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The Vertebral Subluxation carries many different definitions throughout the medical and Chiropractic fields. A simplified, yet middle of the road definition would be: “A misalignment of adjacent vertebrae that creates an alteration of nerve expression.”

Early Doctors since the beginning of organized health care have used the principles of heat detection to study pathology. Hippocrates, the founder of modern healthcare, covered his patients in mud to observe where the mud would dry first. He would then postulate that these dried areas were the site of anatomical pathology.

Chiropractic's early philosophy was rooted in vitalism, spiritual inspiration and rationalism. A philosophy based on deduction from irrefutable doctrine helped distinguish chiropractic from medicine, provided it with legal and political defenses against claims of practicing medicine without a license, and allowed chiropractors to establish themselves as an autonomous profession.

Chiropractic is a health care discipline and profession that emphasizes diagnosis, treatment and prevention of mechanical disorders of the musculoskeletal system, especially the spine, under the hypothesis that these disorders affect general health via the nervous system.