The History and Purpose of Chiropractic

Posted on June 30, 2025 by zgower

The Founder

In 1895 DD Palmer founded Chiropractic in Davenport Iowa with the first chiropractic adjustment to a deaf janitor named Harvey Lillard. A few days later Harvey regained his hearing. DD Palmer opened the Palmer school of Chiropractic two years later.

“Life is but the expression of spirit through matter. To make life manifest requires the union of spirit and body.” – DD Palmer

Dr. Zach Gower

Chiropractor

Palmer was a brilliant anatomist and magnetic healer, dedicating his life to understanding the human body. His vision was to create a natural healing profession based on vitalism, holism, and the spirit within. He believed the power that made your body is what heals your body; promoting health and healing from within.

Chiropractic is based on an inside-out philosophy, not an outside-in approach as in medicine. We all created with an inborn intelligence or life force; in chiropractic we call this innate intelligence. Our Innate intelligence directs our life force through the nervous system, the master control system of the body. Every muscle, gland, blood vessel, organ and system works by the communication and connection to the nervous system.

The spine protects and facilitates the messages between the brain and nerves to the body. Spinal misalignments affect the nerve system communication pathways, called “subluxation.” Subluxations cause nerve disturbance (dis-ease) between the brain and body. Dis-ease sometimes causes symptoms and sometimes not. Regardless of the presentation of symptoms, subluxation affects the structure and function of all body processes, which leads to reduced quality of life, disease and early death.

This is the main reason why we recommend everyone be checked for subluxations by a principled chiropractor. You are healthier without subluxations and nerve interference. Your body is better able to adapt to stress, function optimally and heal. Chiropractic is a natural approach to restoring health, focussed on finding and correcting the cause of subluxation, restoring your connection to the power of life.

How Chiropractic Will Change Your Life

Posted on June 30, 2025 by zgower

“90% of the stimulation and nutrition to the brain is generated by the movement of the spine.”

– Dr Roger Sperry

1981 Nobel Peace Prize winner for brain research

Chiropractic improves brain function

Chiropractic care is all about enhancing life force and intelligence flowing within you. Chirorpactic adjustments help restore the nervous systems ability to coordinate all functions in the body and essential for optimal long term health. As humans, our creator, God almighty, designed us with an inborn innate intelligence, which coordinates all life processes within and allows us to consciously perceive the world. Interferences to the life power flowing through our nerves occurs throughout life due to stress, and blocks the effectiveness of the body’s ability to coordinate information and adapt. 29% of Americans believe stress is the cause of their back pain. (They’re correct) These we refer to as subluxations in the spine, which over time break down your bodies ability to function efficiently and cause dis-ease. A specific scientific life changing chiropractic adjustment is delivered to restore and enhance life flowing throughout the body. The adjustment given at the right place and time will change your life.

Life is motion. Nobel prize winner, Dr. Roger Sperry, found that 90% of the brain’s stimulation and nutrition comes from the movement of the spine. The chiropractic adjustment restores movement in the spine, allowing life power to flow through your nervous system, to all parts of your body, enhancing body and mind function. Spinal movement enhances brain-body connection and acuity.

Ruach Chiropractic focusses on community wellness for you and your family’s health. We’re here to support and educate you for lifelong natural health. Come experience the life changing power of chiropractic.

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The Miracle of Laying on of Hands

Posted on June 30, 2025 by zgower

The effect of the “laying on of hands” on transplanted breast cancer in mice

A research study observed the effects of “laying on of hands” and its effects on healing in mice. The experiments were done at laboratory facilities at St. Joseph’s College and Queens College in NY. Mice with mammary adenocarcinoma were observed, which had predicted a 100% fatality between 14 and 27 days subsequent to injection. The mice were treated for 1 hour per day for 1 month, and compared to a control group receiving no treatment. The volunteers hands were placed on the outside of the cages of treated mice, and not even directly on the mice to produce the observed effects. The tumors on the experimental group developed a “blackened area,” then they ulcerated, imploded, and closed, and the mice lived their normal life spans. Control mice sent to another city died within the predicted time frame. Three replications using skeptical volunteers produced statistically similar results, with an overall cure rate of 87.9% in 33 experimental mice. Distance healing were performed in cities around the world with similar results. Post histological studies indicated viable cancer cells through all stages of remission. Re-injections of cancer into the mice in remission did not take, suggesting a stimulated immunological response to the treatment.

Conclusions of the study revealed the following: Belief in laying on of hands is not necessary in order to produce the effect; there is a reproducible and predictable stimulated immune response to treatment; and the mice retain an immunity to the same cancer after remission. Future work is necessary to test various diseases and immunological studies of treatment effects.

Laying of the hands is powerful in its effects on healing. The volunteers in the study were skeptical and didn’t believe in the healing strategy and it still worked! The experimental mice weren’t informed and didn’t understand what was happening and miraculously they healed, while the untreated control group of mice all died within the predicted time frame. What’s amazing is how this interaction between the volunteers in the study and the mice produced clear immunological responses, with full cancer remission and retained immunity for 29 out of 33 mice tested.

Chiropractic is a science, art, and philosophy of things natural and the relationship between the innate intelligence within us. Adjustments are done by hand, clearing the energetic pathways between the brain and body, allowing the bodymind to heal from within. Chiropractors don’t heal you, but find and release the interferences to the intelligence and life force inside you that does the healing. This study shows the incredible healing power of touch, intention and presence in reversing disease processes and restoring health and life. Chiropractic care helps people restore connection to their inner wisdom, creating greater adaptability and freedom to live healthy.

References:

Bengston W, Krinsley D. Journal of Scientific Exploration, Vol. 14, No. 3, pp. 353–364, 2000