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Oh the power of words and what they actually mean. The most common phrase that I hear with new patients is typically, “My back’s out,” or, “Outta whack,” or something along those lines. Now, we could just let that slide by and everything would be okay, OR we could educate and tell you more. Before we begin, let’s clear the board and announce that in Chiropractic school, training, clinicals, national board exams, preceptorships, etc. etc., not once did we Chiropractors learn about the phrase, “My back’s out.”
Listen to the words we are saying, “My back’s out.” NO, the back cannot simply “go out”. The back doesn’t randomly decide to leave your body and go hang out at Costco without you. Too critical? Let’s use the word misaligned instead. A misalignment in the spine, otherwise called a subluxation, can and does happen. Once it occurs it will stay in that misalignment until forces (Chiropractic adjustments) begin to correct it. Still, you cannot simply just feel like “My back’s out” or even if you try and be witty you cannot just say “I just felt a subluxation occur in my back.”
Here’s another common phrase “Don’t kill the messenger!” When a subluxation occurs, it places undo stress upon the Central Nerve System (CNS) and can specifically irritate a spinal nerve. This spinal nerve made certain muscles and controls certain muscles. Therefore, when the nerve gets irritated, the muscles become irritated. The last messages to appear after a subluxation has been existent will be chronic muscle tension, knots, and irritation. A subluxation that goes on uncorrected and neglected for years is equivalent to your teeth not being cleaned. As time passes, your symptoms begin to appear, and eventually when your body is in a stressed state, the PAIN messages appear. Now your muscles, tendons, ligaments and tissue become inflamed…thus creating an episode of, “My back’s out.”
It’s simple. If you utilize your Chiropractor correctly, you will know him before you need him. Understand the reverse of this phrase as well. When you do decide to get adjusted, the bone does not just simply “go back”… It requires time and repetition for your CNS to allow your body to heal and ADAPT from the neurological strain that it was under for so long. Just get checked!
It’s the end of January and the New Year started with a BANG. Either you have set the stage to create health and are continuing on your journey, or maybe you just need a little push. The “healthcare” industry thrives on the New Year and people looking for a fresh start. Wikipedia put the definition of “Healthcare Industry” as such: The healthcare industry is an aggregation and integration of sectors within the economic system that provides goods and services to treat patients with curative, preventive, rehabilitative, and palliative care. The healthcare industry is ranked 4th of all industries in the United States. When measuring the US healthcare compared to others, study after study continuously ranked the US in the bottom half. What exactly does that mean? Despite high spending on health care, the U.S. population has poor health.
To create health, you need to eliminate the junk that you have been exposed to. Gimmicks, trends, health fads and the newest and latest PILLS. It’s literally junk. Here’s a nice tid-bit of information for you. The FDA stated that 70% of all supplement companies violate agency rules. This means there is no filter for what they can create, produce and SAY to get you thinking that you will benefit from one of their potions. This is not even talking about medicine and the pills they produce, this is just the supplement industry itself. Just think, if their efficacy has such low standards, what other rules are they manipulating? They will say anything to make you think that they can “cure, heal, or fix” you.
A healthy inside creates a healthy outside. The inside we are referring to is the central nerve system (CNS). The CNS made every organ, tissue, and cell in your body. If you want to be healthy make sure your spine, which protects the CNS, is completely free of interference. It’s no secret, trend, or new fad that creating a healthy you begins with the inside first. Specific Chiropractic care does not sell you anything. Chiropractic care only enables your body to do what it is supposed to do…be healthy. #getchecked
Blurred lines create the biggest misconceptions of what Chiropractic actually is. To set the record straight the very first recorded adjustment in 1895 in Davenport, Iowa was not for lower back pain or a headache. The first recorded adjustment in fact enabled a deaf individual to restore his hearing. Thus Chiropractic was born. Looking toward the spine for all disease in the body was NOT something new. Hippocrates, The Father Of Medicine, stated, “Look Well To The Spine For The Cause Of Disease.” Even American Indian hieroglyphics demonstrated ‘back-walking’. The sick would lie down and have their spines manipulated by the feet of others.
