Everything affects EvErYtHiNg.

More and more, the health fields are acknowledging the interrelationship of areas of health and human function that previously were thought to be unrelated. In the field of psychology, researchers are finding that depression weakens the bones, anxiety about eating can affect the menstrual cycle and stress can affect fertility. Whether these findings are actually true or not, they still underscore the fact that everything affects everything. We cannot be unhealthy mentally or emotionally and expect to be healthy physically. Conversely, we should expect our physical health to affect our emotional and mental well-being.

In a similar manner, we cannot expect what we put into our bodies in the form of medication to only affect one specific part. The entire body is affected by any drug that we take, regardless of its intended purpose. Those chemicals placed in the body in the form of caffeine and alcohol also affect our entire body. While everyone may not have experienced the wide-awake-in-the-middle-of-the-night, heart racing effects of caffeine, we have all seen the numbness of thought and loss of reflexes and coordination brought on by too much alcohol.

There is an up side to all of this. All those good things that we do to and for our bodies also affect us in every way. When school children eat a good breakfast, it not only helps make their bodies stronger, it enables them to do better in their class work. When you exercise regularly, you help to improve the digestion, absorption, metabolism and utilization of the food that you eat. Exercise helps your respiratory system and your cardiovascular system but it also helps you to get the most from your sleep, which in turn affects your ability to handle stress which affects your cardiovascular system and digestion. Are you beginning to see the point? Nothing done to or for the body occurs in a void; everything relates to everything!

This principle is nowhere more obvious than in upper cervical care. When a person undertakes upper cervical care, for whatever reason, the corrections have a profound and far-reaching effect upon the entire body. When the upper cervical doctor corrects a subluxation, the entire body is improved. Every system in the body functions at a higher level. The body has a greater potential to heal itself and resistance increases. But there are even unnoticed effects. The individual's ability to think, to reason and to make good decisions is improved. His or her ability to do their job, to relate to people and to be as effective as possible at work and play increases. Every aspect of one's life is better because of one little adjustment. How much better is the question. Frankly, we do not know. These things are not measurable. Granted, in some people drastic changes are noted. People's bodies heal themselves where before they could not. Athletes show marked improvement in performance, children do better in school. But the major improvements are going to be imperceptible at the time, like eating an apple. You do not see the immediate effects of eating the apple but you know that the body is better for it.

We may not see the immediate results of an adjustment but we know that upper cervical adjustments add to our health. You don't see the long term effects of hugging your kids every day but for some strange reason you keep on hugging them. Your life, for that matter, has an effect on the world around you. Your family, your church, your work, the world are affected by who you are. In fact, they wouldn't be the same without you. Be who you were created to be. No more, no less and have fun doing it!!!
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Questions Please?!?

One of the major differences between the practice of chiropractic and that of a therapeutic approach such as medicine is the desire to have knowledgeable, understanding patients. The physician often neither wants nor cares for the patient to know everything that he is doing. This is not a criticism, it just reflects the two different approaches. It is not necessary for the patient to understand the medical approach. They are totally uninvolved with the process. The patient does not participate in the surgery, he or she just lies there. The patient merely swallows the medication. Everything is done by the doctor. The practice of medicine is performed on the patient or done for the patient. Chiropractic is different.

Chiropractic is based upon the principle that the patient's body does the healing. It maintains health and it actually makes the adjustment, using the force introduced into the spine by the chiropractor's hands. Second, chiropractic is directed toward health and increasing one's potential for an improved quality of life in all areas. Obviously, this takes cooperation on the part of the patient. We will adjust you so that you can get the maximum benefit from your exercise. But you still must do the exercise. We correct your subluxations so that your body, free of nerve interference or damage, can get the maximum benefit from the food you eat. But we cannot eat the food for you. Chiropractic care is a cooperative effort, from the actual adjustment to the patient taking responsibility for being regular in his or her care.

Other doctors think that they are smarter than their patients so the patients should just do as they are told. The chiropractor works with your body's innate intelligence which is smarter than all the chiropractors and medical doctors in the world put together. As a result, it is the chiropractor's desire that you, the patient, learn more and more about the chiropractic lifestyle so that you can take a more active role in maintaining your health and directing your life. Then the chiropractor can step back and do the one thing he or she does best, which is correcting subluxations or nerve damage whenever they occur.

To be a participant in chiropractic, it is imperative that you, the patient, understand as much as you can about chiropractic and the "above-down, inside-out" approach to health care. If this term is unfamiliar to you, please ask your chiropractor to explain its meaning. We also have educational material for you to utilize. We hope that you will avail yourself of these materials. You see, we believe that people truly want to be knowledgeable about their life and health and not just be a bystander to what is being done to them. We believe that you can see by now that the therapeutic approach has made us a drug-dependent, disease-fearful society and while it may have limited success with disease treatment, it has very little to do with health or a full life for that matter. We hope you will read our materials, listen to our workshops and ask us questions. A wiser man than I once said: " Your life is determined not by the answers you have but by the questions you ask." What is health? The truth is that health has a lot more to do with quality of life than it does symptoms. Chiropractic is based on certain principles that help you to keep asking great questions?