Chiropractic 101
I would first like to thank you for taking the time to read this message and allow me to share my experiences and point of views. I want to acknowledge that I will be speaking from my experiences, and that I will be referencing research that supports this point of view. My intention is to fully express myself and my experiences with you, so that you can relate and identify with my message. Hopefully you are left empowered and excited to the splendor that is found within your Being– an amazingly healthy body that is waiting to express itself now and for the rest of your life! It is my hope that you find what I share to be relevant, powerful and applicable to you and your life. My only request is that you maintain an open mind throughout these talks, for as you will see that having an open mind not only saved my life, but has allowed me to deliver that service to others. The conversations that will ensue from this point forward will be how chiropractic care impacts important aspects of your life in regards to your success and satisfaction. To begin the conversation of chiropractic care, I will be sharing mine.
My introduction to chiropractic care was a much needed one, for I know and believe that it saved my life and was the biggest factor in determining who I am today. Early on in my life I was the recipient of receiving a car bumper across my head while sledding, from that moment my life changed forever. Over the next 18 months I was a very sickly child, where as before that event I was a healthy robust kid. Those 18 months were absolute torture, as I would consistently and constantly get sick every 3 weeks. The type of sickness or dis-ease I was experiencing caused frequent trips to the medical doctor. I remember dreading getting off the bed with my warm rag compress on my ear for the infections, while my head was splitting with a headache, and my throat hurt so bad that I didn’t want to breathe. However, this was the routine as my Mom would take me to the medical doctor to get checked and given a prescription for antibiotics. Each time there wasn’t any hope of stopping the sickness, just managing how bad I felt and for how long I felt that way. At the age of 3, this routine seemed like an eternity with no end in sight.
I remember as a young boy raising the question, “what is wrong with me?” That thought is all I could focus on when I was laying there sick and miserable. My friends would come over and ask me to come out and play, however I could do nothing except imagine what type of fun they were having without me. My life was limited and I was sentenced to continual sickness with no hope insight. Little did I know that I was going to have the course of my life profoundly altered in just a few short months.
Months passed as I would routinely make trips to the sick care doctor with no progress, then by an act of God, an unknown pseudo-doctor moved into the area that ‘cracks’ backs. My father, a well practiced Doctor of Veterinary Medicine, decided that it was time to try something different, other than the sick care system, because that approach suggested surgery on his only son. This surgery, that he was unwilling to commit to without having explored other options, was something that he wasn’t going to do because he didn’t want to permanently alter his son.
That choice I can not thank my dad enough for! For that open-minded choice allowed me to truly experience amazing health and break the shackles of dis-ease and sickness! What the pseudo-doctor, aka chiropractor, did was allow my inborn health to come out and give my body the guidance to express optimal health. This doctor of chiropractic, Dr. Dean, evaluated my spine and neck, and what we discovered was that my neck was out of its normal alignment due to the accident. Dr. Dean then adjusted my neck and spine, thus moving the bones of my neck and back to their proper place.
Those mis-aligned bones were causing pressure on my nervous system and brainstem area, not allowing my body and immune system to not work properly and made me very vulnerable to sickness and dis-ease. To take a minute and elaborate what dis-ease means, dis-ease is a condition in the body where it is not in its normal state of well-being, or ‘ease’. When the body is out of alignment, it is put into an abnormal state of dis-ease which contributes and leads to a vast number of health problems! In America, it is common to find that people are confused as to what it means to be healthy and how to achieve health. People think that health is influenced by a multitude of factors; such as genetics, a lack of luck, catching a bug and potentially other ‘outside-in’ phenomenon.
This idea of health coming from the outside-in is why medicine failed me as a child and why it is failing America today. No amount of pharmaceutical medicine will ever get the body healthy; it will at best decrease the expression of symptoms and suppress the body from proper function, regulation and expression. To be clear, I think all forms of health care have their place, I am stating that medicine is designed to fulfill a crisis care role, when someone is in a dire state of affairs. When someone is in a situation that an ‘outside-in’ approach is the only thing that can save their life, then absolutely use the pharmaceutical approach.
The inside-out approach of chiropractic treats the whole person and seeks to get to the cause of the problem rather than focusing on the expressed effects of the body. Chiropractic has and will continue to have a profound and lasting impact on the lives of millions. I have been honored to have the privilege of being apart of many amazing miracles of chiropractic; such as recovery from Bell’s Palsy, memory loss, coordination & balance issues, COPD, blood pressure, insulin, cholesterol, heart arythmia’s, childhood colic/sleep & digestive issues, plagiocephaly, headaches, fibromyalgia, loss of hearing, weight loss and loss of quality of life to name a few. I can say, without a doubt, that chiropractic care will give you a body that will support you for an entire lifetime! If you are interested in improved results in sports or at the gym, feeling great, improved energy, weight loss, better sleep, better immunity, avoiding or reducing medication, and avoiding illness and surgery, then you owe it to yourself and your family to visit a chiropractor.
Throughout these conversations, I hope that you find my message as a suggestion to re-arrange how we think about the correct way to approach our health. Rather than starting from the outside with drugs and surgery, try starting from the inside with a safe, non-evasive approach called chiropractic. You just might be amazed at what you will find inside yourself!
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