What is health to you? is it the guy in the guy who struts around with a 6 pack, and huge chest and arm muscles? or is it the guy who gets up and runs every morning? How about the who eats packages of vitamins every day?
All of these could be good examples of healthy living, but it doesn’t mean they are healthy. The guy with the muscles? Steroids, The runner? Dies of a heart attack, how about vitamin guy? nice guy as well, but is he truly “healthy?”
I guess that all depends on your idea of health. Some people feel like health is lack of symptoms, if they don’t have anything wrong, they must be healthy. Unfortunately, most people live under this premise, and die an early death. However, the way the world works, if your going to just go on this premise, your one stressful situation away from getting sick, or getting closer to un-health.
So, my idea of “health” is from death, which we’ll call a 0, to perfect health at 100. Now, you don’t go from perfect health to perfect death overnight, stress acts on your body in several ways, through chemical-such as smoking, or cleaning materials,, emotional-(stresses with your relationships), and physical responses (hard work). These things cause stress on the body in the response where the nervous system sends out altered signals because the bones of the spine are out of alignment. That is where a Chiropractor comes in, our job is to remove these interferences (what we call subluxations) so that the body once again is in harmony. I believe there is an innate intelligence in the body, that part of your body that makes your body a self healing, self regulating organism. Think about this, when you ate that McRib last night, did you have to think about how to digest it? Nope, it just did it on its own. How about tell your heart to breath? these signals travel throught the nervous system, and need to be unhindered. That is what Chiropractic is all about.
Now, a lot of people have us pegged as back pain specialists, or headache guys, and while it is true that people usually get a great response to their adjustments, and that their “pain” quickly disappears, that’s just the beginning. After the pain has gone away, the bigger picture is that by keeping your spine adjusted regularly, you keep your body as close to 100% health as possible.
Chiropractic is unique to all other professions because we offer HEALTH care, not sick care (like the medical paradigm). Think about it, would you rather be closer to health or closer to sickness and death every day? What about your family?
Don’t get me wrong there is a time for medicine. But it’s when your body has trouble fighting off things on it’s own. My vote is to try and stay healthy. If your in my area, and want to get your spine checked for subluxations, give me a call. If your not in my area, call me anyway, and I have good Chiropractic friends all over the U.S. We have a network of like minded Chiropractors who want you to experience real Chiropractic care.
~Andrew
