Why Do Some Get Sick?
Every grade school child learns that Thomas Edison invented the light bulb and Alexander Bell invented the telephone. Yet, few know who discovered chiropractic. But more fascinating is why chiropractic was discovered.
Take yourself back over a hundred years ago to a time when “patent medicines” flourished. These were often sold as cure alls whose active ingredients were usually alcohol, cocaine, arsenic and other dangerous substances. In fact, Coca Cola contained cocaine up until 1903 and was originally sold as a treatment for morphine addiction, dyspepsia, headaches and impotence!
In the midst of this, a healer, experimenter and freethinker by the name of Daniel David Palmer in Davenport, Iowa asked a simple question:
“I desired to know why one person was ailing and his associate eating at the same table, working in the same shop was not. Why? What difference was there in the two persons that caused one to have pneumonia, catarrh, typhoid or rheumatism, while his partner, similarly situated, escaped? Why?”
At a time when germs were given the blame for virtually every disease, this was a groundbreaking way of framing the question about health. Germs alone couldn’t be the cause of disease, otherwise everyone would get sick.
Chiropractic came into existence soon afterwards. D.D. Palmer discovered that it’s smarter to look at the person with the disease, than the disease in the person. Revolutionary then—and revolutionary now!
How to Tell Others About Chiropractic
Chiropractic doesn’t benefit from huge advertising campaigns or media coverage like that enjoyed by the drug industry.
But a recommendation from you is more powerful than all the advertising in the world. How can you introduce others to chiropractic? Here are some ideas:
- Be Confident. Realize that chiropractic has helped a lot of people with many types of health problems. A better working nervous system can help just about anyone.
- Tell Your Story. Mention how you've been helped with chiropractic care. Explain how chiropractic works and your experience in our office.
- Answer Questions. Most people have heard myths and misconceptions about chiropractic and have a lot of questions. Simply share your experience. Just as there are great and not so great dentists, it’s no reason to swear off dentistry!
- Ask For Help. We have some printed information we can equip you with to help answer questions that your friends and family may have. Or, have them call our office. I'm happy to field questions over the phone without cost or obligation.
- Email A Friend. Forward any page from our website to someone you think we can help. It’s a great way to offer hope and encouragement. Then, let them decide if chiropractic makes sense.
It’s a great feeling when you help others. It’s something I get to experience every day. You can enjoy that same great feeling too.
Is Your Recovery Taking Off?
From time to time, I’m asked how we create a care plan; how many visits and how frequent should they be. This is where experience and the ‘art’ of chiropractic come into play.
During the examination, I’m recording what I find and comparing it with similar cases we’ve helped. I’m evaluating your condition, its severity, your age, lifestyle, attitude and dozens of other factors. Each plays a role in the recommendations I eventually make for the first phase of your care.
If the visits are too far apart, we never create enough of a momentum to reverse the downward trend that prompts people to seek care in our office. Just like an airplane has to develop enough speed to produce the lift to take off, so too with our initial care recommendations. If the visits are too frequent, the body doesn’t have enough time to put the adjustments to use, and in a sense, the energy is “wasted.” There’s a real skill in picking the right balance between too frequent and not frequent enough.
Sometimes I misjudge. But most of the time there are other factors. In fact, we’ve identified almost a dozen issues that can be involved. So, if you’re not progressing as quickly as you’d hoped, click here and see what else might be going on.
In This Issue
- Why Do Some Get Sick?
- How to Tell Others About Chiropractic
- Is Your Recovery Taking Off?
- Introducing Dr. You
Introducing Dr. You
Regardless of a particular doctor’s specialty, the prestige of the school they graduated from, the years of experience they have or area of expertise, doctors can’t cure headaches, mend broken bones or heal a wound. Only you can do that. If your healing ability isn’t impaired.
Your inborn healing ability is responsible for the tremendous success that chiropractic patients enjoy. The only thing that doctors can do, regardless of their discipline, is to help reduce barriers to the incredible healing ability you were born with.
Which is why all of us at Alpha Chiropractic are interested in your nervous system. It’s what controls every cell, tissue, organ and system of your body.
While it may appear that we’re attending to your spine, it’s only because the nerves along your spine are the most vulnerable part of your nervous system.
By reducing nervous system compromise from the moving bones of your spine, Dr. You takes over and does the healing!
How does it feel to be a doctor? Do you know anyone whose healing ability needs a boost? Use the link at the bottom of the page to email this article.
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