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Book An Appointment Today	Your Chiropractor Dr. Michael A Temple is a 1981 Summa Cum Laude graduate of the Palmer College of Chiropractic where he served as Student Body President his Senior year. Dr. Temple became a Chiropractor after suffering a career ending training accident while serving as a Lieutenant in the United States Navy stationed in Italy. Since graduation Dr. Temple has been certified in many different specialties within the Chiropractic and Medical professions. These include a Founding member and certification with the Motion Palpation Institute, a Founding member of the Foundation for Athletic Research and Education, the Activator Method and the Cox Institute. He is certified in performing Medical Impairment Ratings and is a High Power Therapeutic Laser Specialist. Dr. Temple has served as a peer review specialist with HCX, a Washington DC consulting firm, helping keep injury recovery costs for SCF of Arizona and many Auto Insurance Companies from spiraling out of control and insuring that the patients got all the testing and follow-up care they needed and deserved. He has performed Impairment Rating exams for one of the largest medical clinic groups in the state of Arizona for the past several years as well.
Chiropractic Chiropractic, the world’s foremost natural healthcare science, is rooted in history as far back as the ancient Greeks. Chiropractic concerns itself with the relationship between structure (primarily the spine) and function (primarily coordinated by the nervous system) of the human body and how that relationship affects the restoration and preservation of health. Chiropractic employs neither drugs nor surgery. It is concerned with the entire environment of the body and is based on a properly functioning nervous system, which begins with the brain and courses through the spinal cord encased within the spinal column. No part of the body escapes the dominance of the nervous system. Spinal biomechanical dysfunction—improper function of the spine due to fixations within a spinal joint—can cause a state of poor health in an area far removed from the spine and spinal cord itself and can reduce the ability of the body to adapt to an ever-changing environment. The slightest malfunction of the spine may alter the regular transmission of nerve impulses, preventing that portion of the body from responding with its full inherent capacity. A spinal adjustment (the application of a precise force to the specific part of the spinal segment) corrects the fixation, improving the biomechanics thereby improving nerve function, reducing pain and improving the innate recuperative capability and effective health and adaptation of the person. Chiropractic is the care of choice, as the majority of people today look for an alternative to medicine.