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1. More Energy

The vital energy that runs your body comes from the brain, travels over the nerves and gives vitality and vigor to your body. Logic says that if that energy is interfered with, your body will not work at its fullest potential.

2. Clearer Thinking, Concentration and Memory.

Did you ever have a day when your mind was extra sharp, thoughts and ideas came quickly or your memory was especially good? Ever have just the opposite type of day? Well, your body chemistry determines to a great extent your ability to think, concentrate and remember. Body chemistry is controlled by your nerve system and your nerve system works better without any interference (vertebral subluxation)

3. Less Stress

How can getting adjusted make your job easier or cause your kids to give you less problems? Well, it cannot. But there is a difference between adversity and stress. Adversities are the circumstances of life. You cannot change them. Stress is the inability to handle those adversities. How well your body is working will determine to some degree how much adversity you can handle and how much stress you have in your life.

4. A Longer Life.

Here is a reason based on logic. All things being equal, you will live longer if you take care of yourself, barring any unforeseen trauma, of course. Taking care of yourself, in no small measure, means keeping your nerve system free of interference due to vertebral subluxations.

5. More Sleep

All sleep is not the same. Just because you get ten hours does not mean you are getting the kind of rest you need. At different time, we have all awakened refreshed, sluggish, or tired from the same amount of sleep. How well your body is working will determine how much of your sleep is real sleep and not just “down time”

6. Greater Value from Your Exercise.

We all need to exercise regularly. Some of us do not have the energy to get up off the couch and begin a workout, although that is an issue we have already addressed. Some of us have an interference in the nerve system that keeps the muscles of our body from receiving a full complement of vital life energy. It is like trying to exercise a paralyzed muscle. There is not enough energy going to those muscles. That is what happens when there is interference in the nerve system due to a vertebral subluxation.

7. More Balanced Chemistry.

The proper balance of your body’s chemistry is unique for you. Only the innate wisdom of your body knows exactly what is should be. People can only guess. The organs, glands and cells of the body must be working properly to produce just the right amounts at just the right time. Your nerve system is critical in the coordination of that function.

8. More Hours in Your Day.

How can you get more than 24 hours a day from chiropractic visits, especially when the visit is going to take at least a little time? Well, time-management experts will tell you that it is the efficient use of your time, not the total number of hours that is the issue. If your mind and body are working as well as they possibly can, you will be more efficient and more than make up for the time it takes to visit your chiropractor.

9. Increased Income Earning Capacity

If you had more energy, clearer thinking, a better ability to handle adversity, more alertness, and were more efficient and physically, mentally and emotionally functioning at a higher level, you work more, work harder, get a better job or possibly a promotion, or even start a business of your own.

10. Improved Relationships.

Why is it that some people seem to be able to get along with people that you cannot stand? Perhaps it is you. If you were functioning at a higher level, if your body chemistry was balance, perhaps you could handle them better and not be bothered by whatever it is about them that affects your relationship. Even better, get them to a chiropractor and you could, perhaps, become best of friends!

11. Improved Performance.

With an improved nerve supply, all your performance levels will be elevated. Whether that improvement is enough to make a difference is an individual matter. As the advertisement says, “Results may vary.” However, getting adjusted and doing some other healthy things will have a cumulative effect and result in noticeable changes. It just makes sense to do everything possible to improve performance, including having a good nerve supply.

12. Better Digestion

There are probably hundreds of reasons why certain foods affect certain people. Most times, the cause can be traced back to the inability of the body to handle that food. If it was the food, then it would negatively affect everyone. There are many reasons why your body, in general, and your nerve system, in particular, may not work properly. One of those reasons, an interference in the nerve system due to vertebral subluxation, can be addressed by regular visits to the Chiropractor.

13. Enjoy Life More.

The bottom line is to have a happier and more fulfilled life. If you see improvement in the areas above, your life has to be more enjoyable. Even some of the things you do not enjoy now could become more pleasurable and rewarding. Visit your chiropractor this week!

Getting adjusted regularly just makes sense! Visit your chiropractor today!

Health is wholeness, or 100% expression of intelligence through matter. When the “Triune of Life” is perfect, health is perfect. When intelligence, which is  always 100%, is unable to express 100%, it is because force, the link, is interfered with or unable to be properly transmitted. It can also be stated that health is harmony; the maximum state of organization in which every cell is harmoniously functioning to fulfill its purpose for the benefit of the entire organism. It is a state of supreme order.

