Quotes by Medical Physicians and Researchers Acknowledging Chiropractic

August 24, 2023 Jarek Esarco

“Interference to the nervous system results in damage within a short period of time and, therefore, Chiropractic care should begin at birth on a preventative basis.” - Dr. Arpad DeNagy
“The vertebral subluxation is very real. We have documented it again and again. With this scientific documentation, no one can dispute the existence of vertebral subluxation...Vertebral Subluxation Complex changes the entire health of the body. This has been proven many times. The spine is not an isolated structure...We have proved that Vertebral Subluxation Complex causes not only structural dysfunction of the spine and adjacent tissues, but it also causes nerve dysfunction...The weight of a dime on a spinal nerve will reduce nerve transmission by as much as sixty percent.” - Dr. Chang H. Suh, PhD, Spinal Biomechanics Expert from the University of Colorado
“Subluxation alone is a rational reason for Chiropractic care throughout a lifetime from birth.” - Dr. Lee Hadley, Syracuse Memorial Hospital
“Every newborn should receive a neck and spine examination and a Chiropractic adjustment if necessary. Is that idea too difficult to accept?” - Lendon Smith, MD, Pediatrcian
“By releasing stress on the nervous system, Chiropractic permits the immune system to function more effectively.” - Dr. Irvin Korr
“Many pathological processes, the cause of which have been regarded as absolutely foreign to nervous influence, have been found to be in reality entirely dependent on the latter for their origin. To whatever chapter of pathology pathological processes belong, however complicated their composition and however variable their course, the nervous component remains from beginning to end the factor that determines their general state.” - Dr. A. D. Speransky, Director of the Department of Pathophysiology of the All Union Institue of Experimental Medicine in Leningrad
“The quality of healing is directly proportional to the functional capability of the central nervous system to send and receive nerve messages." - Dr. Janson Edwards, MD, PhD
“Malformations and misalignments of the Craniocervical junction [upper cervical spine] cause deformation and obstruction of blood and CSF pathways and flow between the cranial vault and spinal canal that can result in faulty craniospinal hydrodynamics and subsequent neurological and neurodegenerative disorders.” - Michael F. Flanagan, "The Role of the Craniocervical Junction in Craniospinal Hydrodynamics and Neurodegenerative Conditions"
“No one could survive without precise signaling in cells. The body functions properly only because the cells constantly communicate with each other." - Scientific American
"Organs supplied by impinged nerves exhibit pathological changes and the more serious the impingement, the more serious the damage." - Henry Winsor, MD

“When skeletal abnormalities exist, be they ever so slight or apparently trivial, we must admit that either directly or indirectly they affect muscles or visceral organs through pressure on nerves or ganglia. We cannot deny that anything which irritates a nerve or ganglia or interferes in any way with the free flow of nerve force to the parts supplied, may readily disturb the function of that part or give rise to pain in the nerve trunk itself or in the peripheral organ. Unrelieved functional disturbances eventually lead to organic changes.” - Dr. George S. Weaver, Genesis and Control of Disease
“Chiropractic has a significant effect on maximizing immunity via maintenance of a healthy nervous system.” - Dr. Candace Pert, PhD neuroscientist
“Many neuralgias of the trunk, upper limb, even of the head and face, take origin in some skeletal peculiarity, in fact are the result of compression or strain on nerves or nerve roots, where they traverse bony canals.” - Dr. Vittorio Putti, Italian orthopedic surgeon, The Lancet
“Nerve conductivity may be interrupted by pressure on the nerve trunk without loss of anatomical continuity and probably without severe histological changes.” - Bryon Stookey, MD, Surgical and Mechanical Treatment of Peripheral Nerves
“Poor posture, whether it is the result of bad habits or the result of an organic defect, if maintained for a long time will result in structural changes, lessened muscular tone and pulmonary inefficiency. Impaired oxygenation of the tissues and still further lowering of muscular tone will establish a vicious circle, the results of which are lowered resistance to disease, pre-disposition to the occurrence of scoliosis, anemia, ill health, and chronic backache. The importance of correcting minor faults in body mechanics in their early stages cannot be overemphasized.” - Drs. H.W. Meyerdin and G.A. Pollack, Mayo Clinic staff, Modern Conceptions of Backache, The Lancet.
“For the spine is the only place within the anatomical structure where soft nerve tissue is prone to come in contact with hard bone.” - Alfred Walton, MD
“Chiropractic does away with empiricism, treatment by expectancy, all guesswork, and places in the hands of the general practitioner, a method of that is at once direct, scientific and certain in its operations; producing results that in the light of orthodox methods are almost miraculous.” - Alfred Walton, MD
“We must try to give vigor to the central parts of the nervous system, in which the immediate causes exist…every organ and muscle in the body is dependent more or less upon the spinal nerves.” - Dr. J. Evans Riadore, a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons
“From the standpoint of the physician there can be no disease which does not disturb the nerve cells concerned…If the cause of the disturbance in these conducting pathways can be ascertained and removed, the patient will be cured. Otherwise, treatment merely diverts attention from the truth.” - R. J. A. Berry, MD, FRCS, dean of the faculty of medicine at the University of Melbourne, Australia.
“The surgeon cuts with his knife and the orthopedist molds with his plaster casts. But is there not something left undone? Are they not limiting both their field of diagnosis and their therapeutic procedures? Why neglect the most perfect of all instruments? What knife or plaster has the intelligence of the human fingers?” - R. Kendrick, M.D., orthopedic surgeon on the staff of Boston Polyclinic
“Vertebral therapy is one of the strongest ‘medicines’ in the healing art.” - Dr. K. R. von Roques, M.D.
"Chiropractic focuses on the anatomy of the spinal cord and the nerves that branch out from it. Even minor deviations of the spine caused by poor posture can impair the working of a nerve and the body part it supplies." - Miriam Stoddard, MD
“Complex organisms are organized to generate an integrated, consistent, and uniform response to a stimulus. The central nervous system is the ultimate integrator.” - Agamemnon Despopoulos, MD & Stefan Silbernagl, MD, Color Atlas of Physiology
“The earlier abnormal spinal function could be recognized and corrected in a child's life, the greater the opportunity that child will have for neurological development." - Dr. David Heilig Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine
“To understand health is to understand the central role of the brain and nervous system in maintaining the resistance of the body. Health maintenance is the primary function of the brain, not educational thoughts, language, poetry and other functions usually associated with the brain.” - Robert Ornstein, PhD & David Sobel, MD, The Healing Brain
“Headaches are more frequently caused by spinal stress than any other condition.” - Journal of Occupational Trauma
"Biological success in all its manifestations is a measure of fitness, and fitness requires never-ending efforts of adaptation to the total environment, which is ever changing." - Rene Dubos, PhD
"Changes in the optimal spinal position produce spinal pathologies and loss of function. Spinal pathologies destroy joint reflexes, arc fibers and cause nerve impedance.” - Wyke, B (1987) Backache Diary

