Does Chiropractic Treat Disease?

When chiropractors observe that chiropractic care has helped people with virtually every type of health problem known to man, some mistakenly think that means that we treat disease.

Nothing could be further from the truth.

The fact is, we locate and reduce nervous system disturbances (usually along the spine) that interfere with your ability to be fully you. Being fully you includes everything from turning, bending, walking and sleeping to breathing, fighting infection, digesting food and healing a cut.

When the integrity of your nervous system is restored, your body is more likely to work as it was designed. Sometimes that capacity returns quickly. For others whose healing ability is limited by stress, poor nutrition, negative emotions or other factors, it comes more slowly. And for a few who have neglected their health for years, progress can be so incremental as to appear ineffective.

Please don’t blame chiropractic when results come slowly. Likewise, don’t credit chiropractic when success comes quickly. It’s your body that does the healing. What you bring to the table is actually more important than what we do on the table!

Less or More?

What are you hoping to get from your chiropractic care? Less pain? Less restriction? Less tightness? Or more health? More movement? More energy? Or more life?

This single distinction best explains why some people opt to benefit from chiropractic care for the rest of their lives. And choose to bring their children in to be regularly checked. They’re the ones who want more.

But it often doesn’t start that way. Many folks begin care in our office because they have an ache or a pain they want to quiet. In other words, they start wanting less. As they learn what chiropractic care is (and what it isn’t) they discover it could offer more. More of what they really want. And they see the light.

Participating in that transformation is one of the greatest joys of our practice.

Some don’t see the implication between a proactive (more) and a reactive (less) approach to their health. Instead, they prefer to come in only when they have obvious symptoms. No worries. We love them just as much. Everyone shows up at a different place on this journey of self discovery. We’re merely here to serve, whether they want less or more.

What do you want?

The Curse of the Tuba Player

Your brain and your nervous system is the conductor that orchestrates the workings of your entire body. With clear communication between your brain and all the pieces of the orchestra that make up your body, the beautiful music we know as “life” is produced.

But many people have a problem with their tuba player!

For some it could be their thyroid. Or their gall bladder. Or their stomach. Or their lower back. Or whatever.

Their tuba player can’t see the conductor or even hear what the rest of the orchestra is playing! That often causes one of two things. Either the tuba player just sits quietly doing little, or goes overboard with scales and riffs totally inappropriate with what the rest of the orchestra is playing.

The medical approach would be to surgically remove the tuba player or chemically suppress the off-key notes. The chiropractic approach is to restore the connection between the tuba player and the conductor. Naturally, that involves locating and correcting interference to the controlling commands that travel the nervous system.

Chiropractic care can bring organization, coordination and harmony to whatever kind of music you love.