How Chiropractors Optimize Your Health
Through Personal Injury, Pain And Stress Relief
Chiropractic is Our Way To Give Back Health and Vitality to You
I have to admit that when Elaine first came into my chiropractic office, I did not know if I could help her. When she first arrived, her husband was holding her arm to help keep her from falling over. Her walk appeared to be almost like a drunken stagger, but I was assured by her husband that she had not had anything to drink for several years. We finally sat her down on an adjusting table and I began my examination.
How Can Chiropractic Help Dizziness and Headache?
Her story was quite tragic. For more than 20 years, she had suffered from bouts of intense dizziness and nausea that lasted from anywhere from a few hours to a few days. And she kept complaining of a peculiar ringing in her ears, particularly on the right side. Over the years, she had endured two surgeries on her ears, physical therapy, psychotherapy, numerous prescription drugs and even one procedure where she was hung upside-down for eight hours in an effort to dislodge what her medical doctor thought were "crystals inside her ear canal."
Occasionally, Elaine would feel better for a few weeks and her hopes would be raised. But inevitably, her dizziness would come back and her husband would get a frantic call from the grocery store or the local bank telling him that Elaine was laying on the floor in dry heaves and needed to be picked up. Elaine's dizziness affected everything.
Your Chiropractor is Doctor of the Spine
During my examination, I noticed that a couple of bones in the upper part of her spine, just below the base of her skull, felt strangely situated. I asked her if she had ever been to a chiropractor before and she said that she had been to one other chiropractor. When asked if he had adjusted this part of her spine before, she said "Oh, no! He wouldn't adjust it because every time he touched my upper neck, it made my dizziness worse." After my examination, it was pretty clear to me that her upper neck was contributing to her dizziness.
Chiropractic Gently Relieves Discomfort
Elaine was fairly nervous when she laid down on her back to have her upper neck adjusted for the first time. I had a feeling that she was going to feel better after I adjusted her neck, but I, too, was a little apprehensive. The last thing in the world I wanted to do was to make her problem worse. The first adjustment I made was very light and nothing happened. She was having a hard time relaxing her neck, so I had her take some deep breaths and wiggle her toes. As soon as I felt her neck relax, I adjusted her neck with a quick thrust and a loud pop that sounded like someone breaking a piece of lumber—it seemed that loud. Afterwards, she looked up at me and smiled.
Chiropractic Adjusts Your Quality of Life
It has been years since Elaine's first visit and she has not had an episode of dizziness since. I recently received a postcard from them during their trip to Hawaii thanking me for giving them their life back.
Three Chiropractic Tips to Healthy Living
The three main ideas that we want to drive home on this website are:
- Health is not merely the absence of disease.
- The body is a series of complex systems that rely on proper balance and coordination in order to function correctly.
- Chiropractic and healthy lifestyle changes are the most effective ways to remove the obstacles that prevent your body from expressing its full radiant health.
Chiropractic Effectively Treats Back Pain
Anyone who doubts the effectiveness of chiropractic care can always ask Jim what he thinks. He was one of those occasional first-time chiropractic patients who stroll into my office and says something like "I don't believe in chiropractic care and I'm sure you can't help me, but I don't know what else to do."
Jim was one of those people. He had been suffering from extreme low back pain for three years due to a work injury. All of the medical doctors he talked to said that chiropractic couldn't help him. Up to that point, he had been treated by a physician who was the company doctor and had only prescribed a handful of physical therapy sessions for him, along with a handful of pain medications—neither of which seemed to do much good. He was in almost constant pain and his next step, back surgery, was something he desperately wanted to avoid. He had come to the end of his rope. Everything was being affected—his job, his marriage and his ability to enjoy life.
