Why so many people go to chiropractors
The illusion is not in the pictures. The illusion for most people, is what health really is.
Health is really about 100% functioning of the body and primarily the nervous system.
Just because your shoulder hurts, doesn't mean that is where the problem is.
You see, when your nerves are not being interfered with, your health potential is incredible. Chiropractic is one of the greatest secrets to being healthy, naturally.
Does chiropractic care make you healthier?
- 20% fewer kids used medications with chiropractic care
- Almost 50% of the chiro kids never needed an antibiotic while only
- 12% of the other kids didn’t use antibiotics.
- 17% less kids with tonsillitis with chiropractic care
- The most important one of all. The #1 reason kids end up in hospitals
- Ear Infections—-70% of the chiro kids never had one.
- 80% of the pediatricians kids had them
“ This has shown that children raised under chiropractic care are less prone to
infectious processes…, and that their immune systems are better able to cope
with allergens such as pollen, weeds, grasses, etc. as compared to children
raised under allopathic care.” (Allopathic just means medical care)
How does chiropractic improve health without dunking you in the fountain of youth?
The spine protects your nerves. Your nerves go to your muscles. Your muscles control everything else:
- your smile
- your eyes
- your movement to get food, eat it, swallow it, and digest it, and move it along
- talking
You probably get the picture (almost everything). So here’s the skinny on your spine. The University of Boulder, in Colorado, found if your spine deteriorates, your nerves can lose up to 60% of their ability, so guess what suffers the most? Your muscles, then you guessed right, everything else slows down. Here’s the ringer. It happens very gradually. Only the big traumas like falling or car accidents will you notice things quickly.
Having your spine move correctly makes all the difference between growing older gracefully or moving slowly and living on pain pills. You might have seen some people like that!
But is it safe
I find that people have fears and doubts simply because of their social programming. Yes, my friends, there was a clearly defined, and orchestrated campaign by the medical profession to suppress the growth of chiropractic. A few brave chiropractors took the American Medical Association to court over this conspiracy and the AMA lost. If this is fascinating and you want to learn more about this, the movie “Doctored” is an excellent documentary on chiropractic.
Why do most people go to chiropractors
There are 116 Million Americans with chronic pain
How can you avoid being one of them?
After any injury, for the first 72 hours you don't heal. Your body goes through acute inflammation. Depending on how much CORN and SOYBEANs you eat and really, any other food high in omega-6 fatty acids, will determine how bad the inflammation is. I've never had a patient pass the omega 3 and omega 6 fatty acids tests. So, you most likely have an abundance of omega 6 fatty acids floating around in your blood stream. Basically, that means more pain.
For the next 6-8 weeks, your body tries to stabilize any injury with SCAR tissue and FIBROSIS. This is the point people have very critical choices to make. If a person doesn't get their spine checked by a chiropractor, the individual joints damaged can remain misaligned (subluxated) and dysfunctional for years.
This is how you get to be one of the 116 million.
Why? Joints need motion to stay alive. Without proper motion, they die. When I was 14, I broke my leg, and after 8 weeks in a cast, my leg looked like a skin covered, stick. My muscles wasted away from lack of motion. The joints do the same thing.
When joints don't work well, they don't communicate with your brain well, and your brain knows it. In the book "Chronic Pain" by Chan Gunn,MD, he describes this as super-sensitivity. Basically, you get a bigger pain sensation when the dysfunction remains.
- Now the muscles become chronically short.
- There are more misalignments.
- More joint pain.
- More arthritis
- More nerve irritation.
- Worse collagen healing
- And an acceleration of degeneration
This is the chronic pain cycle. You can break free with chiropractic adjustments.
With each adjustment the individual joint motion increases and the alignment improves. I used to have scoliosis when I start getting adjusted. After regular care, it's been gone for years.
Research has proved that 81% of the worst chronic pain can improve with daily chiropractic adjustments for 2-3 weeks. They did that study using patients from many different professions.
Once the individual joint motion improves it naturally blocks pain. Once again, research has shown us that if people want to keep pain away, maintenance adjustments are needed every 2-4 weeks. That's a topic for another day, so for now, just enjoy feeling better while getting adjusted.
Why do most people keep going back to chiropractors
Chiropractic adjustments do more than relieve pain
This is the only study of its kind. A chiropractor and a PhD. decided to work together in the Miami School of Medicine to find out if an adjustment to correct a spinal problem (subluxation) could in fact improve your state of well-being.
They used people with “Reward Deficiency Syndrome” in normal language that is a person who has no state of well-being. Essentially it is an addictive personality (could be smoking, alcohol, drugs, carbohydrates, or even chocolate).
- The first group had group therapy and usual medical care
- The second group had the same therapy but added chiropractic adjustments
- The third group had the same therapy, but added FAKE adjustments.
- Group 1 (the usual care group) only 56% completed treatment.
- Group 2 (chiropractic) 100% of patients completed the treatment.
- Group 3 (fake chiropractic) 75% completed treatment
NEVER in the history of psychology has 100% completion been accomplished before, no matter what psychology, drug, or medical treatment was used.
They also proved that Chiropractic is NOT a placebo effect. The fake chiropractic adjustment group had the worst anxiety scores. While the real chiropractic had the best anxiety scores. The chiropractic group’s depression also went down in 4 weeks to a level that normally takes medication 1 year to achieve.
This study was a landmark study showing that chiropractic care had a significant improvement on the state of well-being of the patient.
If that wasn’t enough for you to want to get adjusted, this is amazing. This study was done using the most advanced technology to look at the brain. The researchers objective was to investigate the effects of a chiropractic adjustment on brain responses using a PET scanner.
Cerebral metabolic changes in men after chiropractic spinal manipulation for neck pain.
Altern. Ther. Health Med. 2011 Nov-Dec; 17(6):12-7.
Ogura T, Tashiro M,
“For >100 years, chiropractors have asserted that overall health can be improved through spinal manipulative therapy.”
“Studies have documented a potential relationship between the vertebral subluxation complex and the function of the autonomic nervous system.”
“Mental stress causes sympathetic activation, and stress-related disorders are frequently accompanied by increased sympathetic activity and muscle tone.”
“Deactivation [inhibition] of the cerebellar vermis in the present study may have been related to a decrease in sympathetic tone.”
One of the significant observations of the researchers was increased glucose metabolism in the brain, and neck muscle tone and salivary amylase were also decreased after the adjustment.
“The results of this study suggest that CSM (chiropractic spinal manipulation) affects regional cerebral glucose metabolism related to sympathetic relaxation and pain reduction.”
So what does all that really mean to your health?
Good benefits of decreasing the sympathetic tone of the nervous system.
- Lower heart rate
- Lower blood pressure
- Vessel dilation
- Decrease adrenal gland stimulation
- Lowers epinephrine and nor-epinephrine
- Improved intestinal movement
One of the best reasons to get adjusted
If you agree with that, and it makes sense to you, then this will add to your knowledge of chiropractic. A chiropractic adjustment facilitates that power from the nervous system to help the body health from the inside out. This highlights why every chiropractor goes to work every day to witness this.
This little girls ASTHMA has all but eliminated after getting adjusted.
"I have a daughter, she's 7 years old. She's had so-called asthma problems for quite awhile. She'd have real bad attacks, where she'd have to stay home from school quite a few times, miss recesses. I brought her to Dr. Altman for an adjustment and that next night she didn't have any sleeping problems. She often has bad attacks from dogs and animals, and that got better with two visits, and she's almost a brand new girl." -Lindsey Christenson (mom)
Congratulations on choosing to be healthy, naturally. You can get more from an adjustment, than just pain relief.