Chiropractic: Unconditional?
If you ask a person what chiropractic is, most will say it’s a way of relieving neck and back pain. A “natural” Tylenol. A smaller majority might say that it is good for ulcers or headaches or asthma. A few would say it improves overall health and wellness. Chiropractic is all of those things and a whole lot more.
Before we take our health seriously, usually we must have a condition before we take action. Often it’s a symptom, a crisis or an injury that motivates us to do something. In fact, most think that having no symptoms means one is healthy.
This model of health allows us to experience only a small portion of our health potential. It also leads to the perception that you go to a chiropractor when you have a complaint. Approaching chiropractic this way is like owning a jet plane and using it like a taxi. You drive it back and forth from the hangar to the runway but you never take off.
Chiropractic is at its most powerful when it is used to improve your health. How could getting your spine adjusted ever do that?
Your controlling system, your power plant, your mainframe computer in your body is your nervous system. It consists of your brain, spinal cord and peripheral nerves. Your spinal cord and peripheral nerves act like phone lines in the body, relaying the messages from your brain to your body and vice versa.
Sounds simple enough, but what’s the connection? The spine encloses and protects this wonderful phone line but it can also disturb or interfere with that mind-body connection. This interference, called a subluxation or misalignment of your spine, causes static on the line.
Have you ever tried to listen to the radio in your car when driving underneath a power line? That static you hear is just like what a subluxation can do to the important internal messages of your body.
Unfortunately, this doesn’t produce symptoms right away. Slowly, our bodies adapt to this poor communication. Our internal light starts to dim. We go about our daily activities but not with the same sharpness as before. Eventually our body’s fire alarm sounds – symptoms appear - and we act.
During that time, our quality of life has diminished. We haven’t been the best parent, spouse, co-worker, athlete, friend or person we could have been.
A wonderful fact about our bodies is they self-heal and are regulated by the nervous system. If we get our spines and nervous systems checked regularly, we can turn our internal lights back up and tune-in our body’s radio station clearly. We can be at our best - all the time.
Chiropractic is un-conditional. You don’t need a condition, whether it be a symptom or a disease to seek care, just a spine! Act now and improve your health.