Chiropractors Relieve Personal Injury
During my examination I discovered that Jim had developed some major spasms in his lower back muscles, as well as numerous subluxations in his lumbar vertebrae and pelvis. After a whole lot of explaining about what chiropractic was and exactly how I was going to help him, he consented, "I'll give it a try." Within a couple of visits, he couldn't believe how much better he felt. After a few months, his pain had completely disappeared. Having never believed in this type of treatment before Jim has become a chiropractic evangelist. He tells everyone about his experience.
Chiropractors Adjust Your Lifestyle for Pain Relief
Throughout our years in clinical practice, we have seen thousands of cases just like these. People who have been suffering from pain, often for quite a long time, are able to feel better and live a healthier, more productive life because of the powerful benefits of chiropractic care, coupled with making some simple changes to their lifestyle. We know that it can help you, too. Not only does chiropractic help improve your health, whether you are suffering from pain or not, but the principles and philosophy upon which chiropractic is based will provide you with a deeper understanding of the true nature of health and disease. Armed with this information, you will be empowered to make healthier choices.
Chiropractic is a Remarkable Health Care Choice
In the dizzying array of choices in health care today, it is sometimes hard to know what to believe or what to think. New and very expensive medical tests and procedures are introduced each year that do very little to improve health. Revolutionary diet and exercise programs emerge on an almost daily basis promising health and happiness.
Carefully crafted pharmaceutical ads show how happy you could be if you simply took this drug or that drug. Do you realize that the United States has only five percent of the world's population, yet we consume almost half of the world's supply of prescription drugs? You would think that if drugs were the answer to health that we would have the healthiest nation in the world. But, unfortunately, that is not the case.
In fact, the general population is getting heavier, the rates of diabetes, heart disease and cancer are rapidly rising and we have one of the highest infant mortality rates in the civilized world—behind the whole European Union, as well as countries like Aruba, Cuba, Czech Republic, Greece, Singapore and the South Korea.
Chiropractors Change How You Think About Health and Disease
The key to health is to become proactive and not wait until you hurt before you do something about your health. The answer is not to spend more money on expensive medical tests or procedures or to consume more prescription drugs, but rather to change how you think about health and disease. Health is no more the absence of disease than wealth is the absence of poverty. Health is not simply feeling OK, because problems can fester for years without manifesting any symptoms. Consider heart disease: it often goess unnoticed for years, perhaps decades, before you feel ill. The truth is, the heart disease symptoms that many people first experience are heart attack or death.
Chiropractic Prevents Disease
Chiropractors take a very different approach than that taken by medical doctors. We try to persuade people that preventing disease from happening is remarkably more beneficial than treating it after it occurs. You will feel better, you will have more energy and you will increase your quality of life by optimizing the health of your body. Avoid much of the expense and pain associated with the downward spiral of disease and getting hooked on more prescription medications.
Recover from Workers Compensation with a Chiropractor
Chiropractors are more than just "ache and pain" doctors. Chiropractic is based on the concept that within every living thing there is an inborn, innate wisdom always striving for radiant health. The body has a tremendous capacity to heal itself if it is simply allowed to do so. Our job is simply to identify and remove the obstacles that prevent your body from being healthy. To accomplish this, we employ a variety of physical therapies such as chiropractic adjustments, trigger point therapy, stretches, exercises and other lifestyle changes.
Your Chiropractor Wants to Help Your Quality of Life
Our purposes for creating this website are three-fold:
- With the sheer amount of conflicting information out there, we want to present the concepts that are most important to your health in an easy to understand way. The fact is that most people would make healthier choices and live in a healthier way if they only knew what to do.
- Our hope is that this website serves to help all of the "Elaines" and "Jims" out there who suffer needlessly, simply because they don't understand "what chiropractic is" and how it can help them. This also includes many medical doctors who still buy into the common myths surrounding chiropractic care, such as the myth that chiropractic adjustments are dangerous. In fact, you are thousands of times more likely to suffer a negative reaction from taking an aspirin than from getting a chiropractic adjustment.
- Most important, we present this website to help you live a radiantly healthy life, free from pain and disease.
How can chiropractic help you?
