Weekly Chiropractic Info

Here are some recent statistics to consider…

·         The United States consumes 80% of the world’s pain medication while only having 6% of the world’s population.

·         In the United States, deaths from pain medication abuse are outnumbering deaths from traffic accidents in young adults. 

·         An American dies from a prescription drug overdose every 19 minutes.

Chiropractors believe true freedom comes from IN-Dependence – relying on the power that made you, to heal you and keep you well! IN-Dependent Chiropractic patients know they innately possess what it takes to heal. They trust in the wisdom of their bodies to handle what ails them instead of running to the medicine cabinet for every cough or sniffle. They’re the 30% who would rather give Mother Nature the chance to do her job, than usurp her role with drug intervention.

Big Pharma won’t stop advertising and pushing their products until we’re 100% dependent on them. This Fourth of July when you’re celebrating our country’s freedom, take a moment to reflect on your body’s freedom as well. Are you truly as IN-Dependent as you want to be?

•         ASIPP American Society of Interventional Pain Physician
•     U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 

Getting stuff from Amazon.com is pretty easy… just pick out what you want, put it in your cart and click the order button. There’s no need to worry about what goes on “behind the scenes.” It’s all handled by knowledgeable experts who retrieve, pack and ship the items you requested online without your conscious involvement. Your job is to sit back and wait patiently for your items to arrive at your doorstep.

The same applies to healing. The behind the scenes work involved in repairing your body requires no conscious micro-management on your part. You need only hold a clear image of the end result (the order) in your mind and allow nature to fulfill it! Don’t be lulled into aimless hope. No one orders from Amazon and then “hopes” their packages into existence – they EXPECT them to show up. Expectation is the magic catalyst in every SUCCESSFUL outcome, including healing if that’s what you desire.

A titration test analyzes how many drops of a chemical it takes to create a specific reaction – usually a change in solution color. Drop by drop, the reagent is added until an observable change is seen. And if asked which drop finally made the difference, the correct answer would be they all did!

Chiropractic care works in similar fashion. Often a patient will exclaim after a visit “…doc, that last adjustment really did it, I felt better right away!” In reality, it wasn’t just the ONE adjustment that did the trick – the past ones contributed, as well the future ones. The effect is cumulative.

When adjusted regularly, drop by drop, you eventually reap the rewards in improved health, higher function and realized potential. If you ever wonder which adjustment changed your life for the better? The answer is – they all did, and will continue to do so!

If you leave kids unsupervised, something bad is bound to happen. Worse yet, if they haven’t made a peep for a while – that’s when the most chaos is going down! You have to look in on them every now and then to make sure there’s no trouble. 

If you leave your spine neglected for too long, inevitably it gets into trouble too. Vertebrae get out of line, joints misbehave and nerves become irritable. Before you know it, your health is total mess! When your spine’s away from chiropractic supervision – subluxations will play.

Kids will be kids, and spines will be spines. You’ll never be able to protect them from every danger. But you can avert a fair number of mishaps with regular monitoring. Being responsible is maintaining a close eye on both!

The Major Premise of Chiropractic states “There is a universal intelligence in all matter that continually gives to it all its properties and action, thus maintaining it in existence.” Literally, something smart is holding the universe and all its components together in perfect organization and order!

Since you too are part of the universe, that unseen wisdom is holding you together as well – maintaining your physiological functions, your ability to resist life’s stresses and your state of heath. In Chiropractic terms, that special intelligence inside you, the one that’s holding your internal universe together is called “innate intelligence.” Without it, you wouldn’t be in existence.

So here’s a great question to ask Dr. Chris on your next visit.: if the same power that holds the cosmos together is inside you, holding you together in perfect organization and operation, how could something dead or artificial from the outside (like a pill, a portion or prescription) do a better job of healing you than what your inner power is already capable of – as long as it’s not interfered with?

“Seeing the forest for the trees” is an expression of PERSPECTIVE. It’s the ability to step back and see the whole picture of a given situation, instead of clinging to a narrow, limited, myopic one. Focusing on the BIG IDEA is necessary to achieving any worthy goal!

We commonly hear newer patients say… my migraines, my sciatica, my fibromyalgia – labeling themselves by their doctor’s diagnosis instead of seeing themselves as the healthy people they want to be. Unfortunately when it comes to healing, holding on to your symptoms is as beneficial as hugging a tree and never letting go. You can’t see the forest of wellness if you insist on clinging to the trunk of disease. 

You don’t get healthy by focusing on sickness. You get healthy by letting go, stepping back and acknowledging who you REALLY are… an innately gifted human being, capable of healing from above down, inside out. It’s our job as your Chiropractor to never let you forget it!

The human body mimics nature’s design in many ways. One in particular is the likeness between your spinal discs and a cut tree trunk. The rings of a tree tell its age… the rings of our discs tell how you’ve aged!

Spinal discs consist of concentric annular rings (like a tree) with a soft central area called the Nucleus Pulposis. The nucleus responds to sustained pressure and works best mechanically when your spine is in proper alignment. What the lay public often calls a “slipped disc” is actually a stressed disc that has been subjected to poor spinal alignment over time, causing crack in the annular rings and “squishing” of the nucleus material in to the voids. Bulges lead to herniations, herniations lead to ruptures, ruptures lead to surgery and disability. 

Nothing will make you feel older than you are than having a disc problem. With the appropriate Chiropractic care, spinal distortions which lead to disc degeneration can be reversed…easing the lopsided pressure that splinters discs into ruin. If you’re suffering from chronic disc problems, getting back in alignment first could prevent you from aging faster than you have to!

Electricity flows through power lines and messages of communication flow through phone cables… but the “POWER” that flows through Nerve fibers is far more intricate, intelligent and critical to your life!

Nerves carry “SMART” signals – organized instructions and data which relay from the brain to the body and from the body back to the brain. This complicated loop forms the communication network needed to guide every physiological function in your body from respiration to perspiration… assimilation to elimination… tissue breakdown and tissue repair. Innately, trillions of these messages flow through your nerve system every second of your life, in an automated effort to keep you alive without your conscious input. So how important is it to maintain this amazing system?

This is the realm of Chiropractic care – the protection and preservation of these “Life Wires” so that you can experience perfect function, abundant health and wellbeing. The doctor inside you can accomplish just about anything as long as your internal power lines remain clear!

In the classic scene in the Wizard of Oz we find Dorothy, Toto, Tin Man and Scarecrow timidly walking through the woods on the lookout for the three dreadful threats conjured up in their imaginations – lions and tigers and bears, oh my… in Chiropractic, the three big threats we warn patients about (the big three that cause subluxations) are physical trauma, chemical trauma and auto-suggestion (thought) trauma.

According to the founder of Chiropractic, DD Palmer, approximately 20% of nervous system interference can be attributed to physical injuries or poisons from outside the body… like a slip, fall or overdose. The remaining 80% can be traced back to persistent negative emotions or self-talk that literally builds tension in your muscles, pull vertebrae out to alignment and freeze your nerve system in its tracks – rendering you stiff like a Tin Man, foggy brained like a Scarecrow and overly sensitive like a Cowardly Lion.

A Chiropractor can locate your Subluxations, restore normal spinal alignment and reduce nerve interference when necessary. But it’s your responsibility to, 1. Be cognizant when any of the big three “T’s” attacks you and 2. Get adjusted ASAP so worse problems don’t manifest. Doing so will keep you and your loved ones on the yellow brick road of health!