About chiropractic Chiropractic began in the United States in 1895. Today it is the third largest primary healthcare profession in the world after Medicine and Dentistry. There are many different techniques of chiropractic, but all have the same aims: Correct the alignment of the bones of the spine and other joints Restore nerve function Alleviate pain Promote self-healing and health. It was Hippocrates, the father of medicine, who first said: ‘Get knowledge of the spine, for this is the requisite for many diseases’. Essentially your body cannot function correctly if there is any interference with its nerve supply. Such interference can cause pain, discomfort and disease.