, symptoms may not develop for days, weeks, months or years later. If the heart lost 25% of its ability to function it might be years before the first chest pain or high blood pressure occurred. If the heart gradually lost its function over time the first symptom could be a fatal heart attack.

Illnesses Fall into one of three Categories:

1. Traumatic
Trauma can be physical or chemical in nature. Physical trauma results in breaks, cuts, hemorrhaging and resultant loss of function. Chemical trauma would occur if your body came in contact by ingesting, breathing, or touching a substance that altered normal function. Persons who lose their health via trauma usually find their way to an emergency room.

2. Receptive to Infection
Receptive to infection is more prevalent manner in which illness develops is via a body. For a neighborhood to get an infestation of rats it must first be receptive. To be receptive for rats there must be garbage and an environment that would attract them. To get an infection one's body must be receptive. Only if one's resistance is down does one get sick. Only if a body does not function normally does one lose one's resistance and thus invite such infections as a cold, bronchitis, pneumonia, etc. If having proper function would prevent an infection, then restoring proper function would be a major factor in getting rid of infection.

3. Loss of Function
The loss of function is an increasingly prevalent category of illness. It is the direct loss of function to an organ or tissue resulting not in infection but rather simply functional loss. A partial list of functional ailments would include asthma, ulcers, colitis, arthritis, psoriasis, diabetes, etc. These conditions are considered incurable by some physicians, but may respond favorably to treatment oriented to restore normal function.

Chiropractors have as their major therapeutic method the restoration of normal bodily function. They do this by removing interference to the master controller of every body function, the nervous system. Chiropractic, first of all, gets results by allowing the body to get back to its highest state of resistance so that it can better repel infection. Second, Chiropractic works with functional disorders by attempting to increase function to the organ or tissue involved. They do this by removing the principle cause of functional loss, interference to the nervous system. Third, Chiropractic works with those in trauma by restoring normal structural alignment and increasing one's resistance to future complications.

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