FAQ
What is health?
Both health and wellness have lost their meaning and impact in today’s culture. To most, health simply means not being sick or more specifically not experiencing any symptoms. That could not be further from the truth. The actual definition for health is “proper cellular function”. That means ALL the cells of the body working in a coordinated fashion to maintain you in a state of balance or homeostasis.
What is sickness?
As your cells lose health (function), they gain sickness, just as losing light leads to darkness. This doesn’t always mean symptoms. It means you progressively lose the organized function of the cells, tissues and organs and the processes they were designed to carry out. People often say “I got the flu and then I got sick”. The truth is they lost health and became susceptible to the flu. “I got cancer and then I got sick”. Again, sickness (lack of proper function) allowed cancer to develop. Can you get rid of darkness? No, you must turn on the light. How do you regain and express health? You must turn on LIFE.
What are the requirements for health?
Health is the normal, natural state of an organism that receives everything that is essential for life and minimizes the things which are toxic. This is the premise and practice of Life By Design (insert link to lbd page). Proper nutritional building blocks, adequate movement, rest, oxygen, water, healthy thinking and a GOOD NERVE SUPPLY. All of these must be present regularly for an extended period for any person to truly know what it is like to be healthy.
What is chiropractic?
Our approach is sometimes referred to as principled chiropractic, wellness chiropractic or straight chiropractic. Our practice seeks to address one of the required needs for ALL people…A GOOD NERVE SUPPLY. By restoring and maintaining the neurological connection between the brain and body, we help everyone to more fully express their maximum potential.
What does chiropractic have to do with expressing potential?
The nervous system is the master control system of the body. Everything, including such factors as the capacity to see and to hear, the capacity for eye-hand coordination in work and play, the capacity to think clearly, to remember, to reason, to organize thoughts, to solve problems, the capacity to resist disease and to recover from injury, the capacity for balanced emotional response, for humor, for love are coordinated through our nervous systems. Any interference to this system, impairs our ability to express our full potential in every area. The primary form of interference we address it known as a Vertebral Subluxation.
What is a Vertebral Subluxation?
Any physical, biochemical or emotioanl stress initiates a series of adaptations by the body in order to survive and thrive. When these stresses accumulate the body is pushed beyond it’s ability to optimally adapt and a breakdown in function occurs. At the neurospinal level, the result is a vertebral subluxation and the subsequent vertebral subluxation process. Decreased spinal movement, increased muscle tone, misalignment of vertebrae, altered neurological input and output, postural alterations, tissue degeneration, immobility and autonomic dysfunction are only some of the devastating effects the vertebral subluxation process can contribute to. When nerve function is compromised, all body systems are affected.
How do you know if you have nerve interference?
Unfortunately, you won’t know. The overwhelming majority of the the time vertebral subluxations cause no symptoms. In fact, symptoms are typically the final stage of malfunction in most processes, not the first. It is true, changes in body chemistry may lead to altered performance of one or many noticeable functions. Altered spinal mechanics due to vertebral subluxations may irritate surrounding tissues causing pain or spasm, but most of the breakdown, disorder and disharmony occurs without you feeling it. We use objective measurement (sEMG, Thermography, HRV, DIgital Inclinometry, Algometry) to assess for nerve interference and monitor progress while under chiropractic care. The best way to be absolutely sure your family is at their best is to have their spines and nerve function checked by a trained chiropractor who focuses solely on restoring neurological integrity and maximizing the expression of life energy in the body.
How do you correct these vertebral subluxations?
In our offices we use a series of approaches including Upper Cervical Toggle Recoil, Thompson Drop Table Technique, Activator, and Specific Osseous Adjusting to aid in the correction of vertebral subluxations. Each visit includes a pre adjustment analysis and a post adjustment check to ensure subluxations have been corrected and nerve function improved.
What particular physical, mental or emotional conditions respond to chiropractic?
As offered at The Wellness Group, chiropractic is NOT a treatment for any condition or an attempt to cure any disease. Yes it is true, if you have health conditions, regular chiropractic care may very well help you better recover from them. Remember that one of the potentials which could be reduced by nerve interference is the body’s potential for health. A body which has interference in the nerve system could never be as healthy as it could be under the same circumstances but with an adequate nerve supply to all tissues and organs. Whatever potential one has for resisting illness or recovering from disease will be better expressed with a clear neurological connection. It is important to realize that ALL people are better off with A GOOD NERVE SUPPLY under ALL circumstances, without regard to whether they are sick or well.
If you are not treating any specific conditions, what benefits can my family expect from a better nerve supply?
Improved nerve function means you will be able to think more clearly, concentrate better, be better coordinated physically, digest and extract nutrients from your food better, heal better, resist illness and disease better, be a better athlete, enjoy a better pregnancy, a stronger immune system, and adapt to stress better. Regardless of your current health status – sick or well – you are better off with a clear nerve system.
