Everyone knows that to work in the Capitol, you have to have nerves of steel. But just how "nervy" are members of Congress and their staffs? On September 25, during the first ever "Capitol Hill Chiropractic Day," the World Chiropractic Alliance (WCA) will give them a chance to find out by having their nerve function measured by a sophisticated spinal testing instrument.

"Chiropractic Day is part of a national effort by the WCA to demonstrate the appropriateness and benefits of chiropractic in the national health system," said Dr. Terry Rondberg, WCA president. "We want to show with a 'hands on' demonstration why these benefits should be made available to all federal employees."

The Day will begin at 10:30 a.m., with a roundtable session on chiropractic's role in health care programs for federal workers. Congressional members and their staffs, leaders of the chiropractic community and executive officials will participate in the discussion.

At noon, the WCA will offer members of Congress and their staffs a free "spinal screening" test, which will literally measure their nerve function. Within seconds, the Insight Millennium Subluxation Station (the same machine used by Olympic Gold Medalist Dan O'Brien) will analyze the function of their nerve system and provide a printed readout of the test results. A licensed doctor of chiropractic will be on hand to give them free spinal adjustments to correct vertebral subluxations that may be adversely affecting their nerve function. Additional information about chiropractic and its role in the American health care system will be available.

Chiropractic is the third largest health care system in the world, with only medical doctors and dentists seeing more patients each year than doctors of chiropractic. In the U.S. alone, approximately 60,000 chiropractors see an estimated 23-28 million people each year.

The profession was founded in 1895 with the unique purpose of detecting and correcting vertebral subluxations, misalignments in the spinal bones that can interfere with normal nerve flow. Most doctors of chiropractic continue to uphold this concept and consider themselves non-medical health care providers.

The World Chiropractic Alliance is an international organization representing doctors of chiropractic and promoting traditional, drug-free and non-invasive chiropractic for the correction of vertebral subluxations. The WCA, a Non-Governmental Organization associated with the United Nations Department of Public Information, publishes The Chiropractic Journal, with a circulation of about 70,000, and the peer-reviewed Journal of Vertebral Subluxation Research.

For more information about chiropractic or the World Chiropractic Alliance, visit www.worldchiropracticalliance.org.