Dis-ease is nothing more nor less than a lack of organization or order. Thus, malfunction is dis-order. There is no such thing as a stomach disorder or a blood disorder, because the stomach and the blood have but one purpose: the total of being. The total being is either in orderly organized harmony or in dis-ease.

Dis-ease, dis-harmony or dis-order are all one and the same thing. They are but functional manifestation of a single fact. The triune had been violated. The intelligence is unable to express 100% through the matter because the link between them, the vital force, has been interrupted. Unless and until the triune is restored to its natural perfection, life must of necessity be diminished. This the principle of chiropractic.

From the great book Reggie, Making the Message Simple by Joseph B. Strauss, D.C., F.C.S.C

A research article published on February 2, 2010 in the scientific periodical, the Journal of Pediatric, Maternal and Family Health, documented the case study of a pregnant woman whose breech pregnancy was corrected with chiropractic care. This case study involved a 35 year old woman who was pregnant with her third child. She had recently been to her OBGYN for an ultrasound, which showed the male fetus to be in a breech position.
The woman, now in her 31st week of pregnancy, had also been experiencing pain in her pelvis just 2 weeks earlier. Because of this pain she was forced to discontinue her daily exercise regimen which included running three miles per day. She described the pain as more of a pressure in her pelvis as opposed to a pain.  In addition, the woman reported that she had gained more weight with this pregnancy than with either of her two previous pregnancies and she was experiencing heartburn and acid reflux.
The woman went for a chiropractic examination after having done some research on the Internet where she found some information about breech pregnancies being helped with specific forms of chiropractic care. Her examination showed some postural irregularities indicating some spinal involvement. In addition, bilateral surface temperature measurements and surface EMG tests also showed asymmetry indicating spinal involvement.
Based upon the chiropractic examination findings care was initiated using the “Webster Technique”, a specific chiropractic technique used in breech pregnancy when certain examination findings are present. The case study noted that the Webster Technique has been shown to have high rates of success, based on a previous survey of 112 chiropractic practitioners who utilized the Webster Technique in their offices. In that survey study 92% of the cases had resolution of breech presentation, and of this 88% resulted in unassisted vaginal births.
In this case, the woman received seven Webster Technique adjustments over the course of a three week period. An ultrasound was performed by the patient’s obstetrician after the patient’s fifth adjustment, showing that the fetus had successfully moved into a normal vertex position. The patient gave birth to the 7 pound 12 ounce boy vaginally after an uncomplicated 12 hour labor five days earlier than the baby’s projected due date and approximately one month after the mother had started chiropractic care.

The National Health Service in Ballerup (Copenhagen, Denmark) conducted a study involving 50 infants with diagnoses infantile colic.  Half of the group was given the drug dimethicon while the other half was given chiropractic care.  In this study nine of the 25 taking the drug dropped out of the study because the infants were getting worse.  These infants were then not counted in the final results which would have shown a worse result for the drug than published.

Even with the removal from the tabulations of the infants who got worst using the drug, the results showed a significant improvement in the group that were under chiropractic care.  By days 4 to 7 of the study, the infants remaining in the drug group had reduced their hours of crying by only one hour while the entire chiropractic group had reduced crying hours by an average of 2.4 hours.  The results after 8 to 10 day into the study continued to show the drug therapy infants at a one hour improvement while the chiropractic group further improved to 2.7 hours less of crying.  The researchers noted that the removal from the study of the infants that got worse from the drug made the results from the drug look better than they actually were.

Chiropractic Care Conquers Colic

The above title appeared in the December 1998 issue of Country Living’s Healthy Living, beginning on page 53. The article details the concerns of a mom whose new baby was suffering from colic. The article featured the mother’s account of the situation starting from her initial phone call to the pediatrician. “When I phoned my doctor to ask if he thought it was safe (to see a chiropractor), he was ambivalent: Chiropractic would neither harm nor help. He told me that if it was colic, it would run its course in three months.”

After this advice, her next stop was to take the child to the chiropractor. She recalled that the first visit was an extended one with a lot of time spent caring for the child and the parents. Following the first adjustment, the child seemed to be more reactive and colicky, but she followed the instructions given her by the chiropractor and the baby calmed right down. “We had five more sessions with the chiropractor. Each lasted 20 minutes and Lucy (the infant!) really seemed to enjoy them. It completely changed what was fast becoming a nightmare. I’d like to recommend to everyone with a colicky infant see a chiropractor. It certainly worked for us.”

