A little backbone Blog

Here is a short clip that I recorded the other day that gives a short and sweet overview of how your chiropractic journey could begin.  Enjoy!

Most people who I meet have some variation of this question on their mind.  Usually it comes in the form of  ”Once you start going to a chiropractor, you can’t stop and you have to go forever.”

Says who?  The chiropractor?  Your friend that knows somebody that is friends with someone else that once talked to a chiropractor in an elevator?  I don’t know where these rules come from but I fear that it keeps people from giving what I do a try.

Most people take the route that chiropractic is for pain relief and that they stop when they feel better.  Just like you are supposed to stop taking aspirin when your headache goes away.  But the chiropractic that I do works on a much deeper level than just pain relief.

When your brain is able to talk to your body and your body with your brain your body gets a chance to truly start to heal.  Healing, like the development of an injury takes time.  So how long should you go to a chiropractor?

Only for as long as you want to make sure that your body is working as well as it can.

A lot is said about so-called “chiropractic miracle” cases involving patients that had some condition considered to be impossible to recover from but came back from it anyways.

The stories all tend to follow the same basic outline.  Patient arrives, desperate for answers.  ”Nobody knows what’s wrong with me, doc.”  ”I’m out of options.”  ”They told me its all in my head.”  ”They gave me some pills and told me to live with it.”

The doctor’s side is even more predictable.  They listen to the patient, do their office check, find neurological interference, take x-rays, and adjust.

Now all of a sudden, the patient sees the light at the end of the tunnel.  They actually start to feel better, they actually start to get better.  They experience less pain, they can sleep, they can live their life with less difficulty then ever before.

I say this not to poke fun at those suffering or to criticize the doctor’s procedure, but to ask about what a “chiropractic miracle” really is.

Chiropractic is based on the idea that the nervous system controls every function of the body.  You’d be hard-pressed to find even the most skeptical neurologist dispute that.  Far from being a “back cracker,” chiropractic at it’s highest level seeks to realign the spinal bones surrounding the most crucial part of the spinal cord to their correct position, removing the interference, and restore the nervous system to it’s proper function.

Simply stated, whoever/whatever created our bodies designed them to work and be able to heal itself.  Otherwise we would still have every paper cut, bruise, and broken bone we ever got.

I’ve always felt that a “miracle” is something good that happened when it wasn’t supposed to.  When there was no logical reason for an outcome to change.

But when I hear about someone that had some condition that they aren’t supposed to recover from, that they are running out of time, that walks through the door of a chiropractor and starts to heal, I don’t think that is a miracle.  That’s what is supposed to happen.

You restore brain to body communication and over time you can expect health.  To paraphrase my father, “You can be happy about it, but don’t be surprised.”