Bilingual pupils visit Chiropractor Centre in Weert.

This is the report of one of the pupils:

What is chiropractic?

Chiropractic is a health profession.

The nervous system organizes everything in the body. It includes the brain, the spine and all the nerves. If the nervous system is blocked, the body won’t work properly, because the assignments of the brain will not reach the muscles properly (this causes for example pain/ deafness). The chiropractor frees the central spine by adjusting the vertebrae. So the body can recover itself. Perhaps therefore, the chiropractor doesn’t see himself like a doctor, but more as a helper of your body.

our visit

the 2^nd of February we went to a chiropractic centre in Weert. Sir Travis Corcoran (who looked a little like House) was our host. He first explained what chiropractic was and then he answered all our questions.

chiropractors and doctors

Sir Corcoran said he thought doctors didn’t really help you. He said that they only give you medicine to make you feel better, but that isn’t healthy for your body. For example, you ate something bad and you throw up and get fever (to get the poison out of your body). You take medicine. You stop throwing up, the fever gets lower, you feel better, but your body doesn’t get any better at all! The poison stays in your body!!!

Another difference between doctors and chiropractors is that you only go to the doctor when you have a problem, but you can go to the chiropractor without having any problems. Just because you want to prevent problems. You can compare it to the dentist

When we asked why (normal) doctors didn’t refer to chiropractors.

The answer (according to him) was that doctors don’t believe it works, because they didn’t learn it at school and nobody ever proved it truly works. If they believed it they are scared to lose their jobs (I think that’s a little  extravagant and that some doctors really do refer to a chiropractor).

my opinion

I believe that chiropractic can help you with certain problems and it really helps if you go to the chiropractor to prevent problems. Though I don’t think it can help for every type of illness or can remedy deafness.

Made by: Evi Hendrikx

Class: V2E