The age of insurance creates and sets new demands. With the age of insurance beginning in the mid 1990’s there became an alarming rate of what they called “musculoskeletal pain.” One might say this was due to the changing lifestyle of desk jobs, diet, or just an accumulation of not taking care of ourselves. Either way, insurance companies started dictating what was necessary for the patient rather than the patient deciding for themselves. When pain would occur, Chiropractors had great results in helping patients; the insurance companies recognized this and did not like it. They would rather you get out of pain as fast as possible and never let you HEAL or ADAPT. The “quick fix” was a growing trend that was not dealing with overall health and well-being.
Keep in mind that in the mid 1990’s pharmaceutical companies did not have the power they now assume. A pain reliever drug such as Tylenol was not even invented until the 1950’s and it started out just like all drugs as a prescription first. There was no such thing as walking to the gas station and buying a pain reliever over the counter. Regardless, if you use your Chiropractor as an expensive Tylenol, then you will only get Tylenol like results, aka temporary. Chiropractic is the study, art, and science of getting the sick better and keeping the healthy well. #getchecked
We are stoked to provide material for the 406 magazine. Newest article is out about Keeping Yourself Natural. Understanding that people will try to sell you health and what to be aware of when in the pursuit of making sure you are healthy. Fads and trends will always be out there. Stick to what works. Read our article on page 54. Click here for online version.
Flow charts and their lack of specificity is nothing new. A sequence of actions or things involved in a complex system or activity is what is described as a flow chart. In reality while a flow chart works for cars, machine, putting a construction set together, and other integrative processing of components, they are unique towards that item. The flow chart is specific towards that entity for what it is designed for, simple. For your health and overall well-being flow charts fail to produce. Why? Specificity is key. Your body is the complete opposite of everyone else. So be specific towards you.
With chiropractic and your health specificity is no different. Some people think that all chiropractor’s “do the same thing” and “adjust the same way.” It just cannot be so. Gonstead chiropractic is a full spine approach that focus on your spine specifically, it is one of the most advanced and scientifically sound methods of chiropractic. With Gonstead chiropractic you do not “get” what the other person “gets”. Speficic adjusting procedures are unique and personalized to your spine to correct your subluxations in your spine. Thus creating a healthier version of you, and the best part is that no flow chart is required.
When focusing on someone’s health and well-being you must look towards the spine first. ”All drugs in the world cannot adjust a subluxated vertebrae.” B.J. Palmer, D.C., Ph.C. Specific Gonstead chiropractic care creates your own, and unique version of a flow chart. Specific spinal motion for you is like your brain’s energy generator. It will give you more clarity and more energy. The key to understanding where your spine needs motion comes from understanding you. Our job is to keep you expressing life in a healthy and substantial manner.
Hippocrates was basically the first known guru of studying health and what causes someone to be healthy. They say he is the father of medicine because of the people he was able to help. Contrary to popular belief, the word “medicine” back in the day also was focused on “Prevention.” Nowadays, medicine is associated with disease, diagnosis, and treatment. Hippo actually was in charge of a school, and their philosophy on how to help somebody was centered around the patient. Hioppcrates’ rival was another school called Cnidus. Cnidus was ran by a man called Euryphon who’s focus was on treating the disease rather than the patient.
These two viewpoints on helping people: one focusing on the patient and the other focusing on the disease, have been around for a long time. This is nothing new. Hippocrates said “Look well to the spine for the cause of disease.” He taught that to cure disease the cause must be sought and removed. The physical representation (signs and symptoms) of disease in the body is always directly or indirectly related to the spine. Subluxations limit the body from healing by not supplying adaptive forces to trigger a healing response. Subluxation irritate a nerve fiber and nobody likes to be irritated. Whenever a nerve becomes irritated, the body cannot function correctly.
Hippocrates taught us that nature must do the healing. Once again, this is not something that is new. Hippo, writing numerous books, even wrote one called Manipulation and Importance to Good Health. It is interesting to note that during this time another man called Herodicus, who was deemed the first great drug-less healer, was also helping people. Herodicus claim to this world was curing diseases by correcting spinal abnormalities. It is paramount to understand that chiropractic isn’t some new fad or trend. It has survived the test of time and will continue to do so. Chiropractic is the study of health and what causes someone to live…simple.
Have you ever tried to “pop” your own neck? In context, popping your neck is when someone forcefully moves their head in a twisting motion to elicit noise. This can either be done with the use of your own hands or just by gaining enough momentum by using your head as a pendulum. Individuals that do this are called self-manipulators and are playing with fire.
