The wifey has been infiltrating my brain lately with natural healing, primarily because we have children and crazy things have been happening to kids when being pumped with medications at the first signs of “anything”. Personally, i’m not one to take tylenol or other pills prescribed for pain, mainly because I wait it out or forget it’s even an option.
I’ve been going for about a year for a pinched nerve in my neck and have noticed improvement. It mainly stems from a long term bad habbit i have of cracking my own neck. I used to get tingling in my fingers when i did heavy lifting at the gym. etc.
However, with this discussion, i want to venture away from the obvious chriopractic care issues related directly to the spine, since that seem like the general conception with chiropractic care. I want to divert the attention to chiropractic care of the things you wouldn’t think are associated at all.
For the last year or so, I have been taking the family to a local chriopractor twice a month…a REALLY good one. She doesn’t take insurance, but we get a family package for $100 each visit for the 4 of us. The first visit was a screening with some pretty impressive technology that gave a detailed print out of which muscles are overworking, high strain, low blood flow, etc. This gives us a starting point and we can view how it changed in the future.
not my report, but an example.
From my report, i was able to confirm where my problem areas were and what adjustments i will need for longer term care.
The interesting stuff:
I took my 10 month old daughter to have these same scans done and start getting them adjusted early for good growth and development. I was VERY surprised to see how out of alignment they were for being so young. A lot of people think that spinal adjustment to infants is harmful, which couldn’t be farther from the truth.
Her first adjustment: My daughter had difficulty looking up and as a new walker she walked like i expected any new walker to walk…kinda robotic and clumsy. Following her first ever adjustment she instantly, i mean while we were still in the chiropractor’s office, walking much better, less robotic, straight, and without falling. She also had more mobility in her head and neck. Ok, Cool.
The VERY Interesting stuff:
1.) My wife had heard about chiropractic adjustment for Migraine Headaches and started getting a bad one around 2pm, called the chiropractor and she got an adjustment just a few hours later, her Migraine was instantly gone
2.)This past week, my daughter was coming down with the cold. She wasn’t eating much and was only awake 5hrs out of the day. She also had a climbing fever for a few days and we took her to the chiropractor with a temp of 101.0°F during her adjustment. The chiropractor said something about adjustments to the lower back relating directly to fevers(i don’t know the terminology, but that’s where she focused her attention). THAT NIGHT, just 2hrs later as we put her to bed, her fever had dropped to 98.9°. The next day she had her energy back, no signs of a cold besides a runny nose, and was back in her normal routine.
3.) I had been congested with a cold for nearly a week, more of an inconvenience than anything. I told her about it while i was getting a routine adjustment. She did a quick neck adjustment, a couple tugs on my ears and instantly my sinus’ drained and i could breath clearly.
4.) Everytime i get an adjustment now…i have tons of energy and seem to be generally happier than when i went in. It’s literally an attitude adjustment.
I could go on with several more personal examples that the family has gotten adjustmets for…stuff i didn’t even realize as a problem.
The VERY VERY AMAZING Stuff:
An example of what my chiropractor accomplished: (I’ll post a link to the medical journal when i locate it)
A couple years ago a newborn baby was medically diagnosed with a heart/lung issue. For a few weeks, the parents and doctors had tried everything. The baby couldn’t even make a sound to cry, couldn’t eat much, wasn’t responding to touch or sounds. The doctors gave the baby only a couple weeks to live. One of the nurses recommended that she take the baby to a chiropractor. Starting immediately, at the parents despiration, the baby was given 2 adjustments every day for several weeks and after a just few days there was noticable improvement to its motor functions and began eating. After a few weeks the baby was living a normal newborn life and has had no medical conditions relating to the diagnosed condition that ultimately medical doctors had given up on and let die.
In summary there are tons of conditions and problems that can be fixed with our bodies through chiropractic care, a world that i wasn’t aware of beyond having your spine properly alligned. Instead, people are quick to choose to take medications and pills to solve all of their problems. (i.e. insomnia, depression, etc) when there is a much better option out there.
Now, i’m not trying to go all hippy. I’m not saying that at all that medical doctors are needed. that’s not true at all, i’m just saying their are natural, much healthier ways to address some of the problems. In some cases, chiropractic care is the only way to address some or problems before they happen.
Do yourself a favor and look into a quality chiropractor, even if you feel like you are healthy and have no problems, you will be suprised by how much your quality of life can be improved.
Take a look at some of the issues that can be addressed:
