The reasons chiropractic works are many. Let me first challange your thoughts on where Health comes from. Consider the story of how life starts. Two people come together to procreate. An egg and a sperm come together in a miraculous fusion. Once together, they start to multiply. But what directs this growth? Nature, God, your spirit, CHI, Innate Intelligence? There are many names for this power that controls growth. For simplicity, let me call it your spirit. After a week or so the glob of cells creates a cleft. This is called the neural cleft. This is the time the brain and spinal cord are formed. Once the nervous system is formed it acts as the highway to direct the massive and complicated process of forming arms, legs, heart, lungs, liver, kidneys etc... This nervous system is the highway that the "spirit" uses to direct everything taking place. Approximately 9 months later you are born. A healthy baby able to survive on its own, with the help of course of an adult. This miracle of life has used this "power" that was started at conception to animate and power you through out 95 to 100 years of life. You do not need a battery or an AC adapter. So why am I telling you this story? To get you to understand that you body is healed and maintained by that "Power" that started at birth. The nervous system is vital to the ability of the spirit to direct and communicate with all cells of your body. If something such as an injury causes some malfunction to the nervous system then the organ (muscles, heart, stomach, brain) cannot function as directed by this spirit or power. we have seen many drastic cases of this malfunction. Christopher Reeves (Superman)  who was very healthy and strong, fell from a horse injuring his nervous system. This injury prevented normal communication between his spirit and some parts of his body. Those involved tissues could no longer be regulated or healed by this power. They died at the same rate or percentage as the damage. Eventually it took a national icon from great health to death. It is interesting to note that being healthy or not healthy did not make Christopher Reeves someone else. He still loved his wife and children, still had the same personality. He still was Christopher Reeves. The spirit that resides in him was still there. It just no longer was able to communicate with his body because the pathway for this comunication was injured. Many of you reading this have varying degrees of disruption to your nervous system. This can lead to any number of problems. Examples are heart problems, ulcers, back pain, anxiety, etc... Like Christopher Reeves you may have a disruption and actually feel minimal or no pain. This absence of pain is not a seal of good health. So hopefully you now have an understanding that the body actually heals, repairs and maintains every function in your body, if there is perfect communciation between your "spirit", "Innate Intelligence", or natural power that gave you life. SO it sounds like true health comes from within not from without. We need to maintain that "immune System" which is a combination of the ability of the power within you to adapt to its changing envirnment and maintain homeostasis.

So where does our health care systems fit into this? If you have an acute injury like a car accident, severe cut, broken bones, etc... It is my advice to seek care to make sure that as your body heals these injuries, that the doctor helps your body by straightening the bone, or stitching the cut. But would it have healed anyway? Yes!! But if a doctor helps the body to heal better, then the doctor is enabling your body. What about if you go to the doctor because you have a moderate fever due to a bug/flu/cold? If the doctor tells you to take something to bring down your fever is he working with your body? Then the answer is no. Your body was raising a fever to kill the bug and correct the problem and you have lowered it with medicine. You and the doctor are working against your body. (if fever gets to a dangerous level then of course lower your temp with cool shower/bath etc... )

Why go to a chiropractor? There are 24 spinal vertebrae. The skull and these vertebrae were formed with very solid bone to help protect this vital and tender nervous system. When we fall, get in accidents, play sports, exercise, etc.. we can put abnormal stresses on this set of bones causing abnormal twisting, or tilting of these vertebrae. If this happens the delicate nerves can be choked and this would prevent that "power" to get to the end organ. Additionally, the spinal bones have joints that require normal motion to be able to get the proper nutrition within the joint. If the spine has abnormal tilting or "fixations" this will lead to decay of the spine (Osteoarthritis/DJD/Arthritis). This is called a "subluxation" if it causes either decay, nerve interferrence, or pain. Like many disease processes in the body, pain is often not felt until the problem becomes chronic. Like a cavity it may not hurt until it directly effects a nerve. This puts many spinal problems, seen by a chiropractor, in the later phases of decay. I sometimes ask patients if they would wait to brush their teeth until their mouth starts to hurt. You know the obvious answer to that. But your spinal health is so much more vital. Your life depends on great communication back and forth between your power source and every organ. Consider that your power controls repiration, heart rate, blood pressure, digestion, thought, stress levels, weight, temperature, etc... Any distrubance in any of these can literally kill you. Most people in America have never been told this about their health.

What have they been told?

We have been educated by a medical model that goes something like this: Get your shots, if there is no pain, your good, if you have a symptom take a medicine to eliminate the symptom. Upset stomach...prilisec or pepto bismal, headache...advil/tylanol, nerves/anxiety...lexipro, high blood pressure...benicar, etc... The doctors have a PDR (Physician Desk Reference) that lists the drugs they can use for certain disorders and anything not on that list is off limits. Another thing about our health care that disturbs me is that the United States represents approximately 5% of the World population and yet we consume over half of all medications in the world. The US also spends more than the #2-6 nations below them combined. These numbers may be off slightly due to current trends, but you get the point. This would all be worth it if our medical system ranked # 1 or 2 or even 3. We rank 39th on average for most health conditions or statistics in success.  We fail because we are looking outside the body for health not inside the body. You DO NOT HAVE HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE BECAUSE YOU LACK a diretic or ace inhibitor. You have high blood pressure because there is something going on inside your body that causes this, like hardened arteries, too much salt, cancer, anxiety, overweight, bad diet, etc.... This should be the focus of our cures. How many people have you seen get cured from high blood pressure by taking medicine? None They are only controlling the symptom. However, how many people with high blood pressure Have been cured with diet , exercise, weight loss, calming emotional habits? Thousands! Why not millions? Because its not the medical business Not to perscribe medicines or teach these cures. If I were to list for you the medical side effects from common medicines, it would scare the heck out of you.

Dont get me wrong, 99.99% of all medical doctors do have your best interest at heart. However, they have to work within the very stringent guidelines set up by the AMA, CDC and FDA. Therefore they will only perscribe what is in the PDR.

My friends, I urge you to learn about health care that is highly successful and with almost no side effects..ie Chiropractic and acupuncture. Seek out a chiropractor that will teach you wellness. This will save you heart ache and $$$. If you have any direct questions you can email them to me or call me at 719-573-2225 or backe2009@yahoo.com