Welcome... to all new and prospective patients who desire traditional Chiropractic care.

I want to personally welcome you to our Traditional Chiropractic Wellness Center located in Gresham, Oregon. If you were to start on a journey to a new country, you would need maps, a dictionary of terms to understand the language and perhaps, someone to guide you through unfamiliar places. Traditional Chiropractic is a lot like traveling to a new country. It's like nothing you have experienced before. Traditional Chiropractic is a stand alone science which is completely different and separate from other healthcare sciences, especially medicine.

The first thing you need to understand is our language and our philosophy. Doctors of Chiropractic do not treat diseases or conditions. This means that if you have conditions such as back pain or neck pain, Chiropractors do not treat it! If your child has Otitis Media (ear ache) or is experiencing nocturnal bed wetting, we do not treat these conditions. These and many other healthcare conditions and diseases may respond very well to Chiropractic Care but, we don't treat them! If this sounds strange to you, please allow me to explain.

Chiropractic Philosophy and Science teaches us that all human beings are self healing organisms. Therefore, our bodies don't need help from outside to properly heal. Perhaps, more importantly, our bodies don't need interference. You see, the power that created our bodies placed a life force within each individual which constantly monitors our health condition and makes corrections on a millisecond to millisecond basis as necessary. There is no part of your body that is not controlled either directly or indirectly by this inborn Intelligence. This life force, which Chiropractors refer to as Innate Intelligence, controls each and every bodily activity and function by using the nervous system to communicate with each and every part of your body. As long as there is no interference with this force's ability to communicate, our bodies run quite well, thank you, without any outside help. However, when there is interference with the ability of this life force to control our bodily systems, a state of "Dis-ease" or "Dis-function" exists within the body. A Chiropractor's job is to find and remove this interference to the nervous system which we call a Vertebral Subluxation. Having removed this interference, the physician inside your body, the Innate Intelligence, corrects the "Dis-ease" and health is restored. As you can now see, it's the doctor inside you that really treats conditions and diseases. All that anyone can do from the outside of the body is to facilitate the process. That is why we call it Chiropractic Care and not treatment.

Now that you are beginning to understand a little about Chiropractic Science, lets talk about what Chiropractors really do. First, we do not manipulate, we adjust. In fact, we refer to our adjustments as very specific. Prior to adjusting, however, we perform a detailed Chiropractic analysis to determine the exact location and severity of a vertebral subluxtion. The purpose of an adjustment is to remove interference with mental impulses with travel over you nervous system, and allow the life force within your body to correct any problems that may exist in order to facilitate the maximum expression of optimal health. Chiropractic Care should be Lifetime Chiropractic Wellness Care in order to insure a healthy spine and nervous system and to allow your body to express optimal health. Many of our patients are now enjoying a more productive and satisfying life through traditional Chiropractic Care. Chiropractic... it's drugless, it's natural, it's for life!

John Cafferty, D.C.