“Interference to the nervous system results in damage within a short period of time and, therefore, Chiropractic care should begin at birth on a preventative basis.” - Dr. Arpad DeNagy

“Subluxation alone is a rational reason for Chiropractic care throughout a lifetime from birth.” - Dr. Lee Hadley, Syracuse Memorial Hospital

“Every newborn should receive a neck and spine examination and a Chiropractic adjustment if necessary. Is that idea too difficult to accept?” - Lendon Smith, MD, Pediatrcian

“By releasing stress on the nervous system, Chiropractic permits the immune system to function more effectively.” - Dr. Irvin Korr

“The quality of healing is directly proportional to the functional capability of the central nervous system to send and receive nerve messages." - Dr. Janson Edwards, MD, PhD

“No one could survive without precise signaling in cells. The body functions properly only because the cells constantly communicate with each other." - Scientific American

"Organs supplied by impinged nerves exhibit pathological changes and the more serious the impingement, the more serious the damage." - Henry Winsor, MD

“Chiropractic has a significant effect on maximizing immunity via maintenance of a healthy nervous system.” - Dr. Candace Pert, PhD neuroscientist

“Many neuralgias of the trunk, upper limb, even of the head and face, take origin in some skeletal peculiarity, in fact are the result of compression or strain on nerves or nerve roots, where they traverse bony canals.” - Dr. Vittorio Putti, Italian orthopedic surgeon, The Lancet

“Nerve conductivity may be interrupted by pressure on the nerve trunk without loss of anatomical continuity and probably without severe histological changes.” - Bryon Stookey, MD, Surgical and Mechanical Treatment of Peripheral Nerves

“For the spine is the only place within the anatomical structure where soft nerve tissue is prone to come in contact with hard bone.” - Alfred Walton, MD

“We must try to give vigor to the central parts of the nervous system, in which the immediate causes exist…every organ and muscle in the body is dependent more or less upon the spinal nerves.” - Dr. J. Evans Riadore, a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons

“Vertebral therapy is one of the strongest ‘medicines’ in the healing art.” - Dr. K. R. von Roques, M.D.

"Chiropractic focuses on the anatomy of the spinal cord and the nerves that branch out from it. Even minor deviations of the spine caused by poor posture can impair the working of a nerve and the body part it supplies." - Miriam Stoddard, MD

“Complex organisms are organized to generate an integrated, consistent, and uniform response to a stimulus. The central nervous system is the ultimate integrator.” - Agamemnon Despopoulos, MD & Stefan Silbernagl, MD, Color Atlas of Physiology

“The earlier abnormal spinal function could be recognized and corrected in a child's life, the greater the opportunity that child will have for neurological development." - Dr. David Heilig Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine

“Headaches are more frequently caused by spinal stress than any other condition.” - Journal of Occupational Trauma

"Biological success in all its manifestations is a measure of fitness, and fitness requires never-ending efforts of adaptation to the total environment, which is ever changing." - Rene Dubos, PhD

"Changes in the optimal spinal position produce spinal pathologies and loss of function. Spinal pathologies destroy joint reflexes, arc fibers and cause nerve impedance.” - Wyke, B (1987) Backache Diary