Infantile Colic

Probably one of the most frustrating situations new parents find themselves in is having to deal with a child that is suffering from colic. For these parents a recent study conducted in South Africa offers some good news. In a study by Mercer and Cook, thirty infants who had been diagnosed medically with colic were randomly divided into two groups. One group received chiropractic care while the other group did not. All infants in this study were newborn to 8 weeks old and had been diagnosed with colic by a pediatrician. For the purposes of this study, the infants in the chiropractic group received care for a two-week period with a maximum of six adjustments. The results of the study were very impressive. In the group that received chiropractic care, there was complete resolution of symptoms in 93% of the infants within the two-week period. Even more impressive was that in a follow up survey performed one month later, none of the infants had experienced a reoccurrence of problems from colic. The chiropractic care rendered in this study was spinal adjusting.

Abstract

Objective

There has been a steady growth of chiropractic treatment using spinal manipulative therapy (SMT) that aims to increase the performance of athletes in various sports. This study evaluates the effect of SMT by chiropractors on the performance of golf players.

Methods

Golfers of 2 golf clubs in São Paulo, Brazil, participated in this study. They were randomized to 1 of 2 groups: Group I received a stretch program, and group II received a stretch program in addition to SMT. Participants in both groups performed the same standardized stretching program. Spinal manipulative therapy to dysfunctional spinal segments was performed on group II only. All golfers performed 3 full-swing maneuvers. Ball range was considered as the average distance for the 3 shots. Treatment was performed after the initial measurement, and the same maneuvers were performed afterward. Each participant repeated these procedures for a 4-week period. Student t test, Mann-Whitney nonparametric test, and 1-way analysis of variance for repeated measures with significance level of 5% were used to analyze the study.

Results

Forty-three golfers completed the protocol. Twenty participants were allocated to group I and 23 to group II. Average age, handicap, and initial swing were comparable. No improvement of full-swing performance was observed during the 4 sessions on group I (stretch only). An improvement was observed at the fourth session of group II (P = .005); when comparing the posttreatment, group II had statistical significance at all phases (P = .003).

Conclusions

Chiropractic SMT in association with muscle stretching may be associated with an improvement of full-swing performance when compared with muscle stretching alone.

Reference:

http://www.journalchiromed.com/article/PIIS1556370709001059/abstract?rss=yes

Effect of spinal manipulative therapy with stretching compared with stretching alone on full-swing performance of golf players: a randomized pilot trial

Soraya M.V. Costa, DCa, Yumi E.T. Chibana, DCb, Leandro Giavarotti, PhDc, Débora S. Compagnoni, DCd, Adriana H. Shiono, DCe, Janice Satie, DCf, Eduardo S.B. Bracher, MD, DCg

Chiropractors have been stressing for years the importance of having newborns checked for subluxations (2 or more bones out of place putting pressure in the nerves). Checking the spine of an infant is painless and easy.  The importance of a developing baby being free of nerve interference from subluxation cannot be understated.  Even infants that appear healthy may have subluxations due to traumatic birth syndrome.  All babies deserve the best chance at a healthy happy life.  Babies deserve Chiropractic.

Chiropractic adjustments can significantly lower high blood pressure, a placebo-controlled study suggests. “This procedure has the effect of not one, but two blood-pressure medications given in combination,” study leader George Bakris, MD, tells WebMD. “And it seems to be adverse-event free. We saw no side effects and no problems,” adds Bakris, director of the University of Chicago hypertension center.

Eight weeks after undergoing the procedure, 25 patients with early-stage high blood pressure had significantly lower blood pressure than 25 similar patients who underwent a sham chiropractic adjustment. Because patients can’t feel the technique, they were unable to tell which group they were in. X-rays showed that the procedure realigned the Atlas vertebra — the doughnut-like bone at the very top of the spine — with the spine in the treated patients, but not in the sham-treated patients.

Compared to the sham-treated patients, those who got the real procedure saw an average 14 mm Hg greater drop in systolic blood pressure (the top number in a blood pressure count), and an average 8 mm Hg greater drop in diastolic blood pressure (the bottom blood pressure number). None of the patients took blood pressure medicine during the eight-week study.

“When the statistician brought me the data, I actually didn’t believe it. It was way too good to be true,” Bakris says. “The statistician said, ‘I don’t even believe it.’ But we checked for everything, and there it was.” Bakris and colleagues report their findings in the advance online issue of the Journal of Human Hypertension.