Self-manipulators are attempting to correct something that only specific chiropractic adjustments can perform. In actuality when they pop their neck they are creating chaos in a joint space that does not need to move. Hence why after twenty minutes or so they have the sensation that this “popping” needs to occur again. The sensation is brought on due to neuro-transmitters that are compromised. Every manipulation is like flipping a fuse-box on and off really quickly for 5 seconds. Why didn’t my body auto-correct the first time?
Think of manipulating your spine as a deadly-sin. Physically it will feel good. Chemicals are released that transmit “feel good” sensations and you think you fixed something. Guess what else you are irritating when you manipulate your neck? The vertebral artery. Every manipulation irritates the lining and eventually will compromise the vertebral wall. 10/10 people that present to a chiropractor office and are suffering from a stroke, is due to their own manipulating.
What’s actually happening? Your body has a vertebral subluxation that is unchecked and uncorrected. A subluxation will produce lack of motion in specific areas. Remember, everything in life requires motion. Self-manipulators will manipulate the joints above and below an actual subluxation. Leaving the actual cause uncorrected and creating chaos with ones health and well-being.
Picky Words
What is the difference between manipulation and adjustment? Without going into detail too much, you can decide which sounds better.
-Manipulation – The action of manipulating someone in a clever or unscrupulous way.
-Adjustment – A small alteration or movement made to achieve a desired fit, appearance, or result.
The so called ‘Quick Fix’ sometimes unfortunately is associated with chiropractic. When it actually is the farthest thing from the truth. The most popular search engine Google even states: An easy remedy or solution, especially a temporary one which fails to address underlying problems = Quick Fix. Attempting for this is a waste of time, resources, and will plague your body in the long run if not properly addressed.
The so called quick fix really doesn’t fix anything. Plain and simple. Visiting a chiropractor for a quick fix is essentially the same thing as having the engine repair light pop-up in your car and you simply put some duct tape over it to block it out. What does that accomplish? Aesthetically everything might “look” happy, in reality though you are creating more chaos and harm. Your body cannot be in a state of shock and healing at the same time. You cannot put a foot on the gas pedal and brake pedal at the same time and expect positive outcomes.
When chiropractic care is used for urgent care the body will automatically be in a state of shock when entering the office. When a chiropractor adjusts an area that is acute, inflamed, and severely irritated the body has no other option but to release feel good endorphin’s and hormones. Your body is in a state of shock. Granted you will “feel” good afterwards. It does not mean that you are better whatsoever. Endorphins are there to protect you, not heal you.
Chiropractic care does not fix anything. Literally. Poor choice or words. Chiropractic care allows your body to adapt and heal from a stressor placed on it. To apply more application for our choice of words, any doctor that takes credit for healing, curing, or fixing something is 100% wrong. The body is the only thing that can truly heal itself. Chiropractic allows your body to be properly connected (brain to body) so that healing capabilities can occur.
The most obvious answer to the question that we pose is no. You have not seen electricity. Electricity is much as a phenomenon such as gravity is. Whether you believe it or not, it is happening. How do we even know if electricity works. For the same instance that a light bulb can be powered on and energy is produced, we must assume that something is working. Electricity has many positive merits as well as one negative, with enough electricity surged through someone it can end life.
It’s electricity! When understanding the human body and what chiropractic care is, it very easy to associate with electricity. As chiropractor’s we know that the body is a self regulating and self healing organism. All intelligence of the human is organized and controlled via the central nerve system (CNS). The CNS coordinates and controls all aspects of life, and it begins from the inside – out. Messages from the CNS are sent to every cell in the human body from electrical impulses. The energy of a nerve transmission is always electrical in nature. When a nerve is excited and produces energy the transmission is traveling at 350 feet per second. That’s electric!
Nerve cells are designed specifically to transmit messages from one cell to another. They are keen on making sure everything is communicating properly. During “Life” stress occurs. This stress alters the firing capacity and can even limit what the body is capable of doing. When a nerve is acted upon (pressure) it initially becomes overstimulated. This stimulation directly affects how the body functions. Improper firing of the nerves occurs, abnormal patterns are initiated, and your body enters into a protection mode. Chiropractic keeps the body properly functioning and plugged in. Something works a lot better when it is plugged in. Same thing with your body. If your body is not properly plugged into the brain, chaos begins.
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