Chiropractic 1 of Bentonville

Dr. Gonstead was born in 1898, and developed juvenile rhumatoid arthritis as a boy. After failed medical care at a university, his aunt took him to her chiropractor where he got relief. After a short engineering career, he became a chiropractor in 1923. Dr Gonstead opened up a clinic in Mt. Horeb, Wisconson where he practiced and perfected his technique for 55 years till his death in 1978. He was persuaded by other chiropractors to start teaching his work. He developed a method using skin temperature instruments, full spine x-rays with line analysis to locate and correct in a very precise way that gave predictable results and could be explained scientifically. In 1964, he built a 29,000 square foot office with a hotel next door to accomodate all the patients that traveled to his clinic and for other chiropractors attending his teaching seminars.
Does Chiropractic help things other than back pain?
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"It is the function of the nervous system to control and coordinate all the tissue and organ systems of the body."- Dorland's Medical Dictionary The body has an internal knowledge (innate intelligence) and the ability to self regulate all the organs and thousands of chemicals the body needs to function with. Innate intelligence gives even a baby the ability to self regulate and heal their own body. When this interferance in the nervous system occurs it is called vertebral subluxation.

Nothing in the body can live without nerve messages, Chiropractic works to alleviate interference to the spinal cord and or nerves to help the body function better. The premise of chiropractic is that nothing outside the body heals, only the body is capable of healing itself. Therefore, chiropractic works on the vertebral subluxations (pinched nerves), to allow the body to heal itself. Chriorpactic has helped thousands of people with:
Headaches
Allergies
Back pain
Constipation/Diarrhea
Menstrual problems
Acid reflux and other digestive issues
Please feel free to contact our office to see if we can help, and if we can not, we will try to get you to where you need to be.
Can Chriropractic help a disc problem.
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Dr Gonstead's approach to the spine is centered around the disc. Vertebra can misalign to the back or posteriorly and since the disc is attatched to the vertebra with tiny fibers that atttach to the bone, when the vertebra displaces so goes the disc. When the disc gets injured it swells innitially, but if left untreated the disc begins to deteriate, to see x-rays of disc degeneration and the reusults of subluxation being left untreated go to