Source: WebMD

“Chiropractic is about health and fitness and there is such a strong relationship between the two. This is why I’m so excited to have the chiropractors here from all over the world each year, because you represent exactly the same thing. Chiropractic is about health and fitness. Chiropractic is about natural, preventive health care.  It can help families be healthier and also spend time together doing something important to all their lives.  What we’re trying to do is not just promote the sport of bodybuilding, but fitness and health. Fitness, for us, is everything in a naturally healthy lifestyle. So that’s why it is so great for us to work together.”

Arnold, as well as many former and present athletes realize that chiropractic can help them increase performance and maintain good health.  The nervous system controls and coordinates all body function.  Chiropractors work by removing interference to the nervous system thus allowing the body to function at its maximum potential.  Athletes understand that even the slightest advantage in ability can make the difference in competition.

Innate Intelligence is the organizing force in each of us. It refers to how we adapt to the environment in order to survive. All livings beings are born with this knowledge.  In a human being, Innate Intelligence tells a baby how many times its heart should beat per minute; how to digest food and get rid of the waste; how to use white blood cells to fight infections; how to communicate its need for attention. No one has to teach an infant any of this. Every living being has 100% of the Innate Intelligence it must have to survive. Innate Intelligence is always normal, and its function is always normal. So, our bodies always know exactly what they need and how to adapt to the environment to function best.  Nature needs no help, just no interference.

Living the Chiropractic Lifestyle!  YAY!!!

La mayoría de la gente acepta como verdadera la existencia del Creador. Un poder infinitamente más grande que el Hombre, quién en su sabiduría creó el Universo y todo lo que éste contiene. A éste Poder se le han dado varios nombres: Dios, El Creador, La Inteligencia Universal, La Naturaleza, etc., pero todos vienen significando lo mismo.

La Inteligencia Universal, al crear éste Universo, hizo ciertas leyes fundamentales que gobiernan nuestra propia existencia. Hay veces que pensamos que ciertas leyes; como por ejemplo, la ley de la gravedad, son hechas por el Hombre. Esto, desde luego, no es verdad, pues la ley de gravedad es una de las leyes que rigen nuestro planeta. Si no fuera por la existencia de ésta ley no tendríamos los pies en el piso, sino en el aire y estaríamos dando vueltas.

Debido a éstas leyes fundamentales, es que tenemos el día y la noche, el sol y la lluvia, el verano y la primavera, el otoño y el invierno, los huracanes, las tormentas eléctricas y demás. Todo en éste Mundo tuvo que haber sido planeado de antemano, incluyendo al hombre mismo. Cada criatura, ya sea hombre, animal o insecto – no importa su tamaño- tiene su razón de ser.

En el campo curativo, algunos médicos no reconocen la existencia de un plan divino en la creación y en el funcionamiento del cuerpo humano. Todo su pensamiento está dirigido, mas bien, al tratamiento de alguna parte del cuerpo sin pensar en el cuerpo completo. Por ejemplo, los dolores de cabeza-y todos los dolores en general- generalmente son avisos que la Naturaleza nos dá de que hay algo funcionando mal. Sin embargo, lo que la mayoría de las personas hacen cuando sienten algún dolor, es tomar una píldora calmante para tapar – podríamos decir- la señal. Lo mas sabio sería buscar la causa del dolor y corregirla para que se elimine.

La filosofía del método Quiropráctico es lógica y sencilla de entender. La Quiropráctica enseña que una Inteligencia Innata que reside en el cerebro de una persona y que es la que gobierna y dirige todo el funcionamiento del cuerpo por medio de mensajes que viajan hacia todo nuestro organismo por medio de nervios. También mantiene que debido a la forma que está construida nuestra espina dorsal, alguna de sus piezas –conocidas cómo vértebras- pueden desalinearse lo suficiente para producir presión sobre los nervios e interferir con los mensajes vitales que fluyen desde el cerebro al cuerpo. El Doctor en Quiropráctica está preparado para localizar y eliminar esas interferencias en la espina dorsal para que fluya la Energía que envía el cerebro a todo el cuerpo siendo el resultado de la salud.

Por el Dr. José Carrasquillo

El Dr. Carrasquillo fue uno de los primeros Doctores en Quiroprácticas en la isla de Puerto Rico. Ostenta su licencia desde el 1952.