Chiropractic is based  on the principle that your body has the natural inborn ability and wisdom to heal, repair and maintain integrity within itself.  This inborn wisdom is called Innate Intelligence and it is what maintains function within your body.  Innate Intelligence uses the master controller of your body, the brain, and the entire nervous system to carry out its messages to the rest of the body.  Nothing in your body will work unless the brain tells it what to do and it does this by carrying messages via the nervous system.  The nervous system controls everything in your body.   Every part of your body - cells, tissues, muscles, organs, etc. - has a nerve going to it.  In fact, if every part of your body was removed other than the nervous system, you would be recognizable because you would be a phantom of nerves.

Chiropractic is the science, art and philosophy of the location, analysis and correction of interferences to the natural functioning of the body and nervous system called vertebral subluxations.