Chiropractic is a health care profession that focuses on disorders of the musculoskeletal system and the nervous system, and the effects these disorders have on general health. Chiropractic care is used to treat neuromusculoskeletal complaints that can generate a wide range of possible symptom patterns throughout the body. Doctors of Chiropractic, or Chiropractic Physicians, are trained to look at the whole body for dysfunction to determine the cause, instead of focusing on the area of complaint and suppressing the symptoms. They practice a drug-free, hands-on approach to health care that includes an examination, diagnosis and case by case patient specific treatment. Chiropractors have broad diagnostic skills and are also certified in Physiotherapy, as well as provide nutritional and work/lifestyle counseling. The most common therapeutic procedure performed by doctors of chiropractic is known as the “chiropractic adjustment..” The purpose of an adjustment is to restore joint mobility by manually applying a joint specific controlled force into joints that have become hypomobile, or restricted in their movement, as a result of a physical, chemical or emotional imbalance. This needs to be addressed before true health can be achieved.