The questions everyone asks

Chiropractic is a primary healthcare profession that works with the nervous system through manual adjustments to the spine.

To support the body's capacity to find and hold its own balance, by identifying and removing the causes of subluxation so that self-healing can take place. Without drugs and without invasive procedures.

Chiropractic rests on a close relationship between the structure of the spine and the functioning of the nervous system. A biomechanical alteration of the spine can interfere with nerve transmission, and from there affect health. These dysfunctions are called subluxations.

Many things: poor posture, stress, a sedentary life, unbalanced diet, alcohol and smoking. All of them weaken the neuro-musculo-skeletal system and take away its original balance.

Chiropractic is considered safe. One useful indicator is professional indemnity insurance, whose premiums are markedly lower for chiropractors than for doctors, particularly surgeons. It should be added that a significant share of harm attributed to manipulation was caused by unqualified people without a proper chiropractic degree: checking registration is your first protection.

No. It can help manage, without medication, the back pain that often appears from the fifth or sixth month onwards. Treatment is adapted with positions designed around the bump.

Some patients at the practice report having coped better with labour after a course of care in pregnancy, and American literature reports similar observations. Honestly, the available studies are still limited and do not allow anyone to promise a result: every pregnancy and every birth is its own story. What we actually work on is pelvic mobility and low back pain, always alongside your obstetrician and midwife.

Some patients report improvement in menstrual pain after work on the pelvis, lower back and upper cervical spine. It is not a result anyone can guarantee, and severe menstrual pain can have specific gynaecological causes that need investigating: seeing your gynaecologist comes first. Chiropractic can sit alongside that pathway, not replace it.

Yes. The touch used is feather-light, very different from that used on an adult. According to Danish research, colic lasts less time and resolves sooner in newborns treated regularly.

It helps improve mobility and manage the symptoms of common age-related conditions such as osteoarthritis. Adjustments are gentler and checks more regular.

On two fronts: fewer injuries and less severe consequences, and improved performance. Many leading teams, Italian and international, have a chiropractor on staff.

No. In Italy only a medical doctor or specialist can prescribe medication and diagnostic imaging. A chiropractor can, however, read and assess imaging you already have.

Every case has its own duration and frequency, set after the first visit. Once function has been restored, a periodic check is still advisable even without symptoms.

Occasional checks without symptoms are what protects the results already achieved. The closest comparison is having your teeth cleaned: you go even when nothing hurts.

Health insurers are private bodies and decide independently whether and how much to reimburse a session, taking clinical indications into account. It is worth checking directly with your policy.

It depends on the clinical picture. In general chiropractic techniques are not invasive and treatment is always adapted to the patient's state of health: a doctor of chiropractic is trained to care for patients with osteoporosis.

Very broadly, osteopathy regards the heart and cardiovascular system as primary, chiropractic the brain and nervous system. One practical difference: osteopathy can be studied in Italy, chiropractic cannot yet.