Pain is Not the Problem

Many people begin chiropractic care because of an ache or a pain. Pain can be distracting, debilitating, irritating or annoying. Pain can be chronic, acute, intense or intermittent. Pain can be sharp or dull. And pain can be localized or general.

But pain is not the problem!

Pain is a symptom. An effect. A signal. A sign. An indicator. A warning. Pain is no more a problem than a traffic signal or your alarm clock announcing that it’s time to start the day.

If there’s a problem, it’s the meaning we attach to the pain.

When we meet patients who are in pain, besides being compassionate, our first thought is that they must have exceeded some physical, chemical or emotional limit to which they can no longer adapt. And their body is saying “Whoa!” So, while we’re interested in the pain, we’re even more interested in what was the underlying cause of the pain. Did it just happen? Has it been present a long time? What circumstances brought it on? Plus, what change(s) should the patient make to avoid this in the future?

Do you know someone who thinks pain is a problem? Please send them our way. Because in our practice pain is never a problem!

Do You Get the Message?

Many people think chiropractic is about bones, especially spinal bones. But the fact is, we’re much more interested in nerves. In particular, the nerve messages that travel between the brain and the body and from the body back to the brain.

Any type of disruption can distort or disturb the integrity of the controlling and regulating messages from the brain. The result can be ill health.

A common culprit is the 24 moving bones of the spine that cover your spinal cord. When spinal bones lose their normal motion or position, it can irritate nearby nerves. We call that a subluxation. Because the nervous system controls every cell, tissue, organ and system of your body, chiropractic care has been known to help a wide variety of health problems.

Maybe you know someone who has been told that it’s “all in their head” or that they’ll have to “learn to live with it.” Worse, someone who thinks they have a muscle relaxer shortage! Send them our way. Or, forward our newsletter by clicking the "Email a Friend" link below.

Organic Foods - Unplugged!

It’s exciting to see all the interest in organic foods, pure drinking water, exercise and fitness.

Yet, many of these well-intentioned, health-conscience people are wasting their money.

If you know someone who is shopping organically and reducing their dependence upon processed foods, but not getting regularly adjusted, they may be overlooking a key point.

Let’s say you go to your favorite grocery store for your weekly shopping. And because you’ve wisely shopped the perimeter of the store where the fresh foods are, you return home and put things away in your refrigerator.

But you overlooked one little detail. Your refrigerator isn’t plugged in! It has a major subluxation at the electrical outlet.

In the same way your body cannot properly digest, assimilate and eliminate foods with a subluxation interfering with your digestive system, your refrigerator cannot preserve, protect and prolong the vitality of your foods without a properly functioning electrical system.

Your nervous system runs the whole show. If it doesn’t work right, you don’t work right. And if you’re not working right you can’t fully benefit from organic food, gym membership and other healthy habits.