"The Dow Jones of Healing"

Healing is like the stock market. It never progresses in a straight line. You've got to expect some ups and downs along the way.

You might experience a surge of relief when you first start your Chiropractic care only to be followed by a relapse.  Soon you're back on track again.  Progress continues with bouts of highs and lows, and you might even experience a plateau or dip in your improvements.  But don't make the mistake of 'pulling out of the market' early. 

Keep the big picture in mind.  Like stocks, the gains in Chiropractic care are best seen over time.  When you look back and see how far you've come since your first visit, you'll realize the dividends are paying off.

"Nerve System, Sweet Nerve System”

What do you use to see with? If you said your EYES… you're wrong. How about hearing? If you said EARS… wrong again! You don't actually see with your eyes or hear with ears. Those are just end organs for collecting light and sound waves from the environment.

To actually see and hear, you have to interpret those waves with your BRAIN first. So in reality, you see with your Nerve System. You hear with your Nerve System. All your experiences of LIFE come from your Nerve System.

You literally LIVE in your Nerve System.

When your sense organs gather information from the environment, your Nerve System deciphers and responds to that information to keep you alive and well (adaptation). That's a pretty important job.

Chiropractors care a great deal about your Nerve System for this reason. If it gets stressed or damaged, there goes your ability to respond successfully to your environment… and there goes your ability to experience a rich, healthy LIFE!

So what does that have to do with you?

Are you feeling burned out? Having a hard time coping with stressful situations? Or just feel disconnected from the world? Maybe it's time for a little Nerve System house cleaning. Chiropractic adjustments keep your Nerve System 'clear' so you can respond to life's challenges in a healthier way. Like…

Your boss' last minute work request 10 minutes before quitting time or,

Your kids telling you at 5:45 that their soccer practice was rescheduled for tonight at

6:00…

Or any of life's unexpected surprises that make you want to pull your hair out! You deal with them better when you're under regular Chiropractic Care.

Freedom’s Just Another Word for Nothin’ Left to Take...

There's a classic line in the 1960's Janis Joplin song 'Me and Bobby McGee' that goes 'freedom's just another word for nothin' left to lose.' For the pharmaceutical industry, freedom's just another word for we've got a pill for whatever ails you. But do the prescription drugs and potions they push really free you from anything?

A recent CNN Health News article reported that at her worst, Alesandra Rain was spending more than $900 a month on prescriptions, taking 12 different types of medication amounting to about a thousand pills a month, none able to cure her chronic insomnia and depression. She was slowly losing herself. When you're on that many different prescriptions it's hard to recognize where the pills end and you begin... Now that doesn't sound much like freedom.

For Chiropractors, freedom's just another word for 'nothing left to TAKE.' There's freedom in knowing that if you have a clear nerve system, you don't have to take prescription after prescription to keep your body functioning. If you know someone stuck in a downward drug spiral, tell them about the freedom they can achieve with regular Chiropractic care. Thanks for spreading the word!

"Surging Your Way into Sickness...”

What would happen if you plugged 10 appliances in one outlet and turned them all on at the same time? You'd blow a circuit, right! Well, the same thing could happen if you surge your 'nerve circuits' with too much STRESS...

Picture your nerve system as an electrical outlet with multiple stresses plugged in. Turn on all those stresses at the same time and POW, you'll quickly overload your system, blow a circuit and fry your state of health! Chiropractors call this situation a Subluxation. Depending on what nerves (circuits) are involved, you can experience symptoms from mild aches and pains to more significant health problems like High Blood Pressure (Journal of Human Hypertension 22,1 G Bakris, MD et al). So how can you avoid the dangers of stress surge?

Although it's impossible to eliminate all stress from your life, you can stay ahead of their negative, accumulative effects with regular Chiropractic Care. Your Chiropractor performs his or her job much like an electrician... skillfully checking your nerve system for overloaded circuits and turning them back on so you won't experience an interruption in your state of health and wellness. When it comes to basic, preventative care, nothing beats 'keeping your Power on.'

"Sleep Like This Again..."

Did you know that 40 percent of the population currently suffers with sleeping problems? It isn't uncommon for Chiropractors to find a misalignment of the first two cervical vertebrae, the atlas and axis, in people who suffer from sleep disorders like insomnia and sleep apnea.

Since a good night's sleep is one of the most important requirements for complete healing, restoring normal sleep is a desired effect of any Chiropractic care plan. It's common for many regular Chiropractic clients to see an improvement in sleeping habits within the first week of care, regardless of the condition they come in with. Sleeping better is a common 'side effect' when normal alignment is restored at the C1/C2 area, and no drugs have to be involved!

A misaligned atlas or axis can be determined with simple Chiropractic tests like Thermography, Upper Cervical X-Rays or posture analysis. If you know someone suffering with poor sleep, tell them to save their money on a new pillow and have their upper neck evaluated by a chiropractor. If we can get you sleeping better, we can get you healing better.

"Vince Lombardi and Principle #6…”

"The Green Bay Packers never lost a game. They just ran out of time..." - Vince Lombardi

Coach Lombardi's quote sums up his unwavering belief in his team’s ability to win every game, if given enough time to execute their winning game plan. Chiropractors hold a similar, unwavering belief in your body's Innate potential to fight off illness...

The Sixth Principle in Chiropractic states "there is no process which does not require time," including the healing process. BJ Palmer (the developer of Chiropractic) believed that given enough time, and a clear nerve system the body could heal itself in just about any situation. In his mind, the Innate Wisdom of the body had the potential to win any healing game if just given a chance. This concept is central to all successful Chiropractic care plans.

If you've gone a few days or a few weeks under care and see only minimal results, don't give up and quit. Stick with it. Have faith that your body has a winning game plan laid out for your recovery.

The power that made your body know all the plays needed to get you healthy and whole again. It won't lose the game, if you don't let time run out!

"Treating the Bark vs. Adjusting the Cause”

You walk into your Chiropractor's office, hop on a table and point to where it hurts... expecting to get adjusted right in that very spot. But the Chiropractor starts working on a totally different part of your spine, not even close to where you feel the pain. Why is that?

There's an old saying that goes when you step on a dog's tail, it barks out the other end. In Chiropractic that means, where you hurt (the bark) isn't necessarily where the problem is (the tail). Many times the pain you feel in one area is actually a referred symptom from somewhere else. For example, someone with sciatica may feel pain down their leg, but the source of their problem is a Subluxation (vertebral misalignment) in their spine.

Chiropractors recognize that if you remove the cause of someone's symptom, the body will no longer have a need to produce it. That's why the main focus of a Chiropractic visit is to locate and correct the underlying problem, and not the superficial effect. Chasing after symptoms is like a dog chasing after its own tail. You only end up spinning around and around until you get dizzy, confused and frustrated. It's much smarter to address the underlying cause.