Chiropractors are the only health professionals trained in analysing for subluxation and adjusting subluxations to improve brain-body communication.
Most pain syndromes and conditions have what is called a 'natural history' meaning the symptoms will likely resolve over time on their own (if you do nothing to aggravate them further). However as described earlier, our intent is not to treat your symptoms, it is to address your subluxations to enhance your brain-body.
For the suppression of symptoms, ‘fixing’, ‘curing’ and ‘treating’ of conditions (if that is what you want right now) there are definitely alternatives. A range of bodywork modalities such as massage, myotherapy, physiotherapy, alternative practitioners, and the traditional medical system including medications or surgery are all at your disposal.
In fact, if the reduction of pain is your primary aim, often the chemist is the faster, cheaper alternative!
One clear alternative is having no chiropractic care at all!
Many people in our society make that choice every day, usually because they just don't know about the potential benefits of chiropractic care.
Beyond the possible benefits already outlined, normalising messages to the brain and reducing the unconscious ‘stress’ response in the body can have potentially vast outcomes – improvements to many body-wide (systemic) functional disturbances and improvements in learning, behaviour and memory are just some of the possible benefits of regular chiropractic care.
Based on the research and theory underpinning this healthcare approach, if you choose no chiropractic care, you are potentially living a shorter, worse life than you otherwise could!