Chiropractic is an alternative treatment that focuses on the mechanics of a body and deals with preventions and cures also connected with the nervous system and its surroundings. It is concerned with misalignments of the nervous system that doctors treat by a variety of chiropractic techniques that can help with such problems. Spinal adjustments are made through a series of treatments by chiropractors. Since it is an alternative form of treatment, it has come under scrutiny of the medical world.

Subluxational techniques are used to adjust various aspects of the spine to help combat diseases and for general relief of back pain. This has been the traditional way of treating patients and is still the min method of treatment, even today, through the chiropractic world. Dating back to Egyptian times, adjusting of the spine has been the way for adjusting misalignments of the vertebrae. Since it is purely beneficial for some pain relief, it is not considered a medical approach, rather than a one of physiotherapy nature. Chiropractic treatments are widely used in sports injuries to help with the muscular dysfunction that athletes may endure during or after play.

Subluxation relies on the theory that the body has a strong self-healing capacity and chiropractic treatments complement this. This is generally why no medication is given to patients as is done with traditional medicinal approaches. Human physiological approaches play an important part of this treatment too.

Chiropractic can be divided into several different approaches to patients. Generally they come under the umbrellas of traditional straight, mixer, objective straight and reform. Although nowadays as we learn more about chiropractic methods and treatments, there are several other offshoot treatments that can work in combination with these four approaches. Physiotherapy and certain medications may aid the process of chiropractic treatments.

There has been a lot of debate with regard to the subluxational approaches chiropractors use. Nowadays, they are using techniques that rely more on the self-healing process of humans to lessen the risk of permanent damage done to the nervous system. Subluxation contrasts with spinal adjustments as it is related to specific conditions as a direct result of injuries to joints or nerves whereas spinal adjustments concentrate on the general, physical movements involved in everyday activities.

Chiropractic methods are getting more popular nowadays as people are looking for other, alternative methods of treatment, especially in the western world where traditional methods and medications are so common.