The Definition
The definition of "Chirovetpractic" as modified from Stedman's
Medical Dictionary is as follows:
"Chirovetpractic unique unto itself. It is a philosophic
system of mechanical therapeutics that attributes disease in quadrupeds
to vertebral subluxations; it treats disease with manipulation of the
vertebra in order to relieve pressure on the nerves at the intervetebral
foramina, so that the neural impulses may flow freely from the brain
to the rest of the body."
A much more accurate definition of "Chirovetpractic"
is put forth by Todd Gastaldo, D.C. as follows:
"Chirovetpractic unique unto itself. It is a science
of neurophysiologic diagnosis which holds that the body is NOT controlled
by the nervous system but rather by WHAT IRRITATES the nervous system.
Chirovetpractic's "diagnostic trick" is the notion of an Innate/God
force which always irritates the nervous system to cause health - which
means that if an animal is sick - noxious irritants in the internal,
and external environments have to be identified, and removed/adjusted.
These latter irritants - be they mechanical, chemical or psychic - be
they in the internal and/or external environments - are diagnosed via
a knowledge of neurophysiology and removed/adjusted via educational
adjustments and/or by adjustments administered with the hands directly."
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